Hello Bamsmacked and welcome to Emuforums.

So I'm playing FF9 just started a new game, the graphics are pretty good for onboard, I can run almost everything close to max settings and get 60FPS, but I'm noticing static sounds. Its not frequent

Whay do you mean by static sounds? Parasite noise? Sounds starting and looping?
Anyway I recommend you to use the Eternal SPU plugin. It can meaby solve the issue.

 

Hello Bamsmacked and welcome to Emuforums.



Whay do you mean by static sounds? Parasite noise? Sounds starting and looping?
Anyway I recommend you to use the Eternal SPU plugin. It can meaby solve the issue.

Hey thanks for the swift reply, not sure how I would explain the sounds. I will try the plugin you recommended and get back to you.

Well that didn't solve the problem, I'll try and describe the sounds best I can..

It pretty much sounds as if my speakers were busted, with that slight static ripping sound...But they're not busted because they sound perfectly normal otherwise.

Oh the joys of emulation, with like every game you have to modify lots of stuff to make it perfect! I guess I should try other sound plugins, you have any other recommendations?

 

Hey man I know what your talking about with the static sounds I used to get them randomly in FF8 and I would have to reset the emulator for them to go away.

Anyway how I fixed the issue was useing epsxe 1.7.0 and just use the internal sound plugin that comes with it. Also there's a program called ePSXeCutor which is a program that basicly saves different plugin information for the different types of games you have and different button configs, this way if you start using another game you won't manually have to switch the plugins back and forth to get the games running perfectly.

Get the program here: Click on the link that says ePSXeCutor v1.0.6.0 and put it in the same folder you have your PS1 emulator in.

Just a screenshot of what my ePSXeCutor looks like:

 

It pretty much sounds as if my speakers were busted, with that slight static ripping sound...But they're not busted because they sound perfectly normal otherwise.

Oh the joys of emulation, with like every game you have to modify lots of stuff to make it perfect! I guess I should try other sound plugins, you have any other recommendations?

Hum...no. Eternal and Pete's sound plugins are the best out there...Well. I was about to tell you to upgrade to 1.7.0 but wcrdiablogod beated me and moreover proposed a solution which could work.

 

crackling is cured by increasing the buffer in the eternal plugin.

 

Try running the newest ePSXe, always would get this error..

This isn't the first time either... I've just used 1.6.0 because version 1.7.0 never worked for me!

 

Try running the newest ePSXe, always would get this error..

This isn't the first time either... I've just used 1.6.0 because version 1.7.0 never worked for me!

If you check like 4 post's up in the stickies zlib1.dll was not found" : FIX HERE

Easy Mode.

 

If you check like 4 post's up in the stickies zlib1.dll was not found" : FIX HERE

Easy Mode.

Thank you!

crackling is cured by increasing the buffer in the eternal plugin.

Problem solved, sounds perfect now.

Thanks! :thumb:

 

Oh, this is a nice post with a happy ending.

I wonder, could we start putting [SOLVED] or something on the thread's title?

 

Actually I need a tutorial on how to use ePSXeCutor v1.0.6.0 properly...

 

There isn't really one, just do it the old fashioned way and explore it.

 

Actually I need a tutorial on how to use ePSXeCutor v1.0.6.0 properly...

You can however try to follow this link.

 

You can however try to follow this link.

Thanks I figured everything out now.

I had the Cutor in a folder INSIDE my ePSXE folder, so it didn't detect my settings. I simply copied and extracted the files from that folder, into the ePSXe directory and it worked like a charm.