Grandia PSX Game Setup Problems

[Valen]

Well, I've been emulating for a long time, but recently I decided to take a stab at PSX Emulation.

I've followed the general guidelines, and I got Grandia to work, but it's really choppy and the sound skips a whole lot. The Movies don't work very well either. Maybe someone has some suggestions.

I'm using an Intel Pentium 3 1.2Ghz Processor, 512 Megs of Ram, Radeon 9800, and my emulator is EPSXE with Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.5, Eternal SPU Plugin 1.40 ( I've tried the light version too. ) and EPSXE CDR WNT/ W2K core 1.5.2.

I am playing from a mounted Image of the file.

-Valen

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[CEpeep]

Try using the Peops plugin.

Also, your CPU might be a bottleneck. Probably time to upgrade.
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[Sliver X]

Your video card is more than able to use Pete's OpenGL 2 decently, but your CPU is somewhat limited. Here's a few suggestions:

Resolution: 1024x768 @ 32bit (Fullscreen)

Internal X/Y: Leave it at high. (Very High X will make the emulator choke altogether, since it's not supported. Enabling Very High Y just drags the entire thing into the mud).

Texture Filtering: Standard.

Use FPS limit: 60

Off Screen Drawing: Standard.

Frame buffer effects: 2

Framebuffer upload: Standard.

Screen filtering: Disabled.

Shader effects: Fullscreen smoothing > Level 2.
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Screen filtering in particular is very CPU intensive, but using the shader to do this is very fast with a Radeon 9800. Also fully emulating
framebuffer reads/writes will tax the living hell out of your CPU.

Hopefully these settings will make it run decently for you.

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[The 9th Sage]

> Well, I've been emulating for a long time, but recently I
> decided to take a stab at PSX Emulation.

I'm not certain what your settings in EternalSPU are, but try enabling SPUasync if it's not enabled and that *may* help you. Btw, the difference between the light and full versions are (I think) that the lite has a few features that are disabled and it outputs sound at a somewhat lesser samplerate, lowering CPU usage but lowering quality also. At least I think so...Castlevania's sound quality was lesser with the Lite version I thought.

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[Valen]

Well, I took everyone's suggestions, and I'm seeing a great improvement over the original setup I had, which I beleive was just default stuff. The sound skips a bit here and there, and the voices sometimes stutter, but it's definatly a huge improvement over what it was originally.

And as most people say, emulation isn't perfect, right? :D

Thanks for all your help, you guys. You rock :D

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[MegaManJuno]

You might also give the PEOPS SPU a try as well... I've noticed some cases in the past where it seems to handle better than Eternal SPU, and I use it pretty much exclusively these days unless the PEOPS one gives me trouble.

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