diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcsx2/template b/srcpkgs/pcsx2/template
index 50a4b0c1cce..59f8dfcdce7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcsx2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcsx2/template
@@ -5,11 +5,15 @@ nopie=yes
 
 pkgname=pcsx2
 version=1.6.0
-revision=1
+revision=2
 build_style=cmake
-configure_args="-DGLSL_API=1 -DSDL2_API=0 -DPACKAGE_MODE=1 -DREBUILD_SHADER=1 -DXDG_STD=1
- -DPLUGIN_DIR=/usr/lib32/pcsx2 -DGAMEINDEX_DIR=/usr/share/pcsx2 -DDISABLE_ADVANCE_SIMD=1
- -DSDL2_API=TRUE"
+# store all data that pcsx2 has to access into /usr/lib, so it can be accessed
+# on multilib setups. when/if pcsx2 supports 64-bit builds, GAMEINDEX_DIR should
+# be moved to /usr/share/pcsx2
+configure_args="-DGLSL_API=1 -DSDL2_API=TRUE -DPACKAGE_MODE=1 -DREBUILD_SHADER=1
+ -DXDG_STD=1 -DDISABLE_ADVANCE_SIMD=1
+ -DPLUGIN_DIR=/usr/lib${XBPS_TARGET_WORDSIZE}/pcsx2
+ -DGAMEINDEX_DIR=/usr/lib${XBPS_TARGET_WORDSIZE}/pcsx2"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config sparsehash perl"
 makedepends="alsa-lib-devel SDL2-devel glu-devel glew-devel libaio-devel
  libcanberra-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel wxWidgets-devel portaudio-devel soundtouch-devel