Final Fantasy 9 Battle Slowdown

Hristaki82 · April 23rd, 2003

Hey guys I have looked everywhere on this board to find my problem, but none of the given solutions have seemed to work. I was wondering if there has been any furthur progress on why this is happening. When I enter a battle my game becomes really slow and it takes forever to load the battle sequence. This becomes even worse when I eneter a battle from the world map. Any suggestions out there?

What I've Tried:
I have used http://www.ngemu.com/kane/ suggestions and none of them work.
I have set frame buffer to 0 and that doesn't work either.
I have tried all resolutions and that doesn't help.
The game fix doesn't work either.
I am running this from an iso.
I have messed around with the framebuffer texture and access which also doesn't work.

Here are all my specs:

1.3 Ghz Pentium 4
512 RD-Ram
GeForce 4 MX440 <-----****ty card could this be the problem?

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.71
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 MX 440/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:

- 1152x864 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8B8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

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

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

**Yeloazndevil** · April 23rd, 2003

>>GeForce 4 MX440 <-----****ty card could this be the problem?
that card should work well with Pete's OpenGL Plug-in thats not the problem

>>Framebuffer access: 3
change it to 0 FF9 doesn't like Framebuffer access

>>Advanced blending: off
turn it on

>>Framebuffer texture: 2
try setting it to 3

>>1152x864 Fullscreen
lower your resolution

and update to the latest driver's for your graphics card and turn off FSAA

Muhibah · April 23rd, 2003

i use tnt2 m64 and it works ok.
just use 16 bit color and turn the frame skipping on
n don't forget to turn on the color dithering in misc
i'm very sure it will work

**Yeloazndevil** · April 23rd, 2003

I even have no slowdown when I had a GeForce 2 MX400, try what Muhibah said

Hristaki82 · April 23rd, 2003

wow thank you so much. It works a lot faster now. There might be a tad bit slowdown, but i don't remember how it loaded on the psx to compare it too. It doesn't matter anyways,I'm happy with the current speed

Also when I run the game while keeping the psx aspect ration I get widescreen like bars on the top and bottom. The bars flicker when I enter and exit the battle. This isn't a huge problem but I was wondering if I have something else wrong in my settings?

**Yeloazndevil** · April 23rd, 2003

np

, the flashing is caused by setting your off-drawing to 4, but u have it at 3 so thats not the problem and Keep PSX aspect will cause those bars, but set your resolution to a multiple of 320X240 like 640X480 should reduce those bars

Muhibah · April 23rd, 2003

i didnt notice that. i'll check it out

Hristaki82 · April 23rd, 2003

ok well i just turned off "keep psx aspect ratio." No big deal. I just wish everything wasn't so wavy on the world map. Well thanks for all your advive and the speedy replies

Hristaki82 · April 23rd, 2003

ok well i just noticed a new problem. Before changing my settings my FMV sound was perfect, now it skips a lot. Any suggestions?

I am using SPU Eternal Plugin

Hristaki82 · April 23rd, 2003

ok i figured it out, I had to disable SPU IRQ

April 23rd, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Hristaki82 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5	Final Fantasy 9 Battle Slowdown Hey guys I have looked everywhere on this board to find my problem, but none of the given solutions have seemed to work. I was wondering if there has been any furthur progress on why this is happening. When I enter a battle my game becomes really slow and it takes forever to load the battle sequence. This becomes even worse when I eneter a battle from the world map. Any suggestions out there? What I've Tried: I have used http://www.ngemu.com/kane/ suggestions and none of them work. I have set frame buffer to 0 and that doesn't work either. I have tried all resolutions and that doesn't help. The game fix doesn't work either. I am running this from an iso. I have messed around with the framebuffer texture and access which also doesn't work. Here are all my specs: 1.3 Ghz Pentium 4 512 RD-Ram GeForce 4 MX440 <-----****ty card could this be the problem? Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.71 Author: Pete Bernert Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation GFX card: GeForce4 MX 440/AGP/SSE2 Resolution/Color: - 1152x864 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit] - Keep psx aspect ratio: off Textures: - R8G8B8A8 - Filtering: 6 - Hi-Res textures: 0 - VRam size: 0 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limitation: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: 60 Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 3 - Framebuffer texture: 2 - Framebuffer access: 3 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: on - Advanced blending: off Misc: - Scanlines: off - Line mode: off - Unfiltered FB: off - 15 bit FB: off - Dithering: off - Screen smoothing: off - Screen cushion: off - Game fixes: on [00000000]

April 23rd, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	>>GeForce 4 MX440 <-----***ty card could this be the problem? that card should work well with Pete's OpenGL Plug-in thats not the problem >>Framebuffer access: 3 change it to 0 FF9 doesn't like Framebuffer access >>Advanced blending: off turn it on >>Framebuffer texture: 2 try setting it to 3 >>1152x864 Fullscreen lower your resolution and update to the latest driver's for your graphics card and turn off FSAA Last edited by yeloazndevil; April 23rd, 2003 at 03:40.*

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Muhibah Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Kuala Lumpur Posts: 18	i use tnt2 m64 and it works ok. just use 16 bit color and turn the frame skipping on n don't forget to turn on the color dithering in misc i'm very sure it will work __________________ Live in Peace

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Muhibah Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Kuala Lumpur Posts: 18	i didnt notice that. i'll check it out __________________ Live in Peace

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April 23rd, 2003	#4 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	I even have no slowdown when I had a GeForce 2 MX400, try what Muhibah said

April 23rd, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Hristaki82 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5	wow thank you so much. It works a lot faster now. There might be a tad bit slowdown, but i don't remember how it loaded on the psx to compare it too. It doesn't matter anyways,I'm happy with the current speed Also when I run the game while keeping the psx aspect ration I get widescreen like bars on the top and bottom. The bars flicker when I enter and exit the battle. This isn't a huge problem but I was wondering if I have something else wrong in my settings?

April 23rd, 2003	#6 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	np , the flashing is caused by setting your off-drawing to 4, but u have it at 3 so thats not the problem and Keep PSX aspect will cause those bars, but set your resolution to a multiple of 320X240 like 640X480 should reduce those bars

April 23rd, 2003	#8 (permalink)
Hristaki82 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5	ok well i just turned off "keep psx aspect ratio." No big deal. I just wish everything wasn't so wavy on the world map. Well thanks for all your advive and the speedy replies

April 23rd, 2003	#9 (permalink)
Hristaki82 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5	ok well i just noticed a new problem. Before changing my settings my FMV sound was perfect, now it skips a lot. Any suggestions? I am using SPU Eternal Plugin

April 23rd, 2003	#10 (permalink)
Hristaki82 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5	ok i figured it out, I had to disable SPU IRQ