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Choco
July 17th, 2002, 00:35
I'm having some problems with alot of the games I'm playing for some reason, mostly slow down issues and some visual problems.

Here's what I'm workin with...

Pentium 4 1.4 Ghz
512 MB SDR Ram
32x CD-Rom
Win 98 SE
ATI Radeon 64MB AGP SDR
SB Live

Using Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.64 and I'm running the games off ISO's

Mainly, I've been having problems with Xenogears and FF8. I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen but in FF8 the characters look blocky and whenever they move it doesn't look smooth, rather like a bunch of jumbled polygons. Also, in Xenogears it's kind of the same thing but instead it's sprites. Kind of hard to explain.

In FF8 there is also a long loading period between battles.

I've tried tinkering around with the options all day but I can't get anything to fix these problems and they are annoying.

I can't get The Legend of Dragoon to even start for some reason, but it starts on my PSX.

Another thing, sometimes while I'm playing either FF8 or Xenogears the game will go slow for some reason but my computer isn't doing barely anything.

I was pretty sure my system requirements could handle them, but maybe I'm overlooking something. Even with all options turned as low as they can go I still get problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

K-OTIC
July 17th, 2002, 00:47
I hear that ATI cards don't work well with Pete's OpenGL plugin. You should try the D3D plugins.

Choco
July 17th, 2002, 01:34
I tried D3D but it didn't do anything really except theres a few more problems with FF8 (I can't see squall on world map now). Any other suggestions?

Zephon
July 17th, 2002, 11:52
Post here your plugin configurations. And check this site (http://www.lordkane.gametribe.net/) for some configuration tips.

Kane
July 17th, 2002, 16:52
The jumbly polys may just be because the PSX lacks a z-buffer and sub-pixel accuracy.
My site (that Zephon so kindly plugged for me) does have some config tips, but until I get ADSL installed, it's gonna be stuck with configs for 1.62

Choco
July 18th, 2002, 00:00
Could someone post a picture of Fei on Xenogears looking at the screen so I can compare? Thanks

Choco
July 24th, 2002, 01:16
Hmm nm that, I assume that I'm seeing it how it's supposed to be. Just looks kind of strange when it's blended.