Chrono Cross, slowdown bug?

[ex0r]

Im experiencing a slowdown in the Chrono Cross battles. While my fps keeps at a steady 60. you can see the screen is not going smooth anymore when the enemy+party is showed on the screen.
Im using ePSXe 1.5.2 with Pete's OpenGL 2.5

My settings:
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.5
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce FX 5950 Ultra/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 2
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- TexWin pixel shader: on
- VRam size: 256 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00001000]

PC specs:
AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3200+, 2199MHz
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Corsair 1024 DDR PC3200
MSI K8T Neo mainboard
Windows XP Pro

[ex0r]

*BUMP* still need help

[Kuronosu]

Try unchecking frame skipping and set the FPS limit to about 63 to 65. You can even give ePSXe 1.6 with the -noauto command a shot, but most people would recommend sticking with ePSXe 1.5 for Chrono Cross. As for your graphics, they look almost identical to mine except a bit better, probably because of your decked out machine.

[ex0r]

hmm ty for responding, I tried that stuff out but no goodluck.
It could be the game maybe and im the only one who notices it (its not THAT noticable btw) if you just look/feel closely you'll see it running slower then normal. the same happens with very low Video settings so it cant be my pc (as there's a constant 60 fps to)

[cooliscool]

O.T .... you have a kick ass PC... damn. I would give anything to have a PC like that!

[ex0r]

hehe thanks, im just lucky with some sponsors
Anyway I tried FF9 and there's no problem at all. so it mus be the game I suppose? or emu compatability. Does anyone know a other decent Emu which works good with Chrono Cross? ill try that out then

[Kuronosu]

Well, since I'm here anyway.. What program did you use to make the ISO and have you tried using another program to try and make the ISO?

[Neronix]

You have the exact same problem as I have. Looks like I'm not the only one who has nasty framebuffer-related slowdown. Your best bet is to switch down to the open gl1 plugin until someone solves this since it worked for me. I know that we'll be losing all the fancy stuff but we both just want to play, no?

I think this is related to either our higher end GeForce FX gfx cards (I have a 5900 XT btw) in some way or the plugin but apart from that, I'm stumped.

[Wizardry]

how much of a slowdown do you get ?
i get a slowdown but only about one second before battle ,then back to 60 fps again.not enough to
bother me though.

[Betamax]

Erk my apologies, I accidently edited this thread instead of quoting it .

Anyways, crono cross does not work with pete's opengl2 ATM. You have to use pete's opengl 1.75.

[ex0r]

Thanks for the help all, but no success
I tried OpenGL 1.75 and the same happens (I actually hear the sound having a slowdown now to as soon all characters+enemy's are on screen)
maybe it IS some bad ISO thing? I got this ISO on a CD from a friend of mine. I really have no idea how he did it. And he's not that smart with computers/epsxe so im sure he wont know the answer to. Could it be a BIOS thing? im using 1001

*edit* its no problem Betamax im already glad people are responding

[Betamax]

I doubt it's a bad iso, if it was the emu would crash with a crc redundancy error. The irony is you machine is EXACTLY the same as mine, and it works fine here . Here's my config settings for ogl 1.75

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.75
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce FX 5950 Ultra/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- B8G8R8A8
- Filtering: 3
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 3
- Framebuffer access: 3
- 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 [00001000]

The game fix is the odd/even bit hack

[Neronix]

Here's my config if you want it.

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.74
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce FX 5900XT/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [16 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on

Textures:
- R8G8B8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 128 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 63

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 3
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00001002]

The fixes I'm using are the odd/even bit hack and the direct framebuffer updates hack (I think having that on may solve the problem. Having fb textures set to 2 and fb access to 3 works best while giving full effects)