[Muhibah]

when i entered the Fire cavern to complete the SeeD test, i found that every battle scene in the cavern seem to be blurred. Can anyone help me with this problem?

By the way i'm using:

epsxe 1.5.2
Petes opengl 1.65
Eternal SPU 1.30
using iso file

 

[fivefeet8]

Post a screenshot.. My guess is it's suppose to be blurred in the FIre cave.. To simulate heat..

 

[Phoenix Flame]

Is Offscreen Drawing set to 4?

 

[Kane]

It is supposed to be blurred in the fire cavern. Off screen drawing to 4 will cause visual artifacts in that game. leave it at 2 or 3.

 

[Phoenix Flame]

Is that right? They don't have that blur in the PC version, do they?

 

[RyuSeiryuu]

It could just be dependent on your video card. I never saw any blurs in the the Fire Cave though. I use Pete's OpenGL since I have a NVidia Tnt Card.

 

[Muhibah]

My Settings:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.65
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: RIVA TNT2/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6 - edge clamping supported
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: off
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 32 MBytes - 106 textures usable

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 2 - texture created
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on (hardware)
- Subtractive blending: NOT supported!

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

 

[F-3582]

It has to blur like fivefeet8 already said. I also saw them on a real PSX.

 

[CKtalon]

From that attached screenshot, I dun think its normal

 

[Kane]

It is normal. The PC version didn't do it because it was thought that it was too slow.

 

[F-3582]

If it was a glitch, wou would see it in every battle, not only in the fire cave

 

[Muhibah]

thanks. i'm glad it is not a glitch. really hope that epsxe to be the most perfect emulator for FF8.

 

[Phoenix Flame]

I see ... it's a framebuffer effect.

 

[astroduck]

Just set framebuffer texture to 1 and the blurred effect is gone but you won't be able to see the all the special effect.

 

[Fr0g]

yeah its normal
the pics looks bad because of the motion
but when on the real game (on epsxe) it doesnt look so bad

 

[Muhibah]

i really like the background texture in FF8 (for example: Balamb Garden Area ) when using Peops softGPU plugin. It is sharper if compare to PeteGPU plugin. I hope Pete can do something about this.

 

[psicomaniaco]

This happens in vgs too. Actualy, it happen in the real psx. Just play that part in a BIG screen tv and you will see it.

 

[Cyberman]

Originally posted by Muhibah
i really like the background texture in FF8 (for example: Balamb Garden Area ) when using Peops softGPU plugin. It is sharper if compare to PeteGPU plugin. I hope Pete can do something about this.

To prevent a huge discusion from this, those backgrounds are not sharper. The problem is lies with the fact that it is impossible to expand the pixels perfectly from 320 x 224 (that's the resolution square used for the game) to a nice even multiple. There isn't enough information in the backgrounds to do this, unless you create all new backgrounds.

So in practical limits there isn't much one can do about it, save play with the FSAA to smooth the background some. It's an artifact of using very different hardware to emulate the behavior of the guts of a PSX and the fact that you can't create more detail than was in the original game. It's much faster if you don't try to make it look better. The game is just as fun without having pretty backgrounds anyhow.

Cyb

 

[Gamer1]

that's why you turn on "keep aspect ratio"