Looking for Best EMU Settings

[cassidypup]

Hi everyone,

I am a new ePSXe user in need of the best EMU settings for my hardware (see below). I plan on using ePSXe to play FFVII-FFIX, FFT, MGS and the original Tomb Raider. Can anyone help me out?

[REi_FoX]

use petes opengl and click nice...
use eternal spu
and use petes cdr plugin

that should work really good and remmeber to use the scph 1001 BIOS file

[jaylove]

I use Pete's OpenGL 1.6, Pete's DSound Audio 1.14 & Mooby CD Disk Image 1.14 because I just run isos

[G-Pitts]

Based on your system spec I suggest you to try this setting (will produce very good looking graphic for most games)

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.61
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 GTS/AGP/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 63

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000400]

You can enable 4xfsaa to make the graphic even more smooth and wonderful. Some games need special games fix in order to work correctly (FF7 & FF9)

For SPU plugin use Eternal SPU plugin.
For CDR plugin use the internal epsxe plugin or Pete CDR plugin.
Have fun

[Quatro]

pete plugins = simply the best

[cassidypup]

Thanks G-Pitts. Your settings work great, and I'm getting no less than 57.9 fps with FFVII! I do have a few more questions, though.

4xfsaa in OpenGL doesn't make much of a difference with the pre-rendered backgrounds of the FF games, but looks incredible in D3D. Does anyone know why this is? I'd use D3D instead, but I can't find a way to stop screen tearing. Turning on vsync seems to have no effect (it doesn't work for some other D3D games as well). Is there any way around this? It seems to me that it's probably an ATi problem.

Turning on the Xenogears game fixes makes the game run extremely choppy, and leaving them off makes it so most of the screen isn't shown. I've searched the forum for a fix but I can't find one that works for me. Anyone have any ideas? I'm looking forward to playing Xenogears without the grainy PS1 polys.

Thanks for your help. ePSXe rocks!

[G-Pitts]

Did you enable screen smoothing in pete OpenGL plugin? If not, try enabling it to fix the prerendered background problem.
Its true that ATI is lack of good driver for their card so this maybe cause the problem.
Do not use the special game fix for Xenogears coz its slow. Use Full Vram primitive instead. Just want to ask, do you know how to turn the full vram primitive option when you are in the game? If not read the plugin readme.txt files. Only turn on Full Vram primitive if the screen goes black because this option use a lot of CPU power.

[Mauros Web]

JUST USE PETE´S PLUGINS N´ ENJOY!

[Sfardaklas]

Good afternoon.I play FFVII and without a reason the sound just stopped playing.I am on the 2nd disc and it's just won't work as it did.I have a Realtek High def. audio card.Any suggestions?

[hushypushy]

Originally Posted by Sfardaklas

Good afternoon.I play FFVII and without a reason the sound just stopped playing.I am on the 2nd disc and it's just won't work as it did.I have a Realtek High def. audio card.Any suggestions?

Keep it to your own thread.