[Whateverishness]

Foreword: In my defense I did extensive "ff7" and "ff7 polygon" searches in this forum and came up empty handed.

Screenshots will most effectively describe my issue:



In shot one you can see the distortion of Cloud and Tifa's faces, and it's especially apparent in Tifa's blouse. More general facial distortion of Cloud in shot two. And then a battle screen, polygon issues still apparent in Cloud's legs. Cutscreens and backgrounds are all perfectly fine.

I've been to the "Need a config, check here first" sticky. I've tried multiple configs with for both Pete's Opengl 1.78 and Pete's Opengl2 2.9, but the problem persists. I've also tried configs posted by people on these forums where they accompanied their posts with screenshots of properly drawn characters... so I guess it's not a config issue?

My system is: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (256mb), Duocore, 2gb ram, and I have .iso-ed the disk.

Hope I posted this in the right section in any case, and thank you ahead of time for reading or if you can point out what I might be missing.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

search google for PSX LACKS Z-BUFFER.

 

[Princess Garnet]

That was my first thought when seeing the thread title, but read the post. It's something else.

Upgrade your ATi drivers. Older ATi drivers have been known to cause this.

http://forums.ngemu.com/problems-games/101963-ati-ogl-driver-issue.html

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

heh, would've been easier to tell that, if he was playing a decent game

 

[Whateverishness]

Thank you both, Squall and Zedeck.

Should a future search find this, Zedeck's link proved fruitful. Some one suggested using Pete's D3D plugins, which I've switched to from the Opengl plugins, and Cloud and co. are now being drawn correctly. I have the most recent Omega drivers in any case, no idea what any of this has actually changed, but I'm happy with the result.

"...if he was playing a decent game." Hmmm? No love for a classic?

 

[jonc2006]

if you install the latest catalyst drivers you should be able to use the OGL plugins again, the problem is a driver-based thing so its pretty simple to fix once you become aware of it.

 

[Princess Garnet]

ATi doesn't have the OpenGL support in it's drivers that nVidia has. That's why this happens on ATi cards with certain driver versions. The latest Omega drivers must be based off of a build that still didn't have the better support the recent official drivers do.

P.S. You can choose to retain your current drivers, but Pete's Direct3D plug-ins in ePSXe aren't quite as good as Pete's OpenGL plug-ins, especially the OpenGL2 plug-ins.

 

[Whateverishness]

ATi doesn't have the OpenGL support in it's drivers that nVidia has. That's why this happens on ATi cards with certain driver versions. The latest Omega drivers must be based off of a build that still didn't have the better support the recent official drivers do.

P.S. You can choose to retain your current drivers, but Pete's Direct3D plug-ins in ePSXe aren't quite as good as Pete's OpenGL plug-ins, especially the OpenGL2 plug-ins.

You appear to be right again, I replaced the Omega drivers for the new Catalyst drivers (a long tedious task with a laptop having to learn how to use Modtools) and now OpenGL2 is also working for me.

The whole issue seems so obvious now, thanks again for straightening me out.