Final Fantasy X - quickstart guide

[benfinkel]

Hey Guys!

Good quickstart guide, I got 'er up and running, which has made me excited.

Question for you, what speed should I expect given my rig below? I was hoping for something "close" to full speed, but I seem to be mired around 30 fps. If I should be getting better, any optimization settings?

Thanks!


Intel Core2 Duo 6300 (1.86)
2 gigs DDR2 5300 Patriot
NVidia 7600 GT 256 MB

[RPGW1ZaRD]

Sounds a bit low to me, did you enable MTGS and dual core mode in CPU settings and disable antialaising and bilinear filtering for ZeroGS plugin? You can press F6 to switch between the antialaising modes ingame and shift + F5 for bilinear filtering to see if it slows down or not while keeping an eye at the FPS meter.

Other settings that improve speed but very slightly would be using the fastest sound settings and everything unchecked and dump the game to your HDD and use linuzappz Iso CDVD plugin.

[benfinkel]

Ahh,

I missed the MTGS and Dual Core options in the CPU config. MUCH better now . usually over 60fps, although down to 30 during the boss battle.


Thanks!


-Ben

[Fadingz]

FFX-2 international has the following CRC:
E1FD9A2D
but for japanese ps2 only
and this version does not support MTGS&DC (no auto FFXhack)

some little things to add up

another way to speed up the CG's is to turn MTGS&DC on and FFX hack off while watching, then swap back afterward.

If you see the following screen for any reason with speed drops all the way from full to 10 fpssnap002.jpg (like I do) then just save stat, reload, press 'x', enter the equipment screen, choose a random character, exit, and enter the item panel again. this is probably some little problem with the graphic render on either PCSX-2 or your graphic card.

however, if you are getting a complete black or grey screen(or blue in some cases) during a battle, try to press shift+F6(99% it doesn't work in this case). if it doesn't work, then there are some randering problem that cannot be resolved yet, just finish the battle and you will be fine again. this problem is some times fixed on its own when you cast a special skill or spell (like holy or ultima or anything that changes the scene) when pcsx2 and your graphic card re-render the scene. save and load DOES NOT work in this case because it is PCSX-2's rendering, not your graphic card; save and load will just load you back to where you were.
If you are thirsty to see the battle but nothing helps, then restart PCSX-2 and load the save sphere in game. (might fix it but not guaranteed; don't blame me if it erases your battle; think before you do it or save slot it first)

if you are in a normal screen in an event or watching a sphere, then press F6+shift, this should work 99% of the time, but you will only see the wireframe render and not the texture render. again, load the save sphere, it might fix the problem but not guaranteed; do not blame me if it fails and you are pissed.

[Daggra]

Hi, just dl the new version and created an iso of FFx using poweriso however im getting real crappy fps 25 and under and i cant even get to the 1st save point as i hit esc to bring up the menu while in game to try and get the patch to load (no luck) then i have no sound and soon a crash occurs.

My system Spec

AMD x2 4200 @2.2ghz
2Gig memory
X1900 xt-x cat driver 6.12

ive tried toggeling off AA and the other stuff when using Zerogs gfx plugin but the fps doenst increase or decrease, have all the cpu options enabled.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[Fadingz]

are you using the TBL or the regular version?
your plugin set up should look like this (I finished international version, fighting everything including penance, with this set up and never crashed; speed varies from 160 fps to 48 from place to place, CG is around 55 fps):
untitled.JPG untitledp.JPG untitledpr.JPG snap002.jpg

(try to turn off all unnecessary program like msn or something if you are running any)

[jimdaddy]

@Fadingz,
How you can live with those fonts is beyond me :/

FFX works fine for me, hope the FMVs will be fixed in a future version, not a huge hassle anyway.

[Daggra]

Ive tried everything, last resort is to try and find a save at the very 1st save point anyone point me in the general direction were i can find 1?

[Metroid]

Originally Posted by Daggra

Ive tried everything, last resort is to try and find a save at the very 1st save point anyone point me in the general direction were i can find 1?

I have the save but it is too big to put it here.

Lets do something you get my msn. So I can give you by MSN.

[Fadingz]

Originally Posted by jimdaddy

@Fadingz,
How you can live with those fonts is beyond me :/

my sis changed the font of my fire fox @@" on the admin of this comp...
she already killed me lol

I have 198 saves from 1st till last part of the game if anyone needs it (international version only, I don't think it'll work with any other version).

memcards.rar

[Nachbrenner]

Originally Posted by Daggra

Hi, just dl the new version and created an iso of FFx using poweriso however im getting real crappy fps 25 and under and i cant even get to the 1st save point as i hit esc to bring up the menu while in game to try and get the patch to load (no luck) then i have no sound and soon a crash occurs...

