Need Help with ePSXe? This is your first stop!.

Squall-Leonhart · October 12th, 2008, 05:21

NOTICE : DO NOT POST ISSUES, OR HELP REQUESTS HERE

For General Trouble Shooting, Read

If you need Plugins

http://forums.ngemu.com/psx-plugin-q...-new-post.html

If you previously used CDRSapu or another third party CDR Plugin,

http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...t-1-7-0-a.html

If you have an ATI card and have missing/black Triangles, Read,

http://forums.ngemu.com/problems-gam...-issue-11.html
And remember to specify the Memory amount manually, auto detection is broken on new ATI drivers.

For Help with PEC(Playstation Emulation Cheater)

If you need to post a bug

http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...g-reports.html

Want Some Custom Shaders for Petes OGL2? Read,

Last edited by Squall-Leonhart; June 21st, 2009 at 18:55..

Squall-Leonhart · October 24th, 2008, 14:05

An update on Real FPS versus Petes plugins FPS.

The FPS shown by petes plugins, is more of a fields per second, rather then frames per second, like that used in most N64 emulators, the real fps is variable, in that it ranges from 25/30 to 50/60, though the real fps is more an unrounded number.

This means some games actually will show as running at only 25 FPS, if you happen to run fraps, such games include FF7, FF8 and FF9.

While playing games like this, you will find that during battle, the Fraps FPS will increase to 50/60 fps rather then 25/30. This is because every second frame is filled with the Battle menu or cursor(in FF7's case).

Of late, there has been some FPS lag, or slugginess, which some, including myself at first, pointed to a overly slow real fps(fraps fps).

The real reason is one of the following.

The user is using an AMD Athlon X2 processor, and has not got the AMD optimizer driver installed.
The user has an nVidia Geforce 6+ card and is using Forceware 176 or higher with an Intel or AMD dual core processor, To fix this install nhancer and create a profile for ePSXe with the OpenGL Multithreading set to disabled.
The User has the Frame limiter enabled in both ePSXe' and petes plugin, This is rare for the automatic, but happens often if petes is set to a manual fps, and may result in incorrect frame ordering.
Video cards less then a Geforce 6800, or 7800 may also suffer frame lag as a result of using shader filters due to the lesser memory bus width (128bit a opposed to 256), so disabling them can also benefit.
The OpenGL Prerender limit can be adjusted to 2 (from a default of 3) on nVidia cards to improve control responsiveness, but should not be set to 1 or 0 as this will incur a fps hit on FB intensive screens.

There are times that Cheats may cause problems as well, such as those in FF9 (US). It has been found that enabling the MP and HP cheats on Zidane causes the graphics to corrupt on the after battle spoils screen, resulting in having to save blindly to memory card and reload. As so far, this corruption only occurs with cheats on Zidane. There is also a second FF9 cheats issue where the Frames screws up, I assume this is due to frame skipping, as applying the cheat during a skipped frame might cause the frame ordering to break.

Frame skipping is not wise at all, as while moving about the game map, via foot or airship the frame order can screw up resulting in all over lag which can only be fixed via State saving and reloading, or bumping to fullscreen and back to windowed (or reversed). This can also occur during battle, and i've reproduced this in both FF9 and chrono cross, while frame skipping is enabled.

I recently experienced first hand, a save state corrupting a memory card file, this however was caused by a system crash while loading the state, which caused both the state and card to be damaged. In some cases its caused by corrupted audio data. Luckily in my case i was able to reload the damaged state by setting audio to Null-Sound, and restoring my memory card from a backup

Last edited by jonc2006; October 24th, 2008 at 20:52..

**jonc2006** · October 24th, 2008, 20:51

squall ive added a link to the AMD dual core optimizer utility that was mentioned in your post, ive seen quite a few people running into performance issues because of it and having a direct link available might save some people the trouble of having to hunt it down.

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Squall-Leonhart · November 6th, 2008, 23:46

For those running Final Fantasy Chronicles and experiencing yellow water, update to ePSXe 1.7.0 as this is fixed.

Squall-Leonhart · November 15th, 2008, 14:28

For those experiencing Black screens in FF9, when moving between screens, this is usually a sign of read errors, Rip the image using CloneCD or Alcohol 50% and use CDR SAPU to read the mounted image.

KrazyNinjaKitty · December 18th, 2008, 19:05

hi umm this is the first emulator I have downloaded in a long time so I have the delta, anwho it isn't giving me anything to setup for the graphics in the dropbox...if im in the wrong area to discuss this please could you direct me to someone who can help?

**jonc2006** · December 18th, 2008, 19:09

http://forums.ngemu.com/generic-epsx...e-windows.html

use that guide to set up epsxe correctly, if you still have trouble then make a new thread in this section.

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Sparda86 · February 23rd, 2009, 05:29

Yo, quick question.

Is the CD plug-ins really necessary at all? I don't plan on popping PS1 game discs in so is there a benifit that I'm not aware of for having CDR plug-ins?

