Micro Machines and ....

[mentalpatient]

Micro Machines (Pal) hangs after the 2nd race is this a common occurance for people?

Here are the Settings for the game

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.66
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 MX 420/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 320x240 Window mode
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- Default
- Filtering: 0 - edge clamping supported
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: off
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes - 196 textures usable

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 50

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on (hardware)
- Subtractive blending: activated

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]



Also V-Ball (Pal title) Beach Volley Heroes justs runs reallllllllll slllllllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwwww, has anyone got good settings for this game.

Heart of Darkness plays the intro then hangs when it comes to the actual game, does this game work?


So far Pal games I have tested that worked well are

Speedster
Metal Slug X
Need for Speed Road Challenge
Magical Drop
Puzznic
Ballistic
Assault
Kensei
Tekken 3
X2
Rage Racer
No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking
RC de GO!

Hundreds more to go...

[hushypushy]

woooooah, you gotta upgrade your drivers. pete's plugins are at 1.74 right now.

try also using Eternal lite 1.41, and Sapu's CDR plugin if you are runnng off CDs.

im assuming you are in a PAL area if your FPS limit is at 50, correct? if you are in NTSC make sure to put it at 60

[mentalpatient]

cheers for the response hushy

I tend to keep using epsxe 1.52 rather than 1.6 at the minute but I do have the current drivers for that and get the same faults with micromachines and the others with that.

I will try the plugins you recommend above thanks.

I did know to limit the fps as I loaded apocalypse once and they game played like it had drank some happy juice or something.


Anyway another to add to the working list is circuit breakers and it's add-on disc as I have just played that.

[hushypushy]

ok well make sure about the current drivers....honestly thats a very important part. you dont need to worry about using 1.5.2, a few things were fixed in 1.6.0 but nothing you need to worry about, i think....

by the way: put it on Auto frame limit. you never really answered my question about PAL or NTSC, but with Auto it will decide for you

[Regulus]

I would suggest to use 1.6, but its up to you. its pretty similar to the older version.....and yes, you should be fine now, assuming that your computer is fast enough, which im guessing it is.

[mentalpatient]

I do limit my pal games to 50 fps and ntsc ones to 60

I tried again last night but had no luck with heart of darkness. It justs hangs. Maybe a pad problem?

My pc should be up to spec it's p4 2.2ghz 512mb.

[hushypushy]

why would it be a pad problem?

did you check special game fixes? or a software plugin?