Xenogears Sound Problem (Looping)

[Alepsis]

Hi! Good day, I'm using epsxe v1.9.25 and I have a little problem:

When the game is loading (use a door, scripted events, sometimes when I enter a battle, and such), the sound starts looping for the duration of the loading, meaning that when the loading ends, the sound gets normal again.

It doesn't make the game unplayable, it's just annoying. I don't know if any of you guys can help me with this. I have been changing some video and audio settings, also different audio plugins, without results. I'm going to leave my setting below.

Thanks for your time!


Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
System Model: N61Jq
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.6GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM

[Zorlon]

Set the FPS to 63
Use the ePSXe SPU Core

Use http://psxdatacenter.com/ as a reference

[Alepsis]

Thanks for your reply and the link! Sadly, I still have the problem, even with the settings you recommended, I also forgot to mention that I'm playing the one with the Alcahest patch (I downloaded it from here), I don't know if that has anything to do with my problem.

[Zorlon]

Not sure what to recommend

For the sake of it though try using the software plugin (basic setup (don't change anything except the framerate limit to 63 FPS)

This is just for testing so forget about how it looks for now and see if the same issues are there

[Alepsis]

Hey there! Sorry for taking so long to post, I haven't been able to play Xenogears until today.

Just wanted to tell you that using the Soft plugin and 63fps didn't change anything

But thanks for the advice, Zorlon.

[Zorlon]

So what fixed it for you then ?

[Alepsis]

So what fixed it for you then ?

I haven't been able to fix it

[Zorlon]

That is a shame :/

Have you tried an alt emulator to ePSXe or possibly even just an older version like 1.5.2 or 1.9.0 (some games have had a negative effect on the 1.9.25 version, also a major core change was done from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0)

[Alepsis]

I haven't try other emulators or versions of the ePSXe. I suppose I won't be able to use my save data if I change emulator, right?

[Zorlon]

memcard saves should be interchangable, save states no as they also store the emulator settings not just the games state, P.S.if you have been changing settings then loading in a save state those changes do revert back to what you had them set when you made the save state, if so change the setting then load a memcard save instead

save states are very unreliable by the way and can end up crashing the emulator or corrupting the game/emulation

the mamcard will still be attached for ePSXe 1.7.0 to 1.9.25 they share the same settings if you just copy the main exe over, just rename them, (I just renamed them all to include the version so for 1.9.0 for example I renamed the ePSXe.exe file to ePSXe 1.9.0.exe) ePSXe 1.60 and older just need to be told to attach it

other emulators may use an alt format but there are a few memcard image converting tools out there, but most just use the same as ePSXe anyway