[bobide]

well i decided to get back into my FF8 (which i had had trouble w/ on disc 2, text was messed up) and had recently gotten a new video card. IT's a geforceMX4000 definitly not the best, but i had no choice on this one. Anyway, running

VIDEO: petes opengl 2.6 (set to fast at the moment in an effort to get it to run)
CDROM: peops 1.4

i've got a 2.4ghz p4 w/ 512mb ram. It's a older dell (a 8250) and has been running slow recently.

i get no video at all, and am unsure the thing is even running. My sound debug screen comes up, but it shows no sound.

 

[bobide]

well i just hit "run bios" for the hell of it and it worked....i'm going to try and make a ISO of the ff8 discs and see if that does anything.

 

[hushypushy]

use OGL1.75 with that (crappy) videocard. also, try making an iso. and since you said your computer has been running slow, well, you might want to defrag or get rid of some spyware perhaps or even reformat.

 

[bobide]

haha yes i understand it's crappy, pretty sure i've got 1.75 somewhere. Do u have a link to the last version of psx, i've been told it runs ff8 better but can't find it.

-thnx

 

[Kane]

All the PSX downloads can be got at www.ngemu.com/psx
ePSXe 1.5.2 is the best for running FF8. 1.6.0 has issues with most Square games

 

[bobide]

alright 1.75 got it running. But, i'm back to my garbled text problem on disc 2. I have the iso creation program-but i don't know exactly how to work it. And my discs are fine, just small very weak insignificant scratches from normal useage.

a pic for reference.

http://img228.echo.cx/my.php?image=bogustextff8disc28oz.png

 

[Kane]

...did you load from a savestate?

 

[bobide]

yes, it happened after i beat disc 1. I just now loaded from memory card and it seems to have solved the problem. thnx. I'm so happy, ff8 is back in time for summer!