Game Hang

[Xiedo]

I just set up ePSXe and I've tried playing Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, and Parasite Eve all successfully... except that there's an occasional hang when the emulator has to load a new screen/load a battle or sometimes load a new song or character animation (like casting elements in CC).

It's only a 2-3 second hang where the game and the music stop and then the game picks up again like normal, no slowdown at all. Any way to make a game run smoothly? I use the Pete DX6, Eternal SPU and ePXSe CDR plugins as they seem to work best.

I've got a 1.5 GHz Celeron and 448MB RAM, but I don't know how to figure out my CD-ROM speed so I don't know if it's too slow. Would it help to burn ISOs so theres no need to read the disc? (I use all commerical PSX discs).

Thanks. Any advice welcome.

[montpics]

I've got a 1.5 GHz Celeron and 448MB RAM, but I don't know how to figure out my CD-ROM speed so I don't know if it's too slow. Would it help to burn ISOs so theres no need to read the disc? (I use all commerical PSX discs).

Yes, it help to reduce the memory usage for reading the discs, therefore it may boost up the game better.

You can look any softwares like Alcohol 120%, ISO Producer or etc. to do that kind of job.

[hagbard]

I recommend using DaemonTools to mount your ISO image, specially if has CD audio tracks

[Xiedo]

Used ISOProducer w/ the SaPu plugin... ran the ISO... works perfectly, no load times. Thanks a lot.

One other thing though... I've got what I think are some scratched FFVIII discs that I want to use to create ISOs but they are the PC version.

If ISOProducer works using PSX plugins does that mean it can't make ISOs of PC games?

[hagbard]

That should be possible with not protected/older PC games. I guess FVII PC port isn't protected at all.

[Xiedo]

I'll try that then.

Something else came up though. When I access the character status screen in Chrono Cross the game freezes. I tried a few different video plugins but no luck.

[hagbard]

About Chrono Cross, you have two possible workarounds:

A) If you're using ePSXe v1.6.0, try v1.5.2 instead

B) Start ePSXe v1.6.0 with the command line option -noauto: for example, create a shorcut to epsxe.exe, then right click it -> "properties" and add -noauto where is path to epsxe.exe. Perhaps easier is cretaing a .bat or .cmd file in the emulator folder, with the following text:

epsxe -noauto

[Xiedo]

I looked up another thread that recommended enabling special fixes in the video plugin. I'll try them all.

EDIT: Special fix did it. Thanks.

[hagbard]

The odd/even bit hack I guess. Nevermind.

[Xiedo]

Yeah, thanks it's working fine... just something else now. I made an ISO of the 1st FFVIII disc, but when I tried to run it off the E: (image) drive using Daemon Tools, the game only looked on my D: drive (my physical drive).

So I uninstalled the game, then made an ISO of the install disc and installed it on the E: drive but it still looks for the disc in the D: drive. How do I get it to look in the E: drive?