I just installed the latest nVidia offical detonator 23.11 for my riva tnt2 m64 card.
Now, whenever I enter the worldmap, it slow down a lot, I can only get 30-40 FPS. I just dun wanna switch back to the pervious driver because I do notice a lot of speed up when in battle, which I can get 55 to 59.9 FPS all the time.
I am using Pete 's openGL plugin 1.55 plugin, and here is my setting:
That's not good.. He only has an ATI rage pro.. Ogl is very slow on those video cards.. Thantos.. Have you updated your video card drivers? That video card is rather old.. Maybe it's time you get a new graphics card..
Software gpu pluggins just doesn't use hardware accelleration.. So you get graphics like playing psx games on VGS.. They usually run faster and better for people who don't have a good video card.. There are several available for use in psx emulators including epsxe.. You can get them at the ngemu psx downloads section..
Software pluggins are also great for fully 2d fighting games..
If you do want to upgrade to a better vid card, you should think about getting a better cpu as well... Most current video cards today won't run at full performance on your current cpu.. You could try upgrading to a geforceMx.. Make sure your computer has an agp port though.. If not then get a pci video card..
As with all of petes pluggins, press "delete" to access the ingame menu options.. "page-up" "page-down" switches to which options and "end", "home" toggles the options.. You did know this is all in the readme that comes with petes soft pluggin didn't you? Guess not.. RTM..
Filtering is great for 3d games.. But isn't so great with 2d stuff.. Don't believe me, check out this shot of FF9 with filtering\without sprites..
do u play in the 3d mode? that shot looks really nice but when i tried in the D3D mode (petes GPU), battle scenes load VERY slow...once it gets going, it goes up to full speed again.
my specs:
p4 1.7 ghz
512 ram
geforce2 mx/mx400 64 meg
Toshiba 16xDVD rom
its tempting to run in D3D mode but way too laggy.
As with all of petes pluggins, press "delete" to access the ingame menu options.. "page-up" "page-down" switches to which options and "end", "home" toggles the options.. You did know this is all in the readme that comes with petes soft pluggin didn't you? Guess not.. RTM..
do u play in the 3d mode? that shot looks really nice but when i tried in the D3D mode (petes GPU), battle scenes load VERY slow...once it gets going, it goes up to full speed again.
my specs:
p4 1.7 ghz
512 ram
geforce2 mx/mx400 64 meg
Toshiba 16xDVD rom
its tempting to run in D3D mode but way too laggy.
Use petes ogl pluggin since you have a geforce2.. You can speed up loading scenes by:
1. Disabling Full Vram Primitives
2. Set framebuffer textures to "black" aka "1"
3. Make an iso and run it..
This should speed up loading times but you won't see the special swirly effects before battles..
I use lewpys glide pluggin with my voodoo 5 5500 agp.. Try playing the game at a resolution of 640x480 and enable 4xFSAA and set filtering to "filtering\without sprites and sprite smoothing".. Here is a shot of FF9 with this setting.. Lewpys glide pluggin doesn't have sprite smoothing but 4xFSAA on a voodoo 5 more than makes up for it..
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