Chrono Cross slow down problem

[Ignacio]

Hiya, i'm new at the forum and i wanted to introduce myself in an introduction thread, but i couldn't find one (i didn't look too deep though)
I have some experience with more unpopular forums, though i'm not a forum person, but i decided to register and try to post often because i felt like a parasite, downloading isos and roms and not doing anything ^^U

Well, enough introduction, here's the problem:

I've downloaded Chrono Cross disc 1 and 2 from this site and tried it in ePSXe v1.60 and it didn't work, so i downloaded the 1.5.2 version and it worked fine. It goes at 60 FPS until I open the menu, where the FPS go down to 20, the same happens when I enter a battle (not in the battle itself, but in the intro)
So I searched the forum for this problem and the only thing i found was the "CC not working with ePSXe v160 problem" (thousands of times, btw )
And as i really want to play this awesome game without any problems, i decided to ask..
I've tried both v160 and v152 and both have the same problem. I also tried changing from Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8 plugin to P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.17 and it's still the same.
My plugin configuration is:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: on

- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00001002]




And my pc properties are: windows xp professional, service pack 2, AMD Sempron processor 2500+, 1,4Ghz and 512Mb of RAM


Sorry if it's much trouble ^^U

Thanks in advance

[SegNin]

In the Special game fixes, enable Odd/Even bit hack.

Don't forget to also enable the Special game fixes themselves.

[Ignacio]

I enabled it, otherwise i wouldn't be able to play in v160, right?

I'll keep trying different configurations..

[Tanthias]

Hiya, i'm new at the forum and i wanted to introduce myself in an introduction thread, but i couldn't find one (i didn't look too deep though)
I have some experience with more unpopular forums, though i'm not a forum person, but i decided to register and try to post often because i felt like a parasite, downloading isos and roms and not doing anything ^^U

Well, enough introduction, here's the problem:

I've downloaded Chrono Cross disc 1 and 2 from this site and tried it in ePSXe v1.60 and it didn't work, so i downloaded the 1.5.2 version and it worked fine. It goes at 60 FPS until I open the menu, where the FPS go down to 20, the same happens when I enter a battle (not in the battle itself, but in the intro)
So I searched the forum for this problem and the only thing i found was the "CC not working with ePSXe v160 problem" (thousands of times, btw )
And as i really want to play this awesome game without any problems, i decided to ask..
I've tried both v160 and v152 and both have the same problem. I also tried changing from Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8 plugin to P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.17 and it's still the same.
My plugin configuration is:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: on

- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00001002]




And my pc properties are: windows xp professional, service pack 2, AMD Sempron processor 2500+, 1,4Ghz and 512Mb of RAM


Sorry if it's much trouble ^^U

Thanks in advance

Since SegNin already answered the question, I'll just point you to the Introductions and Farewells thread that you were looking for. It's here: http://www.epforums.org/introduction.../index129.html if you want to introduce yourself in more detail. And welcome to the EP forums .

[Ignacio]

Thanks Tanthias, i've introduced myself now

[SegNin]

I enabled it, otherwise i wouldn't be able to play in v160, right?

I'll keep trying different configurations..

Try ePSXe 1.5.2 with either the D3D or OpenGL plugin with Odd/even bit hack enabled.

And you did remember to check both the Odd/even bit hack and Special Game fixes?

[Ignacio]

Yup, i did all that

well, i think i'll play it like this

[cominatcha]

we have the same problem... i tried all i can do to fix that "slow down" problem when opening the menu everything slows down even the music... so i finished it like that^^