Xenogears Black Screen

RudeThaiDude · August 27th, 2002

I toyed around with some of the plugins before posting this message. All i get is a black screen of doom when i try to play.

Intel Celeron 667Mhz
GeForce2 MX200 32MB PCI
256MB SDRAM

I'm not sure if this is the problem but i used CDClone to make an image. It made the image an ".img" file. I'm assuming this is causing the trouble but i have no clue.

Cless · August 27th, 2002

when? and what are you excat settings and what plugin?

RudeThaiDude · August 27th, 2002

When? Half an hour ago.

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.65
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 MX/PCI/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [16 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R4G4B4A4
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: off
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 90

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer texture: 1
- Framebuffer access: 1
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: off

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: on [00000004]

SirShanus · August 27th, 2002

Is it actually showing signs of reading the CD (or image)? My game shows a black screen and is not detcted unless I turn off CD read-ahead in Pete's CD plug-in. I have no idea why, but I think it might have to do with how the game is stored on the disk-- if you explore the CD (or an image booted as a CD), only the initial program file, and the game lable are present. The rest is not detected by Windows, and, at least for me, can only be read when I set the plug-in to read sector by sector. Using the image as a ISO is another way to do it, or just loading the ISO as a virtual CD-ROM, in which case the disabled caching doesn't affect the speed too dramatically.
At any rate, the graphics plug-in has nothing to do with it if ePSXe can't read the CD in the first place, so you should work on allowing it to detect the CD if it is not already doing so.

August 27th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
RudeThaiDude Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: California Posts: 6	Xenogears Black Screen I toyed around with some of the plugins before posting this message. All i get is a black screen of doom when i try to play. Intel Celeron 667Mhz GeForce2 MX200 32MB PCI 256MB SDRAM I'm not sure if this is the problem but i used CDClone to make an image. It made the image an ".img" file. I'm assuming this is causing the trouble but i have no clue.

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August 27th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
Cless Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,809	when? and what are you excat settings and what plugin?

August 27th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
RudeThaiDude Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: California Posts: 6	When? Half an hour ago. Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.65 Author: Pete Bernert Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation GFX card: GeForce2 MX/PCI/SSE Resolution/Color: - 640x480 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [16 Bit] - Keep psx aspect ratio: off Textures: - R4G4B4A4 - Filtering: 0 - Hi-Res textures: off - Palettized tex windows: off - Garbage collection: on - VRam size: 0 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limitation: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: 90 Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 1 - Framebuffer texture: 1 - Framebuffer access: 1 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: off - Advanced blending: off Misc: - Scanlines: off - Line mode: off - Unfiltered FB: on - Dithering: off - Screen smoothing: off - Game fixes: on [00000004]

August 27th, 2002	#4 (permalink)
SirShanus Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Joisey Posts: 14	Is it actually showing signs of reading the CD (or image)? My game shows a black screen and is not detcted unless I turn off CD read-ahead in Pete's CD plug-in. I have no idea why, but I think it might have to do with how the game is stored on the disk-- if you explore the CD (or an image booted as a CD), only the initial program file, and the game lable are present. The rest is not detected by Windows, and, at least for me, can only be read when I set the plug-in to read sector by sector. Using the image as a ISO is another way to do it, or just loading the ISO as a virtual CD-ROM, in which case the disabled caching doesn't affect the speed too dramatically. At any rate, the graphics plug-in has nothing to do with it if ePSXe can't read the CD in the first place, so you should work on allowing it to detect the CD if it is not already doing so.