GSdx: Difference between revisions

** '''Hardware renderer''' -- uses your graphics card to render the picture. This is the fastest the the most preferred mode.

** '''Software renderer''' -- uses your CPU to render the picture. There will be ONLY native internal resolution available (thus poor looking visuals). But in cases of some games this mode gives much more correct picture fixing many GFX related artifacts. Unfortunately GSDX requires much CPU power to render with software renderer even in internal resolution (without anti-aliasing or anything else applied) so you may end up with 3-10fps unplayable but correctly rendered game (some games are rendered quite fast though). Note also that PCSX2 is very CPU hungry but currently supports only 2 cores (the third core may also help a wee when used by different system processes leaving first two exclusively to PCSX2) thus if you have 3 or 4 core CPU you may consider using them for GSDX working in this mode increasing the render speed dramatically with every additional core (see '''SW renderer threads''').

* '''Aspect ratio''' -- is used to choose the default aspect ratio mode when starting the emulation process. For more detailed explanation see '''List of ingame keys'''-'''F6'''.

* '''D3D internal resolution''' -- is used to set the render resolution target. The higher resolution you choose here the bigger picture will be rendered before being resized into your screen resolution thus you'll see more clear and crisp visuals. Unfortunately all those game you'll be playing were created and tested for lower native resolution (~500 x ~450) so some picture parts or objects may look wrong (displaced/framed/no image/invalid colors, etc.) when rendered in higher resolution. These artifacts you may eliminate only by using '''native resolution'''. Increasing internal resolution will impact the rendering speed so the higher resolution you'll set the more powerful graphics card you'll need to have.