I'm Having Trouble With ZSNES

[someidiot]

Hello all,
I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2, and whenever I launch any game, it crashes in about 1-4 seconds (literally). The entire program crashes and I need to open up the task manager and end the program manually. I had the exact same setup and everything on Windows 2000 Professional SP4 and it worked great, but ever since XP Pro SP2 has been installed, it hasn't worked at all. I've been running it under these settings:

1280X1024 DS Full
HQ4X
Hi-Res Mode 7

Even if I tweak the settings, it still crashes. My computer is:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
1 Gig RAM
Radeon X1900 XT

I have tried setting the affinty of the program to one processor and both, but nothing happens. I reinstalled the video card drivers as well. I also tried SNES9X, but the same problem happens. My computer runs Project 64 1.6 and Chankast fine, but I don't know how to get this one to run.

By the way, I've been trying to run:

Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Primal Rage
Super Mario All Stars
Super Mario RPG

The same problem happens no matter what. Any ideas? Thank you so much if you can help me

[Jale]

Be sure to get the latest stable version (1.42) and not the WIP (1.43). Also, make sure your video, sound drivers and DirectX are up to date.

[someidiot]

Thanks for the reply
I tried that, still the same problem. I think it may be a problem with a process running, any ideas?

[Jale]

Have you tried with any other SNES emulators like Snes9X?

[someidiot]

Yeah I tried SNES9X, I still have the same problem.

[Jale]

That's odd... :S

[metalheadjc]

Well, if it ran fine for you on win 2000, there is something you maybe can do (although I've never had problems with it myself)....

If you right click on the ZSNES .exe file, you can alter the run properties of it. One of the things you perhaps could do is change the compatibility mode to windows 2000. I don't know why your XP version won't run it, but this might fix the problem for you if it was running on win 2000 just fine. Or it might make it worse. Might as well try it. You can always undo it.

Are you overclocking? If so, this could cause instability in some situations, and perhaps this is one of those situations. Emulation requires the program to do things like fake certain hardware timings, mebbe it has something to do with it?

Let me know what comes of it

[someidiot]

Thanks for the suggestions, but I tried all of that already. Another forum suggested that I use Process Explorer to help me find out if anything is crashing ZSNES.

[metalheadjc]

If you think something else is crashing it, try starting windows in safe mode and running ZSNES maybe. Of course, now it is possible that something ISN'T running that needs to be for ZSNES to work, but if it does work in safe mode, you're one step closer.

It is odd that both of the SNES emulators won't run, though. The only other thing I can think of is maybe you need to update directX, or maybe your anti-virus software is interfering. Or maybe spyware inteference (run adaware-se). I'm running out of ideas, really.

Does your game make it to the intro screen, or is the screen black? Also, have you verified that your roms were not corrupted when you pulled them off your computer to reformat/install XP?

I'm just shooting in the dark, so lemme know what I'm hitting :P

[metalheadjc]

Oh, I see that you've already updated directX, so scratch that.