[Com80787]

Hi all,

Does anyone have any tips about what sound plugin is the best to use for Final Fantasy 8, as well as what settings it should be at?

So far the ones I have tried either make the wrong sounds (they sound similar to what the game sounds like on the PSX, but are most noticeably different) or produce garbled and/or skipping sound.

Thanks!

Using a Creative PCI 128/Win2k

 

[liquid]

I use the internal epsxe spu for sound in FF8.

Iori's also works well too.


my specs...
1Ghz AMD
built-in Audio '97 VIA codec (16 bit sound cause I don't care)

 

[lizardj]

maybe mah pc is juz abit 2 slow...

no matter which sound plugin i use, the sound skips every so often while playing a movie...

 

[gerbilcannon]

Try running from an iso.

 

[lizardj]

ISO?

 

[Zephon]

Try enabling/disabling spu irq hack, and configuring properly the buffer size thing inside Iori's plugin.
Yeah, an ISO will speed up the game. ISO is a copy of the cd that you make. So, instead of reading the psx cds, it will read the cd image in your hard disk. You will need about 750mb per cd and a program to make isos. Try CDRWIN, Isobuster or Blindread. Check out Aldo's site for a list of iso makers and where to get them.

 

[lizardj]

thx for the info

but it sounds too much work to do... so i'll pass
and, "configuring properly the buffer size thing inside Iori's plugin"
wutz a proper buffer size?

 

[Zephon]

Depends on your sound card. Most people use 8 for Sound Buffer and 48 for XA Buffer. But try the iso thing, it really makes difference.

 

[Zell]

Still , it won't a big Difrence ! ePSXe has a Weakness and that is the sound !