Help I need.

[Dcollins85]

In trouble I am. Used this never I have.

System meets recommended requirements, I believe..
Ran Wizard Guide, SCPH1001(US), Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.75, eSPXe SPU core 1.5.2 and have tried:
ASPI Driver 1.2, Barrett-Kazzuya CDR Driver 1.1, ePSKe CDR ASPO core 1.5.2, ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2, Mooby2 cd disk image driver 2.8, P.E.Op.S. CDR Driver 1.4, Pete's CDR ASPI/IOCTL Driver 1.10, SaPu's CD-ROM Plugin 1.0, Xeven's CDR Driver 0.93 for the CDrom plug-in..

I also have tried scph101 & scph7001 for bios.
And Dr. Hell's GDI Driver 0.6, Dr. Hell's GDI Pseudo Driver 0.6, E)I{'s Soft Driver 0.98, E)I{'s Soft Driver K6/P1MMX 0.98, Kazzuya Software Driver 1.8, Lewpy's 3dfx/Glide3 GPU 1.40, P.E.O Soft Driver 1.16, Pete's D3D Driver 1.75, Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.75, Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6, [Next3D] 1.5, [NextGL] 1.12..

Obviously I am doing something wrong, I've never done a PS emulator before. Probably something really n00bish, sorry. I read you're guide on how to set it up, and I even made an ISO with Alcohol 120% via your guide. Game runs very slow, glitches, sound skips. I put most settings to the lowest, and worked way up. If you need any more information ask please. I really don't know what I am doing or where to begin troubleshooting...

[sarkwalvein]

Originally Posted by Dcollins85

System meets recommended requirements, I believe..

That's the controversial part... What are your system specs?
Detailed info please:
- Microprocessor
- Amount of RAM
- Video Card
- Windows Version
- etc.

[Dcollins85]

NVidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400, Lite-On DVD-RW LH-16W1P, Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1200MHz, Intel 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller, ACPI Uniprocessor PC, 512 RAM, 120 GB HD 7200


It's mostly just a Media Server for music/movies, but I wantet to try putting some emulators on it for games, SNES, NES, N64, and SMS work fine, just having problems with PSX one..


Windows XP SP2

[sarkwalvein]

Your video card is a little weak, most games should work OK with Pete's D3D... But there will be other games that slow down and it's better to use Peops in those ones... (And your processor is weak, being a Celeron... An Athlon 750Mhz performs better, but anyway it should be enough)

It's weird that you're not getting good performance... just to be sure:
- Use Peops
- Use a CD Image (I assume you know how to make it, alcohol, imgburn of any image program you like)
- Make sure DMA is set in your IDE (And try a high UDMA mode)

And be sure to set USE FPS Limit, Autodetect FPS/Frame skipping Limit and DO NOT set "USE Frame Skipping".

Set stretching to one of the first three in the list... Whatever you like...
No Dithering.... And 640x480 mode (windowed or fullscreen, it doesn't matter)

And if it still does not work for you, try luck with pSX emulator, it's easier to make it work, with less features.

[Dcollins85]

It ran alot better when I tried that, but there's a few things I don't know how to do...
A. Make sure DMA is set in your IDE (And try a high UDMA mode) <--- this

It played ALOT better, instead of skipping every second, it was like every 7-10 seconds, and the sound wasn't skipping nearly as much

I posted screenshots of my configurations.. let me know if I need to change anything, maybe I over looked it. *shrugs*

[sarkwalvein]

About the DMA thing... I'm using a spanish version of Windows XP, so instructions may be inaccurate....

Go to your desktop, right-click "My PC", select "Device Manager",
In that list, go to "IDE/ATAPI Controllers"

Then, with each one of "IDE Master channel" and "IDE secondary channel" that appears in the list, you should:

Right-click "IDE Master/Secondary Channel", select Properties.

Go to the Advanced Tab... Then for each device, in the Transfer Mode list, select "DMA if available".... In the textbox below the list you will see the UDMA mode that you are using (that's automatic, hope it to be high). In my example it's UDMA Mode 3.

Screenshot

About the sound plugin... You can try two things: If you want performance use the Eternal SPU Lite, If you want quality use the Eternal SPU.

Here's an example of my sound config:

Screenshot 2

Other thing is that you shouldn't be using Peops CDR plugin, if you made the image you don't need the CD anymore... Try using mooby2's CD Image plugin.

There are some games that work better in ePSXe version 1.5.2, and there are also some games that need some command-line to work right... As an example, Chrono Cross works better in version 1.5.2 if no command line is provided (it works right in version 1.6.0 if you provide the right command line)... You should try V1.5.2 also...

[Dcollins85]

Thanks alot sarkwalvein, solved my problem. :P I'm not very computer savy. >_<

[Dcollins85]

Ok, FF7, N20, and a few other games work great, but Lunar II Eternal Blue is glitching badly during cinemas and gameplay, and the sound will catch up AFTER I have closed ePSXe...

I already have gone into Video > Activate Special Game Fixes > Ignore Black Brightness Colour

Maybe I am missing something else?

[jonc2006]

what are the video settings you are using again? do you have frame skipping or anything like that enabled? if you are using the settings sarkwalvein posted for the eternal plugin, try setting the audio out method to thread, bring the buffer down to 64 or something near it, and enable the "wait for xa" option in the upper right hand corner of the config window. where is the majority of the glitch coming from, is it a visual thing or an audio glitch?

