pcsx2 Zombeaver's PCSX2 Configs / Simple 1-Click Installs With PCSX2 Configurator

[Cypher]

4 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

You're probably using the wrong version of the plugin.

Try this one.

@alec100_94 Please add the hotfixed version directly to the download page, otherwise this is going to continue to be problem. Just add it as a separate file. You can have both available from the same download. People shouldn't have to find a comment and go to Github to get it.

That's the one I'm using. Even redownloaded it a few minutes ago to try again just to be sure I didn't save over the old version with a new file name by mistake.

[Zombeaver]

Then I don't know what to tell you. It's working here. The only thing I could suggest is maybe making sure the dll is unblocked in Windows.

 

[Zombeaver]

Actually that github link to the zip isn't actually working for me (as in the zip itself literally doesn't download), I don't know if it's just me or what. The one from the comments on the plugin page works though (and I did have to unblock it when I downloaded it). This has to be used in conjunction with the complete plugin from the download page, you're just replacing the .dll.

https://forums.launchbox-app.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=48381

[Cypher]

11 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

Actually that github link to the zip isn't actually working for me (as in the zip itself literally doesn't download), I don't know if it's just me or what. The one from the comments on the plugin page works though (and I did have to unblock it when I downloaded it). This has to be used in conjunction with the complete plugin from the download page, you're just replacing the .dll.

https://forums.launchbox-app.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=48381 80 kB · 70 downloads

I was able to download the zip from the github through right click>save link as. Any other way gave me the error you probably got.

My dlls weren't blocked; the only time I ran into a blocked dll was when I tried to use yours.

Even with your dll, it's still not working for me. I'm going to see if a system reboot clears it up; otherwise I'll just try nuking Launchbox and reinstalling it.

[alec100_94]

Github was broken temporarily, its working again now. I'll upload the hotfix to the initial post as a mirror.

[Zombeaver]

2 minutes ago, Cypher said:

I was able to download the zip from the github through right click>save link as.

I tried that and it just wants to download it as an xml for me.

Just now, alec100_94 said:

Github was broken temporarily, its working again now.

Ah okay, I thought it might be something like that. Was acting weird.

1 minute ago, alec100_94 said:

I'll upload the hotfix to the initial post as a mirror.

Thank you!

3 minutes ago, Cypher said:

Even with your dll, it's still not working for me. I'm going to see if a system reboot clears it up; otherwise I'll just try nuking Launchbox and reinstalling it.

I'm not sure what to tell you then. What exactly is happening? An error on LB start? An error when trying to use the configurator? Or it just doesn't show up at all?

Just to give another status update, I've made a lot of progress today. I'm at 224 / 92%, so if it's not done tonight, it'll be done tomorrow.

 

[Cypher]

12 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

I tried that and it just wants to download it as an xml for me.

Ah okay, I thought it might be something like that. Was acting weird.

Thank you!

I'm not sure what to tell you then. What exactly is happening? An error on LB start? An error when trying to use the configurator? Or it just doesn't show up at all?

Just to give another status update, I've made a lot of progress today. I'm at 224 / 92%, so if it's not done tonight, it'll be done tomorrow.

 

No error message, LB boots up, but the config tool doesn't prompt when I right click to config.

 

My first instinct was that the settings file was borked, so I deleted it, restarted LB, and still nothing. EVen tried changing the version number inside of the settings file, and then nothing. After that, that's when I did the whole bouncing between PCSX2 versions, deleting, and reinstalling stuff I already mentioned.

[Zombeaver]

Hmm, yeah I'm not sure what would cause that. Maybe Alec has some idea.

Hopefully it's something simple. I guess the good news is, in lieu of the plugin there will eventually be another option as Alec mentioned earlier.

[deathsycthe420]

13 hours ago, alec100_94 said:

First of all I would like to congratulate the PCSX2 team on the long awaited 1.6.0 stable release, and all of the hard work that was put into it. 

@deathsycthe420 This tool should work fine with the new build, as there is very little difference between it and the latest 1.5.0 Dev builds. 

