Text Problem With FF Tactics

Troy Smith · December 1st, 2002

In Final Fantasy Tactics all of the text is ok until you go to the submenu on the battle screen when you are determining a players action like when you choose the ability you want to use. The test in the box is real fine and it is so broken up
you can't read it. I set the texture filtering to extended and that solved the problem, but made text for the rest of the game too blurry to read. I was wondering if you guys could help.

**Kane** · December 1st, 2002

Yuo just have to play with the filtering settings in game. Its' a known issue, IIRC.

Vlatko13 · December 2nd, 2002

I read this and tried extending the filter as well, but it didn't fix the problem for me. If anyone can help at all, please do.

Koji2009 · December 2nd, 2002

Turn off high res textures... that's what I assume is most likely you're problem (had the same thing happen to me when I messed with settings)

astroduck · December 2nd, 2002

Set texture filtering to 0.

Wiegraf · December 2nd, 2002

I have a separate problem with fft, and in an effort to keep the number of game threads down have posted it in this similar thread.

This problem is more basic than the one above. This is the first time I've tried running any game on an emulator. I'm using a burnt 1:1 copy of the American release of the game.

My problem is this: the screen freezes on the squaresoft logo at startup. I'm assuming it's failing to read or load or play the video at the beginning of the game.

I have tried using different settings with different plugins. I should note that the only CDR plugin that got me that far was the "Internal ePSXe W2K CDR" plugin, which is one of the ones that comes with the ePSXe emulator. All the other CDR plugins fail to get past a big black screen. But that's probably not the problem, I'm thinking its a setting in one of the GPU plugins (I was using four different kinds of Pete's GPU plugins).

I know for a fact the game will work with the right plugins and settings, I was just hoping that I could find that information here. Any help would be very much appreciated. Feel free to contact me in any way (including on here), thank you.

Phoenix Flame · December 3rd, 2002

Buy the game.

**Yeloazndevil** · December 3rd, 2002

make a ISO

Wiegraf · December 3rd, 2002

Is that the only way fft will work with epsxe?

**Yeloazndevil** · December 3rd, 2002

it might be the CD, is it messed up?

Wiegraf · December 3rd, 2002

No, I made a 1 to 1 copy of the original ntsc disc with CloneCD the other day, but I'm making an iso now anyway so I'll tell how that goes in a bit.

Wiegraf · December 3rd, 2002

I made an image of the disk using CloneCD, and now it works, but I have major graphical problems that make the game not worth playing. The Mdecs are great, a little skippy at some parts, but good. The entire Orbonne Monastery scene at the beggining is completely screwed up. The insides of the monastery are gone (replaced with a big black screen, see below), and what's weird is the battle at the monestary is skipped. It does all the text before and after the battle (with the sky background being the only thing showing the whole time). And about the sprites, some are completely missing, others are represented as pink rectangles, and the wrong faces go to the wrong speakers in some text boxes. It's the same for the gariland academy after that, except you can actually see the inside of that hall, and the batleground outside. I stopped playing because most of the sprites were either rectangles or screwed up in some way. I used peops soft driver 1.10, petes d3d, pete's dx6 d3d, and pete's opengl drivers as my gpu plugins, the internal spu and pete's Dsound audio driver for my spu plugins, and the internal w2k cdr plugin and pete's cdr aspi/ioctl plugins with daemon tools, and used mooby2 cd disk image driver without daemon tools for my cdr plugins.

All plugins in any combination produced the same graphical results. I didn't fiddle with any settings because I really don't know what the hell I'm doing here. Can someone tell me how to fix it? (or maybe I'm just screwed out of luck?) Thank you.

Wiegraf · December 6th, 2002

Here are some more screenshots of the game screwing up.

After winning the battle, the game exits by itself and leaves me with this:

I hope I can get some help with this, thanks.

**Yeloazndevil** · December 6th, 2002

uhhhh:eek: what the hell?.....well post your plug-in settings

Wiegraf · December 6th, 2002

Quote:

Originally posted by Wiegraf
I used peops soft driver 1.10, petes d3d, pete's dx6 d3d, and pete's opengl drivers as my gpu plugins, the internal spu and pete's Dsound audio driver for my spu plugins, and the internal w2k cdr plugin and pete's cdr aspi/ioctl plugins with daemon tools, and used mooby2 cd disk image driver without daemon tools for my cdr plugins.

All plugins in any combination produced the same graphical results.

That's a little unorganized but I hope you get the idea.

As for the settings for each of the plugins, I messed around with all the settings for the gpu ones, and got the same thing over and over... I was hoping there would be some fundamental basic thing I was overlooking that could be fixed with the click of a mouse... but from the look on your face I'd say I'm screwed...

**Kane** · December 6th, 2002

That looks like a graphics driver problem rather than an emu problm.

Phoenix Flame · December 6th, 2002

What's your graphics hardware, post plugin settings - otherwise we can't help you. Use the 'copy to clipboard button' in Pete's GPU config.

