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Danijam
June 25th, 2008, 17:17
Hey all

I was running FF9 with the built in sound plugin for ePSXe 1.7 however, I had an issue, with the sound, When a spell such as vivi's fire was cast there would be a lot of lag with the sound, So I've changed to Enternal SPU 1.41 and that particular problem has gone however I now have an issue with the tempo and the pitch of the sound,

Basicly the tempo of the music is not consistent and will variate, an example of this is the classic music you get when you start battle, (I'm in the forest on the first disc.) It will change in tempo, which is kinda annoying

Secondly the Pitch of high pitch sounds is well off or I suppose I could say the sound wobbles? (Is this something to do with the reverb?), For example the noise the Moogle's make is really off.

Anyway hope someone can help :)
jonc2006
June 25th, 2008, 17:46
how do you have the eternal spu plugin configured? aside from using it with 1.7.0 you could instead try the game on version 1.5.2 with the eternal spu 1.41 plugin and have it set up like this-

audio device- directsound
buffer size- 64
audio-out method- thread
all 3 special game fixes enabled
"wait for XA buffer is free" enabled under the "misc" section
neill's reverb

in the spu selection menu have the top 3 boxes enabled but do not enable the 4th (this does not need to be done in version 1.7.0.)
Danijam
June 25th, 2008, 19:56
Hey, It looks like I've found the problem. My FPS were dropping causing the game to slow, which in the internal sound plugin would result in jittering, in Eternal it results in the music slowing down, however still doesn't fix the moogles sounding odd, but meh I can live with that
Xblade
June 26th, 2008, 07:40
Hey, It looks like I've found the problem. My FPS were dropping causing the game to slow, which in the internal sound plugin would result in jittering, in Eternal it results in the music slowing down, however still doesn't fix the moogles sounding odd, but meh I can live with that

If your having issues with speed use psx. You can get that game working with a fairly slow pc (1 ghz slow)
Danijam
June 26th, 2008, 16:03
Well I wouldn't say my PC was Slow, Its old but I keep it running smoothly

CPU: Celeron D @ 2.4GHz
RAM: 1GB (Soon to be 2GB)
GPU: 7600GT 256MB

But then I did have the Pete's OPENGL2 Driver plugin pretty much on top settings, I just notched things back to their default.