FinalFantasy VIII gfx issues (cosmetical, but annoying)

[F-3582]

I know FF8 gfx from the real PSX and I noticed a few things:

- Some pictures (only a few splash screens) look a bit scanlined, but on a real PSX they don't

- When a normal battle starts I can't see any blur effect (only before the witch battle at the end of CD1 it looks like the real effect)

Is it fixable?

[Kane]

The scanlined thing can be fixed by playing with Off-screen drawing. However, it needs to be set back to 2 or 3 befor you play the game itself.
The battle things... I dunno. IIRC, the FF8 ones aren't related to framebuffer reads.

[F-3582]

Thanks. Maybe one of the next Pete's GPU releases fixes it...

[Hellion]

These are my settings and I see the graphics before battles. Good luck!


Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.61
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 GTS/AGP/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- Filtering: 6
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Alpha multipass: off
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

[F-3582]

I tried, but it did not help. I should mention that on a real psx the whole screen "swirls" (I didn't find a screenshot, yet) and after that it turns black. With ePSXe the screen only brightenes up on one side and then turns black.

[Raziel]

The whole screen swirls ?
I don't think so.
/me launches ePSXe with PEOPS and checks.

[fivefeet8]

Hehe.. I can see em fine and full speed with my voodoo 5 and lewpys glide pluggin.. Anyways, they aren't swirls.. The screen sorta blends from left to right or right to left..

[F-3582]

I'll try to get a real shot from a real PSX.

[F-3582]

fivefeet8, would you please post a screenshot (immediately after the battle music starts, that is very important)?

[F-3582]

Just to prove it, I took that screenie from the PC version (Maybe you noticed that GeForce2 bug :bash: ), because the effect is the similar to the PSX version.

[F-3582]

After that you can see the known effect:

[Cless]

that isn't swirl but the last time i played ff8 ti worked fine. adn do mind posting your gpu settings?

[K-OTIC]

Just play with different plugins and settings. It will eventually work......errr hopefully.

[F-3582]

As far as I can remember (I'm at a vacation...):

1024x768x32 (Fullscreen)
Offscreen Drawing @ 2
Framebuffer @ Gfx Card Buffer
Framebuffer Access @ Emulated Vram (no read or move)
Mask Bit enabled
Advanced Blending enabled
The other options are @ "Nice"
No special game fixes

[Cless]

if you aren't at your computer we can't realy help you since you can change your settings.

[F-3582]

I'm back, let's revive this thread!

OK, my settings are:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.64
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 GTS/AGP/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: off
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: on
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: on [00000000]

On my system the battle starts look like this (I chose the same location for an easier comparison)

[F-3582]

And then you can see this (Sorry, I was a bit late :emb: )