[handlandj]

srsly, using a core 2 duo e6600 in conjunction with an ati x1650 pro should not yield this problem, so should i blame drivers, plugins, or v 1.70 itself? btw aero is off. I'll post a followup w/ actual pec video driver settings only if needed for clarification purposes.

 

[masta.g.86]

It's probably user error.

What plugins are you using?

What version of the plugins are you using?

What are the plugins' respective settings?

What game(s) are you trying to play?

What driver version are you using for your video card?

 

[handlandj]

final fantasy 8 as said in the title is the game
catalyst 9.1
pec 2.5 on top of opengl2 driver 2.9
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: Radeon X1600/X1650 Series

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio:
- No render-to-texture: G
X

- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000003]
so yeah......and vista has aero off.

 

[masta.g.86]

You need to manually specify your VRAM. (Just click in the box and type it in)

Set 'Compatibility' to 1,2,2

You already have the correct game fixes turned on, so you're good there.:thumb:

EDIT: turn off the frame limit since ePSXe 1.7.0 has an internal limiter.

 

[handlandj]

still sound errors

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

the video card and drivers
....you will encounter problems.

wait for the next driver release, or buy a new video card and get new drivers monthly.

 

[handlandj]

video is fine though now
i need help on sound

 

[jonc2006]

what sound plugin are you using and how do you have it configured? what specifically is wrong with the sound?

 

[masta.g.86]

still sound errors

Use Eternal SPU.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

with the FF8 game fix enabled of course.

 

[handlandj]

i keep maxing out on one core still, and then the music stutters
should i do some more stuff?

and it's not like i can finish dissidia without playing this first, and i set the spec's to what was pictured with the fix as well. i'm not sure what the issue is anymore!

 

[handlandj]

oh, and more data from soft video plugin:
Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.18
Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
Stretch mode: 0
Dither mode: 2

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: disabled
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

 

[handlandj]

c'mon i need the help plz

 

[masta.g.86]

When ePSXe becomes too difficult to use, switch to pSX.

 

[handlandj]

but then how do i get to use pec and stuff? i just want to use epsxe and unless there is a huge resource hog somewhere i should be able to do that, and why does the program only use one core? the processor does have 2 of them.

 

[jonc2006]

it wasnt designed to support/benefit from multi-core processors.

 

[masta.g.86]

ePSXe isn't a multithreaded app. My old 850MHz AMD Duron processor had no problem with ePSXe 1.2.0 so it's not like it needs to be multithreaded.

Since you're using PEC, stop using it. Some cheat codes can break games and cause other various performance-related problems. Other than that, if you're using save states, save at an actual save point (or the world map), exit the game, restart ePSXe and continue from your game save.