N64 Freezes my computer

[Nillin]

Every time I try to load a rom my computer freezes up. This has never happend before and it just suddenly started to screw up. What do I do?

[ulaoulao]

Little more info and we way be able to help.

What emulator.
what ram/cpu/video do you have.
what game? one or all.
When does it freese.
Must you reboot or en task to fix?
and any thing more would be helpfull.

[Jale]

Sounds like either a plugin or driver problem.

[Nillin]

Little more info and we way be able to help.

What emulator.
what ram/cpu/video do you have.
what game? one or all.
When does it freese.
Must you reboot or en task to fix?
and any thing more would be helpfull.

So sorry, it Project 64,
I don't know much about the inside of my comp
All of my games
It starts up and the rom starts to play and it freezes
I have to reboot
I was always able to play other games, then I tried starfox 64, boom failed, so I tried mario 64 cause that worked before, then that starts freezing

Is there someway I can look into files and find what Ram,Cpu,Video I have. Some guy just built this thing for me.
One more piece of info. I was trying to uninstall a program once, and accidentily unintalled C-media 3D audio. I had to reinstall it, now i'm ok, but I could of screwed something up there.

[ulaoulao]

Project 64, is not dependent of any shared files other then directx that I know of. Sounds like a plugin problem to me. I would start off my downloing pj64 again, or just re extracting it again to a new dirrectory. Then test it with all defaults. If it works you know its a bad plug in or setting. Let me know...

[hagbard]

Is there someway I can look into files and find what Ram,Cpu,Video I have. Some guy just built this thing for me.
Try PC Wizard (http://www.cpuid.com).


Project 64, is not dependent of any shared files other then directx that I know of. Sounds like a plugin problem to me.
This is usually correct, but DirectX compatibilty doesn't necesary mean emulator compatilibity. For example, you might got a D3D compatible video card, but not compatible with latest D3D specs that might need the video plugin/configuration: almost every motherbard intregated video card would hardly work with PJ64

[Nillin]

Project 64, is not dependent of any shared files other then directx that I know of. Sounds like a plugin problem to me. I would start off my downloing pj64 again, or just re extracting it again to a new dirrectory. Then test it with all defaults. If it works you know its a bad plug in or setting. Let me know...

Did that already, still froze.
I just downloaded that PC Wizard

Mainboard : K7S41GX
Chipset : SiS 741GX
Processor : AMD Duron @ 1600 MHz
Physical Memory : 512 MB (1 x 512 DDR-SDRAM )
Video Card : Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) SiS661FX/760/741/M661FX/M760/M741 GUI 2D/3D Accelerator
Hard Disk : MDT (40 GB)CD-Rom Drive : 52X32X52 CD-RW
Network Card : Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) SiS900 10/100 Ethernet Adapter
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professionnal 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
DirectX : Version 9.0c

I think I might of screwed up my DirectX so i'm redownloading it and going to reinstall it. This is wierd though cause I used to play it all the time now its just freezing.

[ulaoulao]

I'm going 100% with hagbard and your last post then. Its a dx problem. Please if you have not alreay do a backup. thats a system restore backup. DX can be nasty at times.

[Genome]

easy solution=resinstall project64. you dont loose any info (backup your save games of course) and then your good to go.

[hagbard]

Video Card : Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) SiS661FX/760/741/M661FX/M760/M741 GUI 2D/3D Accelerator

I regret to tell you the problem is that integrated SiS video card because its low specifications. Project64 would hardly run with this. Let's take a look at PJ64 help file, minimum system requeriments section:


nVidia GeForce256 and ATI Radeon (early models) are suggested as realistic minimum video hardware. In conjunction with good quality drivers they have the required features. Newer cards mainly allow better resolutions, filtering, anti-aliasing and so on.

The following chipsets (thus any and all graphics cards based on them) can be considered below minimum specification:

3dfx Voodoo 1,2,3 (1,2 - not at all, 3 - poor image quality)
ATI Rage128, Rage Pro (poor image quality)
Intel i740, i810 (poor image quality)
Matrox G200, G400, G450 (poor image quality)
nVidia Riva128 (poor image quality)
S3 Savage 4, Savage 2000 (particularly bad, these cards hang
The SiS should be classified in this section.

[Nillin]

I regret to tell you the problem is that integrated SiS video card because its low specifications. Project64 would hardly run with this. Let's take a look at PJ64 help file, minimum system requeriments section:

The SiS should be classified in this section.

So why did it work before and all of a sudden start to fail?

[hagbard]

Well, some possible workarounds have been posted before if you don't agree what I said

[Nillin]

Well, some possible workarounds have been posted before if you don't agree what I said

Ok, well thanks for the help. I'll keep trying. I'm going to download another emulator. I'm done with this thread how can I get it locked?

[Jale]

Only staff (admins & mods) can lock threads.

[hagbard]

Ok, well thanks for the help. I'll keep trying. I'm going to download another emulator. I'm done with this thread how can I get it locked?
No problem, also I think there's no need to lock the thread, it's OK. Perhaps someone got a similar problem or know a fix and want to post it here