FF7-Black sprites?

[Cheep]

Heres how it is:
When encountering a random battle, it just gives a black screen, not doing the normal merry-go-round (Know what I mean?) And in battle, I can only see floor and my characters/enemys when somebody is attacking. Everything except menu is black when no-one is doing anything. Also the menu finger is black aswell. (inbattle and off) Sorry if someones already done thread similar like this one, but I couldn't find it. Help anyone?

[Splatt]

Maybe you could post your system and ePSXe configuration specs,so i or anyone else could try to figure out what's wrong.

[Cheep]

How foolish of me...
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.7

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 0
- Internal Y resolution: 0
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 0
- 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: 0
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: on
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

And if my comp specs are needed ill post them if requested.

[RedLion]

I suggest you to read this.
Also did you solved your problem with Tomba?

[Cheep]

I did what that post suggested, and when opening ff7, it says im missing shader extensions? After that ePSXe crashes. Whats wrong?
And no, im still working on it.

[Rockfire]

Use Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8 and set it up like this

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9250 Series DDR x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 0
- 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: 3
- 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: off

[Kellicros]

what is your computer specs?

[Cheep]

Prosessor: AMD ATHLON XP 2400+
Memory: 256 MB DDR 333
Hard disk: 60 GB
Display unit: ATI RADEON 9100 64MB AGP TV-OUT

And even wih rockfires set-ups, it still gives me shader extension missing!
So i cant really say did it work or not.

[Rockfire]

Originally Posted by Cheep

ATI RADEON 9100 64MB AGP TV-OUT

Bingo, use Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.76 or if you can't get that working, use Pete's D3D Driver 1.76(Link's in my previous post )

[RedLion]

Meaby your card is weak to handle pixel shaders. I suggest you to first download the latest drivers for it. If it doesn't solve the problem, use Pete's Ogl 1.76 instead. And for tomba Give a try to Peops GPU.

[Cheep]

What set-ups do I need to use with 1.76?

[Rockfire]

Try this ...

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.76
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9250 Series DDR x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on

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

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 3
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00011000]

BTW: You must enable in "game fix's" - Mixed software FB access

[RedLion]

You also got setup for this plugin in the page I gave you above.

[Cheep]

No luck.... =/

[Rockfire]

Use P.E.Op.S. GPU v1.17 then

Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.17
Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]
Stretch mode: 0
Dither mode: 2

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: disabled
- Game fixes: off [00000001]

[Cheep]

IT WORKED! YES!
I could jump for joy Menu and battle screens are like they are supposed to be, thanks rockfire and Redlion for all your help. (others as well)

[Rockfire]

THANK GOD!... ehem, No problem

[Cheep]

I know what you mean, this almost drived me insane aswell ^_^ Now to finish what I never did. Complete this game!

[Rockfire]

Good luck then Btw. go to the psx screenshot section and look at my pic's on ff7