A new (and much nicer) solution is in development for going forward, I was initially hoping to get out ahead of the 1.6.0 release but I guess that didn't happen. Just continue to watch this space.

Yeah it worked after i'd updated. Lost all my configs but that's not really an issue for me tbh. Thanks for the info

[Cypher]

5 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

Hmm, yeah I'm not sure what would cause that. Maybe Alec has some idea.

Hopefully it's something simple. I guess the good news is, in lieu of the plugin there will eventually be another option as Alec mentioned earlier.

Yeah, it's a weird bug. But all of my crucial games have configs already, and the others wouldn't be too much of a nuisance to fetch manually. So I'm not stressing too much in the meantime.

[Cypher]

I figured it out. Instead of burning my entire install, I just dumped my plugins folder and just added everything one at a time to figure things out. I got the config tool to work this way, but the Playtime Tracker plugin prevents it from working properly. Removing that plugin allows the config tool to function as it should.

Edited May 7, 2020 by Cypher

[Zombeaver]

Huh, good to know for future reference. Weird that that would have anything to do with it.

[Cypher]

2 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

Huh, good to know for future reference. Weird that that would have anything to do with it.

That's what I thought too, lol.

I downloaded the 1.2 version just for kicks and replaced the PlaytimeTracker dll of the new one with the old one, and now they both work.  I'm not a programmer or a dll-ologist, so I'm not sure if this will allow the old verion bugs of playtime to crop up, but that's a workaround for people who want to use both at the same time.

[Zombeaver]

Alright... final pass is now complete. I uploaded a new config to Github, downloaded it through the plugin and everything came through correctly. I'm going to try a couple more to cover my bases but assuming everything goes well there I'll be pushing them all through.

[Zombeaver]

15 updated configs tested through the downloader: all A-okay.

I'm going to push them all through, then update the sheet and post the changelog once complete.

[Zombeaver]

Not... gonna... make it. Need... sleep...

I've pushed through 50 of the updated configs so far. I'll push the rest through tomorrow morning. You can see which ones are updated by looking at the list on github.

[Cineaste]

Great job so far!

I can see on GitHub that you 'updated to 1.6.0'. So that is the same as the dev build you used?

[Zombeaver]

Technically they're not identical, but they should be synonymous as far as the configs are concerned. Technically these were all tested with 1.5.0-dev-3400 but very little changed between then and 1.6.0 - primarily just some changes to the Onepad plugin, which isn't touched by these configs anyway. I did grab 1.6.0 and plan to test these with it, but there shouldn't be any significant difference between them.

[Zombeaver]

I swapped over to 1.6.0 in LB and retested the ones that I tested last night and they're all working correctly. I'm going to continue pushing the rest through. I do not anticipate any issues there.

One note when changing over versions, be sure to restart LB afterwards, because the Configurator plugin will continue to use the previous version until you do.

[Zombeaver]

Allllllllllllright... everything's been pushed through and the sheet has been updated.

A few notes:

Every single config has been touched, because the formatting in the configs changed a little bit, so even if there were “no changes”, there were some formatting changes that took place in the background. The only games noted in the update log, however, are ones where some value or setting actually changed from the previous version.

I made it a point to add a lot of additional notes for each game, so consider revisiting the details spreadsheet if you’re at all curious about this stuff and just for things to be aware of.

If one of the Bob deinterlacing modes is being used and you decide to change the scaling, do not change to a non-even resolution scale (i.e. 3x or 5x) as this causes a slight amount of jitter. It’s not super obvious, but I noticed it when changing several games that were set to one of the Bob modes to a scale of 5x - stick with 4 or 6 (or 8 I suppose if your hardware can handle it). I don’t know if this is a bug or what, but I encountered it pretty consistently in my testing.

