Hogs of War on ePSXe save menu black screens

[ponury_indor]

Hello,

Since PC version of Hogs of War isn't working on 64-bit system I'm emulating it. I but I need to choose one from two issues. If I use DX6 D3D 1.77 or OpenGL 1.76 game will run without any problems but I will get black screen in save menu (game is still working, I can hear sounds when presing buttons) or I can use OpenGL2 2.9 and play without graphics glitches like those black screens but game may randomly hang - sometimes after 10 minutes, sometimes it works 2 hours without problems. Any ideas how to make this game work without problems? I'm using ePSXe 1.8.0. PC: i7-3770K, Radeon HD 4870, Win7 64-bit.

Thanks for help.

Ok, after couple more hours of playing I found out that ePSXe crashes with this game no matter what plugin I use.

[meganova]

Have you tried the latest version, 1.9.0?

Also, which version did you use? I noticed there are 2 releases as well.

[ponury_indor]

It only says v1.8.0. I guess it won't hurt if I try 1.9.0... Thanks.

[meganova]

Oh sorry, I mean NTSC or PAL version.

Well, let us know if its working on 1.9.0

[Zorlon]

Pete's OpenGL Driver v2.9
internal X & Internal Y= Very High,
Stretching mode: Stretch to full window size,
render Mode: 2
(Use framebuffer object)
text filt = 2
FPS limit= 63,
Compatibility=1,3,2;
Shader effects= 1
(Fullscreen smoothin)

The above is from http://psxdatacenter.com/ for that game

Thats for the NTSC version, but the PAL setup is not any different except the FPS Limit that he has at 53 FPS, not sure why there is an extra 3 FPS for both

It's the Compatibility that is the issue though at a guess or you can tap F7 to temp switch to software mode

[ponury_indor]

Thanks. I didn't knew that I can switch between software and hardware mode without restart.

[Zorlon]

You do now

Playing with the Compatibility settings should help though, the higher the settings in there the more that is shown, setting it too high though can end up showing graphics that are not intended to be shown