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Novalon · August 11th, 2004

Hushy, another place where that occurs is in Dollet, during the big SeeD operation. It's on the long bridge which I believe is before you get to the foutain where Seifer starts spouting random crap (he was level 61 by the time I got done with Dollet).

I can't quite remember, it's just the long bridge that you run across to the left, pretty much a panoramic shot, I hope you know where I'm talking about.

Anyway, back to more "testing" as I progress through the game.

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**hushypushy** · August 11th, 2004

hmm, im not sure what the fix is. it's one of those where you have to go "in between" the background, and it's improperly showing it. i honestly don't know :|

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TheMaister · August 11th, 2004

I found a glitch too. When you're inside a cave, the battle swirl work just perfect, but on the world map it still work in full speed, but it's black...

**n_w95482** · August 11th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMaister

I found a glitch too. When you're inside a cave, the battle swirl work just perfect, but on the world map it still work in full speed, but it's black...

The black swirl on the world map happened to me too, I can't remember if it worked correctly in caves. I did try 1/3/1+fix a while back though.

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**Razor Blade** · August 11th, 2004

I tried that fix 1/3/1 ... And for me the settings before worked better. The battle swirl was perfect as a matter of fact

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TheMaister · September 10th, 2004

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/SSE2

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 128 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

Misc:
- Scanlines: on [120] (Turn it off if you don't like scanlines...)
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 1/3
- Flicker-fix border size: 2
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

Hope this would clear up some frustration.

There are some known glitches:

The battle swirl on the world map are black, but in full speed.
Some places is flickering, but only a very few places.

Last edited by TheMaister; November 9th, 2004 at 07:15..

**hushypushy** · September 10th, 2004

a few things to say:

1. you might want to paste in Pete's configs (it has a copy to clipboard option) to make it easier to read.
2. i'm merging it with the "other" FF8/OGL2 thread
3. thanks for contributing

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Novalon · October 8th, 2004

Perhaps a webpage worthy of Lord Kane should be up for all the RPG related OGL2 plugins...

Anyone else agree with me?

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**Kane** · October 8th, 2004

I'd love to do that, if I had the time

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Coolsvilleman · October 8th, 2004

Has anyone tried this game with pete's directx plugin. I find most games run faster and better with it. Oh and I know that the psx has no z-buffer which is why you get "pixel dancing" but is there anyway around that in this game and others? With this plugin or any other plugin?

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TheMaister · October 8th, 2004

Yeah!! That would've been a great idea!

**Kane** · October 9th, 2004

>Oh and I know that the psx has no z-buffer which is why you get "pixel dancing" but is there anyway around that in this game and others? With this plugin or any other plugin?

No.

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**hushypushy** · January 12th, 2005

just because i felt like it today im making pics of all the settings i use in the FF games. there isnt a picture one here yet, or anything...this is a semi-confusing thread. well, the be all, end all one that i think we can agree on for now looks like this (and of course, the FF8 special fix checked):

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fireblaster_lyz · January 12th, 2005

I will post the ATI one during the weekend.

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**hushypushy** · January 13th, 2005

the ATi one is the same, except it's at High X not very high

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**Razor Blade** · January 13th, 2005

Yea, I can confirm that. I used those settings (except High X as hushy said) And runs perfect. Screens I posted are a page back, so if you wanna see ..

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fireblaster_lyz · January 14th, 2005

Oh..I forgot...I have shaders activated and post some screenshots for certain effects used. I think Razor Blade can do that huh? I cannot do it now...my 9600 is at my grandma's and I am going over this weekend.

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Configuration Guides:
Troubleshooting FAQ (READ ME FIRST)
Kane

General Configuration Guide (in Japanese)
Click here. (Dumping BIOS, Everything)

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**hushypushy** · January 14th, 2005

i can do shaders if i want now, i just havent really had much of a motivation to try them out. there are some cool new ones, much better than standard screen smoothing. they should be interesting..i should check em out.

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fireblaster_lyz · January 14th, 2005

Some of the shaders are yucky...especially the black and white one. Don use that...
I tried the full screen one and it drains my fps...I see what I can do this weekend. I go over to my grandma's and see which suits best for FF8. (Then we create a new post: Utimate OGL2 Settings for FF8 - Not suitable for **** computers)

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Pete's Bernert
Lewpy

Configuration Guides:
Troubleshooting FAQ (READ ME FIRST)
Kane

General Configuration Guide (in Japanese)
Click here. (Dumping BIOS, Everything)

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dutchMasta · January 17th, 2005

With opengl2, I find the main problem is getting the damn battle transition to look fine. And the only thing that affects that is framebuffer effects. Set to 2, it looks fine, but there's a HUGE slow down, not only going into battles, but also into menus. Set to 0 or 1, no problems concerning speed, but it's not the perfect battle transition. Set to 3, no matter what the other settings are, always a black messed up transition. This ONLY happens in the world map. I tried fiddling around with other settings to remove the slow down, but it ends up looking like a pile of crap. I have a Geforce 6800 GT, and a P4 2.4GHz with 1 gig ram, so if you want to play it perfectly, I think an *amazing* comp is needed. BTW, you can decrease the slowdown time, but it sacrifices a LOT of graphics.

