[Ninjaa]

I just bought a Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT in the hopes that it would run ePSXe with a few more details than my aging Riva TNT. It doesn't run OpenGL so well, Pete's D3D plugin works beautifully. Except for 2 games. Final Fantasy IX, and Parasite Eve. The FMV in all games runs strangely unless I turn off MDEC filtering. It doesn't render the leftmost quarter of the screen, and puts the rightmost quarter in its place. This is very annoying. It means that I have a break in my screen, where it displays the same image twice. Turning off MDEC filtering allowed all the games except for Parasite Eve and Final Fantasy IX to run nicely. In these two games, the FMV is merely black. I can still hear it running, but I get no picture.

I am using the latest drivers for my card, but nothing really seems to work right. Is anyone else having these problems?

 

[tet666]

yeah i have a evil kyro and the same problems with petes ogl and d3d i tryed the soft plugin and it works fine !
just use pete`s soft and everything will be fine !!!

 

[Ninjaa]

Thank you for your help. I may still have the problems, but at least I know that I am not the only one. Thanks again.

 

[Zell]

A question i have the same Card , and on FF IX with petes D3D diveres the game is 150% but it frezzes after 2 minutes (black screen with no sound and no contol) and the Open Gl is very SLooow ! Does it also happen to you ? What are the drivers you use and the config ?

 

[tet666]

i use the latest drivers from powervr.com
and the soft plugin for ff9 and i have no problems with it
and if that dont helps just try vitual gamestation 1.41
for the parts you coudn`t in epsxe its a very compatible emulator and in some games mutch mor unproblematic then epsxe the savegames are compatible with epsxe with this two emulators all games should work proberly on kyro based cards

 

[Ultragunner]

i'd change that link if i were u. we are not supposed to post things like that...

 

[Zell]

Thanks for the info & help ,but i wont spend money for it , when i'm gone a buy a PS2 !!

 

[tet666]

i wait for x-box i think it will be mutch better

 

[Zell]

Well that may be true , but the most impotant games are for PS2 and Game Cube

 

[Ninjaa]

ok, I have found some workarounds.

Unfiltered MDECs seem to be required for proper playback.

Parasite Eve works with Pete's D3D 1.53
Final Fantasy IX works if you enable swap front/back detection

The fix for FFIX allows the FMV to run, but it is slightly choppy. Much like the FMV in Chrono Trigger. However, it does allow you to see what is going on, and I think that is valuable. I tried the soft GPU plugin and it works great, but I like a higher polygon count. I bought a new video vard to make the games look nicer. Maybe we can hope that FF9 is fixed with the next release. Have a good one.

 

[Zell]

Hey Ninja Could you tell Me the config you use on FF9 , Cause my Frezzes After some time eith The D3D plugins and The Open GL is Sloow And the Soft Even Slower (Thanks any way tet666 ), Oh and The driver Version you use , maybe Then i could play ePSXe like when i had my Old Matrox

 

[Ninjaa]

Sorry for the long wait in a reply. I am a bit embarrassed, but the game does not work at well at all. The FMV works though. For what it is worth. Use the soft driver in the meantime. I am seriously thinking about selling this piece of %#@* video card, and buying a Geforce2. But NOOOooo... I had to be cheap.

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.53
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: 3D Prophet 4000XT

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Caching: 2

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: software

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000208]


Video Drivers:

Hercules 8.162

I am a bit embarrassed about not using the PowerVR drivers, but they seem to work good, and have the same version number, so I don't think it matters. The only other game I have problems with is Jane's USAF.

 

[vivrantpig]

Originally posted by Ultragunner
i'd change that link if i were u. we are not supposed to post things like that...

wutz wrong with the link itz not like hez putting up a link for warez....

 

[Ryos]

Originally posted by vivrantpig


wutz wrong with the link itz not like hez putting up a link for warez....

Good question. What is the problem with powervr.com? Unless, of course, that wasn't the site originally mentioned.

 

[vivrantpig]

u guys r to cautious