As part of the update process, I went through and benchmarked everything with the framelimiter off (the results of which are now listed on the sheet, in the final column), and made a few adjustments here and there as the result of those tests. MTVU has been enabled and large framebuffer has been disabled in cases where A) a performance improvement might actually matter (in other words, if a game is running at 800% speed as-is, I didn’t go out of my way to see if I could get it to run any faster; 200% and below is basically where I started looking into potential speed improvements) and B) where it actually made a difference in my tests (because sometimes they don’t have any speed impact whatsoever). The amount to which it made a difference was at times as small as 15% or as much as 100%, it varies by game. There are also some cases where disabling large framebuffer doesn’t necessarily result in a consistent speed improvement but can help with sudden performance spikes. Truth be told, in my opinion large framebuffer really shouldn’t be enabled by default in PCSX2 (and I notice that now in 1.6.0 it isn't, it was in 1.5.0 dev builds though), and this has even been acknowledged by a number of devs in their forums. Primarily all it does is makes it so that FMVs don’t flicker in and out while playing in a pretty small number of games, and in those instances you can generally use the Software FMV hack as an alternative anyway; and the tradeoff for large framebuffer is at best no performance impact and at worst a substantial negative performance impact. It should be noted, of course, that the benchmarking results are specific to my hardware, but the changes should, generally speaking, benefit everyone. I have read that on some AMD CPUs MTVU is less beneficial, so your mileage may vary but that’s kindof a given since everyone’s going to have different hardware and varying amounts of overhead to begin with. If someone had good performance with a previous config and are suddenly getting very bad performance with the new one, I definitely want to know about that so I can take a look, but I’m not anticipating much of that. At worst performance should be pretty much identical and at best it should be better than it was before.

FXAA was added to many of the games (and this is noted on the sheet). It actually looks very good with very little impact on performance for the majority of games. It’s not as dramatic as the old MSAA, but it also has nowhere near the performance impact (and doesn’t create visual bugs like MSAA did on occasion). There are some instances where it does have a noticeable impact on performance that are mentioned in the notes. Whether or not it was kept in these cases depends primarily on the difference in final speed with framelimiting off vs the visual benefit of FXAA. In some cases it may have a noticeable impact but you might be talking about going from 450% max speed to 375% speed, which should still be well within tolerance for most hardware. In some cases you might be talking about going from something like 200% to 175%, which I’m less inclined to go for unless it makes a very significant improvement on the visuals - which is primarily a combination of A) the aesthetic style of the game and B) the scaling value. FXAA doesn’t yield as much of a benefit with 6x scaling as it does at 4x scaling (for reasons that are probably obvious), and by the same token speed impacts tend to be greater the higher the scaling, so you’re taking a bigger performance hit for an increasingly negligible difference in visual quality. In some cases I opted to A) go down a single scale step (but no lower than 4x) combined with FXAA rather than B) up a single step without FXAA where the performance between these two options were equivalent, because 1x down + FXAA will usually look a little better between these two (so long as the scaling is 4x+). In some cases FXAA makes very little difference visually one way or the other, depending on the aesthetic style - it’s more obvious with lots of clean, bright, lower-poly angled shapes than it is with a lot of busy dark colors on high poly models.

Issues status on Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, Burnout 3: Takedown, Kya: Dark Lineage, Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix, Shadow of the Colossus, and Twisted Metal: Black went from yellow to green! I added a new config for Spartan: Total Warrior because it's no longer broken. Shadow of Rome no longer requires 1.2.1 for proper audio in cutscenes. Woohoo!

Someone had reported a while back that the Nanobreaker config wasn't downloading through the plugin. I took a look and discovered that the ID# had actually changed since I originally scraped it, and what was on github was the old number, so I've fixed that. I'll have to go through the others and verify that all the numbers are still correct. Beyond that, it's not something I'm going to know about unless someone tells me, so if anyone does encounter a game not matching, please let me know!

