ePSXe woes... please help

[Kethis]

Been having problems getting ePSXe to stop failing so much. Because of this Ive been playing FFH on psxfin which works fine, but cant pull off the same super-speed that ePSXe can (1300 fps!).

What ePSXe has been doing to me is that it will show the FFH splash, go to the squaresoft logo, and then lock up. Every other ROM I have tried locks up at the loading screen similarly.

I am running XP on a computer with Intel core 2 quad, NVIDEA 9800 GTX+, 2x2 gigs DDR2, hooked up via an adapter to a ~47" flatscreen. Overkill, I know. For comparisons sake, the computer I had before this runs Playstation games at ~15 FPS (and you thought l-i-t-t-l-e-m-o-n-e-y went by slow on a real play station!!).

This is a fresh install of ePSXe. Ive tried the 1002 1001 and 7502 BIOS files, and downloaded Pete's graphics plugins. Ive tried each of them at seemingly every configuration.

The bitch of it all is that I had it working at one point (for about a day), but I somehow mucked that up.

What Id like to try first is getting someone to send me a save state of FFHv1.3026 at the main menu screen. Maybe I will be able to load the state and bypass whatever is fuxing up ePSXe.

Thanks in advance.

[dwib]

i had the same problem with ePSXe, i switched to PSXeven because no one had an answer for me either

loading states will bypass the freeze up on the square screen

[Algus]

But, not for me. I'm using epsxe and not has any problem in there.

[Kethis]

Well if a save state will/might fix it, anybody mind going through the trouble to upload it somewhere?

[Goomba]

I had this EXACT same issue! I had no idea how to fix it. I did a lot of random shit and now it works good again, but won't display that loading movie between the square screen and the newgame/loading screen. Try using these settings and see if it's fixed.


Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.76

Offscale drawing: 2
Advanced blending: 0
Framebuff textures: 0
Framebuff access: 0

Nothing under Misc checked. My FPS limit is 75.

ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2.

Nothing checked.



 
Hope that helps. It runs beautifully.

[goldblade0]

If I'm right that is because of either a null sound plugin is being used, or because of the enable sound checkbox is unchecked.  I've seen it happen to me before rather often.  Just chose epsxe spu core and check enable sound and it should be fixed.  Oh yeah what version are you using?

[Algus]

who, me or kethis?

[Archael]

You've been playing FFH?

I'd like to play that game too!

[Algus]

You've been playing FFH?

I'd like to play that game too!

who, me or kethis?

[Archael]

All of you

there is no FFH patch

people keep calling 1.3 FFH

[Algus]

Of course, I like it!

[Kethis]

It really should be called something other then 1.3, if just for the sake of its popularity. People might assume you are being pedantic when you say "FFTv1.3" (as some FF geeks can go a bit over the top on their niche expertise), and not realize what it is. Something like Final Fantasy Hacktics, or FFT-Redux is a better conversation starter.

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I got it working, kind of. It no longer holds at the squaresoft screen, but now it refuses to go past 60 FPS.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9718 ... ngsrm3.gif

Thats using Pete's OpenGL2 2.9 GPU and hardware that should be able to support hundreds and hundreds of FPS (previously saw over a thousand). Even running at 60 FPS (with 'autodetect fps limit' and all other options on max) ePSXe was using a fraction of one core, and less RAM then firefox.

Frame skipping seems to just literally skip rendering every other frame (built in FPS display says it maintains 60, but FRAPS says it drops to 30).

Hitting the "turn off fps limit while pressed" button will take it to 60 if it is set to go lower (I tested it at 20 fps because else wise it seemingly had no effect, unless frame skipping was on - then it made it a smooth 60 fps again).

Trying other BIOS's and other plugins with similarly minimal settings were without positive effect.

So wtf do I have to do to get it to go to the faster fps rates?

[nates1984]

as some FF geeks can go a bit over the top on their niche expertise

Hey man, if you wanna enjoy all these hacks and edits and programs and patches and shit, then you gotta deal with some of the side effects of genius. =P

[Archael]

It really should be called something other then 1.3, if just for the sake of its popularity. People might assume you are being pedantic when you say "FFTv1.3" (as some FF geeks can go a bit over the top on their niche expertise), and not realize what it is. Something like Final Fantasy Hacktics, or FFT-Redux is a better conversation starter.

Yeah I can see that happening (it's already happened in the past lolamaoamaol)

but it's too late for a name-change, and it keeps it in line with 1.2

which was huge success

[goldblade0]

Keiths try hitting the F4 key when the game is on.  ePSXe will cause there to be a forced limit if you use the internal sound plugin.  F4 gets rid of the limit

[FFMaster]

Personally, if you want to run a game really fast(most run 200 FPS) run the "No Sound 0.4" plugin, and run some music in the background instead. I really hate the garbled stuff coming from FFT at 200 FPS.

[Algus]

Try this!!!

http://s371.photobucket.com/albums/oo15 ... gepsxe.jpg

If you want to know my system on computer, look this!

Intel Pentium R 4 CPU 1,5 GHZ
SDRAM 384 MB
NVIDIA RIVA TNT 2 Model 64/64 Pro

But, not has any problem.

[Kethis]

Thanks for the help guys. Got it working, and after some experimentation pushed it up to 700-800 FPS. I'm looking for the no sound plugin but cant find a good download link (Google has failed me!).

I plan on writing a quick little autoit script to ease power leveling early on in the game, which should be hilarious at 12x game speed. Ill post a video when I can.

[Archael]

that'd be fun to watch

[FFMaster]

I believe this is it. I can't seem to find it on the net anymore.

Put it in your plugins folder.