FF Tactics

[MuPPz0r]

Hello

Things dont look alright and dont sound alright on FF Tactics
Is there a site with what options i should have on this game?
thx for your reply's

[didamangi]

http://www.lordkane.co.uk/

Although currently he does not have specific settings for FFT and I don't think that is neccesary, i have the game and it played great.

If you still having problem, please post your pc specs and your plugin spec.

Don't forget to dload the new ePSXe and the newest plugina too.

[astroduck]

Here is my setting which might help you(or maybe not), I am using Pete's OpenGL 1.73 plugin :

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.73
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce3/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
Textures:
- R8G8B8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 128 MBytes
Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60
Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on
Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00010400]

[MuPPz0r]

Hmm thx
I hade a old OpenGL plugin
But i think the sound isent alright ....
I got ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2. and nothing more
I remeber using something else before
I hade a HDD crash and all my stuff went away so i dont have the same things on epsxe like before

[astroduck]

Originally Posted by MuPPz0r

Hmm thx
I hade a old OpenGL plugin
But i think the sound isent alright ....
I got ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2. and nothing more
I remeber using something else before
I hade a HDD crash and all my stuff went away so i dont have the same things on epsxe like before

Try to update your epsxe to version 1.60.

[MuPPz0r]

It is 1.60
I downloaded some plugins and i maybe overwrited 1.60 Sound ?

[Kane]

The sound plugin is internal and hasn't been updated since 1.5.2

[Phoenix Flame]

Use Eternal SPU - that will give you better sound quality.

[MuPPz0r]

haha When using Eternal SPU (latest)
Sound is great but all the ingame movies laggs like hell!!!

I just skipped trought the first but later i want to see the movies!!

[Novalon]

Trying Astroduck's specs resulted in a decent run of the game (I don't know why the hell I left the aspect ratio on), however when I tried to load my save, it was running rather slow (10-30 fps) so I decided to turn frame skipping on. That proved to be fine, except sometimes in the menu, I get garbled junk, and sometimes the map will disappear (but the dots will stay... odd). I know my graphics card sucks (it says it's a model 64, but the thing's only 32 MB) but I know I should be able to run practically any PSX game at near perfection on a PC... of course, I'm not taking GPU optimization into effect... but oh well. I still get a little lag on skill usage too (note, GPU specs the same as Astroduck's, but with Frame Skipping on).

[MuPPz0r]

I get the same with map
and laggy movies
rest works

It started to lagg when i turned no the sound
I´ll ask astroduck to post his sound spec

[Novalon]

I tried using PEOPS as another post suggested, but there are effects missing and whatnot (I kinda like seeing rain when I got onto a rainy battlefield)...
Also, I know people don't run this thing with frame skipping, but that makes it rather difficult for a 32MB graphics card (oh college, why must thee beist so expensive?) that came with my computer to properly show a decent speed to this game... however, there might be a way... no, there must be a way. I have 640 meg of RDRam which is supposed to be really fricken good... anyone got any ideas?

[MuPPz0r]

?!?!?
I turned off Frame Skipping and now the Video is OK!!!!
But ingame i get like 30FPS

WTF?! :cuss2:

[Novalon]

Frame skipping can be a blessing or a hinderance... it all depends how the graphics react to it...

This problem is giving me just as much trouble... I'm calling any GPU gurus out there to perhaps give me a ball park specification (somewhere under Astroduck's, somewhat of a happy medium) as to what either of us should try. Frame skipping is obviously needed with our pitiful set ups... so is emulation not going to get any better, or will I have to wait till I get to college and get my twice as fast comp with twice as much graphics memory?

[MuPPz0r]

my comp spec
AMD XP2000+ 256ram Geforce 2 MX400 (laugh all you want) WinXP Pro Sp1
If it would be any help?
I tried P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver but the grapich sux i cant turn on smoothing!

Omg this is so ... :cuss2: :cuss2: :cuss2: :cuss2:
and so :cuss2: :cuss2: :cuss2:
but hey i just squaresoft games

I need this

[Novalon]

PEOPS isn't perfect for 3d games like tactics... and you need certain settings in order to get most graphics which is why you need the OGL plugin... but I'm not sure of the best settings to use on that one without frame skipping so that it's perfect...

[MuPPz0r]

why cant you be perfect?
WHYYYY?!?!?
/me crying

[Novalon]

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.73
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: RIVA TNT2/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
[32 Bit]- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8B8A8
- Filtering: 5
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 128 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 3
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- 15 bit FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00010400]


Same speed whether in window or full on my specs... should work fine on yours. Almost PERFECT!