Quote: "If you just want to play the original PSX games use ePSXe, it'll probably run much better."
Yeah, I remember playing ripto's rage (one of the psx titles) with full resolution and emulation graphics, and it ran fine. I'm on a 8500GT, too, so nothing special there.
Here's what the pcsx2 compatability list says:
Key:
Quote: "Playable
You can get from 'new game' to 'end credits'. This is regardless of FPS, it simply means you could with a great deal of patience, complete the game! eg: Slow, but stable!
Ingame
You can get through menus, intro cutscenes / videos, and see ingame graphics, but either due to graphical bugs, crashes, un-resolved errors, you can't play through the entire game.
Menus
You can get into the menus, be it past 3D / video intro, memcard checks etc, but when starting a new game, it will lock up, crash, enter a loop etc.
Intro
The game will show 2D logos, or video, but will not get into menus. This could be one screen, or 20, but won't show much.
Nothing
Exactly what it says, this game crashes before showing any graphics, making any sound etc! "

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