problem with (ff9 again) near end of cd3

[louietsang]

ok near the end of cd 3 of ff9, after i beat the silver dragon, and after i beat garland, and according to gamefaqs right before kuja comes to fight you, the game freezes, no music, no nothing, for me. i've tried this with the retail game, kalisto's release and a iso i d/led off of a newsgroup, all 3 to no avail. anyone else recieving this problem? if not is the epsxe team working to fix the many ff9 problems running amuck? if so i guess i can wait til the next release, but since i never got to play this game during when it came out i'd really like to continue, lol. oh yeah and the cd i use are all clean.

current settings:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.74
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 Ti 4200/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8B8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 1
- VRam size: 128 MBytes

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

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
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00000200]

[siegfried]

Try Epsxe 1.52 It Might Resolve This Problem

[ROX_Kodak]

Tell ya what. ePSXe has along way to go before every plugin is right. I garuntee it will never even be right. To many complications. They would have to basically write a code for each and every video card ever made and that wont happen. They say you get the best out of nVIDIA. No...Not at all. You will get the best out of ATI. I run ATI Radeon 9800 Pro XT. Fastest card on the market. I also run an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB DDR on my other PC. Works wonders too. But you also gotta realize. When they update one Emu. It effects games. So you really should download them all cause each one is different. Good luck.

[hushypushy]

ROX_kodak that was a completely and utterly useless post. you do realize that this guy isnt gonna go out and buy a new video card for this? Lord Kane (www.lordkane.co.uk) wrote settings for tons of games with a GeForce3 (yes, Nvidia). his ti4200 is more than enough for this game.

louietsang, try lowering your resolution a bit. 1280x1024 is quite high. siegfried was also right about using ePSXe 1.5.2. an important thing: try not using save states at all. see how that works.

[Kane]

Considering it was only recently that ATis were able to play PSX emus as troubleless as nVidia users, I really don't know where that came from.
A geForce 2MX is adequete for ePSXe, so a Ti4200 in more than adequete.

[ROX_Kodak]

I never stated that he should buy an ATI card. And trust me yalls cards compared to mine. Are lil outta league. My card is the fastest card on the market not to mention has far better graphics than yalls ****ty ass nVidia cards. Dont talk to me about cards and computers. You'll lose your drawers before you make it to the finish line my friend.

P4 3.06 2gig Ram Ati Radeon 9800 Pro XT And all very well overclocked. I work with computers for a aliving. I will always know much more about them than you. Good day.

[Kane]

You obviously are an ATi fanboy and don't realise that you don't need a **** hot graphics card to play PSX games.
I too work(ed) with computers for a living, and it doens't automaticaly make you more knowledgable. In fact with the way you are saying it, it makes you sound like a complete arse. If you want to continue this conversation, go to the ATi vs nVidia thread, and make some decent arguements rather than 'it's better becasue I say so'. Demigod and Chrisrayt would pull you apart for crappy little arguyements like that.

[_E_]

Originally Posted by ROX_Kodak

Tell ya what. ePSXe has along way to go before every plugin is right. I garuntee it will never even be right. To many complications. They would have to basically write a code for each and every video card ever made and that wont happen. They say you get the best out of nVIDIA. No...Not at all. You will get the best out of ATI. I run ATI Radeon 9800 Pro XT. Fastest card on the market. I also run an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB DDR on my other PC. Works wonders too. But you also gotta realize. When they update one Emu. It effects games. So you really should download them all cause each one is different. Good luck.

really? Thats a new one. Coders dont write ATI or Nvidia specific codes. Pete's gfx plugins render textures using D3D or OpenGl, like most PC games. Performance depends on how the video card render these modes. There is nothing called "videocard specific code", thats rubbish.

Yours,
-Elly

[hushypushy]

Originally Posted by ROX_Kodak

I never stated that he should buy an ATI card.

then what did you mean by this?

They say you get the best out of nVIDIA. No...Not at all. You will get the best out of ATI.

and about this..

And trust me yalls cards compared to mine. Are lil outta league. My card is the fastest card on the market not to mention has far better graphics than yalls ****ty ass nVidia cards. Dont talk to me about cards and computers. You'll lose your drawers before you make it to the finish line my friend.

P4 3.06 2gig Ram Ati Radeon 9800 Pro XT And all very well overclocked. I work with computers for a aliving. I will always know much more about them than you. Good day.

so, thanks for bragging. im proud that you have a nice computer. if you are such an "expert" on videocards maybe you would at least be fairer to the cards. mr. expert have you even played games on an Nvidia card? especially for PSX emu, as Kane said even a Geforce2mx (piece of crap card overall) can play PSX emus with OpenGL.