Can't make the emulators work.

[Tiago Ragna]

Hey there,i'm having a big problem.
I already used for some time epsxe both 1.6.0 and 1.7.0 before and they worked perfectly,but recently i changed my machine and i can't make any game run,i only get a black screen and sometimes the fps count at 000
i'm working with a : AMD Athlon II x2 255 Processor 3.10 GHz + 4.00 GB Ram + Windows 7 SP1 64-bit + AMD Radeon HD 6700

Hope this is enough for someone to help me,i've tried some Peter's pluggins but i've never knew how to configure it well but in the other machine it used to work right away.
I'm kinda desperated because i really wanna replay Xenogears

hope you people can help me!

[Zorlon]

Tell me how you are running your games first and what games you have tested asides from xenogears

how as in from a propper CD drive a virtual CD drive direct from Run ISO... what???

what format are your files in if you are running from a CD image

[Tiago Ragna]

i'm running in Iso's and i tested Legend of Dragoon only besides Xenogears.
The format is either .ecm or .mdf (is this what you asked?sorry always been a noob in this things)

[Sheik]

i'm running in Iso's and i tested Legend of Dragoon only besides Xenogears.
The format is either .ecm or .mdf (is this what you asked?sorry always been a noob in this things)

Ah that's the problem my friend.
the ecm files are compressed you would need PakkISO or ECM Tools
to turn the ecm files into a playable format.
Hope this helps.

[Zorlon]

yeah just drop the ecm file onto unecm

recomend ecmtools for you over Pakkiso

[Tiago Ragna]

nothing happens...i remember using ECM when i used to play on ePSXe,decoded both games and neither worked,i'm trying 2 diferent versions from Xenogears and 1 of LOD,the black screen doesn't even have the FPS image appearing.
If i can help in any other way tell me,it's getting on my nerve,it just doesn't start!

[Mohit]

Try different plugins

[Zorlon]

Please give me a list of files after you used unecm?

list of files for the game, not the emulator


P.S. plugins are not going to help if there is something wrong with the CD image to start with

EDIT: too slow I'm off to bed, I will continue in the morning with this

[Tiago Ragna]

Sorry dude,had to go out,but thanks for the patience
Anyway both iso's are from emuparadise and i tried them before and they worked.
names before the unecm:
Well now Legend of Dragoon works but when it goes into battles it slows down to 6 frames during the change from normal screen to battle screen.
One of the Xenogears worked kinda fine also until it went to a screen like the battle,it went all black also got slowed to 18 frames,but this i remember happening,i gotta change the configuration,dunno wich but i know it's that!
by the way they are running in 49/50 FPS that is the normal rate i think.
The rooms are taking more time to ''start'' when i used to play in a Windows XP with a less powerful engine it would start in 1 second and now it takes 5 to 10 seconds until the FPS shows up and it starts the game.

[MaslowK]

Well now Legend of Dragoon works but when it goes into battles it slows down to 6 frames during the change from normal screen to battle screen.
One of the Xenogears worked kinda fine also until it went to a screen like the battle,it went all black also got slowed to 18 frames,but this i remember happening,i gotta change the configuration,dunno wich but i know it's that!
by the way they are running in 49/50 FPS that is the normal rate i think.
The rooms are taking more time to ''start'' when i used to play in a Windows XP with a less powerful engine it would start in 1 second and now it takes 5 to 10 seconds until the FPS shows up and it starts the game.

Now that you have the games actually running it's time to go through and configure your video plugins correctly; it's whats most likely causing issues with the speed of your games.

For most 3D games I recommend using any of the Pete's D3D plugins. In case you don't have them, here's a link where you can get them; http://www.pbernert.com/gpupete177.zip . Just extract this archive to the plugins folder in your epsxe folder, then select one of the D3D ones under the video configuration dialog.

Next, under the dropdown list for the video plugins, click Configure. Here are the settings I use;



If the speed is working correctly with these settings, you can go back to the settings under the Textures section, and play with the Texture Quality and Texture Filtering settings to get better picture quality with your setup, as well as increase the Desktop Resolution setting near the top if you'd like (my computer is just a tad less powerful than the one you've listed ).

Let us know if you have any issues with these settings.

[Tiago Ragna]

Hey!it's running nice soo far, the black screens now give image but are running like half the game speed.
dunno why but it runs slower with your settings MaslowK but if i select ''Nice'' it works ok (also if i put the settings of Fast it ends up slow dunno why)
Right now i can't save in the states,i push F1 and even select the option manually but it doesn't save.
Also,how can i put the images more...''focused''?
the face is kinda blurry! and i can see the ''grey boxes'' in the low right part
Thanks so far for helping me running the games!

[Zorlon]

Fiddle with Off-Screen Drawing that part depends on your hardware so change it from 2 to 3 or higher, you can try and lower it aswell but advise you try it higher first

Pete's software driver will work right out the box but the display is not as good for 3D games

Save states are the last thing you want to use, if anything goes wrong with the emuation and all you have are save states you are left with no choice but to start the game from the beginning and save states also save emulator settings

Use ingame memory card saves instead

[Tiago Ragna]

Hey there people!
Good news,i'm using Soft Driver and soo far is the one that gives the best results!
Tried all Peter's drivers but some would slow in some parts others were full of squares and this one works fine!
Still like i said,dunno why but State Saves aren't working,i use both kinds of saves normally and dunno why it's not working soo far....
Feels nice to know i can play my favorite games again thanks for everything guys!
Edited:
Ok out of nothing i have like a ''DOS'' window behind my ePSXe saying every command i do like:

how do i take this off?

[gladiator (psx datacenter)]

To remove the logs (that dos window that you are talking about) just go in epsxe to "run" and "enable logs" you probably got it enabled so select it again and that window won't appear again.

[Zorlon]

P.S. you do have a folder called:-
sstates
it should be in the same folder as ePSXe, this is the save states folder (still best to avoid using save states but if you use memcard saves aswell it's not too bad I guess)

Not sure why save states would not work though otherwise, can't say i have had an issue there

Nothing in the reg entries for ePSXe either, not about save states anyway