With OpenGL on the other hand, I've found some ok settings, doesn't look amazing, because alpha multipass has to be turned off, and causes some gay black borders, unless you turn off texture filtering, then it's all blocky, not too bad though. No slow-downs, black boxes around ATB bars, but the ATB bars flash a bit. Still NOT perfect though. Actually, pretty similar case to OGL2 then I guess...but looks slightly better+slightly quicker too.

I think we just need a special fix of some sort to be made. I read on Pete's boards that it works ok with the PAL version, but I, like most of you guys I'm guessing, am using the NTSC. I also requested that special fix, as well as addition of 960x720 and 1280x960 full screen resolutions and a drag-down preset menu which you can add to, and export/import.

I haven't read most of the other threads, so sorry if I wrote some useless crap that's already been posted, or something that is wrong.

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TheMaister Go-player 15 kyu ^^ Join Date: May 2004 Location: Norway Posts: 185	really great config OpenGL2, FF8 Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6 Author: Pete Bernert Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. GFX card: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/SSE2 Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6 Author: Pete Bernert Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. GFX card: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/SSE2 Resolution/Color: - 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing - Internal X resolution: 1 - Internal Y resolution: 2 - Keep psx aspect ratio: off - No render-to-texture: off - Filtering: 4 - Hi-Res textures: 2 - TexWin pixel shader: off - VRam size: 128 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limitation: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: Auto Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 1 - Framebuffer effects: 2 - Framebuffer uploads: 2 Misc: - Scanlines: on [120] (Turn it off if you don't like scanlines...) - Mdec filter: on - Screen filtering: on - Shader effects: 1/3 - Flicker-fix border size: 2 - GF4/XP crash fix: off - Game fixes: on [00000002] Hope this would clear up some frustration. There are some known glitches: The battle swirl on the world map are black, but in full speed. Some places is flickering, but only a very few places. Last edited by TheMaister; November 9th, 2004 at 07:15..

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August 11th, 2004	#21 (permalink)
Novalon RPG n00b guru Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 86	Hushy, another place where that occurs is in Dollet, during the big SeeD operation. It's on the long bridge which I believe is before you get to the foutain where Seifer starts spouting random crap (he was level 61 by the time I got done with Dollet). I can't quite remember, it's just the long bridge that you run across to the left, pretty much a panoramic shot, I hope you know where I'm talking about. Anyway, back to more "testing" as I progress through the game. __________________ Novalon: The Cure for the common n00b. PC Specs: Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 2) ASUS Athlon 64 3200+ 1024 Meg of DDR2 400 RAM 128 meg EVGA GeForce 6600GT (found a link on the forums! Thanks guys! Newegg had a rebate on it too!) Which character are you test by Naruto - Kun.com

August 11th, 2004	#22 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	hmm, im not sure what the fix is. it's one of those where you have to go "in between" the background, and it's improperly showing it. i honestly don't know :\| __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

August 11th, 2004	#23 (permalink)
TheMaister Go-player 15 kyu ^^ Join Date: May 2004 Location: Norway Posts: 185	I found a glitch too. When you're inside a cave, the battle swirl work just perfect, but on the world map it still work in full speed, but it's black...

August 11th, 2004	#25 (permalink)
Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,032	I tried that fix 1/3/1 ... And for me the settings before worked better. The battle swirl was perfect as a matter of fact __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

September 10th, 2004	#27 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	a few things to say: 1. you might want to paste in Pete's configs (it has a copy to clipboard option) to make it easier to read. 2. i'm merging it with the "other" FF8/OGL2 thread 3. thanks for contributing __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

October 8th, 2004	#28 (permalink)
Novalon RPG n00b guru Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 86	Perhaps a webpage worthy of Lord Kane should be up for all the RPG related OGL2 plugins... Anyone else agree with me? __________________ Novalon: The Cure for the common n00b. PC Specs: Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 2) ASUS Athlon 64 3200+ 1024 Meg of DDR2 400 RAM 128 meg EVGA GeForce 6600GT (found a link on the forums! Thanks guys! Newegg had a rebate on it too!) Which character are you test by Naruto - Kun.com

October 8th, 2004	#29 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,305	I'd love to do that, if I had the time __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

October 8th, 2004	#30 (permalink)
Coolsvilleman Emulation to the max! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 2,560	Has anyone tried this game with pete's directx plugin. I find most games run faster and better with it. Oh and I know that the psx has no z-buffer which is why you get "pixel dancing" but is there anyway around that in this game and others? With this plugin or any other plugin? __________________ Q6600 Core 2 Quad \|\| Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme HD \|\| e-VGA 8800GTX \|\| 4096mb 4-4-4-12-2T Dual-Channel RAM \|\| MSI P6N Diamond \|\| 2x 320GB Hardrive \|\| 5.1 Speakers \|\| Remote control \|\| 8x USB 2.0 \|\| DVD/CD ±RW Drive \|\| 1x IEEE1394 www.coolsvilleman.homedns.org Normally down. E-mail me for a DVD @ coolsvilleman@gmail.com

October 8th, 2004	#31 (permalink)
TheMaister Go-player 15 kyu ^^ Join Date: May 2004 Location: Norway Posts: 185	Yeah!! That would've been a great idea!

