for final fantasy VIII
Plugin: Pete's D3d Driver 1.1.65
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Corporation
GFX card: ATi Radeon 7200 DDR VIVO

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen mode 32 bit Color
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Garbage collection: on
- Faster palettized texture windows: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Advanced blending: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 3
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: off00000503]

 

for Final Fantasy IX
Plugin: Pete's D3d Driver 1.1.65
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Corporation
GFX card: ATi Radeon 7200 DDR VIVO

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen mode 32 bit Color
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Garbage collection: on
- Faster palettized texture windows: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Advanced blending: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: On G4 polygon cache

 

I never got the FF8 "swirls" to look right. They usually were just alot of black gunk. This is with a GF4 4200 w/Pete's OpenGL (1.62-1.64). Framebuffer settings didn't seem to matter, altho with anything other than FVP, Squall wouldn't show up on the world map, just his shadow.

I never got them working in FF7 either. In that, it just never did anything. It went from "walking" mode to "battle" mode without any swirl, blackout, or otherwise. FF9 I managed to get looking really good, but the swirls were slow unless I used a low resolution.

 

u should use 640x480 for psx games and in ff7 put Framebuffer texture to 2 and framebuffer to 3 and in ff8 put framebuffer access on 0 it cause the "black gunk" to apperar. and with squalls shadow thing it happens to me if i put on fake sub. blending/fsaa

 

CPU: AMD 1.4GHz
GFX: Radeon 8500
Plugin: Pete's GPU 1.65

The Best Settings are:
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Resolution: 640x480 32bit
Texture Quality: 8-8-8
Texture Filtering: None
Smart Texture Garbage Collection: On
Faster palettized texture windows: Off
Hi-Res Textures: Off
Gfx card Vram Size: 0

Use FPS Limit: On
Use Frame Skipping: On
FPS Limit: 60

Off-Screen Drawing: 3
Advanced Blending: 2
Framebuffer textures: 2
Framebuffer access: 0
Alpha Multipass: On
Mask Bit: On

Scanlines: Off
Unfiltered Framebuffer updates: Off
Color Dithering: Off
Screen Smoothing: On
Disable Screensaver: On
Game Fixes: Off

 

Originally posted by S.SubZero
I never got the FF8 "swirls" to look right. They usually were just alot of black gunk. This is with a GF4 4200 w/Pete's OpenGL (1.62-1.64). Framebuffer settings didn't seem to matter, altho with anything other than FVP, Squall wouldn't show up on the world map, just his shadow.

I never got them working in FF7 either. In that, it just never did anything. It went from "walking" mode to "battle" mode without any swirl, blackout, or otherwise. FF9 I managed to get looking really good, but the swirls were slow unless I used a low resolution.

I have them woking fine in both games with both my Voodoo 5 and my GeForce 3. Head oved to my site for a guide (although it's more than due for an update)

 

Wouldst thou pleeaase post a screenshot of your working FF8 "swirls", Mylord?

 

At this particular moment in time, no. I'm not at my computer, but I'll do a sho tonight.

 

Errr, I didn't get any shot, yet... Please, it is really important!

 

heres a swirl snap shot with my system

 

Is this FF8 (It looks like FF9)? If yes, how did you get that effect? I never see any blur effect, althoug there should be some

 

The screenshot is FF9. I got game-battle transitions effect for all FF7,8,9. They are just slow as hell.

 

Originally posted by MasterYoshidino
heres a swirl snap shot with my system

me eyes

 

Originally posted by F-3582
Wouldst thou pleeaase post a screenshot of your working FF8 "swirls", Mylord?

Sorry I didn't make a screenie, but I found out what setting you need to set.
Disable advanced blending and alpha multipass. It'll be slow, but it'll work.

 

THANK YOU!!!

 

I have just finished playing FF7, FF8, and I am 1/2 way through FF9. I always want me settings to be right so I fool around with them for hours (literally). I have got the swirls to work perfectly in ff8 and 9. But could NEVER get one in 7. There was about a 50% chance in 8 that the swirl effectr would play at ~20 fps. Don't know why. FF9 swirls were the easiest to get going and ran perfectly. Actually, I think thye look WAY better then the ones on the PSX.

 

In case, for some odd reason, you wanted to see my specs.

AMD Athlon 1.1 ghz
LeadTek GeForce 4 4400
256MB 133mhz SDRAM
Play /w ISO's made by Toshiba DVD M1502

 

It didn't work (I was unable to try it in a city, but it doesn't work on the world map) :sad:

 

Just make sure you set Frambuffer texture to 2 and you see the swirls in FF8 and 9.
For FF7, enable above option and Frambuffer access to 3 as well.

 

System Info:
Intel Pentium4 1.8GHz Northwood (A)
Visiontek Geforce4 Ti4600 (30.82 driver)
OCZ DDR-SDRAM 3200 256MB
Via P4PB-400 Mainboard

Graphics Setup:
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.64
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 Ti 4600/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [16 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 5 - edge clamping supported
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: off
- VRam size: 128 MBytes - 196 textures usable

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 3
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on (hardware)
- Subtractive blending: activated

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on - supported
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

i also included a snappie of my settings

advanced blend is not essential but will make it look nice
mask bit and alpha multipass are required and will slow down the game immennsly though [at least to make it look rite]
for texture buffer
!!!it MUST be either g card and software [slow] or at emulated vram and fvp [software rendering] [even slower imo]

 

i forgot what i did to make swirls appear in final fantasy 7 but i think i had
emulated vram and fvp set up [cant remember]

 

In FF7 you have to set the Framebuffer access to read&move and Offscreen Drawing to 3 or 4 (Didn't test it, yet).

FF8: You have to enable FVP and disable Alpha Multipass. It displays the effect look almost correctly, but it shouldn't be semi-transparent, because the framebuffer modifies itself and the screen brightens up from one side (that's the reason why there appears a sort of white bar on that side).
I hope that it will be corrected in the future...

 

Hey peeps when I enter a battle for ff vii It slows down and skips for like 6 seconds then just enters the battle. Is there a way to get that funky blur effect?

 

To prevent the game from slowimg down, try Frame Skip, it works for me without problems

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HEY! Don't you read the recent posts???

 

O sorry I didn't read that last part oops. well thanx guys! Ill ttry it out tommorrow and see if it works. :heh: