I often play PCSX2 using an extended monitor on to my TV screen. I noticed an interesting side effect to PCSX2 sound that could become a very useful feature.
When I'm playing, sometimes I swap my sound over to HDMI, sometimes I use my pc speakers. What is very interesting is when you swap between them while you have a game running on pcsx2, pcsx2 doesn't swap over to the new sound source (until you close and re-open the game window).
This means that I can have PCSX2 sound all going over HDMI sent to my tv.. but have all the rest of my computer sound go through my PC speakers (or vice versa when watching a movie). I know it sounds silly but it is extremely useful when you are multitasking or watching a movie on your pc. It means I can independently control my pcsx2 / computer sound just like a real console.
I just thought I'd mention it because being able to specify the pcsx2 sound destination would make a great feature in a future version. I'm using SPU2-X r5025 but I'm pretty sure the same thing happens in the v0.9.8 release with default sound settings. I'm just using some onboard AMD soundcard 7.12.0.7704 (nothing fancy).
Really liking 0.9.9 r5037 [edit: upgraded from 0.9.8], now I don't even get slight slowdowns when playing xenosaga (using the speedhacks and multicore support)
When I'm playing, sometimes I swap my sound over to HDMI, sometimes I use my pc speakers. What is very interesting is when you swap between them while you have a game running on pcsx2, pcsx2 doesn't swap over to the new sound source (until you close and re-open the game window).
This means that I can have PCSX2 sound all going over HDMI sent to my tv.. but have all the rest of my computer sound go through my PC speakers (or vice versa when watching a movie). I know it sounds silly but it is extremely useful when you are multitasking or watching a movie on your pc. It means I can independently control my pcsx2 / computer sound just like a real console.
I just thought I'd mention it because being able to specify the pcsx2 sound destination would make a great feature in a future version. I'm using SPU2-X r5025 but I'm pretty sure the same thing happens in the v0.9.8 release with default sound settings. I'm just using some onboard AMD soundcard 7.12.0.7704 (nothing fancy).
Really liking 0.9.9 r5037 [edit: upgraded from 0.9.8], now I don't even get slight slowdowns when playing xenosaga (using the speedhacks and multicore support)