[blazer-glory]

Im usingthe Delta front end application to run FFVII but Im still finding the short movies within the game, and the long intro, pause for a second at regular intervals, about every 10 secs or so. Is it a plugin problem?

 

[dbhankins]

It's probably due to CD-ROM drive spin-up. After loading enough data to play 10 seconds of movie, after a second or two the drive spins down. When the data buffer is empty 10 seconds later, it tries to read from the disk but since the disk isn't spinning it has to wait for the disk to spin up again.

Real Playstations keep the disk spinning all the time.

There are two solutions to this:
- Make and use an image (that's what I do) with the Mooby2 CDR plugin
- Get Nero DriveSpeed and set the spindown delay to a ridiculously high number, like 86400 seconds (1 day)


Dan

 

[Kezane]

Alternatively, try playing with your plugins. Some of my game FMVs were also quite choppy, and after messing with the sound plugin(changing it to Pete's OP), it runs quite smoothly now.

 

[blazer-glory]

Many thanks for the replies. Think I'll go with the image making thing. How big do the images turn out?

 

[dbhankins]

For Final Fantasy 7 (NTSC/US, no subchannel data), 2G uncompressed, 1.66G if compressed by Windows XP built-in file compression (not the built-in Zip support).


Dan

 

[blazer-glory]

OUCH! Blooming massive!! Maybe I'll just put up with the shudder!
But is that just one disc or all 3?

 

[dbhankins]

That's the total requirement for the whole game, all three disks.


Dan

 

[hushypushy]

huge?? that's tiny for most people...right now i have 458 total useable gigs over three hard drives... (80+160+250). and besides that, you only need to rip one disc at a time (because you can only play one at a time). i checked my disc 1 ISO just now, it's 741mb with subchannel data (and not compressed).

 

[blazer-glory]

yeah thats a good point. I could just install one disc at a time. Dont have much space left on my hard drive you see!

 

[blazer-glory]

Just converted the game disc into an image but now it runs twices as fast. I cant seem to find a speed option within the emulator so how do I slow things down?

 

[dbhankins]

In the config for your graphics plugin, look for "Use FPS Limit". Check that checkbox and set the limit to auto or 60 (50 if it's a PAL version).


Dan

 

[blazer-glory]

Yep that done it. Everything is running perfectly now. Thanks everyone!