Wiegraf · December 6th, 2002

Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, 512 MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti 200 64 MB

Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.10
Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60

Misc:
- Scanlines: disabled
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.67
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: ABIT Siluro GF3 Ti200DVI

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: on
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.67
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: ABIT Siluro GF3 Ti200DVI

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: on
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.67
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce3/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: on
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: on
- FPS limit: 60

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 1
- Framebuffer access: 1
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

**Kane** · December 6th, 2002

That really sounds like a scratched CD, or messed up drivers. What driver are you using for your GeForce 3?

Phoenix Flame · December 6th, 2002

Ok, try this ... use only the OpenGL plugin because it's best for your video card. I found this config in an old thread where the guy was showing off how great FFT looked with 2xSai on, and he had a GF3 too, with FSAA enabled. If it's still no good after that then it's most definitely a driver issue. Get the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.67
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce3/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [16 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: on
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 128 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: on
- FPS limit: 60

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

December 1st, 2002	#1 (permalink)
Troy Smith Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1	Text Problem With FF Tactics In Final Fantasy Tactics all of the text is ok until you go to the submenu on the battle screen when you are determining a players action like when you choose the ability you want to use. The test in the box is real fine and it is so broken up you can't read it. I set the texture filtering to extended and that solved the problem, but made text for the rest of the game too blurry to read. I was wondering if you guys could help.

December 1st, 2002	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Yuo just have to play with the filtering settings in game. Its' a known issue, IIRC. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

December 2nd, 2002	#4 (permalink)
Koji2009 Don't make me stab you... Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Wherever my shiny sword takes me. Posts: 338	Turn off high res textures... that's what I assume is most likely you're problem (had the same thing happen to me when I messed with settings) __________________ As I meander about my life I wonder if it's all worth it... Then I see my huge anime collection in the corner and I know it was not all in vain. -Writing crappy books and crappy drawings... what better to do with that free time then blow it here instead?

December 2nd, 2002	#5 (permalink)
astroduck 發水麵包 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary, Alberta Posts: 1,435	Set texture filtering to 0. __________________ --------------~My specs~--------------- AMD Athlon XP 2200+ @1.86Ghz with 275MHz FSB Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Ultra Motherboard with 333MHz FSB 768Mb PC2700 DDR SDRAM Dual Harddrive : Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 30 Gb and 120 Gb 7200 rpm SoundBlaster Audigy with latest driver Asus Geforce FX 5600 with 128 DDR RAM Lite-On 4X DVD-Burner Lite-On 52X24X52 CD-Writer Creative Inspire 5200 Speakers with sub-woofer Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition with SP1 Viewsonic G90fb 19 inches monitor (1280X1024 resolution) Direct X 9.0c (Specs will be updated soon)

December 3rd, 2002	#12 (permalink)
Wiegraf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 30	I made an image of the disk using CloneCD, and now it works, but I have major graphical problems that make the game not worth playing. The Mdecs are great, a little skippy at some parts, but good. The entire Orbonne Monastery scene at the beggining is completely screwed up. The insides of the monastery are gone (replaced with a big black screen, see below), and what's weird is the battle at the monestary is skipped. It does all the text before and after the battle (with the sky background being the only thing showing the whole time). And about the sprites, some are completely missing, others are represented as pink rectangles, and the wrong faces go to the wrong speakers in some text boxes. It's the same for the gariland academy after that, except you can actually see the inside of that hall, and the batleground outside. I stopped playing because most of the sprites were either rectangles or screwed up in some way. I used peops soft driver 1.10, petes d3d, pete's dx6 d3d, and pete's opengl drivers as my gpu plugins, the internal spu and pete's Dsound audio driver for my spu plugins, and the internal w2k cdr plugin and pete's cdr aspi/ioctl plugins with daemon tools, and used mooby2 cd disk image driver without daemon tools for my cdr plugins. All plugins in any combination produced the same graphical results. I didn't fiddle with any settings because I really don't know what the hell I'm doing here. Can someone tell me how to fix it? (or maybe I'm just screwed out of luck?) Thank you. Last edited by Wiegraf; December 4th, 2002 at 01:55.

December 2nd, 2002	#3 (permalink)
Vlatko13 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1	I read this and tried extending the filter as well, but it didn't fix the problem for me. If anyone can help at all, please do.

December 2nd, 2002	#6 (permalink)
Wiegraf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 30	I have a separate problem with fft, and in an effort to keep the number of game threads down have posted it in this similar thread. This problem is more basic than the one above. This is the first time I've tried running any game on an emulator. I'm using a burnt 1:1 copy of the American release of the game. My problem is this: the screen freezes on the squaresoft logo at startup. I'm assuming it's failing to read or load or play the video at the beginning of the game. I have tried using different settings with different plugins. I should note that the only CDR plugin that got me that far was the "Internal ePSXe W2K CDR" plugin, which is one of the ones that comes with the ePSXe emulator. All the other CDR plugins fail to get past a big black screen. But that's probably not the problem, I'm thinking its a setting in one of the GPU plugins (I was using four different kinds of Pete's GPU plugins). I know for a fact the game will work with the right plugins and settings, I was just hoping that I could find that information here. Any help would be very much appreciated. Feel free to contact me in any way (including on here), thank you.

