Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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Micycle
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Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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I've used previous versions of zsnes on other computers before and had no problem at all. On this computer I'm running windows 7 and every time I try to go to fullscreen mode all I get is a black screen. Sometimes restarting the program will return me to windowed mode (which works fine), other times I've had to delete the files zsnes creates in the folder it's in to get it back to windowed mode. Sometimes an error box will pop up:

DirectDraw Error

IDirectDraw7::SetDisplayMode failed.
Make sure your video card supports this mode.

Any clue how to get this working in full screen?

Thanks
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Re: Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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Make sure your video card supports this mode
What mode are you setting it to? What modes does your screen support?
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Re: Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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You are better off making a large Windowed screen with a custom resolution to be close to Fullscreen.... that's the way to go usually.
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Re: Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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dfreer wrote:
Make sure your video card supports this mode
What mode are you setting it to? What modes does your screen support?
I'm using ATI Radeon HD 4650, and when I open up the program for it I'm not sure what to look for. By "mode" what setting is it refering to?
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Re: Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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For our purposes here, mode is the combination of resolution, color depth, and refresh rate.
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You have your 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s, 64s, and 128s(crash course in binary counting!). But no 1s.
DirectInput represents all bits, not just powers of 2 in an axis.
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Re: Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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Micycle wrote:I'm using ATI Radeon HD 4650, and when I open up the program for it I'm not sure what to look for. By "mode" what setting is it refering to?
Hint: It's under Config -> Video. You need to know what resolution your monitor/video card supports, a good idea is the resolution you have it set to right now. Right-click the on the desktop background, go to Screen Resolution. It will tell you there what you have it currently set to. Then set that resolution in ZSNES Config -> Video.

Also hint: Alt+Enter should take you out of fullscreen if you set the wrong mode and get a black screen.
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Re: Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 8

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I have the exact same problem now only that i used windows 8... My laptop it seems dosnt have a way to disable the hardware accelerator.. i have directx 11. Can someone guide me? I use vizzed website when playing zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator) games. you cant adjust the resolution .. anyway it wont help since cause its already set to the lowest around 640x something i think..
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Re: Trouble with zsnes going fullscreen with windows 7

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You don't want to disable the accelerator. The problem is, the accelerator isn't being used by ZSNES on Windows 8 and up. You should look into trying Snes9x 1.53 instead. Your ears will thank you, too.

Also, hint for the future, try posting new topics instead of bumping 5 year old ones.
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