ff8 looked already :(

[Valcrist]

ok i looked everywhere and can't find out how to fix this. I don't know why, but ff8 is going mondo slow. With my pc specs it should be going faster. It was going lots faster b4. I don't know what I did but it is going way to slow now. Here are my configs. Oh and it takes FOREVER to load past the squaresoft logo. and fmvs are VERY VERY SLOW.

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.72
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9500 x86/SSE2
Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
Textures:
- R8G8B8A8
- Filtering: 2
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 128 MBytes
Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- 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
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00010402]

does anybody know?

[Nvidiafreak]

Use frameskipping.

[Valcrist]

that didn't help at all

just made it run really glitchy and the fmvs were still SLOW

[Xeven]

are you sure you're running with "translator" mode?

[Valcrist]

if i knew what that was....i'll go check

[Valcrist]

nope both modes give me around 9 fps
btw i'm getting the same speed in epsxe
edit:
peops soft gives me 60 fps almost but it is still very choppy.
I'm also getting the same results w/other games!

[Andrew Hruska]

Try lowering the res, disable screen smoothing and use 4xAA instead.

[Valcrist]

nope didn't help at all i think i got like maybe a whole 2~3 more fps

this is only happening in my playstation emulators, but it is happening in all of them. epsxe, psxeven. Ok so there are only two... still. I don't know why this is happening. It worked fine b4?

[WindHydra]

If you are running from CD, try making cd image. My 700mhz machine runs faster than that :D
You should change the framebuffer access too. My card runs better when it's set to 1.

[Valcrist]

ok i'll try that, as i said b4, it ran tones better b4, i don't know what happned. And i always use iso's.

[Valcrist]

nope didn't help

edit:

Ok i re-downloaded everything. I'm still getting uber slow speeds.....this is really not cool. It's doing it will all of my games. Do you think that it maybe my video drivers? They are the latest so..... any ideas yet? Xeven? anybody?

[Andrew Hruska]

Hmm, that's really fishy. Have you tried no AA? D3D drivers? Are you sure you have Catalyst 3.6 drivers? Try DNA ATI drivers from www.guru3d.com . Also, make sure you have nothing running in the background. My antivirus scanner was messing up my games.

You really only need the ATI drivers and the volume control.

Edit: i noticed we reached 50 posts too :onthepull

[Valcrist]

i'll try the dna drivers and get back to ya
nope didn't help any...i didn't have anything running in the backround cept for the ati thing....not even a volum control.

[Valcrist]

*new*
peops now works perfectly...d3d just crashes psxeven, and opengl is still runing SLOW......
this really sux. I have no idea what to do! please SOMEBODY HELP....

EDIT***
Ok well I"m going to church, hopefully someone will know what to do by the time I get back. About 2~3 hours from now if I get something to eat and stuff.

[Yeloazndevil]

umm the Squaresoft logo part is slow for me too, but I get past that part by using Frameskipping then turning it off I pass that part

[Valcrist]

the fmvs are super slow too though! so is the actual game.

[Yeloazndevil]

the actual game?? umm what game fixes do u have on?

[Valcrist]

fake sub blending
direct fame buffer updates
mixed software fb access

[Yeloazndevil]

um is SPU IRQ hack enabled in config sound? - for ePSXe

[Valcrist]

nope and i'm having the same prob with epsxe

[Andrew Hruska]

try turning off that last game fix, FB software or w/e it's called, sometimes i find it to slow down my games (but i have a weird ATI video chipset)

[Yeloazndevil]

- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 4

try changing to this

[Valcrist]

its showing like 42 fps in the fmvs but it stutters and misses tones of frames when i have frame skipping on, but is going as slow as if i didn't have it on, kinda hard to explain

[Valcrist]

nope didn't help, the sound is stuttering like a broken record though

[Andrew Hruska]

This is truley strange because FF8 runs full or close to full speed on my computer with PSXeven or ePSXe..

Edit: :offtopic: this feels like a chat room sorta...

[Valcrist]

yes very strange, and yes it does doesn't it?
i tried with null sound too

just have to refresh alot!