December 3rd, 2002	#7 (permalink)
Phoenix Flame Flood Yourself Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 1,342	Buy the game.

December 3rd, 2002	#8 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	make a ISO

December 3rd, 2002	#9 (permalink)
Wiegraf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 30	Is that the only way fft will work with epsxe?

December 3rd, 2002	#10 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	it might be the CD, is it messed up?

December 3rd, 2002	#11 (permalink)
Wiegraf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 30	No, I made a 1 to 1 copy of the original ntsc disc with CloneCD the other day, but I'm making an iso now anyway so I'll tell how that goes in a bit.

December 6th, 2002	#13 (permalink)
Wiegraf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 30	Here are some more screenshots of the game screwing up. After winning the battle, the game exits by itself and leaves me with this: I hope I can get some help with this, thanks.

December 6th, 2002	#14 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	uhhhh:eek: what the hell?.....well post your plug-in settings

December 6th, 2002	#16 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	That looks like a graphics driver problem rather than an emu problm. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

December 6th, 2002	#17 (permalink)
Phoenix Flame Flood Yourself Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 1,342	What's your graphics hardware, post plugin settings - otherwise we can't help you. Use the 'copy to clipboard button' in Pete's GPU config.

December 6th, 2002	#18 (permalink)
Wiegraf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 30	Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, 512 MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti 200 64 MB Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.10 Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team Resolution/Color: - 1280x1024 Fullscreen - [32 Bit] Framerate: - FPS limit: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: 60 Misc: - Scanlines: disabled - Game fixes: off [00000000] Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.67 Author: Pete Bernert GFX card: ABIT Siluro GF3 Ti200DVI Resolution/Color: - 1280x1024 Fullscreen - [32 Bit] Textures: - R5G5B5A1 - Filtering: 0 - Hi-Res textures: on - Palettized tex windows: on - Garbage collection: on - VRam size: 64 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limit: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: Auto Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 4 - Framebuffer texture: 2 - Framebuffer access: 0 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: on - Advanced blending: hardware Misc: - Scanlines: off [0] - Unfiltered FB: on - Dithering: off - Screen smoothing: on - Full vram: off - Game fixes: off [00000000] Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.67 Author: Pete Bernert GFX card: ABIT Siluro GF3 Ti200DVI Resolution/Color: - 1280x1024 Fullscreen - [32 Bit] Textures: - R5G5B5A1 - Filtering: 0 - Hi-Res textures: on - Palettized tex windows: on - Garbage collection: on - VRam size: 64 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limit: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: Auto Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 4 - Framebuffer texture: 2 - Framebuffer access: 0 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: on - Advanced blending: hardware Misc: - Scanlines: off [0] - Unfiltered FB: on - Dithering: off - Screen smoothing: on - Full vram: off - Game fixes: off [00000000] Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.67 Author: Pete Bernert Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation GFX card: GeForce3/AGP/SSE2 Resolution/Color: - 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing - Keep psx aspect ratio: off Textures: - R8G8A8A8 - Filtering: 6 - Hi-Res textures: on - Palettized tex windows: on - Garbage collection: on - VRam size: 64 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limitation: on - Frame skipping: on - FPS limit: 60 Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 2 - Framebuffer texture: 1 - Framebuffer access: 1 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: on - Advanced blending: on Misc: - Scanlines: off - Line mode: off - Unfiltered FB: off - Dithering: off - Screen smoothing: on - Screen cushion: off - Game fixes: off [00000000]

December 6th, 2002	#19 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	That really sounds like a scratched CD, or messed up drivers. What driver are you using for your GeForce 3? __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

December 6th, 2002	#20 (permalink)
Phoenix Flame Flood Yourself Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 1,342	Ok, try this ... use only the OpenGL plugin because it's best for your video card. I found this config in an old thread where the guy was showing off how great FFT looked with 2xSai on, and he had a GF3 too, with FSAA enabled. If it's still no good after that then it's most definitely a driver issue. Get the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.67 Author: Pete Bernert Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation GFX card: GeForce3/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! Resolution/Color: - 800x600 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [16 Bit] - Keep psx aspect ratio: off Textures: - R8G8A8A8 - Filtering: 6 - Hi-Res textures: on - Palettized tex windows: on - Garbage collection: on - VRam size: 128 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limitation: on - Frame skipping: on - FPS limit: 60 Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 3 - Framebuffer texture: 2 - Framebuffer access: 2 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: on - Advanced blending: off Misc: - Scanlines: off - Line mode: off - Unfiltered FB: off - Dithering: on - Screen smoothing: off - Screen cushion: off - Game fixes: off [00000000]

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