ff7 sound help

Sephiroth_98 · February 19th, 2004

I just started playing ff7 and the sound it kind of screwed. Like the sound is fast sometimes and whenever cloud attacks a person all i hear is a beep its not a normal sound for his attack. So can anyone help me please. And can you give me some good settings so my game can run better. My computer is intel celeron 1.1 ghz, 384 sdram and 32 mb nvidia tnt 2 m64 and my sound is integrated. So someone please help. i'll post my configs right now.

Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.75
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - [16 Bit]

Textures:
- R4G4B4A4
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 87

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 1
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000001]

Sephiroth_98 · February 20th, 2004

Why wont anyone help me??

**Kane** · February 20th, 2004

Possibly because we've never encountered this problem before?
What sound plugin are you using?

Sephiroth_98 · February 21st, 2004

The only one that works is eternal spu but it slows down my emulator too much. I tried all the other sound plugins but they give me weird sound for some reason

**Kane** · February 21st, 2004

Well I'm afraid I really can't adcise you in that case, if the only plugin that works is too slow (not that it should be, as my old 550/geForce 3/Voodoo 5 combo ran fine with it)

**hushypushy** · February 21st, 2004

your comp can definitely run it, my 800mhz P3/TNT m64/640 mb RAM ran it smooth as butter.

for your gfx plugin, have you tried OGL? press the "fast" default and turn on frame limiting. use Eternal Lite and set it to default settings. IIRC there was a problem where the battle text wouldnt show up with my TNT2, i think offscreen drawing has to be at 2 or higher.

otakuoverlord · February 21st, 2004

Stupid question, but your sound works just fine in other emulated psx games?

silversand · March 23rd, 2004

I had the same problem, but then i changed the Sound Plugin, its named something like Eternal.. and then the sound was normal..

silversand · March 23rd, 2004

try using Eternal 1.41. it worked for me when i changed to it.. had the same problem with the standard plugin

honorableJay · March 25th, 2004

I'd try changing your fps limit to Auto Calculate instead of putting it at 87fps. most games run under that, more around 60. if you lock the fps at 87 most games run to fast and the sound can get distorted(probably why it was playing too fast).

once you select Eternal sound plugin, click configure and set the output to Directsound, an try using the Audio Out as SPUasync, with a sync mode of Smooth. if your sound skips, try setting the Audio Out as Thread.

February 19th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
Sephiroth_98 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 68	ff7 sound help I just started playing ff7 and the sound it kind of screwed. Like the sound is fast sometimes and whenever cloud attacks a person all i hear is a beep its not a normal sound for his attack. So can anyone help me please. And can you give me some good settings so my game can run better. My computer is intel celeron 1.1 ghz, 384 sdram and 32 mb nvidia tnt 2 m64 and my sound is integrated. So someone please help. i'll post my configs right now. Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.75 Author: Pete Bernert GFX card: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro Resolution/Color: - 640x480 Fullscreen - [16 Bit] Textures: - R4G4B4A4 - Filtering: 0 - Hi-Res textures: 0 - VRam size: 0 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limit: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: 87 Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 2 - Framebuffer texture: 1 - Framebuffer access: 0 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: off - Advanced blending: hardware Misc: - Scanlines: off [0] - Unfiltered FB: on - Dithering: on - Screen smoothing: off - Full vram: off - Game fixes: on [00000001]

February 20th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Possibly because we've never encountered this problem before? What sound plugin are you using? __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 21st, 2004	#5 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Well I'm afraid I really can't adcise you in that case, if the only plugin that works is too slow (not that it should be, as my old 550/geForce 3/Voodoo 5 combo ran fine with it) __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 21st, 2004	#6 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	your comp can definitely run it, my 800mhz P3/TNT m64/640 mb RAM ran it smooth as butter. for your gfx plugin, have you tried OGL? press the "fast" default and turn on frame limiting. use Eternal Lite and set it to default settings. IIRC there was a problem where the battle text wouldnt show up with my TNT2, i think offscreen drawing has to be at 2 or higher. __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

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February 20th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Sephiroth_98 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 68	Why wont anyone help me??

February 21st, 2004	#4 (permalink)
Sephiroth_98 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 68	The only one that works is eternal spu but it slows down my emulator too much. I tried all the other sound plugins but they give me weird sound for some reason

February 21st, 2004	#7 (permalink)
otakuoverlord Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 10	Stupid question, but your sound works just fine in other emulated psx games?

March 23rd, 2004	#8 (permalink)
silversand Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 7	I had the same problem, but then i changed the Sound Plugin, its named something like Eternal.. and then the sound was normal..

March 23rd, 2004	#9 (permalink)
silversand Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 7	try using Eternal 1.41. it worked for me when i changed to it.. had the same problem with the standard plugin

March 25th, 2004	#10 (permalink)
honorableJay Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 4	I'd try changing your fps limit to Auto Calculate instead of putting it at 87fps. most games run under that, more around 60. if you lock the fps at 87 most games run to fast and the sound can get distorted(probably why it was playing too fast). once you select Eternal sound plugin, click configure and set the output to Directsound, an try using the Audio Out as SPUasync, with a sync mode of Smooth. if your sound skips, try setting the Audio Out as Thread.