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Old July 9th, 2003   #1 (permalink)
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FF8 Problem

When i start up any game, they take forever to load. They sit at the Sony Entertainment Presents screen for somewhere around 2-3 minutes before they do anyting. Any Ideas?

Here are my comp specs:

Processor: Celeron 466
RAM: 256MB
Video Card: Ati Rage 4mb

epsxe v1.5.2
Plugins-
Video: Pete's D3D Driver 1.72
Sound: ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2
CD Rom: ePSXe CDR ASPI Core 1.5.2

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Old July 10th, 2003   #2 (permalink)
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Re: FF8 Problem

There is a special game fix for this, IIRC 'Special upload detection' or 'Direct framebuffer updates' or something.
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Re: FF8 Problem

You really should use a software gpu plugin as well. Looking at your system specs.
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Re: FF8 Problem

my guess is that are using subchannel caching... try disabling it.
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