[cloudsBro]

hi
ive been trying to start ff9 and i am using a patch to run it. however after the patch sequence has finished, the game quits to desktop and when i atempt to restart epsxe 152. it crashes my computer. can anyone help? :???:

 

[hushypushy]

does it crash the computer with any sort of error?

have you tried any different emulators?

 

[cloudsBro]

no error appears, just quits to desktop, the debug menu also quits along with the emulator. well i tried it with epsxe 152 before and it started normally, just dunno whats happened this time round
here are my settings:

peops cdr driver
interface: w9x/me aspi
read mode be_2 atapi spec 2
caching, none

try again on reading errors: on
use ppf patch file: on
sles_02965

use subchannel sbi/m3s

im using peops soft gpu plugin and eternal spu 1.41

 

[cloudsBro]

ok ive found out what has caused it. the details of the error message (there was an error message but i culdnt click on it coz the comp crashed) say that there was something up with gpupeopssoft.dll. so i tried d3d and it worked fine. why does the soft gpu plugin not work with patched games??

 

[hushypushy]

what was the actual error?

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

You updated your video drivers?
Installed the latest version of DirectX?

 

[cloudsBro]

the actual error is as follows:
EPSXE caused an invalid page fault in
module GPUPEOPSSOFT.DLL at 0197:0217fd4a.
Registers:
EAX=00000140 CS=0197 EIP=0217fd4a EFLGS=00010216
EBX=00f5580c SS=019f ESP=00b1fd20 EBP=00000000
ECX=00000000 DS=019f ESI=0000013a FS=130f
EDX=000001ff ES=019f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 2b 89 6b 04 89 6b 08 89 6b 0c 89 6b 10 83 c7
Stack dump:
00000000 0000013a 000000c0 00000000 beb21247 00000000 ffffc3cb 00000280 ffffc5ca 0217afa2 02000000 0000c3cb 00010280 0000c5ca 027f0000 0157a0d0

 

[hushypushy]

maybe a corrupt plugin? did you try to download a new one?

 

[cloudsBro]

yes just tried a fresh download of the peops soft plugin and the same error appears.
ive tried ssspsx and the same happens. patch loads but emulator crashes.
same happens with psxeven 0.17WIP.

funny thing is when i use d3d with epsxe it runs the game but with ssspsx or psxeven it just continuously reads the cd.*confused*

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

Have you obtained a update of your graphic card drivers?
Those old drivers are causing the problem.

 

[cloudsBro]

ohh how ive tried to get the best driver for my graphics card but they all produce the same problem. my graphics card is an nvidia tnt2 card.
Id welcome anyone who can provide a driver for me.

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

www.nvidia.com

 

[cloudsBro]

tried the updated driver for msi ms-8808 tnt2/m64 but ff9 still doesnt run with peops soft gpu. Does the cd plugin need changing? im using peops cdr 1.4.

However the choppy sounds ive been experiencing have reduced, phew!

 

[BRILLIANT]

Try changing the CD plugin to Xeven or Sapu..

 

[cloudsBro]

well sapu cannot read subchannels or allow me to use a patch. xeven doesnt really do anything different.
however i have sort of fixed the problem. i just changed the reading from async to smooth and it runs now(a bit slow when exploring but battles are perfect!) but now i get the following error when i shut down epsxe:

EPSXE caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0197:bff7a138.
Registers:
EAX=00fffffc CS=0197 EIP=bff7a138 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=013a4244 SS=019f ESP=00b1e5a4 EBP=00b1e5d8
ECX=02413819 DS=019f ESI=013947a0 FS=4c07
EDX=00080000 ES=019f EDI=0100faa0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 51 08 8b 53 08 8b 43 04 89 42 04 8d 93 0b 10
Stack dump:
00b1e5d8 013947a0 01390000 00000001 bff7b31d 01390000 013947a0 0000faa4 00000200 00b1ea5c 013947a4 00000001 013947a0 00b1e620 013790f2 01390000

Also if i run the game off an iso with sapu cdrom plugin. would the enabling of the 'track iso' option do anything for me?

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

Lol.
Most probably a damaged/fecked CD.

Note that using the RUN ISO command does not have any effect on the CDR plugin

 

[cloudsBro]

ok the problem was a fecked pc, lol. after restarting, the errors never appeared(cept with softgpu for some reason), the other plugins work fine. will be using d3d from now i hope!
thanks people.