Project: Horned Owl

[bugbrain_04]

Whenever I get to a cutscene or segment of dialog in "Project: Horned Owl," the game slows down tremendously. This alleviates itself when the cutscene or dialog is over, but returns at the next cutscene/dialog. Any ideas?

[WeylandYutani]

post your settings

[bugbrain_04]

Video Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.3
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 Ti 4400/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 128 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Screen filtering: off
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

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Sound Plugin: Eternal SPU Plugin 1.41

Audio Device:
- Direct Sound
- Buffer Size: 64

Audio Out Method:
- Thread
- Async Mode: (field disabled with "simple")

Misc:
- Show realtime config window: off
- Wait for XA buffer is free: on
- Cache VAG decode: off
- Fine tune [-360 - 360]: 0
- Rec Option:
- - REG write: on
- - REG read: off
- - DMA write: on
- - DMA read: off
- - XA play: off
- - CDDA play: off
- Reverb: Neill's

Special game fix:
- Update before accessing register: off
- SPU IRQ - Wait for CPU action: off
-SPU IRQ - Force interruption flag7: off

Enable sound: on
Enable CDDA sound: on
Enable XA sound: on
Enable SPU IRQ hack: off
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CDR Plugin: ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2.

no config options

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System Specs:

- Pentium 4 1.6ghz
- 512mb ddr sdram
- Intel Motherboard
- lite-on 52x CD-ROM drive
- nVidia GeForce4 ti 4400
- onboard sound

[n_w95482]

Have you tried using the normal OpenGL plugin? Here are the settings I would recommend you try with it.

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.75
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9500 Pro x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE

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

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

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- 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: off [00000001]

If you want to keep using the OGL2 plugin, try dropping the resolution a bit, it should help with the FPS.