final fantasy 8 trouble in epsxe 1.7 & 1.6

[goonkid93]

hey i been having trouble with final fantasy 8 i just got into liking it but has some problems when i use dxd d3d has really good graphics but at times goes slow and alot when in a battle and theres more sound has some problems every time i enter a new place scene it always makes strange noise like it lags

[Rockfire]

Whats your system specs?

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[goonkid93]

windows xp
home edition
version 2002
service pack 2

compaq presario

interl(R)
celeron(R) CPU 2.70 ghz, 248 mb of RAM

[Squall-Leonhart]

your computer is not currently capable of running epsxe, if you installed a dedicated graphics card, possibly, but at the moment you are sharing 8mb of ram with integrated video chip.

[hushypushy]

Try using pSX.

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[goonkid93]

told me that they aren't good as epsxe

[jonc2006]

well its the best you are going to get. if you want to use epsxe then you need to upgrade or buy a new pc, there is no way around that. and its not a question of quality compared to epsxe, the main difference is that psx does have the graphical enhancment features epsxe is capable of producing since it doesnt use a hardware plugin system, so it looks very similar to the way a game would look and play on a real psx. thats about it. its extremely simple to set up and just about any game that runs on epsxe will run on psx.

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[hushypushy]

Originally Posted by goonkid93

told me that they aren't good as epsxe

Well, your graphics card is rubbish, and therefore hardware rendering (the good graphics) is out the window. You can use a software plugin in ePSXe if you want--go to Config > Video and config the software GPU.

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[Anatasia]

If he has 8mb onboard graphic I think the only plugin that can perform is E}{'s Soft Driver (I once had messed around Epsxe with a computer like that)

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[Squall-Leonhart]

i experienced Petes OGL2 on my old Geforce 2 last night, after finding the 1.x plugins failed to render FF8 FBE's and OSD. the performance was reasonable.

[goonkid93]

um will try that anyways ways i am getting new computer next week at schools last day maybe be old computer but better than this more ram and not a Compaq

[ammar85]

Originally Posted by goonkid93

um will try that anyways ways i am getting new computer next week at schools last day maybe be old computer but better than this more ram and not a Compaq

You have to understand that your PC is fine as far as the specs go (Although I truly wonder if you have 248 megs of ram with that processor...its been MANY MANY years since 256 was even the entry level ram prices)

you simply need a graphics card....

almost any will be fine - even a Geforce5200FX from 5 years ago works well for hard psx emulation to get 90% of the graphical quality

[goonkid93]

but the new computer it like my school computer i fix it up now ready to go i know epsxe work fine i it because i play ff8 on schools computer and it was perfect sound graphics and game play

[druidic]

I'm having the same issues and I wonder if I have the same problem.

Vista Home Premium, 1G RAM

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.76
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Window mode

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

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 200.0

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: off [00000000]

[jonc2006]

what version of epsxe are you playing the game on for the most part, 1.7.0 or 1.6.0? if you are using 1.6.0, change the 200 FPS setting you have there into 60. also what kind of cpu are you using, single or multi-core?

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[bumboklot7834]

both of you simply need graphics cards, i had the same problems with ff8 and fable, went an bought a radeon 9800 and it solved all of the problems.

[goonkid93]

what is price range and also my new computer getting tomorrow ghz is 992 i know that not good but is it ok play games on

[Xblade]

A decent computer isnt that expensive nowadays. I got my 3800+2ghz with 800 and something ram for 400 bucks. The integrated isnt that bad either (can run pcsx2 with around 50-80 percent.) You should be able to get the same computer for around 500 0.0. If your not gonna buy a new one simply use psx......

Originally Posted by druidic

I'm having the same issues and I wonder if I have the same problem.

Vista Home Premium, 1G RAM

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.76
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Window mode

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

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 200.0

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: off [00000000]

Its your mobile intel lol......try turning off that gleem (aero or w/e) in vista.
Turning that off will stop choking your graphics card unless you have it off already >_>. Why are laptops provided with intel?? They trying to rub in that the common laptop isnt good for gaming? -_- I hate intel, nvidia and ati own -.-

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Last edited by Xblade; June 5th, 2008 at 14:43.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

[druidic]

I'm using 1.7.0, and I'm running a dual-core pentium.

I feel stupid, but I don't understand what "turning off that gleem (aero or w/e) in vista" means. The Mobile Intel thing appears to be the only display driver on this machine.

[jonc2006]

disable the flashy vista interface (the 3d thing). im not sure how well this will affect performance (gaming performance at least) but do it anyway.

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