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WINDOWS GUIDE PROPOSAL
http://pcsx2.net/config-guide/official-english-pcsx2-configuration-guide.html
http://wiki.pcsx2.net/index.php/Setting_up_Windows_version
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Official-English-PCSX2-configuration-guide-v1-2-1
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-PCSX2-Wiki-collaboration-thread?pid=415385

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In this guide we will try to explain how to download, install and properly configure PCSX2 1.2.1 on a Windows environment, and also give some tips for running games. The latest version of the guide is to be found on the official forum.
You can also watch the video configuracion guide here. Part of this guide has been translated to many languages, you can find those translations here. The user avih made a shorter version of the official guide here
There is also a Linux and a Mac version of this guide. <br /

Overview

PCSX2 is a Playstation 2 emulator capable of running commercial games. It's an open source proyect and runs on Windos, Mac and Linux. Like its predecessor project PCSX (a PlayStation emulator), is based on a PSEmu Pro spec plug-in architecture, separating several functions from the core emulator. PCSX2 requires a copy of the PS2 BIOS, which is not available for download from the developers, due to the copyright concerns and legal issues associated with it.

Prerequisites

Bios

You will need the BIOS file from your Playstation 2 console. This is not included with PCSX2 since it is a Sony copyright so you have to get it from your console. Visit the tools section on the PCSX2 site to find out how to do this.

Minimum settings

These are the minimum system requirements tu run PCSX2, bear in mind most games will be unplayable slow:

• CPU: Any that supports SSE2 (Pentium 4 and up, Athlon64 and up)
• GPU: Any that supports Pixel Shader model 2.0, except Nvidia FX series (broken SM2.0, too slow anyway)
• 512MB RAM (note Vista needs at least 2GB to run reliably)

Recomended settings

These are the recommended system specifications to run PCSX2:

• Windows Vista / Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit) with the latest DirectX
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.2 GHz or better OR i3/i5/i7 @ 2,8 GHz or better OR AMD Phenom II @ 3,2 GHz or better
• GPU: 8800gt or better (for Direct3D10 support)
• RAM: 1GB on Linux/Windows XP, 2GB or more on Vista / Windows 7

Warning: Because of the nature of emulation, even if you meet the recommended requirements there will be games that will NOT run at full speed, due to emulation bugs or other limitations.

Getting PCSX2

You can get PCSX2 for Windows here. There are 3 versions available for download: standalone installer, web-installer and Windows binaries.

Standalone Installer

This will download the installer for the latest stable version of PCSX2. After opening it, you will be able to select the installation options.
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On the next step, you will be asked to provide the location for PCSX2 to install, the image illustrates the defaul installation path:

After pressing Install the emulator is going to be installed to the chosen location, the installer is also going to create the following folders (that can be set to a different location afterwards) under the user's My Documents folder:

• bios: This is where you should store the bios file of your PS2, PCSX2 will look for it here by default.
• cheats_ws: Cheats will be store and read from here.
• inis: This folder is responsible to hold the configuration files for the emulator. You can make PSCX2 load different configurations for each game creating a shortcut to pcsx2.exe and using command line arguments.
• logs: Emulator logs are going to be stored here.
• snaps: Screenshots taken with the F8 key are stored in this folder.
• sstates: Savestates are stored here.

Web installer

The web installer follows the same procedure than the standalone installer, but it downloads the installation files after the user presses the Install button.

Windows binaries

This option download the folder containing the Windows binaries. Just unpack it at the desired location and run pscx2.exe. This option will not create Start menu entries or a desktop shortcut.
Ideal to keep the application portable, you will need 7-Zip to decompress the file, you can find it here. You need the Visual Studio 2013 redistributable for this version to work. Download it here.
The emulator is going to create the folders mentioned on Standalone Installer at the first run.

First Run

Things that happen at first run are described here.