once again final fantasy tactics :-) (need some help)

[ask0r]

ok this is my sad but true (ah nawww) story

After trying out 100 plugins and 1.000 different settings i finally managed to get my FFT visuals matching ... well a bit matching ... the lovely graphics standard im used to from VGS (which suddenly stopped working with my virtual drive and doesnt accept my burned iso's ... but thats another story)

ok, graphics is nice smooth and beautiful, sound is cool, but i keep getting freezes in certain situations for about 20 seconds, the whole emulator freezes, cant give menu commands or something in those seconds, and then the game runs on again. This happens exclusively ! in following situations:

- moving to a new place on the world map
- switching through characters on the Deployment screen (before battles)
- casting a spell / using an ability
- between deployment screen and "name of the map fades in and out again"

my first thought was, that it was something about sound, but turning off the SPU didnt help at all :-(


maybe someone experienced the same and / or found a workaround for that ? maybe i need a special fix ? hope someone can spare a minute and help me ... thanks in advance

ask0r -- the guy that asks a lot ^ ^

[illestone]

Hmm, this almost sounds like a cd reading issue... Are you reading this off the cd or playing from a cd image? If your playing off the cd image id suggest picking up cdrwin and creating a bin/cue.. Im currently in the process of going through final fantasy tactics myself, im near the end in chapter 4 now.. The only real issue that i have is the world map is black(except when your moving).. Its stil quite playable so I just ignore it. Is there a fix for this? Anyways, about your freezing problem, give us a little more info. like what your system is, what plugins your using, whether its cd/disk image..etc

illestone

[Kane]

Try using it from an Iso and see if you have the same problem. Also try running it in soft (Peops)mode if you need to see everything.

[ask0r]

hey wow !

... I just played a bit around with the CD options, currently running without any freezes, thanks a lot for the hint !

theres still another major problem i didnt mention in my first post ... sometimes, about every 2nd time i start a battle, the game stops (but doesnt freeze) after the "map name fades in and out" screen. Then i reset once or sometimes twice, and it works again ... thats very strange, sometimes i have to do another battle first and then return to make it work (?)

about my system and plug ins:

System: AMD thunderbird 1000 , 512mb ram, geforce 2 ultra (64mb) , SB live and a toshiba 32x cdrom

Video Plugin:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.58
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 GTS/AGP/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Window mode
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 65

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: on [75]
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

looks really really good without filtering (actually filtering screws up at least half of the fonts, no matter what setting) , using 1200x1000 desktop resolution, black background and game window centered in screen.

Sound Plugin: ePSXe standard Core

Settings: all 5 boxes checked

CDRom Plugin: Pete's CDR ASPI 1.9


ask0r -- the guy that asks a lot ^ ^

[ask0r]

when using Pete's OpenGL plugin turn on full VRAM primitives , makes the world map appear even when not moving , at least that works fine for me

[ask0r]

omg !!! i just downloaded PEOPS or what its called and replacement my OpenGL with it .... WOW this looks ... like .... VGS ?!! why do i spend NIGHTS to configure and try so much stuff when theres a plugin that emulates 1:1 PSX visuals ?? /bonk self
/bonk self again /bonk self really really hard on the head


thanX 100 times for telling me to use that peops, always thought its some software mode for people w/o 3d cards or something

im happy now /dances in the rain .. ack cold ...

now i gotta find a solution for that "doesnt-load-battles" thing and im set for my holidays in a few days !

ask0r -- the happy guy that asks a lot ^ ^

[Kane]

It is a soft plugin for those without 3d vid cards, but it is more compatible than the Hardware accelerated counterparts.

[ask0r]

ack the CD problem returned ... neither works with ISO or CDROM play , also tried mounting the iso on a virtual CDROM and turning off the CD plugin via -nocd command line. Anything else you guys could imagine that causes freezes (not always) in the situations mentioned above ?

ask0r -- the partially-happy guy that asks a lot ^ ^