02-04-2018, 06:54 PM
Hello!
I have been gifted a Dell 390 OptiPlex because it cannot stay connected to any network for any length of time. I had disabled the onboard NIC and installed a nice brand new one in the PCI slot, but it's still very flakey and cannot maintain a network connection for any length of time.
It's an i3 2100, 3.1ghz with 4 gigs of RAM. Now I've seen the site recommends at least a i3 / 3.2 but for the price, I'm ok with just falling short.
I have also ordered off of an online auction site a half height DirectX 10 video card with 256megs of RAM. They had cards with more memory but I didn't want to spend a whole lot on this build. For the little I've used PCSX2 on this rig, since I might not have the horsepower to play PS2, I thought I'd go somewhat cheap because even a bad graphics card is still better than the onboard video I'm currently using.
With all of that out of the way, allow me to ask the same tired old questions because I've searched the message bases to an extent, and maybe if I can ask them all in the same post, others won't have to ask them over and over, and search the entire board.
1) Does PCSX2 create a different memory card for each game? If not, will it ever?
2) When a local video store around me went out of business, I was able to buy their entire PS1 / PS2
rental games. I've started to make ISOs of the PS2 games, and used ( as recommended on the site )
pigz to GZip the images. Is there a stand alone program ( or command line switches PCSX2 uses )
which will create the index file then go onto the next image? If it could run right after I GZip the image,
that would make my OCD very happy.
3) The system I have has a Windows 7 COA on it, but was upgraded to Windows 10 back when it was a free
upgrade. Since this machine is only really good for a gaming system now since it can't stay connected
to the internet for any length of time, which OS would be better? 7 or 10?? It's a 64bit processor, but
I have the 64 Windows 10, and both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 for Dell computers.
That's about it. Separate memory cards based on games, if there's a way to generate the GZip index files outside of the main program, and which OS would be better, 32 or 64bit Windows 7 or 10.
Thanks much!
-Mike
I have been gifted a Dell 390 OptiPlex because it cannot stay connected to any network for any length of time. I had disabled the onboard NIC and installed a nice brand new one in the PCI slot, but it's still very flakey and cannot maintain a network connection for any length of time.
It's an i3 2100, 3.1ghz with 4 gigs of RAM. Now I've seen the site recommends at least a i3 / 3.2 but for the price, I'm ok with just falling short.
I have also ordered off of an online auction site a half height DirectX 10 video card with 256megs of RAM. They had cards with more memory but I didn't want to spend a whole lot on this build. For the little I've used PCSX2 on this rig, since I might not have the horsepower to play PS2, I thought I'd go somewhat cheap because even a bad graphics card is still better than the onboard video I'm currently using.
With all of that out of the way, allow me to ask the same tired old questions because I've searched the message bases to an extent, and maybe if I can ask them all in the same post, others won't have to ask them over and over, and search the entire board.
1) Does PCSX2 create a different memory card for each game? If not, will it ever?
2) When a local video store around me went out of business, I was able to buy their entire PS1 / PS2
rental games. I've started to make ISOs of the PS2 games, and used ( as recommended on the site )
pigz to GZip the images. Is there a stand alone program ( or command line switches PCSX2 uses )
which will create the index file then go onto the next image? If it could run right after I GZip the image,
that would make my OCD very happy.
3) The system I have has a Windows 7 COA on it, but was upgraded to Windows 10 back when it was a free
upgrade. Since this machine is only really good for a gaming system now since it can't stay connected
to the internet for any length of time, which OS would be better? 7 or 10?? It's a 64bit processor, but
I have the 64 Windows 10, and both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 for Dell computers.
That's about it. Separate memory cards based on games, if there's a way to generate the GZip index files outside of the main program, and which OS would be better, 32 or 64bit Windows 7 or 10.
Thanks much!
-Mike