Did you actually read the 1st post?
"- use PEOPS CDVD driver to avoid infinite loops"

[Daggra]

Originally Posted by Nachbrenner

Did you actually read the 1st post?
"- use PEOPS CDVD driver to avoid infinite loops"

Yes i did and like i said i tried everything and the peops cdvd just made it worse in fact

[chickenchaser]

hi! can someone help me with my problem? i get to play the game smoothly but it always crashes on the part on the beginning when tidus just escaped from the stadium and auron told him to look up into the sky. at first, i was playing using a game disc so i made an iso in my hard drive but i still got the same result. i used different graphical settings and even different cdvdrom settings but i got the same result. the game is smooth, running at around 40-60 fps on the average but it always crashes at that certain point.

btw here are my specs:
Core 2 Duo E6300
7600Gt
1GB Dual channel RAM

*edit*
i used fadingz's memcards so i managed to load into the first save point and so far so good. thanks dude!

[Saberfang]

I have this pc configuration:

Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz (MMX, SSE, SSE2)
Ati Radeon 9800XT 256mb
1GB Ram

Well i start FFX and everything works fine (even the hack to get the missing texture) but is really slow, around 8FPS. I can't belive that is the best i can get from my pc especially when i saw this movie on youtube:

YouTube - FFX (pcsx2 0.9.2)

He have a worst configuration than mine but look at that speed. That are 30fps at least. I don't know what to do plz help me. (One last thing i have italian version of the game)

[chickenchaser]

fadingz, what kind of sphere did you pick? the normal one or the international one?

[StriderVM]

Actually in the comments section of that video the author says his actual speed actually runs in the range from 15 to 40 FPS. Which is natural. I think his average FPS would be 15 something. 40 only happens when there is basically nothing in the screen.

As for the recording being full speed, it's because when ZeroGS records a movie it will play back at full speed regardless on how fast your computer is. So say, you computer specs allow FFX to run at 120FPS, the resulting movie will still run at 60FPS.

[Saberfang]

Originally Posted by StriderVM

Actually in the comments section of that video the author says his actual speed actually runs in the range from 15 to 40 FPS. Which is natural. I think his average FPS would be 15 something. 40 only happens when there is basically nothing in the screen.

As for the recording being full speed, it's because when ZeroGS records a movie it will play back at full speed regardless on how fast your computer is. So say, you computer specs allow FFX to run at 120FPS, the resulting movie will still run at 60FPS.

Oh I didn't know that. Anyway is 8FPS the best i can take from my pc?? If the one in the video manage 15 to 40 FPS with a configuration similar at mine than i should reach the same FPS. Any ideas?

I put my configuration and some information about how I have set the plugins:

Video Plugin: ZeroGS KOSMOS 0.96.0

Interlace Enable
No Anti-Aliasing
640x480 resolution (windowed)

Sound Plugin P.E.Op.S SPU2 Dsound Driver 1.6.0

No Reverb
Cubic interpolation
(No other options set)

DVD plugin Linuzappz Iso CDVD Driver 0.5.0

CPU Settings

EERec - EE/IOP recompiler
VU Recompilers (both enabled)
Multi threaded G5 mode enabled
Frame Limiting Normal

[Fadingz]

Originally Posted by chickenchaser

fadingz, what kind of sphere did you pick? the normal one or the international one?

your welcome dude~
I used International sphere with english subtitle
hf

Originally Posted by Saberfang

Oh I didn't know that. Anyway is 8FPS the best i can take from my pc?? If the one in the video manage 15 to 40 FPS with a configuration similar at mine than i should reach the same FPS. Any ideas?

I put my configuration and some information about how I have set the plugins:

Video Plugin: ZeroGS KOSMOS 0.96.0

Interlace Enable
No Anti-Aliasing
640x480 resolution (windowed)

Sound Plugin P.E.Op.S SPU2 Dsound Driver 1.6.0

No Reverb
Cubic interpolation
(No other options set)

DVD plugin Linuzappz Iso CDVD Driver 0.5.0

CPU Settings

EERec - EE/IOP recompiler
VU Recompilers (both enabled)
Multi threaded G5 mode enabled
Frame Limiting Normal

well, ps2 doesn't run on pentium 4 very well, you will need a duo or 2 duo for better or best result(2 duo especially). I get perfect 60+ to 200(charac screen) on my comp.
If it runs smoothly and without any gliches, then it probably is the best your comp can do.
btw, use my set up as in my previous reply(turn your sound setting down! your probably not gonna hear any sound difference anyway, but saves hella of speed )

[Saberfang]

By turning sound setting down i now reach 18-20FPS average that is pretty good (at least it work better than the one in the movie on youtube ). I Think this is the best i can take from my pc and what really make the difference are dual core CPUs actually.

[Jensen]

Please help.
I can not play in FF-X and FF-X2 Russian, because some graphic are missing in this game and autohack is not included automatically.
Final Fantasy X (CRC=aec495cc SLUS_203.12 ) ;
Final Fantasy X-2 (CRC=ee97db5b SLUS_206.72 ).
As possible fixed this bug ???

(Sorry for my English.)