Final Fantasy VII Graphic Problems

Smashingblue · March 10th, 2003, 03:08

When playing Final Fantasy VII the battle swirl is absent. I tried the fix and it didn't work, any idea of what else can be done? Also there are yellowish, green outlines to all the backgrounds. (ex. Buildings have this outline/border) I'm using Pete's D3D drive 1.68 and running the latest version of the psxe emulator.

Specs:
Athlon XP 2200+
128 MB RAM
SIS 740 64MB display adapter
Windows XP Professional

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**Yeloazndevil** · March 10th, 2003, 03:09

set Texture Filtering to 0,3, or 4, set off-screen Drawing to 4

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Badaro · March 10th, 2003, 03:12

For the green lines, change the filtering setting. For the "swirl" effect, I quote Pete's plugins docs:

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- First of all: the FF7 battle swirls are now working (they should have been working in 1.58 already, but a last minute fix disabled them). You have to enable the FF7 special text border fix, use the highest Offscreen Drawing setting, enable the "gfx card" frame buffer textures and the "Framebuffer read on move" game fix is also needed (oh my). The performance of the effects will (as always) depend how good your card is supporting framebuffer accessing. But it's fine on my GF3

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Smashingblue · March 10th, 2003, 03:31

I appreciate your extremely fast responses, but the suggested fixes didn't work for myself. Any other possible fixes for the green borders?

**Yeloazndevil** · March 10th, 2003, 03:55

disable High-Res Textures (2xSAI) if its on

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Smashingblue · March 10th, 2003, 04:06

Disabled the 2xSAI and it fixed the problem with the green lines. Thanks for the help.

**Yeloazndevil** · March 10th, 2003, 04:09

np, try www.ngemu.com/kane for more help configuring FF7

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SueSide · March 10th, 2003, 10:38

Or just: disable in the plugin "Hi-Res Resulution" (textures or so...), that will remove most of the green outlines.

You can play the game on the TV, too, if you have a TV-Out, then you wouldn't see the outlines and the graphic looks ten times better than on PSX... hehe

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y2j9090 · March 19th, 2003, 15:01

Im having a problem with FF7 as well. I cant get the battle swirl to work, and the battle menus dont show up. I also get pauses in FMV's, the video will stop, but the sound still plays normally, then it skips part of the video and goes to the part where the sound is.

Im running:

P4 @ 1.3ghz
256mb ram
GF4 Ti 4400 128mb
SBLive 5.1dd
WinME

Im using ePSXe 1.5.2, Pete's D3D Driver 1.68, Eternal SPU Plugin 1.30 and ePSXe CDR ASPI core 1.5.2.

Can anyone help?

EDIT: Got battle menus working, but swirl and skipping in FMVs still happens.

Last edited by y2j9090; March 19th, 2003 at 15:27..

**Kane** · March 19th, 2003, 18:12

>Im having a problem with FF7 as well. I cant get the battle swirl to work

It's a pain to get that working.

>and the battle menus dont show up.

Set Off-screen drawing to 4 and enable the FF7 special game fix

>I also get pauses in FMV's, the video will stop, but the sound still plays normally, then it skips part of the video and goes to the part where the sound is.

Try using an ISO.

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dp69_2001 · March 20th, 2003, 01:44

I hear ff7 is really hard to get working on this thing I'm kinda new to the ps emulation but I have been useing snes for quite a while.

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**Kane** · March 20th, 2003, 01:48

PSX emulation is decidedly more complex, especialy using hardware accellerated plugins.
FF7 is easy to get working, just a b**** to get the swirlies.

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dp69_2001 · March 20th, 2003, 01:59

Yeah but I guess if you wanted perfect graphics you should buy the machine.

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_E_ · March 20th, 2003, 02:04

Actually, there are some games which look better on the emu rather on the PSX, thanks to the OpenGL and D3D plugins . You can also take advantage of your cards Anti-Aliasing and use it to enhance the image ( if you have a good card that is). but yes, if you want to play all yout games flawlessly, you should get the PSX itself. ( note that the PSX emulation is more than 96% completed)

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y2j9090 · March 21st, 2003, 00:04

Well I do have a PSX and PS2, so I can play it on them if I want. But I wanted to play it with an emu because of my GFX card. Was hoping to see what kind of enhancements I could get.

Ive got about 90 PSX games, so Im sure I can find one that will work right.

