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zsnes on vista???

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I'm running windoes vista with a nvidia geforce go 7400 graphics card. when I run zsnes, I get an error message saying my graphics card can't run something called "Draw7" any help???
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Are you using directx7? Upgrade to directx 8 or 9.
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Doesn't Windows Vista come with DirectX 9/10 by default? For me, it did.
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What version of ZSNES are you running?
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Post by duckman »

I went and downloaded the new version (1.5.1) and it worked. I must of been running a bunk version cause it worked on xp, but I guess it wasn't vista capable. All is well and ends well
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Sounds like you were trying to run a very old version of ZSNES on Vista.
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Post by andyqkw »

Glad to hear that you got it working as I got ZSNES running fine on my Vista system too...
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Just a little bit of advice, be very lucky with Vista. Why? Because Microsoft have implemented something in its Anti-Spyware program which they can control and delete perfectly pirated files at will. It is Nintendo's policy, after all, that no ROM images shall ever be on computers or you will be prosecuted. Glad I knew that :lol: Windows XP all the way! Woot!
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Cool_Hylian wrote:Just a little bit of advice, be very lucky with Vista. Why? Because Microsoft have implemented something in its Anti-Spyware program which they can control and delete perfectly pirated files at will. It is Nintendo's policy, after all, that no ROM images shall ever be on computers or you will be prosecuted. Glad I knew that :lol: Windows XP all the way! Woot!
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Cool_Hylian wrote:Just a little bit of advice, be very lucky with Vista. Why? Because Microsoft have implemented something in its Anti-Spyware program which they can control and delete perfectly pirated files at will. It is Nintendo's policy, after all, that no ROM images shall ever be on computers or you will be prosecuted. Glad I knew that :lol: Windows XP all the way! Woot!
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snkcube wrote:
Cool_Hylian wrote:Just a little bit of advice, be very lucky with Vista. Why? Because Microsoft have implemented something in its Anti-Spyware program which they can control and delete perfectly pirated files at will. It is Nintendo's policy, after all, that no ROM images shall ever be on computers or you will be prosecuted. Glad I knew that :lol: Windows XP all the way! Woot!
Another person with a broken sarcasm detector....
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Deathlike2 wrote:
snkcube wrote:
Cool_Hylian wrote:Just a little bit of advice, be very lucky with Vista. Why? Because Microsoft have implemented something in its Anti-Spyware program which they can control and delete perfectly pirated files at will. It is Nintendo's policy, after all, that no ROM images shall ever be on computers or you will be prosecuted. Glad I knew that :lol: Windows XP all the way! Woot!
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No. The problem is actually he believes everything he said here.
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Post by PHoNyMiKe »

that's why I removed vista. I had a zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator) folder with roms, and one day the roms were gone!
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Post by Rabid Dachshund »

Strange... it's worked perfectly for me on vista for about a month or so... until I accidentally chose a resolution larger than my laptop display can handle, so now all I get is a black screen. Games still load, I just don't see anything. I can change the resolution, I just can't apply it. Is there a keyboard shortcut that will apply the new resolution (considering I have no idea where the apply button would be) or would I have to set some launch options to force a different resolution?


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edit: I fixed it! I went into the data file and changed it there. yay! Although I am still curious why you can't just hit enter to apply the new resolution setting from within the gui.
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Post by Truth Unknown »

I don't know about you, but for the several months I had Vista, ZSNESw runs fine except for resolution changes, because it takes too long for resolution changes and the timer times out and reverts.
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phOnYmIkE wrote:that's why I removed vista. I had a zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator) folder with roms, and one day the roms were gone!
Hmm, and you said you're using zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator)...
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Post by andyqkw »

btw, pertaining to the above post, I meant to typr ZSNES (FYI, I am really really dumb) as per what phOnYmIkE had previously written and it's not that i'm stupid or what...

Wonder how he manage to type the word in while i'm being quoted as stupid???
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Post by Clements »

The zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator) thing only happens to stupid people.
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Post by whicker »

andyqkw wrote:btw, pertaining to the above post, I meant to typr ZSNES (FYI, I am really really dumb) as per what phOnYmIkE had previously written and it's not that i'm stupid or what...

Wonder how he manage to type the word in while i'm being quoted as stupid???
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