Simply put, as the topic suggests: I can load ZSNES fine (woo!). I can play ZSNES fine (or, well, could if I had any skill in any game other than Clue
). I can even select the correct option to exit at least 75% of the time. However, exiting ZSNES is evidently a mistake of some sort.
When I do, I am dumped to a black screen which thinks it's my desktop - but it's not! I can move the mouse and click things, and Windows still "works" (i.e., programs load, even if I can't see exactly what I'm clicking on), but berefit of sight, save for that plain, unremarkable mouse cursor. This, naturally, doesn't happen if I don't run full-screen - but come on, playing Pocky and Rocky in a window is like playing Rez on a black and white TV.The only way out of this minimalist hell is to suspend my computer - then, upon un-hibernating, all is well.
I suspect that the problem is to be found either in my recently "updated" (if a nVidia e-GeForce 7300 GS can be considered an "update" in this day and age) graphics card, my similarly "updated" monitor, or the fact that I'm now using a KVM switch. However, these are permanant parts of my system now, and no program will have me going back to onboard video and fiddling with wires every time I switch desktops - especially given that other programs (Civ IV, FCE Ultra, MAME, MagicEngine, just to name a few) behave perfectly fine.
My system specs (bold denotes something that's changed since the good ol' days when ZSNES ran and stopped running perfectly well):
AMD Athlon 3800+
Radio Shack PS2 > USB adaptor
2 Gig RAM (okay, used to only be 1GB, but if this is to blame, I don't know what to make of the world anymore...)
nVidia e-GeForce 7300 GS
Trendnet TR-207 2-port USB KVM switch
Samsung SyncMaster 763MB
I've tried deleting the .cfg files and reinstalling ZSNES - neither fixed the problem.
Starting in fullscreen, then going back to a windowed mode before exiting works, but is, frankly, a pain in the ass, and I'd rather figure out exactly what's going on here!
I'm not a coder, so if any coders are reading this thread, take a deep breath, because my retardedness will likely make you cringe - but I'm guessing that, for some reason, ZSNES isn't restoring "control" of the graphics accelerator and/or hardware acceleration back to Windows upon exiting fullscreen mode. So I get the black "placeholder" screen (similar to how movie files are handled), but all the graphical yumminess that should be "painted in" that space is, for whatever reason, not painted in.