Now that all this shit is done I can actually get back to working on some new configs. Yaaaaaaaaaaay… FML… *crippling depression emoji*

Changelog (deep breath):

.hack (all)
Changed to D3D (shadows now work correctly)
Added Half Pixel Offset: Normal to fix bloom alignment
Increased upscaling to 6x

Ace Combat 5
Added Align Sprite (fixes horizontal lines in pause screen)

Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
Removed custom zoom (no longer necessary)
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Added Align Sprite (fixes horizontal lines in pause screen)

Alone in the Dark
Changed to GL
Changed ASync back to Timestretch in SPU (ASync often desyncs if you end up using software rendering)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Increased upscaling to 6x

Ape Escape 2
Changed to D3D (no longer causes slowdown)
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Ape Escape 3
Disabled large frame buffer
Increased upscaling to 5x

Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
Added Disable Depth Emulation (fixes ghosting)
Replaced TC Offset X 200 / Y 100 with Round Sprite=Full + TC Offset Y 100 (does a better job at fixing upscaling lines)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x
Changed issues status from yellow to green!

Armored Core 2 and 2: Another Age
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Adjusted TC offset
Increased upscaling to 6x

Armored Core 3
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Adjusted TC offset

Armored Core: Nine Breaker
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Armored Core: Silent Line
Changed to D3D
Adjusted TC offset
Set EE Round Mode to positive (fixes missing geometry on some objects)

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance (1 and 2)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Disabled MTVU (strangely, improves performance)

Baroque
Increased upscaling to 6x

Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain
Increased upscaling to 6x

Bloody Roar 3
Increased upscaling to 6x

Bouncer, The
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Added TC offset (to reduce upscaling lines)
Set “Disable Safe Features” (“safe features” causes stroke lines around characters to be slightly off in D3D)

Burnout 3: Takedown
Changed from Software to Hardware (GL) rendering
Added Half Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) to fix line in distance
Disabled large frame buffer
Changed issues status from yellow to green!

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Changed to D3D
Set “Disable Safe Features” (“safe features” causes artifacts/lines from shadows in D3D)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Champions of Norrath / Champions: Return to Arms
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Removed skipdraw (no longer necessary)

Chaos Legion
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Set VU Clamp Mode to Extra (fixes item menu graphics corruption)
Added Round Sprite=Full (fixes vertical line in cutscenes)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Chulip
Increased upscaling to 6x

Clock Tower 3
Increased upscaling to 6x

Cold Fear
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Contra: Shattered Soldier
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Added TC offset (to reduce upscaling lines)

Crimson Sea 2
Increased upscaling to 6x
Changed TC Offset X to 400 (instead of 300) because of increased upscaling
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Crimson Tears
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Added TC offset (bloom alignment)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Changed deinterlacing back to Auto (UI jitter)
Increased upscaling to 4x

Curse, The: The Eye of Isis
Increased upscaling to 6x

Cyber Troopers: Virtual-On Marz
Increased upscaling to 6x

Dark Cloud
Changed to D3D
Increased upscaling to 6x

Dark Cloud 2
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Removed Wild Arms Offset hack and replaced with Round Sprite=Half (removes upscaling lines, and does a better job in this case than Wild Arms Offset)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Dawn of Mana
Changed Async in SPU back to Timestretch (Async can cause a hang if disabling the framelimiter)
Added TC Offset (fixes bloom alignment)
Disabled MTVU (doesn’t actually seem to affect performance one way or the other)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Dead to Rights
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Increased upscaling to 6x

Def Jam: Fight for NY
Changed to D3D
Added Half-Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) (helps with bloom alignment)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Devil Kings
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Changed Half-Pixel Offset: Normal to Half-Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) (removes white artifacting at top of screen)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Devil May Cry
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Set EE Cycle rate to 0 (-1 is no longer necessary for FMVs)
Added Half Pixel Offset: Normal (fixes bloom alignment)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Added TC offset (to reduce upscaling lines)
Set interlacing to Bob tff

Dirge of Cerberus
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Added Half-Pixel Offset: Normal (Vertex) (helps with bloom alignment)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Enabled MTVU (slightly improves performance)
Set Async mode in SPU

Disaster Report
Changed to D3D

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Changed texture filtering to nearest
Added TC offset (removes upscaling lines)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Changed texture filtering to nearest
Removed Wild Arms Offset
Added TC Offset (removes upscaling lines)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Dr. Muto
Set “Disable Safe Features” (“safe features” creates lines in shadows in D3D)

