FF9 problem

[slimshady339802]

Whenever I engaged in a combat, a plain black screen with very slow music will happened for about 1 min. After that, the music with go faster and i will be in the battle. It is not a serious problem, but it's annoying. How do i fix that? thanks in advance

[fivefeet8]

Try running from an iso to help speed up the loading process.. There is suppose to be a swirl effect when you enter battles.. These effects are hard to emulate and require a pretty powerful system.. Post your computer specs and your config.. You can turn them on, but it would slow down the transition.. It's better to leave them off if you have a slow comp and run the game from an iso to lessen the loading..

[slimshady339802]

well haha guess wut
it IS ISO
also means i am doomed
my computer spec:
AMD athlon 950mhz
512 mb rams
40 gb hard drive (with 4gb left )
Ati Xpert 2000 32mb
Unknown sound card (really crappy one, sometimes the sound will bust with sound loops)

[sublime 1]

ummmm, yeah well maybie i can help you...............eminem sucks. there did that help?

[Kellicros]

Originally posted by sublime 1
ummmm, yeah well maybie i can help you...............eminem sucks. there did that help?

Acting like that again and you'll get banned in no time, refer to the RULEZ. thanks.

[password0k]

What version of ff9 are you using. Maybe you need a patch. Also, tell us more about your comp by clicking "copy info to clipboard" in the video config. Certain GPU's don't work well with certain GFX cards.

[slimshady339802]

here is the stuff

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.56
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RAGE 128 x86/MMX/3DNow!

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Caching: 2

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

and i have no idea what is that patch you talked about cuz i am just stupid

[Kane]

Try changing Framebuffer texture to 1.

[slimshady339802]

thx
it does go a lil bit faster

[password0k]

I'm not sure about your card specifically, but sometimes Pete's D3D work better than ogl.

[Kane]

Just noticed. You are running 1.56 of Pete's plugins. We are now on 1.59. Also, as Password0k said, use the d3d plugin. IIRC, TNTs and below, and anything under the Radeon are better on that.

[Djenn]

I have a geforce 2 ti, and had the same problem... until i switched off FSAA. if it's on, try turning it off... FF9 is the only game i play without 4x

[Kane]

He's running a Riva 128. IIRC, only Radeons can do FSAA on ATI's side.

[Irrbloss]

Hey Slim!

I have a ATI M4 Mobility 32MB..

I use Petes OGL when i play FF7-8...but for some reason that didnt work very well with FF9, had some lockup problems and slow FPS..
Then i swithed to Petes D3D and now i have almost finished FF9 without my comp locking at all.. workes great!



So try switching to Petes D3D

[Ook]

Originally posted by slimshady339802
Whenever I engaged in a combat, a plain black screen with very slow music will happened for about 1 min. After that, the music with go faster and i will be in the battle. It is not a serious problem, but it's annoying. How do i fix that? thanks in advance

I'm running FFIX on ePSXe on a PR 1.7GHz GeForce2. I've tried just about every setting I can and have not been able to fix this. I can get it down to about 10-15 seconds where it runs at about 5-10fps and music is real choppy. I think it's just a problem with how ePSXe tries to emulate this. The PC version of FFVII had this swirl-in effect in battles, and with vsync off it took about .2 seconds, so the hardware is capable of doing the animation. It's just difficult to emulate something like this.