ZSNES doesn't start

daerid · Post by **daerid** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:01 am

When I start ZSNES, all I get is a black window with the hourglass cursor. It doesn't do anything.

I'm fairly positive that I meet all the system requirements. Anybody ever heard of something like this?

NoS Sr50 · Post by **NoS Sr50** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:07 am

What OS?

daerid · Post by **daerid** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:57 am

That would be Windows XP SP1

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:03 am

Try pressing Alt + Enter.

If that doen't work, open up the cfg file with Notepad and change the resolution to 640x480 DR Full.

Tek · Post by **Tek** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:14 am

Or you could just delete the CFG file, and restart ZSNES, it will make a fresh CFG. This would be more tedious though.

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:37 am

Deleting the CFG file won't work for this problem if it was already the first time he ran it. The *default* video mode is the one with the problem.

Alt+Enter also will not work the first time.

Z, then Alt+Enter should work.

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:09 am

Try updating your video drivers as well, that could also be a problem.

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:26 pm

I'm having the same problem.

I installed a Radeon 9800 pro yesterday and it worked fine, and today it doesn't (black screen with hour glass, windows says it's not responding). I haven't changed anything since yesterday, so can't work out why this has suddenly stopped working?

Annoyingly this happened with my GeForce 4 MX440, where it stopped working one day, and I never got it working again.

My specs are:

P4 2.8gig, win XP, 1gig Ram, Radeon 9800 pro.

Any other ideas?

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:02 pm

After changing your video card, head over to www.ati.com and download/install the lastest drivers. That should fix your problem.

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:42 pm

Ichinisan wrote:After changing your video card, head over to www.ati.com and download/install the lastest drivers. That should fix your problem.

I got the latest drives yesterday (when it worked), and now today, it doesn't work?

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:45 pm

hambury wrote:
Ichinisan wrote:After changing your video card, head over to www.ati.com and download/install the lastest drivers. That should fix your problem.
I got the latest drives yesterday (when it worked), and now today, it doesn't work?

Is ZSNES the only program/emulator that doesn't respond?

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:58 pm

I could be that something caused it to revert to the Microsoft default video driver. You should try installing again.

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:22 pm

Yep, ZSNES is the only thing on my PC at the moment that won't run.

Tried re-installing the latest drivers, but that didn't work.

This is so annoying. It worked yesterday, and I've not installed anything since then.

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:48 pm

Anyway, try the Z, Alt+Enter thing.

Or manually edit your CFG file...

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:46 am

Yep, tried that too. Still doesn't want to know.

Is it worth me sending the error reports to Microsoft as XP so loves to do? (I'm really that desparate).

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:24 am

You didn't say that ZSNES was crashing or trying to submit an error report.

It really *should* work in 640x480DR mode. Depending on how you launch ZSNES, there might be a CFG file in a different folder (the one containing the ROM image file). Edit that one *and* the one in the ZSNES folder...just to be sure.

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:09 pm

Sorry if I wasn't clear. It's not exactly crashing, it just sits on the black screen, and then when I go to close it, Windows goes on about the program not responding, asking if I want to send the error report.

I've tried deleating all the files to do with Zsnes and starting over, but still no luck.

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:52 pm

I started Windows up in Safemode, and when attempting to run Zsnes got the following error message:

DDRAW ERROR
Mode only available in 16 and 32bit color

I've checked my display settings, and it's set to 32bit color. Any ideas what I need to do?

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:58 pm

Safe Mode does not use 32-bit colors, AFAIK. (Not unless something has changed since Win98)

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:05 pm

Agozer wrote:Safe Mode does not use 32-bit colors, AFAIK. (Not unless something has changed since Win98)

I tried it in 16-bit mode as well, when in safemode.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:05 pm

Have you already tried reinstalling Directx?

Also to hambury:
you should download driver cleaner, sometimes there are conflicts when installing different drivers in a machine, so try uninstalling your drivers, then use driver cleaner for both nvidia detonators and catalyst, then install your catalyst drivers.

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:56 pm

Joe Camacho wrote:Have you already tried reinstalling Directx?

Also to hambury:
you should download driver cleaner, sometimes there are conflicts when installing different drivers in a machine, so try uninstalling your drivers, then use driver cleaner for both nvidia detonators and catalyst, then install your catalyst drivers.

Thanks for the advice. I've just tried that, but still no luck. Damn, I thought that might work.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:36 pm

Are you using the latest version of Zsnes? If you are, try using an older version, and see if you get the same errors, that's all I can think for now, sorry.

hambury · Post by **hambury** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:53 pm

Joe Camacho wrote:Are you using the latest version of Zsnes? If you are, try using an older version, and see if you get the same errors, that's all I can think for now, sorry.

Ok, I've worked my way back through older version. version 1.30b works fine, anything after that does not.

Anyone know the ins and outs of Zsnes then? What changed after 1.30b?

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:57 pm

hambury wrote:
Joe Camacho wrote:Are you using the latest version of Zsnes? If you are, try using an older version, and see if you get the same errors, that's all I can think for now, sorry.
Ok, I've worked my way back through older version. version 1.30b works fine, anything after that does not.

Anyone know the ins and outs of Zsnes then? What changed after 1.30b?

Well, if you need a full changelog, you can get one from my site (props to Grin for that). But yeah, it's a whole lot of text.