Which recommended setup? What are your settings?

 

I used the setup listed in this topic:

http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=43188

It got the game to work a lot better than it was before, but whenever I got into the actual game and out of the opening FMV, half the graphics were in pitch black.

 

Hm.... have you tried

• Running from an ISO?
• Enabling 'Unfiltered FB updates'?
• playing around with the filtering modes in game?

 

Hm.... have you tried

• Running from an ISO?
• Enabling 'Unfiltered FB updates'?
• playing around with the filtering modes in game?

Just treid the last 2 options with no luck. I heard running the game on an ISO has helped, but I'm a bit emu-ignorant, so.....what exactly is an ISO? I have Alcohol120%, which I heard can do the job, but I'm sure exactly how to do it ^_^

 

Nevermind, but everytime I try to make an ISO of my LEGAL copy of FFT, it stops at 38%. Should I get a new disk? This happened with Alcohol120% and CDRWin.

 

That sounds like your CD is scratched or dirty. Try cleaning it. Failing that use error skipping while making the ISO.

 

OK, I successfully made an ISO of FFT off of an immaculate disc, but when I run it, it encounters the same problem my CD had, which makes me believe that it's the video configurations that are the problem. I've also tried the things you've said to mess around with it, but to no avail. Any more suggestions?

 

What graphics card do you have?

 

Radeon 9000, I believe.

UPDATE: Switching my video plugin to Pete's D3D or DX6 D3D seems to fix the problem of black graphics, but causes the game to lag a lot and all the graphics are very unsharp.

 

Ah hah! I think there is a special game fix for this. Try enabling 'use old texture filtering' in the OpenGL plugin.

 

Bah, already tried it, but doesn't work either....

I've just about given up on the OpenGL driver unless you have more suggestions. It works with the DX6 D3D driver, but I'm just trying to find a good configuration balance between speed and graphics b/c things either come out way to fast with pixely graphics or very laggy with unsharp(they look painted on) graphics. Any suggestions on that since it's at least working?

 

What driver are you using for your card?

 

What driver are you using for your card?

Call me stupid, but how do I find this info?

 

Uhh.... OK then Go to ATi's website and try installing the Catalyst 3.7 drivers (IIRC the 3.8s break a lot of stuff). The R200 based cards (like yours) should run Pete's OpenGL fine.

 

ATI's site only has 3.8 for download. I'm fine with using the DX6 D3D if you have a good balanced config for it, but if you really think the OpenGL can work, then I'm all ears.

 

Well I'm thinking that if you are getting this corruption, something is up.

You can get the 3.7's from http://download.guru3d.com/ati/

 

When I tried to install it, all it gave me was an error about not having DirectX 9.

 

Well I suppose that might help too.... you can get that from Microsoft's website, or Windows Update.

 

Got it, now it says it cannot find my video driver, and it reccomends that I install a standard VGA driver.

 

oO This is mad.... You installed DX and it said that, or you installed Dx, instlled the Cat 3.7's and it did that?

 

The latter.

And sorry for all the madness, I really appreciate you trying to help. We could talk over AIM if it makes it easier.

 

Actualy, I'm going to bed any moment....

Anyways, perhaps you could query one of the memberys of hte board who has an ATi card.... Sorry I can't really be of more help as as far as I know, that should have fixed it :emb:

 

I'll figure out something, or just play it as is.

 

Great news!

I got a hold of Pete's Soft driver, and now the game runs absolutely perfect!

 

PEOPs subescedes Pete's soft, so you might wanna get that.

Glad you have something working tho.