The most popular and highly recommended video plugin for ePSXe is or the Pete's D3D plugins. To configure, go to Config > Video > Configure .

Distributing BIOS files is illegal. You must dump them from your own PlayStation console.

Before diving into downloads, it is important to understand why version 1.7.0 holds a special place in emulation history. Released in the late 2000s, ePSXe 1.7.0 bridged a critical gap. It offered significantly better compatibility than its predecessors (1.6.0) while remaining lightweight enough to run on older hardware—including Windows XP, Vista, and early Windows 7 machines.