[Andrew Hruska]

I use D3D or OpenGL.. d3d doesn't crash and seems to be faster..

For reference, heres my d3d settings:

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.72
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: RADEON IGP A3 (DNA 1.4.3.5HFSU)

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 1
- VRam size: 32 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: none

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000000]

[Yeloazndevil]

try these settings
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.72
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 Ti 4200/AGP/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- B8G8R8A8
- Filtering: 2
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 128 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 3
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

[Valcrist]

d3d won't work for me for some strange reason, just kinda crashes.....

[Andrew Hruska]

a bit :offtopic:... those are my OpenGL settings! except for the game fixes and vram i think

edit: can i have your video card? :P :D

[Valcrist]

nope your setting didn't help at all, I'm starting to think its an issue with my video card, but all other games work fine, actually they work really well!

correction: other games work, not psx games

[Valcrist]

no its ALL MINE I just got it but you can gett one like it for only $141 from newegg.com

[Yeloazndevil]

$141?? I gonna get one now :) have u tried different catalyst drivers?

[Valcrist]

yeah, and i even tried dna drivers, which btw i'm using right now cuz they are friggin sweet:)

here is the link:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=14-102-271&DEPA=1

edit:
btw it is moddable to a 9700, just haven't got around to it yet, I want to fix this first!

[Valcrist]

ok i modded it still no help

[I-Chan]

Just one thing, the fake sub blending is not needed anymore on ati's cards, and can mess your graphics. Cannot help you much more, cause PSXeven just crashes for me with that game.

Edit: Forget it, i had peops configured to use the sbi file of FFIX, and so it crashed. It works fine, in fact faster than ePSXe for me.

My configs:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.72
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: Radeon 9500 x86/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- B8G8R8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 4
- 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
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00019001]

As my card is very similar to yours, might work for you ;)

Sound: Eternal 1.41
Directsound|40 // Spuasync|smooth // Reverb: Neill's // Update before accesing register. Everything else, disabled.

Peops cd-r plugin 1.4:
Interface: W2K/XP IOCTL scsi commands
Drive: you choose.
Mode: autodetect it.
Caching: Thread.
Use aditional 4 mb data cache.
Retry on read error-5.
Everything else disabled.

BTW, i was using an iso mounted in a virtual drive trough alcohol 120% virtual drive. Used also 'use iso' on psxeven, but it gave me a few less fps, don't know why. Used bios 7502, and translator mode.

Try and see if it helps, and if not, the problem must lie in another thing.

[Valcrist]

didn't help :cry:

but nextgl runs pretty good.....does anybody have a good config for that?

[Andrew Hruska]

Good morning

Have you run Ad-Aware? you may have some spyware or something.

edit www.lavasoftusa.com (http://www.lavasoftusa.com)

[Valcrist]

i have adaware...haven't run it in a while...might want to try that though


and good morning to you too nicedude

[Valcrist]

Oh and I had to unmod my video card, I was getting artifacts....darn stupid busted piplines

[Andrew Hruska]

Man, that really sucks.. you can't overclock a 9500 that well, eh? Oh, and i can OVERCLOCK MY ONBOARD VIDEO!
I found a bios setting to change the clock rates for it.

And this is getting weirder and weirder....

[Valcrist]

yes it is, i'm gonna try an older version of pete's gpu's

[Valcrist]

I GOT IT TO WORK WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:guitar:
I wonder why it would crash b4? Oh well it works now!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:guitar:

:thewave::thewave::thewave:

[Yeloazndevil]

thats great, glad your problem was sloved

[I-Chan]

maybe due to the overclocking. not every 9500 can be modded, only certain models. glad to hear it works now :) .

[Valcrist]

now my WHOLE COMPUTER IS GLITCHY!!!!!!!! :cry: I don't know what I did. Everything draws REALLY slow and and and and :cry: I hope I can fix this....:(

[Andrew Hruska]

STOP USING eMule then! hehe.. thats strange though..

[Valcrist]

i don't even know what emule is.....
look under hard ware i explained it more there