Problems regarding Final Fantasy VIII

[milkyman_600]

I'm currently playing ff8... when i reached the top of the communication tower(SeeD exam), a cinematic occurs and can't see anything on what happens... all i can see is my characters... can someone help me? i'll attach photos of during cinematic and before cinematic...

[jonc2006]

can you post you pc specs, the video plugin you are using and the settings you are using with it?

[milkyman_600]

Pc specs
Pentium (R) 4 CPU 1.61 GHz, 1.00 GB Ram

video plugin
Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.76

settings:

Resolution & Colors:
window mode 640 x 480
color depth: 32 bit

Textures:
Texture quality: R8 G8 B8 A8
Texture filtering: 0
Hi-Res textures: 0(standard)
Gfx card vram: 0(autodetect)

Framerate:
enable:
use FPs limit
auto detect FPS/Frame skipping limit

Compatibility:
Off screen drawing: 3
Advance blending: 2
Framebuffer textures: 2
Framebuffer access: 0
enable: alpha multipass
enable: mask bit

that's all... hope you can help me with this... thanks!

bye the way, i'm using ePSXe 1.6.0 emulator...

[jonc2006]

do you know what kind of video card you have? either go to the device manager and look under the display adapter area or go to start>run> type in "dxdiag" (without quotes) and look under the display tab in there. your settings seem fine but this could be related to your video card. you might want to try the game on either the other version of epsxe (1.5.2) or another emulator like psx or pcsx. have you tried running the game from both the disk and an image? also does the game lock up totally or does it just have that graphical glitch shown in that screenshot? these are my settings in case you want something to try:

Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.76
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Resolution/Color:
- 1920x1200 Fullscreen - [32 Bit] (ignore the res.)

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 256 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on (optional)
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: on [00000a01] (enable any game-specific fixes, otherwise ignore this section)

[milkyman_600]

i've tried the older version ePSXe 1.5.0 and it fixed my problem... thanks dude!

[Squall-Leonhart]

hmmm you have the wrong gamefix enabled for FF8 jonc :P
- Game fixes: on [00000001]

and op, you have none enabld at all :P

[jonc2006]

ah crap i was playing a different game at the time i did the copy/paste. it used the fix i had enabled in those settings i posted, i just forgot to change it back before i copied them. everything else should be fine though.