really great config OpenGL2, FF8

[TheMaister]

These are my settings:

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: on
- 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: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 3/4
- Flicker-fix border size: 2
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

With 1/2/2 I never get ANY slowdowns.. Not even small pauses.. Weird huh?!
Guess ATI's better at FF8.

[dutchMasta]

nah, I use screen smooth, but I'd like to be able to use two or more at once. There was one that really brought out vibrance in image and colours, median shader or something. there aren't many anyway, might as well test them out. also, most of them are real obvious, no testing needed eg. brightness/blur/rotate/gray, unless you know where to get shaders created by other users. If so, please inform me.

[hushypushy]

im not sure what the lower FE means in terms of pauses, but i get the pauses in FF9 also. if you'll notice, my OGL2 config for FF9 includes FE at 3. at 2, i got the exact same pauses.

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[fireblaster_lyz]

Hmmm...have you tried MAXING out every setting? I tried it...but I couldn't remember the battle swirl. I enabled smoothing and luigi(?) shaders at that time.

I was running in a window at 1024x768.

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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. "

[UFl2k]

figured something out about that pauses with fe at 2.
they only occur, when internal x resolution is set to very high.

so there are 2 solutions.
1. set internal x resolution to high <- a bit worse graphics
2. set fe to 3 <- bad battle swirl

i prefere setting internal x to very high and fe to 3.

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[hushypushy]

ah, so that's why ATi users werent getting the pauses. well, i agree with you. very high X looks better than a crappy looking battle swirl.

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[I-Chan]

Then i'll stop searching what's the problem :P

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[dbhankins]

Problems I've seen that this config resolves, and how it resolves them:

- Controller rumble (sssPSX + sssPSX pad plugin)
- Battle swirls looking wrong (framebuffer settings)
- Black flashing or solid rectangle behind ATB bars (framebuffer, special game fix)
- Missing fadein/fadeout during intro "slideshow" (framebuffer, special fix)
- Garbage on screen at beginning of "slideshow" (framebuffer, special fix)
- Missing/garbage text in menus etc (framebuffer, special fix)
- Glitchy sound ("Update before accessing register" in Eternal)

I've played through:

- FMVs
- Scripted 3D engine cutscenes
- Field map
- World map
- Battles
- Menus

which should cover most of the problems people have had. I haven't gotten far enough in the game to switch disks, so that's an issue that's yet to be resolved; I know some games have problems when switching.

Since this is an OGL2 config, prerequisites are a card and driver that supports OpenGL 2.0 (DirectX 9 in DirectX terms). If you have a barely-DX9 card (like an NVidia 5200FX), turn the shader stuff off as that impacts performance. You may also want to do things like reducing resolution, turning off full-screen filters, etc.

As always, your mileage may vary.

OS: WinXP SP2
Gfx: ATI X850XT PCI-Ex
Snd: C-Media Rear Panel Audio
CPU: Intel P4 HT 3GHz 800Mhz FSB
RAM: 2G
PAD: DualShock2 on RadioShack USB adapter

Emulator: sssPSX 0.0.26 (so that rumble will work, otherwise ePSXe 1.6 would be fine)
GPU: Pete's OpenGL2 2.7
SPU: Eternal 1.41
CDR: Mooby2 (image made with Alcohol 120%)
PAD: sssPSX PAD plugin 1.6

GPU settings:


SPU settings:


CDR settings:


PAD settings:



Dan

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Last edited by dbhankins; September 13th, 2005 at 19:34.. Reason: forgot to mention rumble

[Raiju]

I tried these configs, but the same problem continues to happen

The battle doesnt show the Command box and the HP/GF charge bars

see the screenshot

please help me



http://photobucket.com/albums/e363/j...rent=SSff8.jpg

[hushypushy]

turn up offscreen drawing?

[Xymet]

Well, I tried tweaking the settings for Final Fantasy VIII for the past two weeks and I've been getting quite some results.

These are my settings and they work pretty well for me, except for minor glitches observed rarely.

Using
GPU: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8
SPU: Eternal SPU Plugin 1.41
CDR/ISO Plugin: Pete's CDR ASPI/IOCTL Driver Version 1.11 (or) EPSXE Internal ISO plugin

GPU Settings
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Resolution & Colours
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For Fullscreen Mode
Desktop Resolution = 1024 x 768 (640 x 480 is prefered)
Colour Depth = 32 bit

Internal X resolution = 2
Internal Y resolution = 3 (if possible otherwise 2)
Stretching mode = 0. (3 looks better i think)
Render mode = 1 (2 if supported)

Textures
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Texture filtering = 0 or 5 or 6 (looks better than others for me)
Hi-Res textures = 2 (looks really nice)

Framerate
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Default settings

Compatability
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Offscreen Drawing = 1
Framebuffer Effects = 2 (3 is slow but better looking for me)
Framebuffer Upload = 0

When using frame buffer upload settings high you may notice a glitch during battles. During battles where you see the HP of your characters a big black transparent box appears. If you don't want that set Framebuffer upload to 0. However when using 0 setting, you may notice when you go from one place to another a shaky effect during the transition. To correct this you may have to set the settings to 2 or 0. It depends on the card.

