i cannot get the magic, items, gf, etc. to display. i tried to change several things as i read this thread, but only found smoother graphics... see the screen shot for my problems. Please tell me if there are more problems that i havnt noticed in the pic.(its been 4 years since ive played)
Screen shot:
ffviii.gif picture by konnersmith - Photobucket
Heres my settings: (i use either)
Plugin: P.E.Op.S. OpenGL Driver 1.1.78
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2
OGL version: 2.1.2
Resolution/Color:
- 1680x1050 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- V-Sync: on
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- iFiltering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes
Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto
Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on
Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]
OR
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2
Resolution/Color:
- 1680x1050 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 2
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off
- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 256 MBytes
Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto
Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 1
Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]