Dragon Quest VIII
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Removed skipdraw=1 (no longer necessary)
Added Disable Safe Features (fixes ugly character outline in GL)
Added Half Pixel Offset: Special (improves black lines at bottom/right side of the screen)
Changed Round Sprite from Half to Full (fixes text while also improving black line bug)

Drakengard
Added Merge Sprite hack (fixes lines in level completion screens)

Drakhan: The Ancients’ Gates
Added TC offset (helps with some upscaling lines)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Echo Night: Beyond
Removed software FMV hack (not necessary)
Removed widescreen hack and set to display in 4:3 (widescreen hack causes weird graphical issues - black spiky polygons)

EOE: Eve of Extinction
Increased upscaling to 6x

Espgaluda
Removed software FMV hack (unneeded - game is already set to use software mode for everything)
Removed texture filtering (makes sprites sharper)

Eternal Ring
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Increased upscaling to 6x

Extermination
Changed to GL (software FMV hack not entirely stable with D3D)
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Added TC offset (fixes depth of field)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Fantavision
Set interlacing to Bob tff

Fatal Frame
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Set "Disable Safe Features" (“safe features” creates lines in photos)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Fatal Frame 2
Changed to D3D
Set "Disable Safe Features" (“safe features” creates lines in certain frames and transition effects)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Fatal Frame 3
Changed to D3D
Set "Disable Safe Features" (“safe features” creates lines in certain frames and transition effects)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Final Fantasy X
Changed to D3D
Added TC offset (helps with some of the upscaling lines)
Set Async mode in SPU
Set EE/IOP and VU clamping modes back to normal (default) - full / extra + preserve sign no longer needed
Increased upscaling to 6x

Final Fantasy XII
Removed software FMV hack and replaced with TC offset Y: 400. In hardware mode there’s some garbage lines around the FMV video. Software FMV would actually be preferable to the TC offset but it seems less stable in newer versions when combined with D3D rendering and will sometimes cause PCSX2 to crash (apphang). GL seems unaffected.
Increased upscaling to 5x

Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball
Increased upscaling to 6x

Forbidden Siren 2
Changed to GL (software FMV hack not entirely stable with D3D)
Removed TC offset (no longer necessary)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Front Mission 4
Removed software FMV hack (unneeded - game is already set to use software mode for everything)

Galerians: Ash
Removed software FMV hack (unneeded - game is already set to use software mode for everything)

Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
Added TC Offset (improves upscaling lines in text)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
Increased upscaling to 5x

The Getaway
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Removed Auto Flush hack (unnecessary)
Removed Frame Buffer Conversion hack (unnecessary)

Global Defence Force
Added Allow 8-bit textures (improves performance)

God Hand
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added Merge Sprite hack (fixes blurriness)
Added Wild Arms Offset hack (fixes some artifacts in cutscenes)

God of War
Added Half Pixel Offset: Special (Texture - Aggressive) (removes radius line around Kratos in some areas)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Set Async mode in SPU
Increased upscaling to 4x

Grandia III
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Set "Disable Safe Features" (“safe features” creates lines on character faces in D3D)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Gradius V
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Grand Theft Auto III
Changed to D3D

Gregory Horror Show
Increased upscaling to 6x

Gungrave: Overdose
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Removed software FMV hack (fixed by other changes)
Added Round Sprite=Full (helps with upscaling lines in text and fixes FMV garbage from hardware rendering)
Added TC offset Y: 150 (helps further improve the above)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Haunting Ground
Replaced Half Pixel Offset with manual TC Offset (fixes bloom alignment without creating upscaling lines in some textures and menus)

Haven: Call of the King
Changed to D3D
Set Blending accuracy to high (required for shadows)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Added TC Offset (improves bloom/DOF alignment)

Herdy Gerdy
Increased upscaling to 4x (performance is improved from previous version)
Added 8x Anisotropic Filtering
Set VU Round Mode to Positive (fixes occasionally flickering geometry in trees with hardware rendering)

Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward
Increased upscaling to 5x

Ico
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)

Jade Cocoon 2
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Increased upscaling to 6x

Jaws Unleashed
Removed software FMV hack
Increased upscaling to 5x

Killer 7
Increased upscaling to 6x

Kinetica
Increased upscaling to 5x

King of Fighters 2006
Removed TC offset
Increased upscaling to 6x

Kingdom Hearts
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)

Kuon
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Kya: Dark Lineage
Changed to GL
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added Preload Frame Data (fixes sun displaying garbage textures)
Removed skipdraw
Set Timestretch mode in SPU (Async can cause a crash if you disable the framelimiter)
Changed issues status from yellow to green!

