FF7 Vids - Help?

Admiral_Chz · January 20th, 2003

I've looked through the forum and it seems that I am the only one with this problem, so here I go. I just bought a copy of FF7, and have set the settings according to what everyone else has set them (a list will follow anyways). Sound is FINE, but when a VIDEO plays, w/ the exception of the opening video w/ aeris, (an example is when the reacter explodes in the beginning) the sound plays but I just get a GRAY SCREEN. if any sprites are on the screen they also appear, but they are just FLOATING in the mid-gray area. Help? Also, my computer is like 1.5 GHZ w/ a bunch of ram (i'm lazy so i wont go find it). and the video card works with brand new computer games so it should work here too.

Here's my video settings for epsxe (v. 1.5.2).

Pete's D3D Driver 1.50

Resolution: 1024x768
Color depth 32 bit
Texture quality: R8 G8 B8 A8 - Best colors, more ram needed
Filtering: 0: None
Catching Type: 2: Dynamic - Recommended! Usually the best speed with no glitches
Off-Screen drawing: 4: Extended - Can cause garbage
Advanced blending: 0: None
Alpha Multipass is checked
Frambuffer Textures: 0: Emulated vram - FVP needed
Special Game Fixes: FF7 text box fix.

Thanks in advance. (I'll attatch a pic of what happens w/ the videos)

**Yeloazndevil** · January 20th, 2003

go to www.ngemu.com/kane for configs for FF7

Admiral_Chz · January 20th, 2003

Quote:

go to www.ngemu.com/kane for configs for FF7

Done. While the game DOES look better, the same video problem still occurs.

**Yeloazndevil** · January 20th, 2003

try updating to the latest pete's GPU plug-in, that version is old te latest one is 1.68

Admiral_Chz · January 20th, 2003

I should update w/ my new settings (I still get the problem) Oh BTW, I also have run FFIX with NO, repeat NO problems. I find it strange that I get problems with this game. Anyways... (if I don't mention something its b/c it isn't changed)

Pete's D3D Driver 1.68
Texture filtering: 4: Extended w/o Sprites - unfiltered 2D
Gfx card vram size: 32 MBytes
Smart texture garbage collection and Faster palettized texture windows are checked.
Off-Screen drawing: 4: Extended - Can cause garbage
Advanced blending: 1: Software- Slower and glitches
Framebuffer Textures: 2: Gfx card buffer - Can be slow
Framebuffer access: 3: Gfx card buffer reads & moves
Alpha Multipass checked
Special Game fixes: FF7 text box fix

Oh and now I get some odd lines while playing... I've seen this on other posts so I'll investigate there. Thanks again!

**Yeloazndevil** · January 20th, 2003

what are your other plug-ins u are using?

**Kane** · January 20th, 2003

What graphics card you using?
Does it do the same in PEOPs?

Admiral_Chz · January 20th, 2003

Yes, does the same in PEOPs. My CDROM plugin is
ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2

I run Windows XP.

**Kane** · January 20th, 2003

Have you tried running from an ISO? As this sounds like a CD reading issue.

Admiral_Chz · January 20th, 2003

Did that, but still vids dont work.

astroduck · January 20th, 2003

What video card are you using?? If you are using Geforce or TNT2 cards, here is my setting for Pete's OpenGL 1.68 (should be similar to D3D) :

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.68
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE

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

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: off
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 32 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 68

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- 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: on [00000401]

Admiral_Chz · January 20th, 2003

I've got ALMOST the same card as you!

Only mine's 64 MB vram

Set my settings to the same as yours... and it STILL doesn't work! GRR~~~

64MB NVIDA GeForce2 MX

Kazuya Mishima · January 20th, 2003

It sounds like he got a cracked copy, you know, the ones that have the video ripped out.

Admiral_Chz · January 20th, 2003

Perhaps, but I bought it new. my neighbor has a PS2 I'll just check it out on his real quick.

Admiral_Chz · January 24th, 2003

Well I tried it out on my neighbor's PS2, and the vids ARE there, and they work great! but not on my emulator! Why is this? I'm gonna try another emulator...

F-3582 · January 25th, 2003

Did you enable MDECs in the Sound options?

finalight · January 25th, 2003

Try using PEOPs soft Gpu with 1:1 ratio stretching, my game work that with FF9, if you find it small, make it full screen with 320 x 240 resolution, that way, it will be full screen..

**Shadow Lady** · January 25th, 2003

try cleaning and reinstalling epsxe for it, maybe a config or something wents wrong...

Kazuya Mishima · January 26th, 2003

It has something to do with framebuffer texture and framebuffer access try 2 and 3 respectively and see.
Or simply lower your offscreen drawing to 2.
I remember when using lewpy's plugin that if a did not have tha framebuffer and offscreen drawing activated properly cloud would appear without the video, floating in the middle of nothing.

