)Yo, sorry for my late reply, I was locked out of the forums after I signed up and wrote my first post, it wouldn't let me enter, saying my password was wrong! Seems to be fixed now though.
OK...
@ blue:
The sound appears to be just fine. I think I found some usable GPU settings now, but I'm still open to suggestions. It looks to me like the older plugins can achieve visuals that sometimes look better than the new ones, and sometimes worse. Using Pete's OpenGL 1.74, I got the FFVII characters to look really good -- totally smooth and sharp, but the backgrounds looked jagged and rough. Using the newer plugin, the backgrounds look good but the characters look rough. I don't understand why! Anyway, here are the GPU settings I am using now, and they work OK, just not great.
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.7
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE2
Resolution/Color:
- 1600x1200 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- 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: 2
Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]
This looks pretty smooth. There's not too many problems with speed, just when loading the next area the music slows down a little, and when I'm about to enter battles it happens too (I understand everyone has problems with the "battle swirl"), but I can live with that. Apart from these few errors, the game is very playable, I just feel I could do better with some expert help from you guys. Oh yeah, I'm running the game from an ISO I made, and it's a PAL version, if that's any help.
@ hushy: Your config works pretty good, but it doesn't look as good as I think my hardware can get, I think maybe the config can be improved upon, although it seems like a good config to start with. Kinda wish I'd found your thread a long time ago, I have never had much luck with setting up ePSXe until recently, though I've been using the emulator for about 3 years! BTW, I can't use - Internal X resolution @ 2, the emulator crashes straight away.
Thanks very much, both of you, for your replies.
OK...
@ blue:
The sound appears to be just fine. I think I found some usable GPU settings now, but I'm still open to suggestions. It looks to me like the older plugins can achieve visuals that sometimes look better than the new ones, and sometimes worse. Using Pete's OpenGL 1.74, I got the FFVII characters to look really good -- totally smooth and sharp, but the backgrounds looked jagged and rough. Using the newer plugin, the backgrounds look good but the characters look rough. I don't understand why! Anyway, here are the GPU settings I am using now, and they work OK, just not great.
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.7
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE2
Resolution/Color:
- 1600x1200 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- 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: 2
Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]
This looks pretty smooth. There's not too many problems with speed, just when loading the next area the music slows down a little, and when I'm about to enter battles it happens too (I understand everyone has problems with the "battle swirl"), but I can live with that. Apart from these few errors, the game is very playable, I just feel I could do better with some expert help from you guys. Oh yeah, I'm running the game from an ISO I made, and it's a PAL version, if that's any help.
@ hushy: Your config works pretty good, but it doesn't look as good as I think my hardware can get, I think maybe the config can be improved upon, although it seems like a good config to start with. Kinda wish I'd found your thread a long time ago, I have never had much luck with setting up ePSXe until recently, though I've been using the emulator for about 3 years! BTW, I can't use - Internal X resolution @ 2, the emulator crashes straight away.
Thanks very much, both of you, for your replies.
