[ebola]

Opcode 1d UNK (PC 00000084) (361484,153)

ok this has happened a couple of times to me lately while playing xenogears off an iso i made of the cd. the emulator shuts down and displays this message.

any ideas

im using petes soft driver on a win2k box with a dimond viper 550 tnt card.

if it matters i made the iso with with isobuster

 

[takwu]

usually you get these errors if the game wont work with epsxe at all.

but it could also be a bad bios file

 

[ebola]

hmm i turned off frame skipping and it hasnt crashed since. too bad its slower this way. guess i really need a new graphics card.

 

[Adair]

If you can afford it a Geforce2 Pro or Ultra is highly recomended. Or if you have a bunch of money to blow then grab a Geforce 3. Just make sure you get a video card that is well suited for your processor speed so you don't get anything holding back your performance.

 

[gerbilcannon]

Question: why are you using the software driver with tnt card? You may get a framerate improvement with the opengl driver and you don't have to turn filtering on.

 

[Adair]

Good eye gerbilcannon, I didn't even notice that. Actually D3D is a little faster on TNT cards though. I think its a little faster on all nvidia cards, but it doesn't look quite as nice.

 

[gerbilcannon]

Thanks, I try. ^,^ That's your experience with nVidia cards? Mine is that there is a substantial loss in fps in d3d for me. Tried on a tnt1, tnt2, and geforce2 though I couldn't really notice the loss in the gf2 my system was too strong for it.

 

[ebola]

the opengl driver is beyond slow. the soft driver is twice as fast. i think im going to get one of the ati radeon 7500 cards when they come out. its on par with gforce 2 pro.

 

[gerbilcannon]

Sounds you like you really need to tweak/upgrade your drivers if you're getting better performance with the software plug-in.

 

[Arpanet]

Sounds you like you really need to tweak/upgrade your drivers if you're getting better performance with the software plug-in.

Definitely. Software rendering is completely dependent on processor speed, whereas OpenGL makes use of the video card. Unless you have a monster CPU and a really weak 3D card, OpenGL should be way faster.