What is the benefit of Steam running PS2?

Raka Maru · 2012-11-21, 05:55 AM

Besides the huge steam audience and convenience, is there any benefit to running PS2 on steam? Will it keep track of any extras like trophies and such? The file system seems identical when I looked at the steamapps folder and sony's. it seems to just take up more memory as I run PS2 in turbo mode and would rather have the memory freed by unloading steam when playing.

NewSith · 2012-11-21, 05:56 AM

Back in the day, when I used to play Global Agenda, the steam version had 5-10 extra FPS. Don't know why it was like that though, but it's a known fact.

Heruler · 2012-11-21, 05:57 AM

as far as i can tell no benifit at all in fact steam is more of an hinderance

Raka Maru · 2012-11-21, 06:04 AM

I copied the steam downloaded launcher to a skeleton area where PS2 installed itself and it ran fine in both. Will eventually erase one of these instances. The small FPS boost sounds interesting, I may have to test it.

Thanks guys.

Hermes · 2012-11-21, 09:48 AM

Wish it had the steam overlay enabled. That was part of the reason I did it through steam... and it doesn't work.

Hamma · 2012-11-21, 10:11 AM

I don't believe there is any benefit to steam.. yet.

Tooterfish · 2012-11-21, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by Hamma

I don't believe there is any benefit to steam.. yet.

Currently, a few perks are that the client's in-game browser is very efficient. Additionally, you can save your screenshots to a gallery and keep track of friends in/out of game, provided they're also on Steam; a few notable things SOE is missing at the moment.

LuthorHB · 2012-11-21, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by Raka Maru

I copied the steam downloaded launcher to a skeleton area where PS2 installed itself and it ran fine in both. Will eventually erase one of these instances. The small FPS boost sounds interesting, I may have to test it.

Thanks guys.

I couldn't actually get Steam to launch the game after I had DL'd it via steam.

Eventually just ran the launchpad.exe as administrator directly from the Steamapps directory and that seemed to work...so am basically not using using Steam.

I am still getting issues with the launcher just sitting there with "Installing" greyed out about once every 3 tries.

Fortunately I played beta so am perhaps not having as many problems getting in as many in EU seem to be as I have a Station ID.

I think I might just go for a fresh install in a week or so when I can leave my PC downloading for 3 hours.

BigpermCML · 2012-11-21, 12:24 PM

You get a chatbox because you're a part of the Overlord Steam's community

yay