Grandia 3, try as I might.....

[ggreen737]

I just can't get this game to work properly for me. I know this is my first post, but trust me when I say I'm very good about scanning forums and checking others configs. If someone could help shine a little light that would be awesome.

SPECS: Vista 64, Q6600, 4gb ram, 8800GT 512mb card, SB X-fi gamer card, my hard drive space IS low (about 20gb free on a 220gb drive).

PCSX2 0.9.5 rev 708 (have also tried 563 and 377): Gsdx 1.14 896 SSE3(also tried 890) 1024x768 res and native res, D3D 10, texture filtering. Tried Peops 1.9.0, and SPUghz Playground 1.9.0.
-CPU everything checked, limit fps
-GAMEFIXES tried VU ADD/Sub Hack on and off
-SPEED HACKS x2 or x3 hack and IOPx2 cycle on
-ADVANCED chopzero, normal, flush to zero, denormals are zero on both EE and VU recs.

PROBLEMS: Out of sync cutscenes, unless I use SPUghz 1.9, but then the sound is robotic. I can't stop crashing during the fight with big blue who the gang finds hanging in the net. Oh yeah, and cutscenes worked fine after a little toying around in the village, but not since. This is really stumping me because I can usually figure this out after a few hundred frustrating tries.

Virtual cookie to anyone who can help, even if you feel like I couldn't have missed something THAT dumb! Thanks.

[dralor]

Yeah I got the crashing on the Boss a few times. The cutscene before is so long though that I haven't fought with it all that much to fix it. And the only cutscene I couldn't get past up to that point was the one before the first fight with him.

[ggreen737]

Anybody? I'm open to any reply....

The reason I created this topic is to work my way through it, considering threads like the screen shot thread where someone claims to have it running flawlessly in 0.9.5, and like 2 other threads where people recall running it well in 0.9.4 from start to finish.

[leffs]

I've finished this game without big problems. The game run amazingly good most of the time except by the cutscnes where the speed dropped dramatically to 27-30FPS, but this was not a big deal for me because i had finished this game in my PS2 too.

I don't know which problem you might be passing, but if i remember correctly i finished the game using 0.95 standard version not the present one, because it was sometime ago.

[ggreen737]

Actually leffs, thanks for the advice. I'm fairly sure it wasn't switching to 0.9.5 that cured the problem (considering I'd tried it like twice), but I was really low on HD space and running into a lot of problems that were the result of not defragging or formatting Vista 64 for like a year. Your comment made me triple check :-) It seems to have corrected itself with some time and TLC in the cleaning department. I'm not usually caught off-guard with problems that stem from poor system maintenance, but that's life! Thanks for the input, enjoying some GIII as I type...