January 20th, 2003	#7 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	What graphics card you using? Does it do the same in PEOPs? __________________ >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

January 20th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Have you tried running from an ISO? As this sounds like a CD reading issue. __________________ >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

January 20th, 2003	#10 (permalink)
Admiral_Chz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 9	Did that, but still vids dont work. Last edited by Admiral_Chz; January 20th, 2003 at 16:47.

January 20th, 2003	#11 (permalink)
astroduck 發水麵包 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary, Alberta Posts: 1,435	What video card are you using?? If you are using Geforce or TNT2 cards, here is my setting for Pete's OpenGL 1.68 (should be similar to D3D) : Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.68 Author: Pete Bernert Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation GFX card: GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE Resolution/Color: - 640x480 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit] - Keep psx aspect ratio: off Textures: - R8G8A8A8 - Filtering: 6 - Hi-Res textures: off - Palettized tex windows: off - Garbage collection: on - VRam size: 32 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limitation: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: 68 Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 3 - Framebuffer texture: 2 - Framebuffer access: 0 - 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: on [00000401] __________________ --------------~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)

January 20th, 2003	#13 (permalink)
Kazuya Mishima The seeker of perfection Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suing somebody Posts: 3,059	It sounds like he got a cracked copy, you know, the ones that have the video ripped out. __________________ Visit my blog in Spanish: http://andreyirra.blogspot.com

January 20th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	go to www.ngemu.com/kane for configs for FF7

January 20th, 2003	#4 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	try updating to the latest pete's GPU plug-in, that version is old te latest one is 1.68

January 20th, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Admiral_Chz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 9	I should update w/ my new settings (I still get the problem) Oh BTW, I also have run FFIX with NO, repeat NO problems. I find it strange that I get problems with this game. Anyways... (if I don't mention something its b/c it isn't changed) Pete's D3D Driver 1.68 Texture filtering: 4: Extended w/o Sprites - unfiltered 2D Gfx card vram size: 32 MBytes Smart texture garbage collection and Faster palettized texture windows are checked. Off-Screen drawing: 4: Extended - Can cause garbage Advanced blending: 1: Software- Slower and glitches Framebuffer Textures: 2: Gfx card buffer - Can be slow Framebuffer access: 3: Gfx card buffer reads & moves Alpha Multipass checked Special Game fixes: FF7 text box fix Oh and now I get some odd lines while playing... I've seen this on other posts so I'll investigate there. Thanks again!

January 20th, 2003	#6 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	what are your other plug-ins u are using?

January 20th, 2003	#8 (permalink)
Admiral_Chz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 9	Yes, does the same in PEOPs. My CDROM plugin is ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2 I run Windows XP.

January 20th, 2003	#12 (permalink)
Admiral_Chz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 9	I've got ALMOST the same card as you! Only mine's 64 MB vram Set my settings to the same as yours... and it STILL doesn't work! GRR~~~ 64MB NVIDA GeForce2 MX

January 20th, 2003	#14 (permalink)
Admiral_Chz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 9	Perhaps, but I bought it new. my neighbor has a PS2 I'll just check it out on his real quick.

January 24th, 2003	#15 (permalink)
Admiral_Chz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 9	Well I tried it out on my neighbor's PS2, and the vids ARE there, and they work great! but not on my emulator! Why is this? I'm gonna try another emulator...

January 25th, 2003	#16 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,242	Did you enable MDECs in the Sound options? __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

January 25th, 2003	#17 (permalink)
finalight Banned Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 11	Try using PEOPs soft Gpu with 1:1 ratio stretching, my game work that with FF9, if you find it small, make it full screen with 320 x 240 resolution, that way, it will be full screen..

January 25th, 2003	#18 (permalink)
Shadow Lady Advanced Newbie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Bogotá... not that it matters... Posts: 4,941	try cleaning and reinstalling epsxe for it, maybe a config or something wents wrong... __________________ Main Rig: Pentium Dual-Core E2160 @ 2.5GHz -- 7600GT @ 650/800MHz -- 2GB DDR2-667 4-4-4-12 -- Windows XP Pro SP3 Collecting dust: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ -- ATI Radeon 9500 Pro -- SB Live 5.1 Digital -- 2.5GB DDR 2-2-2-5 Ram -- Windows 2003 server r2 SP1

January 26th, 2003	#19 (permalink)
Kazuya Mishima The seeker of perfection Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suing somebody Posts: 3,059	It has something to do with framebuffer texture and framebuffer access try 2 and 3 respectively and see. Or simply lower your offscreen drawing to 2. I remember when using lewpy's plugin that if a did not have tha framebuffer and offscreen drawing activated properly cloud would appear without the video, floating in the middle of nothing. __________________ Visit my blog in Spanish: http://andreyirra.blogspot.com

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