[Princess Garnet]

Depending on the video card, you may be able to pull of OpenGL 1.7.6. With a processor this slow, set the framebuffer access to 0. Try these and see what turns up. It should give you the battle swirls, but again, it may go slow unless you have a decent video card. Do you know which nVidia card you have?

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8B8A8
- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00000200] (odd/even)

 

[Princess Garnet]

Just out of curiousity, do any of the Direct3D plugins give this problem, or is just with OpenGL?

 

[Princess Garnet]

Well, I would say it's your video card, but you said it used to run flawlessly before. I honestly wouldn't know what to make of it then.

 

[Princess Garnet]

For sounds, use the Eternal Sound plugin. Set the buffer to 32 using SPUAsync (smooth) mode.

That video card would probably be better off emulating Direct3D. Maybe try turning Offscreen drawing from 3 to 2, but those settings give me battle swirls in Final Fantasy IX. I guess it's different in that version though.

 

[Princess Garnet]

Based upon your computer specs, you probably have either onboard sound, or generic sound, so you'll get that sometimes. You can mess with settings to reduce it to near nothing, but it'll still happen sometimes.

Disable the last (fourth) checkbox on the main page. It can cause problems unless it's needed.

 

[Princess Garnet]

You say you get no slowdowns with those specs? Damn. I get half the FPS during menus and a slight slowdown during special effects with those same settings. Odd. Well, I prefer the hardware plug-ins anyway, and they work fullspeed nearly maxed out, so oh well.

For the graphics, they're rendered exactly how they are on the PSX. In other words, that's generally what you're going get. You can up the dithering or whatnot, but it won't do too much.

 

[Princess Garnet]

Your video card may not be able to produce that effect then. Actually though, the software plugins emulate more perfectly than the hardware ones do. They simply don't look as good.

To upload them to the site, you must first get them from the game (F8). It will save in the snap folder in the directory. Browse your computer and upload it.

To simply post them, use the same method, but upload them to an image hosting site instead, and put the link in your post.

 

[Princess Garnet]

There are many, but this is one I use and prefer. You'll need to create an account, but it's free.

http://www.photobucket.com