FF7 Lagging Issues!

[Unreal Gamer]

Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums that I came across on by trying to search some drivers for the ePSXe emulator. I have tried to play the FF7 game on my pc and it works great except for the sound-graphic-lagging problems it has sometimes. For instace, right when I get into battle (swirl) it lags really bad which is extremely annoying and lags a bit in game as well. I notice there was other topics on this as well and I apologize if this was another waste of time topic that has been repeated several times, but I just wanted to know if my specs and config is right or If i can change anything to make it run better. I would really appriciate it...

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My PC Specs:

ABIT nVidia NF7 Motherboard
nVidia 256MB GeForce 5950 FX Ultra
1GB DDR(PC2700)
HD1: Western Digital 40GB
HD2: Seagate 160GB
AMD 2800+ 2.1GHZ

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My CONFIG Specs on ePSXe 1.6:

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

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 2
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: on
- VRam size: 256 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

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

[hushypushy]

turn off odd even bit hack. also, make sure AA and AF are turned off. lastly, you may want to turn off texture filtering...but that's a personal preference, i find that it looks odd in FF7.

[Warrior84]

change to ePSXe 1.52 and put all your plugins and bios and etc into that folder then your ff7 sound lag problems will be solved it fixed mine.

Although my game still looks like crap

[Unreal Gamer]

Originally Posted by hushypushy

turn off odd even bit hack. also, make sure AA and AF are turned off. lastly, you may want to turn off texture filtering...but that's a personal preference, i find that it looks odd in FF7.

Thanks hushy, I'll try that right now.
And also Warrior84, I tried that by going back to 1.52 but I still get the same problem.

[I-Chan]

Consider playing from an iso too, might help with some slowdown spots