help, breath 3, 2d grafics

[desocupado__]

well, starting with the computer, i have a duron 850, 128 ram, video card onboard SIS 730 shared vram (i use with 16, but there isn't any difference from 8, cause this video board sux), motherboard pcchips m812, audio onboard SIS 7018

my trouble is with 2d grafics (i am trying to solve this cause of breath of fire, but i tested it with megaman x6 and it showed the same problem), when the dragon, or anything moves, shows blank (but not always blank, some times in the color of the thing moving) spots in a rectangle with variable sizes, and gets worse if the object moves faster. I guess it is the "glitches" but i really don't know for sure, i tried get the new video board drivers, directx9a, LOT's of enable/disable in the configuration screen of the plugin and nothing solved, tried other plugins (Peops and some other found on ngemu)too, some solved the problem, but created other problems of the same type.

here are screeshots and configuration

www.desoc.kit.net/psd3d036.jpg
www.desoc.kit.net/psd3d051.jpg

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.72
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: SiS 630/730

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen mode (usually faster with my video card)

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 1
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: none

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

[Mad]

try:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Mask bit: on
if doesnt work, r u running from a ISO or cd-rom??

[desocupado__]

txs, but didn't work, and i am using an iso

[I-Chan]

have you tried with the 'nice' settings? It'll be slow for you, but maybe it solves the problem. Then if it works, you can start lowering things till you obtain a playable speed, and eventually isolate the problem.

[Mad]

it might be a scratched cd or a bad ISO...

[desocupado__]

i tried almost everything with pete's d3d plugin, and others, tried nice settings, tried put everything turned on, everything off. i don't think it's a bad iso, cause it's not the only one game that shows that problem, megaman x6 showed it too (i deleted megaman, cause i don't have much hd space), i don't know what to try now, i am really lost...

[Mad]

u can try different video drivers
not always the latest is the better....

[zerocopy]

use a software plug-in thats the only way you can minimize graffic artifacts

[n_w95482]

Try using the d3d dx6 plugin, it might work better. If only i could try epsxe on my dad's comp cuz I think he has the same mboard.

[Badaro]

Originally Posted by Mad

u can try different video drivers
not always the latest is the better....

Looking at the symptoms and the screenshots, I'd place my bets on the video drivers as well. Also, have you checked if those glitches also happen with a software plugin (Peops or E}I{)?

[]s Badaro

[Dark Watcher]

Hmm...BF3 is a 2D / 3D hybrid...so chances are this person wants the perty 3D effects. The easy way is to check your card drivers or shell out a few bucks for a low end graphics card of the ATI / NVidia variety. (Picked up a Geforce FX PCI $94USD cheap), but if money is of a concern you may want to try perhaps NickK's NextD3D. If that also fails perhaps your 850 Duron can handle P.E.Op.S with a flavor of 2XSaI...
argh..g-cards...they can make ya or break ya

[Badaro]

Originally Posted by Dark Watcher

Hmm...BF3 is a 2D / 3D hybrid...so chances are this person wants the perty 3D effects. The easy way is to check your card drivers or shell out a few bucks for a low end graphics card of the ATI / NVidia variety. (Picked up a Geforce FX PCI $94USD cheap), but if money is of a concern you may want to try perhaps NickK's NextD3D. If that also fails perhaps your 850 Duron can handle P.E.Op.S with a flavor of 2XSaI...
argh..g-cards...they can make ya or break ya

I was just suggesting him to test with Peops to see if the glitches are gone, this way we could be 100% sure it's a GPU issue.

[]s Badaro

[desocupado__]

i tried d3d dx6 and showed the same thing

well, nikki d3d, solved the problem, but created new ones, the peops solved to, but peops is __SLOW__ and __UGLY__ and created some (minor) problems too
i'm trying to solve that without using money, cause i simply don't have

i tried with the drivers of motherboard cd, and the one that i got at pcchips site, both showed same thing

remembering, the glitches are gone using other plugins, BUT new ones show up, and the d3d pete plugin is faster than the others (and, leaving aside the glitches, the most beautifull one too)

thanks for the good will, and if anyone knows something that i could try, well, write

[n_w95482]

Try going to the SiS website and see is there is a newer driver version there, although a new driver might not fix it but instead make it worse. The drivers that came with my comp was version 1.01 (SiS 530 vid. chip). When I upgraded to 1.08e, I lost all direct3d and directdraw support so I couldn't play any games with the new drivers :cuss2:. So make sure you have your driver cd handy in case some stupid thing like that happens.

edit: here is the link to SiS's drivers page. Click on the "I agree and would like to dl the drivers" button then select graphics for the category box, and integration chipsets for the sub category box. Then choose your chipset from the product list then select your os in the os system box. Hope this helps

[Mad]

post a screen using pete d3d....

[Badaro]

Originally Posted by desocupado__

well, nikki d3d, solved the problem, but created new ones, the peops solved to, but peops is __SLOW__ and __UGLY__ and created some (minor) problems too
i'm trying to solve that without using money, cause i simply don't have

Well, in this case, it's definitely the drivers. I know from previous experience that Breath of Fire III works perfectly with Pete's Plugins (heck, it was one of the first games to run perfectly with this plugin).

[]s Badaro

[desocupado__]

i posted screenshots on my first post, but i can show them again here

http://www.desoc.kit.net/psd3d036.jpg
http://www.desoc.kit.net/psd3d051.jpg

3 drivers showed in the sis site, i will download 2 and test, the other one, i will let to download on weekend cause it has 50 mbytes, with modem it's a little big and telephone taxes here are lower in weekends...

soon i post if i got good results

and i was thinking, every time i tried i was using directx9, shoul i try without?

[Mad]

u could try looking out for an old Voodoo 2-8mb.
it runs great with this game(i know coz i had one)