08-24-2009, 05:42 PM
Greetings.
So i have been trying to emulate my favourite series of Front Mission.
A little backstory:
First i used stable release build (0.9.6)
Results :
1) Front mission 4 :
-minor graphic glitches (broken geometry , very wierd shaped parts of panzers) tried different plugins
-average FPS count (around 35-40) which in FAST game mod is pretty playable.
-i managed to get good sound when tweaking with sound plugins
2) Front mission 5:
- major graphic glitches (lot of trash on screen missing geometry wierd stuff, missing walls and structures , although wanzers geometry and textures were ok ) tried different plugins
- FPS count is awesome (around 45-60) both in combat and in menus which is very wierd because FM 5 has much more sophisticated grapics either than FM4 (which has almost similar graphics to FM3 which is a psx game! )
- sound is of average quality
So after tweaking all possible plugins and configuration , i decided to install a latest beta of video plug and pcsx2 plugin , GSDX1650
Changes :
Front Mission 4 :
- All graphical glitches are gone, picture is flawless (yay!)
- Sounds degraded a bit but nothing you cant live with
- FPS count is awesome 50-60 no lags which is Yay! second time.
But here comes a very nasty problem. When you try to get some wanzer fighting and explosions PCSX2 process instantly eats up 99% of physical memory (in my case task manager show pcsx2 process eating up to 1.3gb of memory) which ofcourse results in a system hang. In a release build that game had average consumption of 300-400mb of that memory. Plugin configuration is standard , i tried tweaking a bit but not succesful.
Front Mission 5:
- All major graphical glitches are gone (almost YAY) only one nasty remains. There is some kind of layer of awful shapes of gray on background which also blinks sometimes. Actualy you can play it but that one really hurts my estethic feelings cause fights in FM5 are more spectacular.
- Sound is ok
- Fps cound is awesome 40-55
So basicaly i have 2 different problems with those two games.
I understand that main advice would be to use the stable build of emulator but after i have seen a better picture i cannot rest.
Actually i found a thread here where guy had similar background glitches in FM5 but his issue wasnt resolved. http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-6942.html...+mission+5
Mine match the screens in that thread.
I also have 2 different bios (Japan bios from old ps2 and EUR bios from a slim version)
So anyone can lend me a hand to get an enjoyable gaming experience?
So i have been trying to emulate my favourite series of Front Mission.
A little backstory:
First i used stable release build (0.9.6)
Results :
1) Front mission 4 :
-minor graphic glitches (broken geometry , very wierd shaped parts of panzers) tried different plugins
-average FPS count (around 35-40) which in FAST game mod is pretty playable.
-i managed to get good sound when tweaking with sound plugins
2) Front mission 5:
- major graphic glitches (lot of trash on screen missing geometry wierd stuff, missing walls and structures , although wanzers geometry and textures were ok ) tried different plugins
- FPS count is awesome (around 45-60) both in combat and in menus which is very wierd because FM 5 has much more sophisticated grapics either than FM4 (which has almost similar graphics to FM3 which is a psx game! )
- sound is of average quality
So after tweaking all possible plugins and configuration , i decided to install a latest beta of video plug and pcsx2 plugin , GSDX1650
Changes :
Front Mission 4 :
- All graphical glitches are gone, picture is flawless (yay!)
- Sounds degraded a bit but nothing you cant live with
- FPS count is awesome 50-60 no lags which is Yay! second time.
But here comes a very nasty problem. When you try to get some wanzer fighting and explosions PCSX2 process instantly eats up 99% of physical memory (in my case task manager show pcsx2 process eating up to 1.3gb of memory) which ofcourse results in a system hang. In a release build that game had average consumption of 300-400mb of that memory. Plugin configuration is standard , i tried tweaking a bit but not succesful.
Front Mission 5:
- All major graphical glitches are gone (almost YAY) only one nasty remains. There is some kind of layer of awful shapes of gray on background which also blinks sometimes. Actualy you can play it but that one really hurts my estethic feelings cause fights in FM5 are more spectacular.
- Sound is ok
- Fps cound is awesome 40-55
So basicaly i have 2 different problems with those two games.
I understand that main advice would be to use the stable build of emulator but after i have seen a better picture i cannot rest.
Actually i found a thread here where guy had similar background glitches in FM5 but his issue wasnt resolved. http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-6942.html...+mission+5
Mine match the screens in that thread.
I also have 2 different bios (Japan bios from old ps2 and EUR bios from a slim version)
So anyone can lend me a hand to get an enjoyable gaming experience?