Need help with my emulator

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:00 am

Ok, currently i'm running version 15.1, i've had this emulator for a long time and it's worked great for me until very recently, I've been having troubles with my laptop, and among them was my emulator.

When I try to run it, this is what i will get:

a black screen suggesting that the program is attempting to start, but the stop responding.

it's really frustrating cus this is a kick ass emulator, and i've been using it for years now, and now, not even redownloading it will fix it... please, if you know how i can fix this, let me know, your help is much appreciated

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:15 am

did you apply any compatibility modes to ZSNES?

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:36 am

nope, it's worked for me before without me having to do it, so i can't imagine why i would have if i did

Francis64 · Post by **Francis64** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:24 am

Reinstall DirectX ? Might work.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:13 am

Delete the configuration files in your zsnes folder and run the .exe again.

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:17 pm

Which are the configuration files? sry, this is first time going over the emulator files ^_^;

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:26 pm

zinput.cfg
zmovie.cfg
zsnesw.cfg

Try zsnesw.cfg first, the others are probably not related to the problem.

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:46 pm

hmmm... I did a search of my hard drive and it didn't find zsnesw.cfg or zmovie.cfg at all, could this be my problem?

escapee · Post by **escapee** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:51 pm

No need to search, they're in the same folder as ZSNES.

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:01 pm

I think i may have found the root of my problems:

Microsoft Outlook is taking possession of these files, this probably happened when I opened outlook by accident over the break.....

problem is, idk how to reverse this... I tried to tell it to open the files with Zsnesw, the attribute is there, but it still says it's an outlook file...

what can I do?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:00 pm

Next time... use thumbnails or links...

Microsoft Office isn't really taking possession, but they are associated.. which is not what you want, but it shouldn't impact anything.

On the other hand, you really do not want to associate the config files with ZSNES. Those files are opened automatically by ZSNES and suggesting to change the associations that way is not the way to go.

You should delete all three config files and see how that goes first.

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:04 pm

I tried deleting them before associating them to zsnesw, I opened the program, the 3 files appeared again on the folder, but it still would not work...

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:44 pm

Reboot the system and close all unnecessary programs before starting ZSNES.

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:18 pm

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Black screen -> alt+enter / set new mode.

Why the hell did noone mention that. Or point to the FAQ, since we got like a couple thousand "help me i got black screen when using zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator)" and put it there.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:31 am

grinvader wrote:...

Black screen -> alt+enter / set new mode.

Why the hell did noone mention that. Or point to the FAQ, since we got like a couple thousand "help me i got black screen when using zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator)" and put it there.

Dude added me to msn, told him that, didn't work.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:58 am

snowball's chance, but could a video card driver update be in order here?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:08 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:snowball's chance, but could a video card driver update be in order here?

Told him, but he couldn't figure out his videocard.

.. Really.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:44 pm

*facedesk*

Tell him start -> run -> in the box type dxdiag.exe and click OK -> click YES to the dialogue about WHQL signatures -> look under the display tab and it should tell him detailed information about his video card (example: name, manufacturer, driver file, date of the drivers, etc etc etc.)

Type the name of the video card into Google and accompany it with drivers, example:

ATi Radeon Xpress 200m+drivers

and get drivers from the REPUTABLE source (eg: from the manufacturer's site)

All this being said maybe I need to upgrade my video card

it's dated 4/1/2005

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:40 pm

ok, here are my video card specs:

Name: Nvidia GeForce Go 6150
Dac Type: Integrated Ram Dac

these are the drivers it found for me, i'm not really sure if they are the right ones, as i've never actually done this before, but it says they are good for GeForce series 6,7,8,9, and 200

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:42 pm

here is link

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_181.20_whql.html

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:46 pm

eh, i knew it was to good to be true, oh well, i'll keep looking...

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:49 pm

IIRC, laptop drivers should be located from your laptop manufacturer... and worst case, you would have to use NVidia's driver system for your specific model because those lists of supported hardware generally don't include laptops (that's laptop support in general).

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:56 pm

ok, I think i have found exactly where i need to be http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/soft ... 68&lang=en

[edit]

Big shocker... HP says that the current drivers are older than the drivers already in my Laptop....

cadc · Post by **cadc** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:18 pm

Alas, I have found another emulator that works for me, thank you for your help guys, but i guess its time...

R.I.P. Zsnesw

diminish · Post by **diminish** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:08 pm

If you want recent drivers for a laptop, then laptopvideo2go comes to the rescue.