**jonc2006** · February 23rd, 2009, 06:05

not needed if you plan to just use images but i would keep at least 1 around in your plugins folder for troubleshooting purposes (when you might need to play from the discs to rule some things out, for example). you might need one if you mount your images onto a virtual drive since you would need to configure the CDR plugin to read from that drive but that is only one method, there are others so its not definite.

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Chocks · February 26th, 2009, 00:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squall-Leonhart

The OpenGL Prerender limit can be adjusted to 2 (from a default of 3) on nVidia cards to improve control responsiveness, but should not be set to 1 or 0 as this will incur a fps hit on FB intensive screens.

hey whats the Prerender limit. I can't find it anywhere

Dax · February 26th, 2009, 01:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chocks

hey whats the Prerender limit. I can't find it anywhere

This, I think.

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Chocks · February 26th, 2009, 01:15

aah, thank you. i thought it was a setting in epsxe

**jonc2006** · February 26th, 2009, 09:18

i should have done this after my 2nd post but im locking it now because its just supposed to be a collection of links to useful information.

squall if you ever need to add something else, PM me and i will either do it myself or i will temporarily unlock it for you.

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Squall-Leonhart · June 17th, 2009, 19:22

http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...ml#post1675940 Added.

Squall-Leonhart · June 21st, 2009, 18:55

Your disk image may be bad, test it with the app mentioned here.

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Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	Need Help with ePSXe? This is your first stop!. NOTICE : DO NOT POST ISSUES, OR HELP REQUESTS HERE For General Trouble Shooting, Read http://forums.ngemu.com/problems-gam...-you-post.html http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...ning-game.html http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...-fix-here.html http://forums.ngemu.com/misc-psx-dis...psx-games.html http://forums.ngemu.com/misc-psx-dis...ing-guide.html http://forums.ngemu.com/generic-epsx...s-me-isnt.html http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...-fix-here.html http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...ml#post1675940 Your disk image may be bad, test it with the app mentioned here. If you need Plugins http://forums.ngemu.com/psx-plugin-q...-new-post.html If you previously used CDRSapu or another third party CDR Plugin, http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...t-1-7-0-a.html If you have an ATI card and have missing/black Triangles, Read, http://forums.ngemu.com/problems-gam...-issue-11.html And remember to specify the Memory amount manually, auto detection is broken on new ATI drivers. For Help with PEC(Playstation Emulation Cheater) http://forums.ngemu.com/misc-psx-dis...tup-guide.html http://forums.ngemu.com/misc-psx-dis...elist-inf.html If you need to post a bug http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...g-reports.html Want Some Custom Shaders for Petes OGL2? Read, http://forums.ngemu.com/psx-plugin-q...l2-plugin.html Petes Message Board - OGL2 shaders Last edited by Squall-Leonhart; June 21st, 2009 at 18:55..

October 24th, 2008, 14:05	#2
Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	An update on Real FPS versus Petes plugins FPS. The FPS shown by petes plugins, is more of a fields per second, rather then frames per second, like that used in most N64 emulators, the real fps is variable, in that it ranges from 25/30 to 50/60, though the real fps is more an unrounded number. This means some games actually will show as running at only 25 FPS, if you happen to run fraps, such games include FF7, FF8 and FF9. While playing games like this, you will find that during battle, the Fraps FPS will increase to 50/60 fps rather then 25/30. This is because every second frame is filled with the Battle menu or cursor(in FF7's case). Of late, there has been some FPS lag, or slugginess, which some, including myself at first, pointed to a overly slow real fps(fraps fps). The real reason is one of the following. The user is using an AMD Athlon X2 processor, and has not got the AMD optimizer driver installed. The user has an nVidia Geforce 6+ card and is using Forceware 176 or higher with an Intel or AMD dual core processor, To fix this install nhancer and create a profile for ePSXe with the OpenGL Multithreading set to disabled. The User has the Frame limiter enabled in both ePSXe' and petes plugin, This is rare for the automatic, but happens often if petes is set to a manual fps, and may result in incorrect frame ordering. Video cards less then a Geforce 6800, or 7800 may also suffer frame lag as a result of using shader filters due to the lesser memory bus width (128bit a opposed to 256), so disabling them can also benefit. The OpenGL Prerender limit can be adjusted to 2 (from a default of 3) on nVidia cards to improve control responsiveness, but should not be set to 1 or 0 as this will incur a fps hit on FB intensive screens. There are times that Cheats may cause problems as well, such as those in FF9 (US). It has been found that enabling the MP and HP cheats on Zidane causes the graphics to corrupt on the after battle spoils screen, resulting in having to save blindly to memory card and reload. As so far, this corruption only occurs with cheats on Zidane. There is also a second FF9 cheats issue where the Frames screws up, I assume this is due to frame skipping, as applying the cheat during a skipped frame might cause the frame ordering to break. Frame skipping is not wise at all, as while moving about the game map, via foot or airship the frame order can screw up resulting in all over lag which can only be fixed via State saving and reloading, or bumping to fullscreen and back to windowed (or reversed). This can also occur during battle, and i've reproduced this in both FF9 and chrono cross, while frame skipping is enabled. I recently experienced first hand, a save state corrupting a memory card file, this however was caused by a system crash while loading the state, which caused both the state and card to be damaged. In some cases its caused by corrupted audio data. Luckily in my case i was able to reload the damaged state by setting audio to Null-Sound, and restoring my memory card from a backup Last edited by jonc2006; October 24th, 2008 at 20:52..

