* What's better compared to my 'standard' hw/accel plugins?
- An higher compatibility: you may notice that all kind of "special game fixes"
are gone... because they are not needed anymore
Bye bye, annoying Legend of Dragoons sprite border colors
Rest well, FF7 fix
And, and, and...
- Correct swirls, correct splash screens, correct special stuff like the "Vandal
Hearts 2" battles, or Tifa's Limit Break wheel (FF7)
- A nice full screen filter. That one improves 2D games (and games with a 2D
background gfx) alot. And best of it: no speed hit at all, and you can toggle
it directly in the gpu menu
* What's worse compared to my 'standard' hw/accel plugins?
- Generally a little bit slower (well, no speed problems on my AMD 2000+ and
Radeon 9700 Pro... anyway, I was able to reach the required 50/60 psx fps easily on
nearly every game I've tried).
- You will need much vram to get nice hi-res displays. Yeah, you can choose a
'low resolution' display (will be as low as the soft gpu plugins), but of course
the main reason for an hw/accel psx gpu plugin is to enhance the graphics...
and that will need a powerful card with this plugin.
And unfortunately the very best quality (options: "very high Y" and "very high X"
resolution) is not possible with nowadays gfx cards/drivers (no luck with the R9700 Pro
and GF4200 I have tried). Therefore the best workable settings are "very high Y" and
"high X", but a 128 MB card is recommended for that modes. But hey, the standard
"high Y" and "high X" mode will be good as well... especially in combination with
the new fullscreen filtering.