No matter what resolution I use graphics are blur.

[braveerudite]

I use 1024x768 and 1280x1024 and I try them both on full screen and I see no difference.

I have to desable the Vsync or will crash when I press Alt+Enter for full screen.

[patrickp]

Try deselecting Bilinear interpolation in your graphics configuration, braveerudite. Apart from that, WYSI pretty much what you'd see from a Playstation (or should be!); a lot of what people take to be a poor picture is really just what a Playstation would look like on a monitor screen, which is much higher definition than a TV.

[R4Zi3L]

i didn't have real PS so i have qustion to it owners - did render on monitor screen with Bilinear interpolation ON look exactly like on tv or maybe even worse?

[patrickp]

Well, not exactly like TV, r4zi3l. But the very low resolution of a TV does have the effect of smoothing the picture something like bilinear interpolation does, I guess - it's a long time since I last looked at a Playstation on a TV screen. Even before I got into PSX emulators, I was running the video output of my Playstation into the video in on a trusty Rage 128 Pro All-in-Wonder.

If you really want it to look like a TV screen, I guess you've got to add scanlines etc.

[braveerudite]

patrickp said:

Try deselecting Bilinear interpolation in your graphics configuration, braveerudite. Apart from that, WYSI pretty much what you'd see from a Playstation (or should be!); a lot of what people take to be a poor picture is really just what a Playstation would look like on a monitor screen, which is much higher definition than a TV.

I agree with you but... (I hate to mention another emulator in here) .... But EPXE uses OPEN GL 2.0 and the games look much better res than even on TV. So I think is possible to get a better picture. I'm just wondering if is possible to get the same results with PSX.

Looks like is running on software Mode or Direct X but I'm not sure. I only been using this Emu for 1 day now.


Cheers

[Truth Unknown]

It's all emulated in Software and outputted to DirectX, and the focus for the momment is just Emulation not Enhancement.

[psicomaniaco]

Actually, playing the games on pSX with Bilinear Filter On make they look almost like the real PSX on normal TV (on bigger TVs, the scanlines are more noticeable, but on small TVs, like 14', 15' or even 20', the screen is just blurry, just like seen on pSX). I would know, as I still have my ol' PSX here, and I still use it.

Braveerudite, the pSX doesn't enhance the graphics. They are just as they should be. And I hope the pSX Author keep it that way. If you want enhanced graphics, go use EPSXE.

pSX is a diferent type of emulator. And IMHO its better than the others. Again, IMHO! This is 'cause I just want to play the games like they should, I don't want enhanced graphics (and I even hate them. When I use EPSXE, I always use the PEOPS plugin anyway). I just want great gameplay with perfect sound, and thats what pSX offers. And as an extra, pSX offer me the chance to play the games without slowdowns!! Try playing Delta Force UW on the real PSX or even on another emulator and then use pSX to see the diference! Not even the old VGS had this!!

[R4Zi3L]

patrickp said:

But the very low resolution of a TV does have the effect of smoothing the picture something like bilinear interpolation does, I guess - it's a long time since I last looked at a Playstation on a TV screen.

So bilinear interpolation only imitate tv's blurriness?

[patrickp]

It's not specifically imitating a TV's blurriness; it's just a characteristic of digital images that, at some level, they're always pixellated. So, it's become common to use various forms of filtering to smooth out the jaggedness without, as far as possible, losing the definition of the image.

Certainly, I appreciate the direction pSX emulator is taking, of emulating the Playstation as accurately as possible; but I also enjoy the enhancement that it's possible to get from something like ePSXe, and I'm not at all put off by selecting and configuring plugins.

However, on balance, I'd say I'm getting to enjoy pSX emulator more than any other Playstation emulator. Certainly, at the basic trade-off level, which is perfect emulation and gameplay as against the slowdowns and inaccuracies that enhancement inevitably brings, it's swinging more and more to accurate emulation for me.