A little thing in Final Fantasy IX

[Bubsy]

Well I'm at the beginning of the game, and at the battle scenes there's no battle menu, or the character's life status. Check the screenshot below;:confused:

[Bubsy]

Here's my GPU spec's from Pete's D3D 1.49 plugin:

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - [16 Bit]

Textures:
- R4G4B4A4
- Filtering: 2
- Caching: 2 - 125 textures usable

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer texture: 1
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: off [00000081]

So could someone help me here ........

[Bubsy]

So is this normal or what?!

[Rargh]

Use "standard" or "enhanced" offscreen drawing
extended OD makes the menu flicker

(oh BTW, I like ur new signature )

[Raziel]

Pretty simple in fact,just enable Offscreen Drawing(standard is ok for FF9)and you will see the battle menu.
Bye.

[Raziel]

Damn Rargh you got me on this one
Bye.

[Neojag]

I have my emu working fine 4 FF9 now, but id like to know what EXACTLY does this offscreen drawing do.

[Raziel]

Just copied this from the files that Pete wrote:
"There are now (1.48 or newer) 5 different OD modes... OD is used
to detect drawings which are outside the front/backbuffer, doing such
stuff in software (or by tweaking polygon coords).
0 (none): fastest mode, glitches in splash screens/game gfx can happen
1 (minimum): takes care of most splash screens
2 (standard): does an easy check, if software drawing/coord tweaking is needed
3 (enhanced): does a more complicated check for soft drawing
4 (extended): does the "enhanced" check, and adds some additional buffer
swap (can cause flickering with some games)
Bye.

[Bubsy]

Yeah it was the offscreen drawing. My was at 1 (minium), now I put it to 2 (standard), and the menu's come out in the battle scenes. Thanks guy's .
But it's weird though:confused: , once you add another level of the off-screen drawing, the games slow-down. I wish that there would be some way to optimize this .

(Thanks for the compliment Rargh, I'm glad you like my new signature)