[Vidhath]

Hey everyone, I just started playing Saga Frontier 2 on ePSXe 1.52
I don't know if anyone has played this before, but the text in the menus is all screwed up as in it'll often just blank out or be replaced with fuzz.
The gameplay picture quality is excellent though.
Just wondering if anyone knows of a patch for this?
Thanks

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

Disabling filtering will solve this problem.

Try posting your GPU settings.

 

[Vidhath]

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.75
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode

Textures:
- Default
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: off
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000002]

 

[hushypushy]

can you post a screenshot?

 

[Vidhath]

can you post a screenshot?

of my GPU settings or of the game screwing up?

 

[BRILLIANT]

hmmm.. try:
1) setting Framebuffer access to 4
2) setting Framebuffer textures to 2 and access to 3
3) setting offscreen drawing to 3 or to 4
4) a different video plugin like pete's opengl on 'nice' settings or maybe peops...

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.75 <---Switch to Pete's OGL2
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode <---Come on, use a higher res. 1600x1200?

Textures:
- Default
- Filtering: 0 <----Max this (6)
- Hi-Res textures: 0 <----2
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2 <----4
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 0 <----4
- Alpha multipass: off <----On
- Mask bit: off <----On
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off <---On
- Screen smoothing: off <---On
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: off [00000002]

 

[BRILLIANT]

While some of this advice is good, some is quite questional

Don't touch Filtering, Hi-res Textures, Dithering, the resolution and screen smoothing if you don't want to.
I, for instance prefer Filtering and hi-res at 0, dithering and smoothing at off and resolution at my desktop's resolution.
Don't force your preferences on people

but yeah, I missed the other stuff (alpha multipass and mask bit), but while they should be on, I doubt the problems he was having are related to these 2 options...

 

[Vidhath]

Hey all, screwed around a bit, now it works perfectly, thanks for all the help!
This is what I ended up going with, in case anyone else ever needs it.
Oh and about the resolution... I just reinstalled ePSXe... musta forgot to change that or something :emb:



Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.75
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 600x400 Window mode
[32 Bit]- Keep psx aspect ratio: on

Textures:
- Default
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: off
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

My settings are not really preferencial.
I am sure these settings are more of performance/quality.

Filtering, Hi-res Textures, Dithering, the resolution and screen smoothing is something not seen on the original Playstation itself.

Your settings are optimised.

 

[BRILLIANT]

Filtering looks ugly on 3d and pseudo-3d games, IMO, while dithering and smoothing just make everything look plastered... hires textures isn't that bad, IMO, but there are many scenes and places, especially menus, where a hires setting of 2 will really slow down the game..

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

Really?
Maybe you should set everything to Quality in your nVidia Properties/ATI Catayst Centre.

 

[BRILLIANT]

How would that help anything?
I prefer stuff to be a bit pixely than plastered and filtered, especially if said stuff is 3d or semi-3d.

 

[hushypushy]

hey, whoa, this is arguing preferences here. you'll never get anywhere with this.

i, too, prefer unfiltered textures these days. i really want to get my Voodoo2 back, that was fine emulation...unfiltered and raw

 

[BRILLIANT]

actually I'm/We're arguing whether "best filtering is 6/0/whatever" is an opinion or a fact...

 

[Vidhath]

I've created a monster! :wizard:

 

[hushypushy]

actually I'm/We're arguing whether "best filtering is 6/0/whatever" is an opinion or a fact...

 

[BRILLIANT]

*replies to hushypushy with the same picture except instead of "was someone on it with a different opinion", "were some people on it arguing".

 

[hushypushy]

screw you

well this thread is going way off topic, but whatever you can keep arguing it if you want, Vidhath is already done anyway.

 

[Vidhath]

I am, and thanks for all the help... it's been way too long since I've been on the emu scene....
Although I did really like the gif hushy