ff7 problem

[sithspawn]

hi, i'm having difficulty running ff7 (us) on epsxe 1.5.1 here. when i tried to start a new game, the screen goes blank and the cd-rom (or the hard drive when i use the iso) flickers for quite a while (a few minutes) and then stopped. that's it... nothing happens afterwards. fyi, my specs r:

athlon 1.2 ghz
256 mb ddr
geforce3 64mb
win xp pro

and my plugins settings r:

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.61
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce3

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

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 4
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000183]

btw, the one above differs from what i usually use (pete's ogl 1.61). i use eternal 1.2 spu and pete's cdr 1.10 (using raw ioctl).
i also tried using a downloaded memcard save, and the game works up til cloud first met barret, and then when it tried to switch to fmv showing shinra's corp building and barret running, it went dead just like when i tried to start a new game.
i read the previous epsxe postings on similar ff7 probs, and i tried (most of) them, but they didn't work 4 me (including the framebuffer and the waiting ones).
can anyone help me?

~sithspawn

[Kane]

What game fixes have you got on?
Other that that I can't see any obvious errors. Just make sure the SIO IRQ hack is on, and the SPU IRQ fix is off in the Emu.

[G-Pitts]

Try this setting, it work great for me

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

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 4
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 63

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000001]

[sithspawn]

wow, near-instantenous replies
lord kane: usually i have the pc fps calc on, but for the ff7 case, i use ff7 border, and all framebuffer fixes.
g-pitts: i'll try 'em now *crossingfingers*

~sithspawn

[sithspawn]

nope still doesn't work
i think the cd's r quite scratch-free so there's no problem there. my friend managed to get his up and running (using older plugins and engine).

[G-Pitts]

Try using W2K/XP-IOCTL SCSI Command in pete cdr plugin. If the game crash try pressing F4 or F5.

[Kane]

Try running it from an ISO image.

[Recca]

He already did. No use. Read his first post

[Kane]

My bad. Does your friend use the same CD?

[Recca]

Why don't you try using Pete's openGL. and if that doesn't work try with an older version of ePSXe

BTW KAne. Doesn't matter. Everybody makes mistakes. I did 2 u know m8

[G-Pitts]

Originally posted by Recca
Why don't you try using Pete's openGL.

He already did, read his post above

[Recca]

Ohh. sorry

[Kane]

Chill. Let's work out what the problem is. Like I said, is your fiend using the same CD? If not, borrow his CD, and see if it's a pproblem with your copy.

[Recca]

Might it be that you have an patched version.
BTW try older versions of pete.

[G-Pitts]

I`m suspecting that this error probably been caused by your cd. Try your friend CD and see if it work.

[sithspawn]

ok, i'll try borrowing my friend's cd, and also tried running it on older engine and plugins. thanks for the replies

~sithspawn