Terrible slowdown with FMVs

mrguytodd · April 2nd, 2003

I'm playing FF7 with ePSXe with Pete's OpenGL 1.7 and whenever a video starts my Framerate drops down to 8 FPS, I've tried using different plugins, changing settings to the worst possible, tried it on my other games, different sound plugins, but no success.

Intel Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz Processor
Windows XP Home
Geforce 4 MX 440
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer
a SAMSUNG CD/CD R/RW Writer/DVD Reader

It's odd, because it was working fine before. I'm thinking it might be my hardware change, I used to have an old CD drive, I suppose I could try a temporary change to my older drive to see how that works. I'm yet to try a different emulator though, I'll try that soon and let you know how it goes.

zerocopy · April 2nd, 2003

try making an iso of the game

**Yeloazndevil** · April 2nd, 2003

it could be your cd plug-in settings.....which plug-in are u using?

mrguytodd · April 2nd, 2003

Well, I made an ISO, and everything worked perfectly fine. So I guess it must be my CD Plugin, I can't remember what it was though

I'll try some other Plugins, thanks for the help

Kazuya Mishima · April 3rd, 2003

The dma in your cdrom was enabled?, maybe that was the cause.

mrguytodd · April 4th, 2003

Hmmm, still doesn't seem to be working with other plugins.

dma?

Sorry for my ignorance, I believe I've heard of it before though.

Kazuya Mishima · April 4th, 2003

Right click in my pc and check the properties. Then select the device manager or something like that (i dont have an english windows) and select your cdrom then check its properties and see if the dma box is checked. if not then thats the problem.

Mr. Killjoy · April 4th, 2003

Try using Async reading in Peops CDR plugin

mrguytodd · April 4th, 2003

I tried both suggestions and it STILL doesn't work

If there are more details that you need to know, I'll be glad to give them to you.

**_E_** · April 5th, 2003

Do you have Frame Skipping enabled? If so, disable it or enable the old skippig method. Some game's FMV dont like frame skipping

Yours,
-Elly

Mr. Killjoy · April 5th, 2003

Start turning to 16 bit colors instead of 32, if you're in 32, and disable FSAA

mrguytodd · April 5th, 2003

Thanks for the help everyone! I finally got it to work!

The problem wasn't what any of your suggestions were though

It was just a setting in the CD Plugin.

Mr. Killjoy · April 6th, 2003

Funny, cuz usually, when the CDR plugin isn't configured correctly, that's the MDECs who are slow, not the game :/

mrguytodd · April 6th, 2003

Well, that's what I was talking about. Was I speaking unclearly? The game ran fine, but the MDECs were slowing down...

Kazuya Mishima · April 7th, 2003

What setting was bad? Can you tell us so we can help any other people with the same problem?

Mr. Killjoy · April 7th, 2003

SO, use Async read in the CDR plugin

mrguytodd · April 7th, 2003

It was the subchannel reading in pete's.

Subchannel reading = Read Subchannels (Other stuff was here)

Rebel_X · April 8th, 2003

FF7,8,9 original Framrates are 15 FPS, it should be fine to the video, but not to the Sound!

You could know that using PSXmultiConv it says that 15 FPS for each game!

**Shadow Lady** · April 8th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by mrguytodd
It was the subchannel reading in pete's.

Subchannel reading = Read Subchannels (Other stuff was here)

so u can play fine now? thats good

im glad to see that the people in here keeps helping the users whit troubles, didnt saw that since a long time (well I didnt come back here in that time either)

Kazuya Mishima · April 8th, 2003

well, i am actually trying to help everyone since there is not too much people doing this in the forums in the last months.
and mrguytodd, thank you, i will have that in mind.

April 2nd, 2003	#1 (permalink)
mrguytodd Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA, IL Posts: 15	Terrible slowdown with FMVs I'm playing FF7 with ePSXe with Pete's OpenGL 1.7 and whenever a video starts my Framerate drops down to 8 FPS, I've tried using different plugins, changing settings to the worst possible, tried it on my other games, different sound plugins, but no success. Intel Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz Processor Windows XP Home Geforce 4 MX 440 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer a SAMSUNG CD/CD R/RW Writer/DVD Reader It's odd, because it was working fine before. I'm thinking it might be my hardware change, I used to have an old CD drive, I suppose I could try a temporary change to my older drive to see how that works. I'm yet to try a different emulator though, I'll try that soon and let you know how it goes.

