What are the best settings for epsxe?

[turtle13131]

Hello, and thanks in advance for any help! I'm trying to play Legend of Legaia, however, i can't seem to adjust the settings to play the game smoothly, and i'm having trouble with the sound!

I have:
Intel Pentium Dual t3400 @2.16Ghz
3GB Ram

and on emulator i'm using
pete's opengl driver 1.76
pete's dsound audio driver 1.15

[Anapan]

From the ePSXe faq:

...the correct switch to use via command line is
'-cdtiming -legaia'.
NOTE: Enabling Accurate CD-ROM Timing in options may produce the same effect, but to
be safe, it's best to use the switch.

I think you can add those switches to the end of the target in the epsxe shortcut, or make a .bat file with this in it:

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epsxe.exe -cdtiming -legaia

I think I remember one of the GPU plugins having a "special game fixes" window with a Legend of Legaia checkbox too.
I've had better performance using the built-in audio plugin than Pete's old plugin in the last few versions of the emulator (tho with your computer it shouldn't matter).

If all else fails, just use a different emulator.

[Dylan]

I agree that the internal sound plugin is your best bet, but if that fails Eternal SPU plugin is worth a shot. My question is, what operating system are you using? Pete's OpenGL plugins are excellent, but aren't very compatible with Vista or 7. I've often found that Pete's D3D plugins are pretty easy to get up and running, though they aren't as feature rich (if you mind that sort of thing). Other than that, I feel like I remember Peops soft plugin to be an easy to use video plugin as well.

[turtle13131]

Ok, Thanks for Both replys, just to put this out there, i'm currently using Windows Vista,

Now this is where i'm at now,

still working with epsxe,
Video: I changed it to "Pete's D3D Driver 1.76"
When i configure it, I click in the "nice" button at the bottom, Graphics are excellent, but i'm losing a little speed on the cut scenes, also, when i use an item to heal myself, sound starts getting choppy,
Audio: i'm using the epsxe spu core 1.5.2 "sound/cdda/xa" these 3 settings are checked on the sound plugin

I'm satisfied now with gameplay, but if there is a way to fine tune it, I would appreciate the help.

As for the .bat file, i created it, however, don't know if correct, but when i open it, pulls up cmd prompt?? not sure where to go from there.

[Anapan]

A quick fix might just be to use a lower screen resolution in the video plugin.
For the video lag, activate "Unfiltered framebuffer updates" in Pete's d3d driver and see if that helps. Also, the driver I have is 1.77 so it couldn't hurt to have the latest version.

Try this .bat file instead (make sure it's in the same directory as epsxe):

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echo off
start epsxe.exe -cdtiming -legaia
cls

If you get a "-cdtiming param incorrect" message like I just did you might need to downgrade to version 1.5.2 of ePSXe to use that switch.