Issues Running FF7 on ePSXe

[Jon M]

Hey guys. New to the forums. I've tried running ff7 on multiple different computers for ages and finally decided it's time to find some help online. From research alone, I see I'm not the only one that has had issues running this game.

I've installed ePSXe on my Toshiba Tecra 9000 (Windows XP OS) and the emulator itself runs fine. When first playing the game the battle swirl, battle box, cursor, and everything else was fine but it was like the game was in slow motion, audio and all. So I proceeded to go through each video plugin. I should mention the screen itself is too small and doesn't fit the laptop screen for each of these but I believe that's a resolution fix right? So that can be fixed later.

Pete's Open GL 1.76 - Start up is just a black screen. You can hear the intro music.

Pete's DX6 D3D 1.77 - No pointing cursor. Just a weird pixel line where it is supposed to be. Also no battle swirl or battle box. Besides those issues it runs smooth.

P.E.Op.S. Soft 1.18 - No battle swirl or battle box. Real laggy. Screen is super small.

Pete's D3D 1.76 - No pointing cursor, again just has the weird pixel line in place of that. No battle swirl or box, and when enemies die and turn red in battle it skips or jumps.

Pete's openGL2 2.9 - Immediately pops up an error box saying NO WGL Extention and crashes everything, shrinks my actual os screen on the desktop, and I have to restart PC.

Pete's TNT 1.24 (I dl this one to attempt to see if it worked) - Black screen on start up. Can hear intro music.

Any help would be really appreciated. My friend actually got this running on my desktop ONCE back in the day and the PC has been reformatted since and I could never get it working again. I have read that this actually works a bit better on older devices and OS, so that's one reason I'm doing the laptop, other reason being I'd like to have it on my portable device.

[Jon M]

So I've been messing with it a bit more but finally gave up. Not sure if this helps at all but I found that it works perfect on these settings EXCEPT there is no battle box or battle swirl.

Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.77
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: S3 Graphics SuperSavage/IXC Toshiba

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - [16 Bit]

Textures:
- R4G4B4A4
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer texture: 1
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: none

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000001]


Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.18
Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - [16 Bit]
Stretch mode: 0
Dither mode: 2

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

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

[Jon M]

No one?... Hopefully these threads are still regularly visited?... They seemed to be when I checked recent thread post.

I'm dying to play this game again.

[Mupen64 Man]

Im sorry, I would give advice or help, but I don't know too much about FF7 and its potential problems, Sorry if it seemed like you were ignored.

[Jon M]

I appreciate that Mupen64 Man. I'm just dying to get this game running and I really can't understand what my friend did differently that I am not doing to get it working. I no longer have contact with him so it's not like I can ask him.

My thoughts are that MAYBE he used a different video plugin that doesn't come stock with psx that he dled from another source. Unfortunately I have tried to find those and only found two, neither of which work. I'm so close to having it perfect. Everything runs gorgeous except the darn battle box missing and no battle swirl.

[Mupen64 Man]

What you could try doing is using an emulator I use. Its called pSX, it works pretty good, even if there arent any graphics enhancing options.

[Solis]

Hello Jon M,

what are your laptop specs?

I would check out my video driver and make sure it is up to date.

This the lightest software render i know of

E}I{'s GPU Plugin 0.981 found here http://emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx...ins-tools.html

but it does not work well with alot of games but it's worth giving it a try. I would stay with peops
soft driver 1.1.18.

BTW: if i remember correctly there was an issue with using some psemu pro plugins that
would cause the emulator to run slow. i think you can fix it by removing the psemu and epsxe
registry with regedit.

[Jon M]

It's a Toshiba Tecra 9000. So as far as specs... Well?... I can't seem to find that information online. I mean this is it right here: http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/tosh...7-8235952.html but I can't find more detailed information on graphics on board. Does that link help? That's the exact device.

I'll check out that GPU plugin you linked tomorrow since it's very late here, and then I'll get back to you. I'll also check out the PSX Mupen64 Man.

Your final little message there Solis, I'm not computer dummy but I have no idea how to do that. I never was any good at understand registry configurations or modifying them.

[testmachine]

Here is a link to the emulator that mupen64man mentioned
http://www.emulator-zone.com/downloa...m/pSX_1_13.rar
That emu is the best

[Jon M]

Hey! We're getting somewhere.

Okay, so that E}I{'s GPU Plugin 0.981 is definitely as close as any plugins have gotten yet. Battle box is fine. Moving around in game, fine. Few problems.

1. The screen is super small with black around it. I thought I knew how to fix this but maybe not? Video>Config (second config on bottom)> and then set screen to like 1000 something by 700 something and to full screen right? Well I have it like that but it's still tiny.

2. In battle, once I select attack, the cursor should go out onto the field onto the target and also on the left of the battle box. Well as you can see on the left it's just a pixel blob where the cursor should be.

I haven't messed with that other emulator yet because it seems we are so close with this one we should try to get this one to work first right? But I guess there is also no harm in trying it real fast while we trouble shoot here so after I get off this PC here and finish writing this I'll go check out the other emulator.

Any ways to fix those few minor issues on the E}I{'s GPU Plugin 0.981 or should we try another one?

Seem to be getting closer! I really appreciate all the help guys.