[Phil]

And Dcollins, please edit your post for christs sake. I doubt that your playstation could give you Bioses from 3 different regions...

[Dcollins85]

Most of the glitching occurs when I try to play the game, I believe it's something wrong with the video.. P.E.O Soft Driver 1.16 - Have it set to auto-detect frame skipping limit, I have the "Use Frame Skipping" option un-checked, and I don't see a "wait for xa" option...

And I got a Bios RAR from my room mate. I didn't copy my PS bios..

[Phil]

Same thing as downloading

i can say the same thing, even though i dont have a roomate

[Dcollins85]

I can take a timstamped photo of him and me holding up each of our PSs if you'd like proof :c

I'm not computer savy enough to get my bios off of my PS. I'm sorry I took the easy way.

[Phil]

Well dont SAY it. Be smart, if you know what i mean

[Dcollins85]

Ok... I got the video problem solved, I had to check some other options under Activate Special game fixes.. but now I have no sound when I click "New Game", there's sound at the main menu... I've tried both the CD and ISO image.
I'm using ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2., when I click "Configure" it says it doesn't need to be. I've got 3/4 of the checkable fields checked, all except "Enable SPU IRQ hack (need in some games)"

[jonc2006]

stick with the eternal spu 1.41 plugin.

[Dcollins85]

The only one I have for sound is ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2.
No others show up.

[jonc2006]

download eternal spu 1.41 from here and extract it into your plugins directory.

[hanibal81]

Originally Posted by Dcollins85

In trouble I am. Used this never I have.

System meets recommended requirements, I believe..
Ran Wizard Guide, SCPH1001(US), Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.75, eSPXe SPU core 1.5.2 and have tried:
ASPI Driver 1.2, Barrett-Kazzuya CDR Driver 1.1, ePSKe CDR ASPO core 1.5.2, ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2, Mooby2 cd disk image driver 2.8, P.E.Op.S. CDR Driver 1.4, Pete's CDR ASPI/IOCTL Driver 1.10, SaPu's CD-ROM Plugin 1.0, Xeven's CDR Driver 0.93 for the CDrom plug-in..

I also have tried scph101 & scph7001 for bios.
And Dr. Hell's GDI Driver 0.6, Dr. Hell's GDI Pseudo Driver 0.6, E)I{'s Soft Driver 0.98, E)I{'s Soft Driver K6/P1MMX 0.98, Kazzuya Software Driver 1.8, Lewpy's 3dfx/Glide3 GPU 1.40, P.E.O Soft Driver 1.16, Pete's D3D Driver 1.75, Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.75, Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6, [Next3D] 1.5, [NextGL] 1.12..

Obviously I am doing something wrong, I've never done a PS emulator before. Probably something really n00bish, sorry. I read you're guide on how to set it up, and I even made an ISO with Alcohol 120% via your guide. Game runs very slow, glitches, sound skips. I put most settings to the lowest, and worked way up. If you need any more information ask please. I really don't know what I am doing or where to begin troubleshooting...

OK Mr.Dcollins85,,, lets walk a step by step :

step 1 - First we need to make sure that your ePSXe emu works fine (mean exe file),,, lets just double click on it and see if the main window is appears...If OK proceed with next step if not (than know that your emu executables are damaged and you have to re-download and also check your pc for viruses).

step 2 - After running the emu-main-window (GUI), ignore any config wizards by the emu, 'cause you will do that by your self :

(a) - Go to Config/BIOS and select SCPH1001(US) then confirm OK...(igonore the restart message and continu with next step). DONE for BIOS.

(b) - Go to Config/Video and select one of PETE's D3D plugins (Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.75 is OK),,, and set its configs as fellow :

-------------------------------------------------------------
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce2

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - [16 Bit]

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- Filtering: 1
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60.0

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: none

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

---------------------------
DONE FOR VIDEO/GFX/PLGS(igonore the restart message and continu with next step)
-------------------------------NOTE-------------------------------------
MUST MASTER PETE's PLUGIN CONFIGURATION TIPS- SEE INCLUDED README
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(C) - Go to config/sound and select (ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2)...(igonore the restart message and continu with next step).DON FOR SOUND PLUGINS.

(D) - Go to config/CD-ROM and select (ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2), than set in it your CD/DVD ROM drive name/Label....DONE FOR CD-ROM.

(D) - Go to config/Game Pad/Pad 1 (and set/config your pads as you desire)...(igonore the restart message and continu with next step).DONE.

You've just configured your emu at the basic most needed configuration that works in 100%, now you need to close and restart the emu,,,Than you need to check if your ePSXe emu works correctly with your configuration and your PC, to do so just run the BIOS as fellow (Go to FILE/RU BIOS), if the BIOS works correctly (mean the sony logo and main bios window with mem card editor & AUDIO CD PLAYER...etc)even if sound is glitchy, than its OK and you can run GAMES with advanced configuration techniques, otherwise something is wrong with your PC/OS/EMU PACK.

[Dcollins85]

Ok, I did everything down to a T like you have posted.. and the back ground music works.. but the voices and dialog don't appear now, and the pictures funny looking..