Final Fantasy 8 - Blank Screen

[cid2k]

Having problems emulating Final Fantasy 8 with epsxe, i get a blank screen whilst loading. Ive read some of the posts from previous posts and still no avail

System specs

3500+ AMD 64
2GB Dual Channel Ram (4*512mb)
6600 GT PCI-express gfx
Creative audigy 2 sound card
tried from original cd PAL version
Blank screen!

tried lowering petes 2.8 gl2 plugin to fast no avail
tried turning sound off - nope
tried petes cdr plugin-nope (tried original)
tried making a alcohol 120% mds file and mounted with daemon tools nope

screen starts at 0000.0 fps then increases to 0050.0 fps then hangs at a black screen and get the usual windows hang icon on the task bar

also tried ppf patches from mega games not a change infact its worse hang


I can only put it down to two things The original CD is scratched/knackered in someway or its the drive i am using!

if anyones got any ideas than the above please help

and btw latest nvidia drivers directx etc etc

[Jale]

Try ePSXe 1.5.2.

Older versions work most of the time.

[cid2k]

just to update you, thanks for the quick reply tried epsxe 1.5.2 does exactly the same

but i tried a completly different emulator psx 1.8 emulates it perfectly!!! but i do prefere epsxe 1.5.2 and 1.6.0 so any ideas?

[Jale]

Try with other plugins. FFVIII works for me.

[Xiedo]

pSX will run anything.

Try the DirectX graphics plugins for ePSXe. Even try PSXeven.

[DudeJustDoIT]

enable the special game fix too.

Click Config>>Sound>>Config

[Aqib]

Try using Petes OpenGL plugin instead of OpenGL2. Also you shouldn't mount the ISO, if you have it saved you can just use Run ISO to play the game.

[305soldier]

Original version will not work. Have to use a backed up PPF patched ISO.
Make sure you get the right PPF patch for the game or else your not getting anything but the black screen...

http://www.ngemu.com/misc.php?action=ppf

Should be able to find it there.

[usljo]

P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.17
P.E.Op.S. DSound Audio Driver 1.9
Xeven's Cdr Driver 0.93
bios\SCPH7502.bin

this is my configuration and it works perfektly for me and i did not enable any special gamefixes on the video plugin