Final Fantasy VIII Screen Shots

Hazer · March 5th, 2005

I was playing around with the settings a bit and I have found these settings to be near perfect for my FF VIII, I have not tested the entire game, just a few parts of it, I will play through the entire game and report if anything wierd happens. I noticed at kane's domain they said if you use 2/2 you will get battle swirls but a delay in battle, well tht delay was non-existant for me, my battles are fine and I do get swirls.

Here are a few things which my settings helped me achieve:
+ Elimination of ATB blinking like crazy
+ A great decrease in characters moving back and fourth when changing screens
+ I've used a lot of screen smoothing, but I reckon it looks much better this way.
+ you can get swirls on the map.

Here are the settings:
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 6800 GT/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 1600x1200 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 2
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- TexWin pixel shader: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

Full Screen Filters
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 1
- Shader level: 4

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 1/4
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

My Comp specs:
CPU: AMD 64 3000+
GFX Card: MsI Geforce 6800GT 256MB
Ram: Twinmos 1024 PC-3200 DDR Ram
HDD: Segate 8MB cache 200GB HDD

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	FFVIII 1.JPG (138.4 KB, 1776 views)
	FFVIII 2.JPG (139.9 KB, 858 views)
	FFVIII 3.JPG (144.7 KB, 561 views)
	FFVIII 4.JPG (139.3 KB, 1000 views)
	FFVIII 5.JPG (130.4 KB, 494 views)
	FFVIII 6.JPG (162.2 KB, 1338 views)
	FFVIII 7.JPG (192.6 KB, 577 views)
	FFVIII 8.JPG (140.0 KB, 898 views)

Last edited by Hazer; March 5th, 2005 at 01:06..

**hushypushy** · March 5th, 2005

interesting. kane and i tried your settings a while back and we got the pause. we both have 6800s by the way so it'snot like we are running crap.

anyway, very impressive shots. screen filtering is great

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**Kane** · March 5th, 2005

Actualy. I realised savestates were getting in my way. The game fix seems to solve the pause issue.

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**hushypushy** · March 5th, 2005

maybe i should stop using savestates then.

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Esturk · March 5th, 2005

Those are pretty nice shots. But that blurring... I can't stand it personally. I like a crisp and clear picture.

Call me strange, but I like it like that.

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**Razor Blade** · March 5th, 2005

I'm the same way Esturk, I wonder how the blurry effect would look on a TV though?

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Esturk · March 5th, 2005

I don't think you'd need it with a standard TV, since it would already get interpolated by the TV. In fact, it may make it even more blurrier.

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**Razor Blade** · March 5th, 2005

I bet you're right

Yea, the blurryness just doesn't do it for me

Hey, can you take more shots with some settings changed to make it sharper?

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**cooliscool** · March 5th, 2005

I'm the same way too.. crisp and clear.

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Hazer · March 6th, 2005

Here ya go, I took off the shader effects completly in these.

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**Razor Blade** · March 6th, 2005

Now those at 640x480 or 800x600 would look superb on a tv!

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Esturk · March 6th, 2005

Ah... Beautiful shots.

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KanedA · March 6th, 2005

yeah, I'm with Esturk and Razor, dunno why but also hate all that blurr efect... those second shots are much better

we just have to deal with that PSX gfx looks as it looks, not to blur it as hell

BTW. from some time I'm playing my psx games on my PS2 connected to pc via tv card, or sometimes I connect it to 29' tv, now that brings back memories

and gets you that PSX feeling

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ChankastRules · March 6th, 2005

it looks really ugly, I can't understand how people can play like that.

KanedA · March 6th, 2005

that's probably because you're too young to understand that (no offence)

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ChankastRules · March 6th, 2005

ehm, I am young, it appears too young to understand what it has to do with my youth aswell :S

Esturk · March 6th, 2005

I think he means you're too young to appreciate unfiltered pixelated video gaming.

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ChankastRules · March 6th, 2005

LOL, in that case he's wrong, I had a C64 back in my days. But why make it look like that, in epsxe, where games can acctually look good :S, that's probably what I'm too young to understand

random number · March 12th, 2005

Here's a screenshot of OGL 1.75 pete and D3D. Nice psx pics. Been browsing a while.

