BEST config for FFVIII

[NightShadow]

I got a 550 and 192 MB RAM geforce2 32 MB and and an obviously embaressing configuratoin.

When u encounter a battle, theres this HUGE slowdown right? Can I stop this?

[Recca]

try these

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.60
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 MX/PCI/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6 - edge clamping supported
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes - 84 textures usable

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2 - not used yet
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on (hardware)
- Subtractive blending: NOT supported!

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000400]

about the before battle slowdowns. i dont think its possible to do anything about it. well i just never bothered to ask

[fivefeet8]

The huge slowdown before battles can be caused by 2 things.. Loading from the CD if your playing from the cd, or some framebuffer effects for the transition.. Either turn them off(framebuffer textures to "black") and run the game from an iso.. I don't experience any slowdown when begginning battles.. It's just a smooth transition..

[Raziel]

As I said one hundred times already,the battle transition of FF8 isn't a framebuffer effect and can't be turned off,the only way to make it faster is to get a faster system,to play at a lower resolution,or use frameskipping.

[Kanodin]

i don't have any problems also while using the PEOPS plugin... everthing runs perfect.

It still takes me about 5 seconds to load the battle. Does it on my voodoo2 as well so It's most likely not a video card thing...

[fivefeet8]

Originally posted by Raziel
As I said one hundred times already,the battle transition of FF8 isn't a framebuffer effect and can't be turned off,the only way to make it faster is to get a faster system,to play at a lower resolution,or use frameskipping.

That's weird.. I can turn them off with lewpys glide pluggin if I set it Off screen drawing to "Basic" and Framebuffer to "disabled".. I guess only lewpys glide pluggin can disable them.. All I see with these options is some weird softwarish screen.. No transition effect.. But since they run full speed anyways, I leave them on..

[NightShadow]

And when initial loading of world map, everythings blur and slow but after 2 seconds, its crisp and fast.

Whats that all abuot? :confused: