ff7 periodic lag

[Argen]

while i play final fantasy vii, periodically the fps goes down to below 10 for a couple of seconds, it is really annoying

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: MOBILITY RADEON X300 x86/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

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

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

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

thanks

[fireblaster_lyz]

Please specify the problem.
Latancy can be produced from:

-Power saving features from your lappy;
-Constant reads from the CD-ROM drive, if applicable;

I suggest setting OD, FE, and FU to 2,0,2.

[Argen]

well i am using a laptop but there are is no cd in my drive

and i set od fe and fu to 2,0,2 but it still happens

[refraction]

is it after a certain amount of time guarenteed, or is it in certain locations, say when there is a lot no the screen.

remember this is emulation so you cant expect it to be 100% speed all the time.

and 10fps drop from 50 or 60 isnt a great deal, not enough to damage playability

[fireblaster_lyz]

Off your power-saving features.

[cel123]

maybr you should try other plugins like D3D or OGL only

[fireblaster_lyz]

His lappy isn't a lousy one :/
Unless you are using Intel Integrated Graphics, or a older chipset, use those plugins.

[Argen]

rofl u might laugh, but the reason it was lagging was because i used alt + f4 to close epsxe, and it didnt close properly, so when i looked in processes in task manager there were 6 epsxe.exe one, once i closed them all it started to work fine... sorry about the trounble