October 9th, 2004	#32 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,305	>Oh and I know that the psx has no z-buffer which is why you get "pixel dancing" but is there anyway around that in this game and others? With this plugin or any other plugin? No. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

January 12th, 2005	#33 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	just because i felt like it today im making pics of all the settings i use in the FF games. there isnt a picture one here yet, or anything...this is a semi-confusing thread. well, the be all, end all one that i think we can agree on for now looks like this (and of course, the FF8 special fix checked): __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

January 12th, 2005	#34 (permalink)
fireblaster_lyz A Blast from the Past... Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,905	I will post the ATI one during the weekend. __________________ Regards, fireblaster_lyz Plugin(s) Configuration: ePSXe/PSXeven/SSSPSX Pete's OpenGL GPU v2.7 \| Eternal SPU v1.41 \| P.E.O.p.S CDR Plugin Plugin(s) Links: Pete's Bernert Lewpy Configuration Guides: Troubleshooting FAQ (READ ME FIRST) Kane General Configuration Guide (in Japanese) Click here. (Dumping BIOS, Everything) "Because i want my computer to stay a computer. I dont want to be just a psx. "

January 13th, 2005	#35 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	the ATi one is the same, except it's at High X not very high __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

January 13th, 2005	#36 (permalink)
Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,032	Yea, I can confirm that. I used those settings (except High X as hushy said) And runs perfect. Screens I posted are a page back, so if you wanna see .. __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

January 14th, 2005	#37 (permalink)
fireblaster_lyz A Blast from the Past... Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,905	Oh..I forgot...I have shaders activated and post some screenshots for certain effects used. I think Razor Blade can do that huh? I cannot do it now...my 9600 is at my grandma's and I am going over this weekend. __________________ Regards, fireblaster_lyz Plugin(s) Configuration: ePSXe/PSXeven/SSSPSX Pete's OpenGL GPU v2.7 \| Eternal SPU v1.41 \| P.E.O.p.S CDR Plugin Plugin(s) Links: Pete's Bernert Lewpy Configuration Guides: Troubleshooting FAQ (READ ME FIRST) Kane General Configuration Guide (in Japanese) Click here. (Dumping BIOS, Everything) "Because i want my computer to stay a computer. I dont want to be just a psx. "

January 14th, 2005	#38 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	i can do shaders if i want now, i just havent really had much of a motivation to try them out. there are some cool new ones, much better than standard screen smoothing. they should be interesting..i should check em out. __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

January 14th, 2005	#39 (permalink)
fireblaster_lyz A Blast from the Past... Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,905	Some of the shaders are yucky...especially the black and white one. Don use that... I tried the full screen one and it drains my fps...I see what I can do this weekend. I go over to my grandma's and see which suits best for FF8. (Then we create a new post: Utimate OGL2 Settings for FF8 - Not suitable for **** computers) __________________ Regards, fireblaster_lyz Plugin(s) Configuration: ePSXe/PSXeven/SSSPSX Pete's OpenGL GPU v2.7 \| Eternal SPU v1.41 \| P.E.O.p.S CDR Plugin Plugin(s) Links: Pete's Bernert Lewpy Configuration Guides: Troubleshooting FAQ (READ ME FIRST) Kane General Configuration Guide (in Japanese) Click here. (Dumping BIOS, Everything) "Because i want my computer to stay a computer. I dont want to be just a psx. "

January 17th, 2005	#40 (permalink)
dutchMasta Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 152	With opengl2, I find the main problem is getting the damn battle transition to look fine. And the only thing that affects that is framebuffer effects. Set to 2, it looks fine, but there's a HUGE slow down, not only going into battles, but also into menus. Set to 0 or 1, no problems concerning speed, but it's not the perfect battle transition. Set to 3, no matter what the other settings are, always a black messed up transition. This ONLY happens in the world map. I tried fiddling around with other settings to remove the slow down, but it ends up looking like a pile of crap. I have a Geforce 6800 GT, and a P4 2.4GHz with 1 gig ram, so if you want to play it perfectly, I think an amazing comp is needed. BTW, you can decrease the slowdown time, but it sacrifices a LOT of graphics. With OpenGL on the other hand, I've found some ok settings, doesn't look amazing, because alpha multipass has to be turned off, and causes some gay black borders, unless you turn off texture filtering, then it's all blocky, not too bad though. No slow-downs, black boxes around ATB bars, but the ATB bars flash a bit. Still NOT perfect though. Actually, pretty similar case to OGL2 then I guess...but looks slightly better+slightly quicker too. I think we just need a special fix of some sort to be made. I read on Pete's boards that it works ok with the PAL version, but I, like most of you guys I'm guessing, am using the NTSC. I also requested that special fix, as well as addition of 960x720 and 1280x960 full screen resolutions and a drag-down preset menu which you can add to, and export/import. I haven't read most of the other threads, so sorry if I wrote some useless crap that's already been posted, or something that is wrong.