April 3rd, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Kazuya Mishima The seeker of perfection Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suing somebody Posts: 3,059	The dma in your cdrom was enabled?, maybe that was the cause. __________________ Visit my blog in Spanish: http://andreyirra.blogspot.com

April 4th, 2003	#7 (permalink)
Kazuya Mishima The seeker of perfection Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suing somebody Posts: 3,059	Right click in my pc and check the properties. Then select the device manager or something like that (i dont have an english windows) and select your cdrom then check its properties and see if the dma box is checked. if not then thats the problem. __________________ Visit my blog in Spanish: http://andreyirra.blogspot.com

April 4th, 2003	#8 (permalink)
Mr. Killjoy [Suggest a custom title] Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,753	Try using Async reading in Peops CDR plugin __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 2GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: GF8800GTS 512MB OC - Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec Trio 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - WindowsXP-Pro SP2 --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/

April 5th, 2003	#10 (permalink)
_E_ Administrator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: somewhere Posts: 8,636	Do you have Frame Skipping enabled? If so, disable it or enable the old skippig method. Some game's FMV dont like frame skipping Yours, -Elly __________________ -= Now watching=-

April 2nd, 2003	#2 (permalink)
zerocopy Banned Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2,953	try making an iso of the game

April 2nd, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	it could be your cd plug-in settings.....which plug-in are u using?

April 2nd, 2003	#4 (permalink)
mrguytodd Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA, IL Posts: 15	Well, I made an ISO, and everything worked perfectly fine. So I guess it must be my CD Plugin, I can't remember what it was though I'll try some other Plugins, thanks for the help

April 4th, 2003	#6 (permalink)
mrguytodd Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA, IL Posts: 15	Hmmm, still doesn't seem to be working with other plugins. dma? Sorry for my ignorance, I believe I've heard of it before though.

April 4th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
mrguytodd Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA, IL Posts: 15	I tried both suggestions and it STILL doesn't work If there are more details that you need to know, I'll be glad to give them to you.

April 5th, 2003	#11 (permalink)
Mr. Killjoy [Suggest a custom title] Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,753	Start turning to 16 bit colors instead of 32, if you're in 32, and disable FSAA __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 2GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: GF8800GTS 512MB OC - Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec Trio 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - WindowsXP-Pro SP2 --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/

April 5th, 2003	#12 (permalink)
mrguytodd Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA, IL Posts: 15	Thanks for the help everyone! I finally got it to work! The problem wasn't what any of your suggestions were though It was just a setting in the CD Plugin.

April 6th, 2003	#13 (permalink)
Mr. Killjoy [Suggest a custom title] Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,753	Funny, cuz usually, when the CDR plugin isn't configured correctly, that's the MDECs who are slow, not the game :/ __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 2GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: GF8800GTS 512MB OC - Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec Trio 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - WindowsXP-Pro SP2 --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/

April 6th, 2003	#14 (permalink)
mrguytodd Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA, IL Posts: 15	Well, that's what I was talking about. Was I speaking unclearly? The game ran fine, but the MDECs were slowing down...

April 7th, 2003	#15 (permalink)
Kazuya Mishima The seeker of perfection Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suing somebody Posts: 3,059	What setting was bad? Can you tell us so we can help any other people with the same problem? __________________ Visit my blog in Spanish: http://andreyirra.blogspot.com

April 8th, 2003	#18 (permalink)
Rebel_X Smart Star Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Chicago, Oak Lawn Posts: 865	FF7,8,9 original Framrates are 15 FPS, it should be fine to the video, but not to the Sound! You could know that using PSXmultiConv it says that 15 FPS for each game! __________________ "Set sail to sea , But pulled off course By the light of golden treasure. How could he know This new dawn's light. Would change his life forever? How can I be lost, If I've got nowhere to go? Search for seas of gold. How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive.. So how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?" - Metallica The Unforgiven ]\|[

April 7th, 2003	#16 (permalink)
Mr. Killjoy [Suggest a custom title] Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,753	SO, use Async read in the CDR plugin __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 2GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: GF8800GTS 512MB OC - Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec Trio 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - WindowsXP-Pro SP2 --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/

April 7th, 2003	#17 (permalink)
mrguytodd Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA, IL Posts: 15	It was the subchannel reading in pete's. Subchannel reading = Read Subchannels (Other stuff was here)

April 8th, 2003	#20 (permalink)
Kazuya Mishima The seeker of perfection Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suing somebody Posts: 3,059	well, i am actually trying to help everyone since there is not too much people doing this in the forums in the last months. and mrguytodd, thank you, i will have that in mind. __________________ Visit my blog in Spanish: http://andreyirra.blogspot.com

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