ffxii visual glitch

[Silversonic]

Some years ago, a very similar error appeared on my screen during demanding 3D games. A few month later my GPU died.
Those errors never came back with my new GPU.

[refraction]

SPS can be caused by fault graphics cards, however its an extremely common thing in playstation 2 emulation, especially when you have clamping disabled.

[bobdole91]

okay, sorry i fell asleep but thank you guys for responding anyway. in order. i do have a translation patch applied. i did not try it without the translation patch. those HW hacks are turns on because i was having problems with graphical errors before and these hacks fixed those errors so i do indeed need them on. refraction was correct it was a clamping issue after playing around some i discovered that it was the VU clamping that was causing the error, i turned that back on left the ee/iop clamping off, everything seems fine so far. hopefully silversonic and refraction arent right i cant afford a new gpu lol. anyway long story short it seems to be working properly. i made it all the way through barheim passage with no reoccurences.

[refraction]

Good I didn't think it was your GPU, I was more pointing out that although sometimes that can be a symptom of a dying card, it's also very common with PS2 emulation and is much more likely to be a problem with the emulator than your card, especially if that's the only place it's happening

[bobdole91]

well thank you again refraction. i can finally play again without being constantly annoyed by graphical errors. odd that it only happens in this area tho

[refraction]

It depends how it's rendered, if any "tricks" are used to make it faster and so forth, it will probably crop up a few times during play, but it is best to keep the clamping to normal if possible.

[ssakash]

but it is best to keep the clamping to normal if possible.

Question:-

Why was it chosen as the default one ? there are many games where different clamping modes help. also, the PS2 Floats have a higher range of valid combination of values, is there a specific reason on using the normal mode as the default one ?

Normal is the default, if you read his post he said it's all default except the clamping which he set to none

I was actually asking it in a general point of view on it's decision on default status rather than referring to the thread's problem.

[refraction]

Normal is the default, if you read his post he said it's all default except the clamping which he set to none