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October 24th, 2008, 20:51	#3
jonc2006 Mod of Douchebagness™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA MD Posts: 9,793	squall ive added a link to the AMD dual core optimizer utility that was mentioned in your post, ive seen quite a few people running into performance issues because of it and having a direct link available might save some people the trouble of having to hunt it down. __________________ Antec 900/Antec Truepower Quattro 1000W/eVGA 780i SLI/Windows XP Media SP2 & Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1/Intel Core 2 Duo E8400@4.0GHz/Dual eVGA e-Geforce GTX280 1GB DDR3 SLI Enabled/Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer/Corsiar XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2/Dual WD Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM HDDs The Official jonc2006™ Emotion Chart. Courtesy of PCXL-Fan after he tried to steal my identity on Steam because I am so awesome. Official jonc2006™ Fan Club Official jonc2006™ Trophy Collection

November 6th, 2008, 23:46	#4
Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	For those running Final Fantasy Chronicles and experiencing yellow water, update to ePSXe 1.7.0 as this is fixed.

November 15th, 2008, 14:28	#5
Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	For those experiencing Black screens in FF9, when moving between screens, this is usually a sign of read errors, Rip the image using CloneCD or Alcohol 50% and use CDR SAPU to read the mounted image.

December 18th, 2008, 19:05	#6
KrazyNinjaKitty Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: manhattan, Kansas Posts: 1	hi umm this is the first emulator I have downloaded in a long time so I have the delta, anwho it isn't giving me anything to setup for the graphics in the dropbox...if im in the wrong area to discuss this please could you direct me to someone who can help?

December 18th, 2008, 19:09	#7
jonc2006 Mod of Douchebagness™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA MD Posts: 9,793	http://forums.ngemu.com/generic-epsx...e-windows.html use that guide to set up epsxe correctly, if you still have trouble then make a new thread in this section. __________________ Antec 900/Antec Truepower Quattro 1000W/eVGA 780i SLI/Windows XP Media SP2 & Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1/Intel Core 2 Duo E8400@4.0GHz/Dual eVGA e-Geforce GTX280 1GB DDR3 SLI Enabled/Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer/Corsiar XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2/Dual WD Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM HDDs The Official jonc2006™ Emotion Chart. Courtesy of PCXL-Fan after he tried to steal my identity on Steam because I am so awesome. Official jonc2006™ Fan Club Official jonc2006™ Trophy Collection

February 23rd, 2009, 05:29	#8
Sparda86 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 2	Yo, quick question. Is the CD plug-ins really necessary at all? I don't plan on popping PS1 game discs in so is there a benifit that I'm not aware of for having CDR plug-ins?

February 23rd, 2009, 06:05	#9
jonc2006 Mod of Douchebagness™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA MD Posts: 9,793	not needed if you plan to just use images but i would keep at least 1 around in your plugins folder for troubleshooting purposes (when you might need to play from the discs to rule some things out, for example). you might need one if you mount your images onto a virtual drive since you would need to configure the CDR plugin to read from that drive but that is only one method, there are others so its not definite. __________________ Antec 900/Antec Truepower Quattro 1000W/eVGA 780i SLI/Windows XP Media SP2 & Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1/Intel Core 2 Duo E8400@4.0GHz/Dual eVGA e-Geforce GTX280 1GB DDR3 SLI Enabled/Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer/Corsiar XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2/Dual WD Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM HDDs The Official jonc2006™ Emotion Chart. Courtesy of PCXL-Fan after he tried to steal my identity on Steam because I am so awesome. Official jonc2006™ Fan Club Official jonc2006™ Trophy Collection

February 26th, 2009, 01:15	#12
Chocks Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: new zealand Posts: 3	aah, thank you. i thought it was a setting in epsxe

February 26th, 2009, 09:18	#13
jonc2006 Mod of Douchebagness™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA MD Posts: 9,793	i should have done this after my 2nd post but im locking it now because its just supposed to be a collection of links to useful information. squall if you ever need to add something else, PM me and i will either do it myself or i will temporarily unlock it for you. __________________ Antec 900/Antec Truepower Quattro 1000W/eVGA 780i SLI/Windows XP Media SP2 & Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1/Intel Core 2 Duo E8400@4.0GHz/Dual eVGA e-Geforce GTX280 1GB DDR3 SLI Enabled/Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer/Corsiar XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2/Dual WD Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM HDDs The Official jonc2006™ Emotion Chart. Courtesy of PCXL-Fan after he tried to steal my identity on Steam because I am so awesome. Official jonc2006™ Fan Club Official jonc2006™ Trophy Collection

June 17th, 2009, 19:22	#14
Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discus...ml#post1675940 Added.

June 21st, 2009, 18:55	#15
Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	Your disk image may be bad, test it with the app mentioned here. added