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<br /> Usefull links for myself:

<br />http://pcsx2.net/config-guide/official-english-pcsx2-configuration-guide.html

<br />http://wiki.pcsx2.net/index.php/Setting_up_Windows_version

<br />http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Official-English-PCSX2-configuration-guide-v1-2-1

<br />http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-PCSX2-Wiki-collaboration-thread?pid=415385

<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup

<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet

<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Collapsing

<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Collapsible_list

<br /><br />'''WORK IN PROGRESS!'''

  There are 3 tabs, Plugins, BIOS and Folders.

configuration dialog for the respective plugin you have selected.

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 [http://pcsx2.net/download/releases/tools/viewcategory/14-tools.html tools section] on the PCSX2 site to find out how to do this.

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

  <span style="color:red">Warning:</span> 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.

<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:

*''snaps'': Screenshots taken with the F8 key are stored into this folder.

Ideal to keep the application portable, you will need 7-Zip to decompress the file, you can find it [http://www.7-zip.org/ here].  

You need the Visual Studio 2013 redistributable for this version to work. Download it [http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/E/6/2E61CFA4-993B-4DD4-91DA-3737CD5CD6E3/vcredist_x86.exe here].

First, you will want to check what version of pixel shaders and DirectX (on Windows) your graphic card supports. You can do that [http://www.gpureview.com/videocards.php here].

GSdx v0.1.16 is a DirectX 9 and DirectX 10/11 plugin by Gabest which recently got greatly improved in both speed and image quality. It requires pixel shaders 2 and SSE2 to work and Vista/Windows 7/8 with a DirectX 10 compliant graphics card for the DirectX10/11 mode. ZeroGS is a very old plugin which has not been developed in years. A very small number of games works better with this plugin than with GSdx, you can try it as a '''last resort'''. GSnull is, as the name suggests, a null graphics plugin which will not output any kind of video. It is used for debugging purposes.

'''Placeholder for GSdx screenhot, probably thmbnail'''

First of all, GSdx comes in 5 versions: SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.1, AVX and AVX2.

<br />Only '''IF''' your processor supports these instruction sets, use highest version you can, since it will be faster for you in this order from slowest to fastest:  

#SSE2

#SSSE3

#SSE4.1

#AVX  

#AVX2

You can use [http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html CPU-Z] to find out your processor's supported instruction sets.

The new AVX and AVX2 instructions give a minor speed up only with the software renderers of GSdx and not the hardware ones. Note: AMD users do NOT mistake SSE3 with SSSE3 (1 extra S) and SSE4A with SSE4.1, they are totally different and are NOT supported. In this case use the SSE2 flavor.