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Noel · March 12th, 2005

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Originally Posted by random number

Here's a screenshot of OGL 1.75 pete and D3D. Nice psx pics. Been browsing a while.

That's from FFIX though, not FFVIII :P.

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March 5th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	interesting. kane and i tried your settings a while back and we got the pause. we both have 6800s by the way so it'snot like we are running crap. anyway, very impressive shots. screen filtering is great __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

March 5th, 2005	#3 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,305	Actualy. I realised savestates were getting in my way. The game fix seems to solve the pause issue. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

March 5th, 2005	#4 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	maybe i should stop using savestates then. __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

March 5th, 2005	#5 (permalink)
Esturk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,958	Those are pretty nice shots. But that blurring... I can't stand it personally. I like a crisp and clear picture. Call me strange, but I like it like that. __________________ Necrosaro: Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 \| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache \| Asus P5Q Deluxe, Intel P45 Chipset, Socket 775 \| 4GB Kingston PC5300 DDR2 \| Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, 1024MB \| Creative SB X-Fi Fatality Edition \| Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD, 150Gb, SATA, Western Digital WD5000AAKS, 500GB, SATA \| LG 16x DVD-RWx2 SATA.

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Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,032	I'm the same way Esturk, I wonder how the blurry effect would look on a TV though? __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

March 5th, 2005	#7 (permalink)
Esturk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,958	I don't think you'd need it with a standard TV, since it would already get interpolated by the TV. In fact, it may make it even more blurrier. __________________ Necrosaro: Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 \| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache \| Asus P5Q Deluxe, Intel P45 Chipset, Socket 775 \| 4GB Kingston PC5300 DDR2 \| Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, 1024MB \| Creative SB X-Fi Fatality Edition \| Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD, 150Gb, SATA, Western Digital WD5000AAKS, 500GB, SATA \| LG 16x DVD-RWx2 SATA.

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Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,032	I bet you're right Yea, the blurryness just doesn't do it for me Hey, can you take more shots with some settings changed to make it sharper? __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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cooliscool Global Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: South Carolina, USA Posts: 6,828	I'm the same way too.. crisp and clear. __________________ Bottles' Glasses - Banjo Kazooie/Tooie model viewer and ripper

March 6th, 2005	#11 (permalink)
Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,032	Now those at 640x480 or 800x600 would look superb on a tv! __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Esturk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,958	Ah... Beautiful shots. __________________ Necrosaro: Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 \| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache \| Asus P5Q Deluxe, Intel P45 Chipset, Socket 775 \| 4GB Kingston PC5300 DDR2 \| Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, 1024MB \| Creative SB X-Fi Fatality Edition \| Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD, 150Gb, SATA, Western Digital WD5000AAKS, 500GB, SATA \| LG 16x DVD-RWx2 SATA.

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KanedA PS2 PAL[v9] Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: PolanD Posts: 5,310	yeah, I'm with Esturk and Razor, dunno why but also hate all that blurr efect... those second shots are much better we just have to deal with that PSX gfx looks as it looks, not to blur it as hell BTW. from some time I'm playing my psx games on my PS2 connected to pc via tv card, or sometimes I connect it to 29' tv, now that brings back memories and gets you that PSX feeling __________________

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ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	it looks really ugly, I can't understand how people can play like that.

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KanedA PS2 PAL[v9] Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: PolanD Posts: 5,310	that's probably because you're too young to understand that (no offence) __________________

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ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	ehm, I am young, it appears too young to understand what it has to do with my youth aswell :S

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Esturk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,958	I think he means you're too young to appreciate unfiltered pixelated video gaming. __________________ Necrosaro: Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 \| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache \| Asus P5Q Deluxe, Intel P45 Chipset, Socket 775 \| 4GB Kingston PC5300 DDR2 \| Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, 1024MB \| Creative SB X-Fi Fatality Edition \| Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD, 150Gb, SATA, Western Digital WD5000AAKS, 500GB, SATA \| LG 16x DVD-RWx2 SATA.

March 6th, 2005	#18 (permalink)
ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	LOL, in that case he's wrong, I had a C64 back in my days. But why make it look like that, in epsxe, where games can acctually look good :S, that's probably what I'm too young to understand