Lunar Issues...

[DJ Stenny]

Well, I just got the game and i'm already having some issues.

#1. The FMVs don't fill the entire screen. There is a black bar about 100 pixels in size to the left whenever an FMV's playing.

#2. Whenever I change areas, there's always some sort of delay. I try to get off the screen, a brief flicker, and the current screen freezes for one second with the new area's music playing smoothly in the background. After a second, the screen updates.

I searched the forums but found nothing. I'm using Epsxe 1.5.2 and an image file of Lunar.

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.7
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 6800 GT/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x960 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: on

- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 256 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: on
- FPS limit: 60.0

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 1/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00001004]






Athlon64 4000+ San Diego
1 GB PC3200 RAM
GeForce 6800GT
WindowsXP SP2

[fireblaster_lyz]

Try changing the screen resolution. (1024x768)

[BRILLIANT]

try using psxeven. i found it works best with lunar 1.
but that border thing is normal, no?

[DJ Stenny]

Changing the resolution didn't help nor did going to PSXeven.

[fireblaster_lyz]

Try updating to the latest Pete's OGL2 2.8 plugin.
Try turning flicker-fix border size to 1.

[DJ Stenny]

Still the same problems...

[BRILLIANT]

turn off frame skipping.
and i don't think there's anything you can do about the black border thing.. i might be wrong..

[DJ Stenny]

Nothing.

What video and audio settings do you guys have?

[fireblaster_lyz]

Use P.E.Op.S Software GPU Plugin then.

[FrostyTheSnowman]

That movie problem is completely normal for that game. It cannot be fixed, that is a resolution the PSX used to display the original movie at decent quality on a television. When emulated, it will ALWAYS look like that on a PC monitor.

[DJ Stenny]

Originally Posted by fireblaster_lyz

Use P.E.Op.S Software GPU Plugin then.

I've tried all of Pete's Plugins... It's the same wherever I go. And somehow, I don't think that area change problem is is suppose to be there.


Thanks for explaining that FMV issue btw.

[FrostyTheSnowman]

AFAIK, there is also no fix for the 'flicker & pause' when the screen changes, under any current video plugin. If you want to play this game 'normally', aside from the unfixable FMV problem, use Connectix Virtual Game Station, it runs alot of PSX games very well.

[BRILLIANT]

No need to switch to cvgs, i found what you were doing wrong:
switch to psxeven but make sure to turn OFF the lunar special fix in your graphic plugin.
That fix is for epsxe only.

[DJ Stenny]

Originally Posted by BRILLIANT

No need to switch to cvgs, i found what you were doing wrong:
switch to psxeven but make sure to turn OFF the lunar special fix in your graphic plugin.
That fix is for epsxe only.

BRILLIANT, you're BRILLIANT! The changing areas glitch is fixed now. Thanks a ton.