Legaia 2: Duel Saga
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Removed software FMV hack
Increased upscaling to 6x

Legend of Kay
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)

Lord of the Rings, The: Fellowship of the Ring
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)

Lord of the Rings, The: The Third Age
Added Disable Depth Emulation (helps with some post processing)
Added Disable Safe Features (helps with some post processing)
NOTE: This game has slightly more problems in 1.6.0 than it had in 1.5.0-dev-2711, primarily because of accuracy improvements which makes it now attempt to render some elements that are buggy. This can mostly be mitigated with the proper settings, but it is nevertheless slightly buggier visually than it was in 2711, so I’m including instructions for the proper settings to use on 2711 on the details spreadsheet. The included config is for 1.6.0, and should be sufficient for the vast majority of people. If you’re really picky like me, you may want to grab 1.5.0-dev-2711 and setup a config for it specifically, using the settings I list on the sheet.

Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers
Removed skipdraw=1 (no longer necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added Half Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) (fixes line beyond fog, like in Moria, etc.)

Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
Changed to D3D
Removed Half Pixel Offset (no longer necessary)
Adjusted TC Offset
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Manhunt
Reduced upscaling to 3x to compensate for Auto Flush performance spikes

Mark of Kri
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
Removed software FMV hack
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Maximo vs. The Army of Zin
Removed software FMV hack
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added Half Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) (fixes white outlines around trees)

Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Reduced upscaling to 3x

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
Removed software FMV hack
Changed EE cycle rate from 2 to 1
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Reduced upscaling to 3x

Metal Saga
Increased upscaling to 5x

Michigan: Report From Hell
Increased upscaling to 6x

Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix
Set EE cycle rate to 0
Set EE cycle skipping to 0
Set Half-Screen Fix to Forced-Enabled (fixes headlight ghosting)
Changed VU Round mode back to Chop / Zero (default)
Increased upscaling to 4x
Changed issues status from yellow to green!

Monster Hunter
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Replaced manual TC Offset with Round Sprite: Full (does a better job of fixing the upscaling lines)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Mortal Kombat Armageddon
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Mortal Kombat Deception
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added TC offset (fixes some upscaling lines)

MotoGP 08
Increased upscaling to 6x

Nanobreaker
Changed to D3D
Updated game ID # because it apparently changed on the LBGDB

Need for Speed: Underground
Changed to D3D
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Neo Contra
Increased upscaling to 5x

Nightmare of Druaga
Set “Disable Safe Features” (“safe features” creates lines in pause menu in D3D)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Nightshade
Removed software FMV hack
Changed from Bob bff to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (slight performance improvement)
Adjusted TC Offset
Reduced upscaling from 4x to 3x (more consistent performance)

Obscure
Removed software FMV hack (unneeded - game is already set to use software mode for everything)

Obscure 2
Removed software FMV hack (unneeded - game is already set to use software mode for everything)

Odin Sphere
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Disabled allow 8-bit textures (unnecessary)
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Added Round Sprite: Half (removes some upscaling lines)
Increased upscaling to 4x

Okage: Shadow King
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Set skipdraw=1/1 (removed buggy depth of field)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Okami
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Replaced manual TC offset with Half Pixel Offset: Normal (Vertex) (aligns bloom without interfering with text/UI elements)

Oni
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)

Onimusha: Warlords
Changed to D3D
Changed interlacing to Blend bff
Added TC offset (removes some upscaling lines)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Onimusha 2
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Added TC offset (removes some upscaling lines)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Onimusha 3
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Removed Round Sprite=Full

Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)

Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
Changed EE cycle rate from -1 to -2 (improves performance)
Changed EE cycle skipping back to 0 (default) (EE cycle skipping causes really bad frame pacing/skipped frames)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Removed skipdraw (mostly unnecessary now)

Phantasy Star Universe
Removed custom EE/IOP rounding mode setting (no longer necessary)
Increased upscaling to 5x
 
Project Eden
Increased upscaling to 6x

R-Type Final
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack
Increased upscaling to 6x

Radiata Stories
Changed to GL
Removed software FMV hack
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added Allow 8-bit Textures (improves performance)
Changed CRC level from partial to full (improves performance)
Added Half Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) (bloom alignment)
Added Frame Buffer Conversion hack (fixes ugly depth of field)

Rampage: Total Destruction
Increased upscaling to 6x

The Red Star
Changed to GL (some graphical elements don’t render correctly without GL + Accurate Date=Full)
Removed software FMV hack
Set Accurate Date to Full
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performances)

Resident Evil: Outbreak
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Set blending accuracy to none
Increased upscaling to 6x

Resident Evil: Outbreak - File #2
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Set blending accuracy to none
Added TC offset (fixes some lines in text)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Rise of Kasai
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Robot Alchemic Drive
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Robotech Battlecry
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Rogue Galaxy
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Removed Preload Frame Data hack (no longer necessary)
Changed Half Pixel Offset from Normal to Special (Texture) (fixes some bloom alignment issues)

Rule of Rose
Increased upscaling to 6x

Rumble Roses
Changed interlacing mode from Bob bff to Bob tff (has jitter in fewer places)

Run Like Hell
Increased upscaling to 6x

Rune: Viking Warlord
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Increased scaling to 5x

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
Increased upscaling to 6x

S.L.A.I. Steel Lancer Arena International
Increased upscaling to 6x

Samurai Western
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Shadow Hearts
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added allow 8-bit textures (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 4x

Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Removed software FMV hack (unneeded - game is already set to use software mode for everything)
At some point between dev 2711 and 3265 the bug where the judgement ring would make half the screen turn black has changed; now it’s all or nothing - sometimes it will display properly, sometimes the entire screen will be black. Turn OPH Flag hack on under manual fixes if you want to try using hardware rendering. Other settings used seem to mitigate it somewhat based on (extensive) testing. Software rendering has no issues, however, so for the time being that’s still what it’s set to use.

Shadow of Destiny
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Removed TC offset

Shadow of Rome
No longer requires PCSX2 1.2.1 for correct FMV audio as of dev 3278!
Added Half Pixel Offset: Normal (Vertex) (fixes bloom)

Shadow of the Colossus
Changed CRC level from Aggressive to Partial (to re-enable bloom)
Changed blending accuracy to Medium (fixes bloom)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added OPH Flag Hack (massive performance boost)
Reduced scaling from 4x to 3x (4x still has occasional slowdown, 3x has none; still looks quite nice, especially with FXAA)
Changed issues status from yellow to green!

Shadow Tower: Abyss
Changed Blending Accuracy to None (lighting flickers if set above none on both GL and D3D)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Shade boost added with brightness at 85% - read notes

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Set “Disable Safe Features” (“safe features” creates lines in shadows in D3D)
Added older version of the widescreen patch which doesn’t remove shadows (because they work now)

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Set “Disable Safe Features” (“safe features” creates lines in shadows in D3D)
Set EE Cycle Rate to 0 (setting to 2 no longer helpful/necessary)

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Set Async mode in SPU
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Set “Disable safe features” (shadows aren’t quite right in D3D without this setting)

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Changed to D3D
Disabled Allow-8 bit Textures
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Removed Half Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) (doesn’t appear to be needed anymore)
Set “Disable safe features” (shadows aren’t quite right in D3D without this setting)
Reduced upscaling to 5x (prevents sporadic slowdown due to some graphical effects)

Shining Tears
Set blending accuracy to basic

Shinobi
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Silent Hill 2
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Silent Hill 3
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Silent Hill 4: The Room
Removed software FMV hack
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Skygunner
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)

