FF7 semi-black screens

[skier]

hi there im considered new to emulation with the PS on computer so i would like to seek some help regarding this problem im facing.

attached are some screenshots taken. its in a zip file sorry for the inconvenience to view them.

so it mainly concerns the graphics when i play ff7. in the world map theres huge patches of black areas and on my character (picture001) and then when i enter battle its the same thing whereby black patches here and there (pictures002,003,004).

notice that in 003 some of my characters and the background turn up as black although the shape is there, while 004 was snapped after i win the battle when they are supposed to have victory poses.

this problem occurs all the time throughout the gameplay.

the following is my configurations.


Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: Radeon 9000 DDR x86/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 6
- 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: 2
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- 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 [00000000]


yea so i fiddled with the settings several times and still get the same problem. thanks for any helpful input!

[RedLion]

Hello Skier and welcome to Ngemu forums.

First: Have you updated the drivers of your card? If not go here.

If yes : So your card is weak to handle Pete's OGL2.Use Pete's 1.76 ogl gpu plugin instead.

[Shendo]

What are your PC specs (CPU, RAM, Graphic card)?
Does the same issue occur with any other game?
Are you playing with ISO or from Cd?

[skier]

hey thanks redlion for the suggestion but nothing seemed to have changed after i have updated my drivers using the link you have given.

as for my computer specs, im not sure about them since my brother was the one who bought it... any idea where i can check?

and im running the game from iso.

[skier]

i also tried running other games using the emulator with exactly the same settings. seems like the same problem occurs for chrono cross. attached is a snapshot.

[RedLion]

Please don't double post, use the edit button instead.
IMO you should use Pete's 1.76 plugins for your card.Tell us if you got problems with thoses.

Edit:For you computer specs:
-Right click on your desktop icon => Proprerties or...
-Start => Run => Dxdiag

[zerbirus]

i use petes directx6 plugins and it works fine for all games, apart from vib ribbon and valkyire profile, but they arent problems to me anymore since ive got pSX (thank you author : bow : )

[skier]

hmm yea sorry about that double post.. forgot i could edit. Lol.

i changed to using pete 1.76 directx6 plugins. the problem was solved. the graphics and all that come out nicely now. thanks to redlion and zerbirus for that

but another problem cropped out. which is the battle swirls. using the following settings it turned out that the screen just hangs there for a few seconds when there was supposed to have a battle swirl.

Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.76
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: Mobility Radeon 9000

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

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

[RedLion]

Try configure your plugin settings like that.

[skier]

yea i saw it in the other thread and have tried that setting already... but the problem of slow battle swirls occurred.

[hushypushy]

Then try updating your graphics card drivers. And follow the troubleshooting steps that are written:

* Lower the resoloution to 640x480
* Make sure FSAA and anistropic filtering is off in your graphics card's control panel - PSX Emulation does not support AF
* Set 'Hi-Res Textures' to 0
* Change Framebuffer Textures to 3 as it may work better on some (ATi) cards. Any other settings will remove the battle swirls