[kazuyoshi101]

While I'm playing Suikoden 2, the graphics and sound effects are fine while there isnt any actual music, but as soon as mucis starts to play I get kinda laggy both graphically and sound-wise. Any idea what is wrong? Also, I have tried the troubleshooting section, but to no avail.

 

[-StrikE-]

Post system specs OS, ePSXe version plugins used and there configuration.

 

[kazuyoshi101]

PC: Processor- AMD Anthalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ 2.6 Ghz
2gigs of RAM
Card (very sucky i know) - NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

Pretty sure my ePsxe version is 1.60
Video Plugin is [Next GL] 1.12 (the only one that i could get to work)
Sound Plugin is P.E.Op.S. DSound Audio Driver 1.9
and i havent messed with the config of the others nor the cdrom plugin

 

[jonc2006]

you cant get the D3d or OGL plugins to work? how are they not working for you, do they trigger an error message or something? can you also tell us what O/S you are running on?

 

[kazuyoshi101]

well, they just make the game skip frames or play WAY too fast and i tried to use the troubleshooting to fix it but i couldnt.

 

[jonc2006]

well since you are using a dual core cpu you most likely need to set epsxe's cpu affinity to only one core in the task manager (only if using version 1.5.2/.1.6.0, this does not apply to 1.7.0), and install this AMD fix that is for some of their dual core models. you will want to do both things i just mentioned, as both could be causing two separate performance problems.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/DCO_1.1.4.zip

 

[kazuyoshi101]

Ok I just tried the D3D and it works, until it gets to the music, when the music it plays it gets EXTREME lag, so that leads me to think it might be a sound thing?

It has to be a sound issue, the game graphically runs fine without sound.

 

[-StrikE-]

You could try ePSXe 1.7.0 since its newer better & the game rune'd fine for me on it (though i used eternal for spu with SPUasync & aAsync mode Smooth, all special game fix enabled).

 

[kazuyoshi101]

I can try that, but can save states be loaded from one version to another?

 

[kazuyoshi101]

ok so i tried it and it runs too fast, so i just put on the fram limiter right?

ok sorry trying to update as i go, it seems that the opening sequence works perfectly, but the game is VERY laggy and has no sound. I'm using D3D on NICE and spu Eternal with all of the configurations that strike105x said i should try.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

use EternalSPU 1.5, and set it to WAIT,