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March 10th, 2003, 03:09	#2
Yeloazndevil Touka <3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 11,870	set Texture Filtering to 0,3, or 4, set off-screen Drawing to 4 __________________ Nintendo Network ID: Yeloazndevil

March 10th, 2003, 03:31	#4
Smashingblue Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 12	I appreciate your extremely fast responses, but the suggested fixes didn't work for myself. Any other possible fixes for the green borders?

March 10th, 2003, 03:55	#5
Yeloazndevil Touka <3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 11,870	disable High-Res Textures (2xSAI) if its on __________________ Nintendo Network ID: Yeloazndevil

March 10th, 2003, 04:06	#6
Smashingblue Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 12	Disabled the 2xSAI and it fixed the problem with the green lines. Thanks for the help.

March 10th, 2003, 04:09	#7
Yeloazndevil Touka <3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 11,870	np, try www.ngemu.com/kane for more help configuring FF7 __________________ Nintendo Network ID: Yeloazndevil

March 10th, 2003, 10:38	#8
SueSide Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Between the 1 and the 0 Posts: 58	Or just: disable in the plugin "Hi-Res Resulution" (textures or so...), that will remove most of the green outlines. You can play the game on the TV, too, if you have a TV-Out, then you wouldn't see the outlines and the graphic looks ten times better than on PSX... hehe __________________ Nature controls the coincidence

March 19th, 2003, 15:01	#9
y2j9090 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2	Im having a problem with FF7 as well. I cant get the battle swirl to work, and the battle menus dont show up. I also get pauses in FMV's, the video will stop, but the sound still plays normally, then it skips part of the video and goes to the part where the sound is. Im running: P4 @ 1.3ghz 256mb ram GF4 Ti 4400 128mb SBLive 5.1dd WinME Im using ePSXe 1.5.2, Pete's D3D Driver 1.68, Eternal SPU Plugin 1.30 and ePSXe CDR ASPI core 1.5.2. Can anyone help? EDIT: Got battle menus working, but swirl and skipping in FMVs still happens. Last edited by y2j9090; March 19th, 2003 at 15:27..

March 19th, 2003, 18:12	#10
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,303	>Im having a problem with FF7 as well. I cant get the battle swirl to work It's a pain to get that working. >and the battle menus dont show up. Set Off-screen drawing to 4 and enable the FF7 special game fix >I also get pauses in FMV's, the video will stop, but the sound still plays normally, then it skips part of the video and goes to the part where the sound is. Try using an ISO. __________________ >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) Phenom II X4, 4Gb DDR2, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 32Gb OCZ Vertex SSD, 500Gb RAID HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium Erika: (MCPC) Revo3610, Windows 7 Home Premium Kimiko: (Craptop) HP Mini 210

March 20th, 2003, 01:44	#11
dp69_2001 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 41	I hear ff7 is really hard to get working on this thing I'm kinda new to the ps emulation but I have been useing snes for quite a while. __________________ 1.1ghz celeron, intel82810e display, 128 mb sdram, winxp home everything else is none of your buisiness

March 20th, 2003, 01:48	#12
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,303	PSX emulation is decidedly more complex, especialy using hardware accellerated plugins. FF7 is easy to get working, just a b**** to get the swirlies. __________________ >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) Phenom II X4, 4Gb DDR2, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 32Gb OCZ Vertex SSD, 500Gb RAID HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium Erika: (MCPC) Revo3610, Windows 7 Home Premium Kimiko: (Craptop) HP Mini 210

March 20th, 2003, 01:59	#13
dp69_2001 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 41	Yeah but I guess if you wanted perfect graphics you should buy the machine. __________________ 1.1ghz celeron, intel82810e display, 128 mb sdram, winxp home everything else is none of your buisiness

March 20th, 2003, 02:04	#14
_E_ Lurking Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Gone Posts: 9,354	Actually, there are some games which look better on the emu rather on the PSX, thanks to the OpenGL and D3D plugins . You can also take advantage of your cards Anti-Aliasing and use it to enhance the image ( if you have a good card that is). but yes, if you want to play all yout games flawlessly, you should get the PSX itself. ( note that the PSX emulation is more than 96% completed) Yours, -Elly __________________ -= Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always =- the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Margaret C. Smith

March 21st, 2003, 00:04	#15
y2j9090 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2	Well I do have a PSX and PS2, so I can play it on them if I want. But I wanted to play it with an emu because of my GFX card. Was hoping to see what kind of enhancements I could get. Ive got about 90 PSX games, so Im sure I can find one that will work right.