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  <+span style="color:red">Warning:</span> Because of the nature of emulation, even if you meet the recommended requirements

<br />[[image:PCSX2 Installer 1.png]]

<br />On the next step, you will be asked to provide the location for PCSX2 to install, the image illustrates the defaul installation path:

<br />[[image:PCSX2 Installer 2.png]]

<br />After clicking the ''Install'' button, 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 anytime you want) under the user's My Documents folder:

<br />In the first dropdown, simply select the language you want the program to be in.

<br />[[File:PCSX2_Wizard_1.png]]

<br />In the second screen you will be able to choose which plugins you want to use. The default plugins are the ones with the higher compatibility and usually fastest too, so before changing them make sure you know what you're doing.

<br />[[File:PCSX2_Wizard_2.png]]

<br />In the third screen, you will be prompted to select your BIOS image from the list. If you can't see anything on this list, you need to either copy your BIOS files in the folder seen below, or change that folder to point to where you have your BIOS image saved. For more information about the BIOS, check the BIOS configuration section of this guide. If you can't make a selection, you will not be able to use PCSX2. Click Finish to end the First Time Configuration Wizard.

<br />[[File:PCSX2_Wizard_3.png]]

<br />This is the main GUI (Graphical User Interface) of PCSX2:

<br />[[File:NewGUI.png]]

<br />From here, you can change the settings or plugins used by PCSX2 as you see fit.

<br />We will start with configuring our plugins then we will move onto Core settings configuration.

<br />Go to Config => Plugin/BIOS selector to select and configure the plugins PCSX2 will use.

<br />You'll see a screen like this:

<br />[[File:ConfigMenu.png]]

*Enable FX Shader: Since version 1.2.0, PCSX2 is able to use external shader programs to add various effects and visual improvements. By default, PCSX2 comes with 4 simple scanline shaders (which you can cycle through while running a game by pressing F7). For a huge set of shader effects which include UHQ FXAA, Bilinear FS Filtering, Bicubic FS Filtering, Gaussian FS Filtering, High Quality Blended Bloom, Per-Channel Gamma Correction, Scene Tone Mapping, RGB Colour Correction, S-Curve Contrast Enhancement, Texture, Sharpening, Pixel Vibrance, Post-Complement Colour Grading, Cel Shading, Scanline Emulation, Vignette and Subpixel Dithering you can download Asmodean's shader file from our forum [http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Custom-Shaders-for-GSdx?pid=334766#pid334766 HERE]. Open the zip file and extract the PCSX2Fx_Settings.txt and shader.fx files in the same directory with pcsx2-r5875.exe. You can change the settings of the shader by opening the PCSX2Fx_Settings.txt and following the included instructions and finally saving the file with your changes. Use with caution as setting huge values here can have an enormous impact on speed. Note that '''you can use external shaders even with a GSdx (software) renderer,''' which is the best way to get higher visual quality with this rendering mode.