I got Metal Gear Solid to work Perfectly! I mean perfect!
My Computer Specs are:
AMD ATHLON XP 1800+ WIN XP 196 SDRAM ATI RAGE 128 PRO (old video card) Creative SoundBlaster PCI (old aswell) 40 Gig Hard Drive HP CD Writer 9100 32x read.
(For easiest configing use EPSXEcutor) My Settings:
Video
Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.62
Resolution/Color:
- 400x300 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]
Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes
Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto
Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware
Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: on
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: off [00000000]
Sound
Pete's DSOUND Audio Driver 1.15
General Settings:
-Volume - Loudest
XA setting:
- Enable XA Playing [on]
-Change XA Speed [off]
Misc:
-1. High Compatibility
-SPU IRG - wait for CPU action [Valkyrie Profile and MGS [on]
-Enable developer debug mode [off]
CDR
-Internal W2k CDR
Options :
-Bios: SCPH 1001
Sound Settings :
-Enable Sound [on] (duh)
-Enable CDDA [on]
-Enable MDECXA [on]
-Enable SPU IRQ hack [on]
Country Settings
-Country : (NTSC for North America, PAL For Europe and Japan I believe)
Misc. Settings:
-Autoload PPF Files [off]
Comman Line:
-CMD line: (leave blank)
-Start ePSXE GUI [on]
CDROM Settings:
-CD Letter: (Depends on you)
Internal ePSXE cdr Plugin options:
-Read Subchannels [off]
-Cache subchannel M3S file to disk [off]
-Cache subchannel LG 8520/21/22b [off]
I hope I was able to help all my fellow Die-Hard MGS fans, because I know what it is like to eat, breethe and sleep MGS. I have some screen shots too!
I pretty much get like 54 frames per second, and 24 in Codec Sequences, though it doesn't cause lag, and the sound and facial movements are in tune aswell ^^ No skipping here!