MISC
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MDEC filter ON
Special Game Fixes ON
Enable 0x0002
Enable 0x1000

Even using these settings, during your visit to the Fire Cavern, you will notice that the battles look a bit hazy and blurry. I tried the OpenGL plugin of Pete (1.76 version) and got the same results. However when I turn on Direct Framebuffer Updates in the Special Game Fixes, this problem is eliminated. I wonder if Pete would implement that Fix in his OpenGL2 version. Anyways...

SPU Settings
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For the Sound Plugin, you can use either Eternal SPU Plugin, Eternal Lite SPU Plugin or ePSXe Internal SPU.
When using Eternal SPU / Eternal Lite SPU Plugin, I had these settings on

Audio Device
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DirectSound with a Buffer Size 15 or 65

Audio Out Method
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SPUasync - Async mode = Wait or Smooth
(or)
Thread

Special Game Fix
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Turn on Update before accessing register.
Others turned off

CDVD Plugin
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When using Pete's CDR ASPI/IOCT Driver;
Use Asyn read for Caching method,
and use read subchannels.

These settings were implemented on a Computer with P4 2.4 Ghz, NVIDIA Geforce 6xxx series. 1024 MB RD Ram. SSE, SSE2, MMX supported PC.

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Last edited by Xymet; March 9th, 2006 at 08:02..

[Turkishboy61]

i hope that you people dont get headache from me i am a new computer user also a new gamer. I download espxe en i have the original tekke 3 some one make it a img file for me. i use it but i never had a good screen why dont have i a good screen i hope that one of you can help me, please..
THANK YOU,
my system
Intel
Family Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Architecture 64-bit
Internal Clock 3.0 GHz
Description RADEON X600/X550 Series
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc.
Total Local Video Memory 256 MB
Total Local Texture Memory 256 MB
1 gb ddr 400mhz
Microsoft Windows XP
Version 5.1.2600
Service Pack Service Pack 2
Windows Environment 32-bit
Locale NL
Desktop Width 1024 px
Desktop Height 768 px
Desktop BPP 32 b
THIS IS MY SYSTEM
I HOPE THAT SOMEONE MAKES A PICTURE FILE FOR ME to use the best for my tekken 3 game on my pc
i love it so much
thanks thanks

[hushypushy]

why did you post that in the OGL2 thread for Final Fantasy 8? wait, don't even answer that. go make your own thread.

[Turkishboy61]

sorry you are right excuse me i am a beginner
sorry and thanks

[notto]

hi there im having problems with ff8 pal uk version (actually its aussie version but thats what it is detected as so id say we use the same pal region code)

i get on train (leaving timber to go to east academy) i get off and all i see is black but i can pause the game and view the world map. ive tried various setups and still no luck. (hmm this maybe a wrongly configured cd plugin as ive noticed the cd-rom aint spinning (well the light aint on) when it does this.

other problems bug at bridge in dollet. (not worried about that really its only a small bug really)
junction tutorial always showing up (really, really annoying)
and i have extreme difficulty with shops ie i always seem to get balamb item shop. but i wan say the weapon shop. (not so annoying but still dont like it)

also i would the settings for every plugin.
ie epsxe 1.6 or pcsx 1.5
gpu: anything just provide download link if it aint pete ogl 1.76, 2.2 or 2.8. and setting badly needed. i dont care about swirls, as long as the fps does not drop below 25fps im happy.
as long as i can read the messages, access shops, view the battle screens properly and that about it.
cd-rom: anything just provide download link and most definetly settings. images dont work ive tried 2 types and no luck, yes i have the cd as well.
i have the bioses scph1000,1001 and 7502.
dont need help with gamepad plugin.
spu: i know this is fine. but willing to reconfigure

my computer specs:
amd sempron 2800+ (going to be amd athlon 3200 939)
mobo: abit nf8-v (socket 754) upgrading to 939
video: nvidia geforce 6600gt agp (upgrading to 7600gt pci-e)
ram: 1gb (2x512)
lg dvd burner.
onboard sound card.
all help appreciated thx.
using winxp pro.

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Last edited by notto; June 3rd, 2006 at 14:45..

[WildPegasus]

During CGI's the game would freeze up every 3 seconds. I added a patch and now it only slightly freezes every 7 seconds. I use the settings bellow. How can I totally get rid of the freezing?

[hushypushy]

what are your computer specs?

[WildPegasus]

1.99 GHz
384MB of ram
Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 3300+
ATU Radeib Xoress 200m

[hushypushy]

well first, update your OGL2 to the newest (2.8). you may want to try both internal resolutions at 1, see if that does anything. make sure your laptop is plugged in and/or all its powersaving features are off.

[WildPegasus]

I did as you said, same thing.