by Sabong8 » May 11th, '20, 02:13
Generally it's default. When you start PCSX2 it is there unless you close it. As I mentioned before I usually play on my Skull Canyon. So I just left iy and never bothered to close it out of habit. I close it now because here it seems to interfere with the menus for some reason.
That's why it's open. I am not clear if that's normal behavior with this version or not. Here on this old unit even in Debian I am using this newere 1.5 version. On my NUC except for the Live mode test and when I install Mageia there, I have one Distro that is only for playing. It's Debian Stable (Not even updated yet) and it is JUST to play PCSX2. The other is just where I work or do things I need to do such as going online. So it's using an older version still. I think 1.4? Default is that console opening.
I have always just left it. Same with the Win 2. At the time of PCSX2 install it was 1.4. Console opens. I never bonthered to close it. (Nor update to the newer version because I plan to put Linux there eventually and pretty much use it when traveling, not much chance of that
right now, and my policy is if it isn't broke, don't fix it. For the games I use, unlikely the very popular ones, It works fine. So I leave it alone.)
That's why it's open and just thought I would mention that because I am not familiar with changes with the 1.5 version. Don't know if that's a 1.5 version issue or not. Example is the Debian on here is Testing. In fact the 1.5 PCSX2 seems to have some issue. It is super slow regardless of whatever hardware. Similar to the slow down with the console and menu but only when started. That's why I said above it's pretty broken in Debian. I just pulled the newer version build from SID after I Goggled and saw many comments about it. I don't use Ubuntu or any of it's spin offs but I saw similar comments there about the 1.5. Maybe the SID is using the 1.6 builds? So I don't know what may be something issue wise with 1.5 build. Just thought I would mention it happens.
Otherwise from Akien's reply, I understand this machine's hardware is just too old to handle PCSX2. So just won't worry about it here.
Again that was a mistake, on my part though I know the graphics card is pretty weak, I don't buy units for gaming, I just thought the old i5 could at least handle it and was curious to test if there were better support with Nvidia. Something I'd read somewhere.
As stated all the years I've had this I have run Linux on it and only until I put Mageia here did I even try to put PCSX2 on here. I only went to the Debian Install to see if I'd get the same message. It did not give that message so that's why I thought that there may have been some other issue and created this post.
Apologize for my error.
Thank you to everyone for you help and time.