Sled Storm
Changed VU clamping mode from Extra back to Normal (Extra no longer necessary)

Sly Cooper
Changed to D3D
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Soul Reaver 2
Increased upscaling to 6x

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)

SSX 3
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Added Half Pixel Offset: Special (Texture - Aggressive) (helps reduce radius line)
Set Async mode in SPU
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

SSX Tricky
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Star Ocean 3: Till The End of Time
Changed to GL
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Added TC Offset (fixes vertical lines in transitions)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Changed VU Round Mode from Nearest to Chop / Zero (default) (Nearest no longer seems to be necessary)
Changed VU Clamping Mode from Extra + Preserve Sign to Normal (default) (Extra + Preserve Sign no longer seems to be necessary)
Changed EE/IOP Clamping Mode from Extra + Preserve Sign to Normal (default) (Extra + Preserve Sign no longer seems to be necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

State of Emergency
Added allow 8-bit textures (improves performance)
Added Alpha Stencil video hack (fixes shadow ghosting)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Stella Deus
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Street Fighter EX3
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Suikoden III
Changed to D3D
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Suikoden V
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Adjusted TC offset
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Summoner 2
Increased upscaling to 5x

Tales of Legendia
Changed to GL
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Added TC Offset (fixes upscaling lines in UI)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Disabled MTVU (doesn’t seem to actually improve performance)

Tales of the Abyss
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Tekken 5
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Tekken Tag Tournament
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Added TC offset (helps with some upscaling lines)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Tsugunai: Atonement
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Increased upscaling to 6x

Twisted Metal: Black
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Increased upscaling to 6x
Status went from yellow to green!

Unlimited Saga
Increased upscaling to 6x

Urban Chaos: Riot Response
Disabled large framebuffer (improves performance)
Replaced Half-Pixel Offset with manual TC Offset of X 300 / Y 300 (this way it works correctly at both 3x and 4x scaling)
Increased upscaling to 4x

Urban Reign
Changed deinterlacing mode from Bob bff to Auto (the game is interlaced, and Bob modes do make gameplay clearer, but all menus, which you’re in fairly frequently, jitter when they’re used)

Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Added Frame Buffer Conversion (helps with depth of field)
Added Merge Sprite (helps with depth of field)
Changed Round Sprite from Full to Half (corrects lines in transitions without creating artifacts in FMVs)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

War of the Monsters
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Increased upscaling to 6x

The Warriors
Increased upscaling to 6x

Way of the Samurai
Removed TC offset
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Way of the Samurai 2
Added Round Sprite=Full (helps with upscaling lines)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

Whiplash
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Set Async mode in SPU
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Wild Arms 3 and Alter Code F
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)

Wild Arms 4
Changed to D3D
Disabled large frame buffer (improves performance)
Added Round Sprite: Full (removes upscaling lines)
Added Merge Sprite (removes semi-transparent “seams” created by Round Sprite: Full)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Wild Arms 5
Changed to D3D
Added frame buffer conversion (fixes sepia-tone flashbacks)
Set “Disable Safe Features” (fixes horizontal lines in some transition effects)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 5x

Wipeout Fusion
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
Increased upscaling to 6x

The X-Files: Resist or Serve
Changed to D3D
Removed software FMV hack (no longer necessary)
Disabled large frame buffer (helps with memory/vram spikes)
Set “Disable Safe Features” (“safe features” creates issues with shadows in D3D)
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

Xenosaga
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)

XGIII: Extreme G Racing
Set interlacing to Bob tff
Enabled MTVU (improves performance)
Increased upscaling to 6x

XGRA: Extreme G Racing Association
Increased upscaling to 5x

Yakuza
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Changed CRC level to minimum (read notes on detail sheet for more info)
Added TC offset (helps with effects alignment)

Yakuza 2
Removed software FMV hack (unnecessary)
Changed CRC level to minimum (read notes on detail sheet for more info)
Added Preload Frame Data (helps with bright portions in the bottom/right side of the screen)
Added TC offset (helps with effects alignment)