Trouble running ZSNES

johnny101 · Post by **johnny101** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:41 am

Hey! I've been having trouble running all of the WIP as well as official releases (well, ive jumped around and all of the ones I tried on the WIP page and homepage). The only ones that seem to work are the ones at ZSNES Shrine http://www.zophar.net/zsnes/shrine/ . It's weird because it was around December that I was using the newest ZSNES releases daily. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions off the top of your heads that may help? After I've unzipped ZSNES and try to run it, all my computer does is opens the black window and only gets a chance to create the config file and whatnot before it shuts the window. It doesn't even display an error message of any sort. Thanks for the help in advance!

ASUS P4SD-LA motherboard
P4 2.4 Ghz HT technology
Win XP
1024 MB RAM
80 gigs
Intel 82865G for graphics

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:24 am

Does the black window close right away or does it just sit there? If it just sits there you have to press alt+enter to go fullscreen.

johnny101 · Post by **johnny101** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:01 am

no, actually the window closes just as soon as it opens. thanks anyways!

Richard C. · Post by **Richard C.** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:22 am

I can think of two possibilities.

1) You haven't used a new version since Nach changed the .dat format to text. I'm not sure if this is even caused by not deleting the old .dat file, but it's worth a shot. To fix this, delete the *.dat and *.cfg files in the ZSNES directory. Then, extract the newest version of ZSNES into the directory and run zsnesw.exe.

2)Something with your video card drivers, maybe. Update your video card drivers. I can't find your motherboard on Asus's web site, but here is a link to the drivers from Intel's site: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts ... uctID=1044.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:41 am

You know I havent even bothered to check, but what version of DirectX is needed for zsnes windows? And could an older version cause this problem?

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:13 pm

SquareHead wrote:You know I havent even bothered to check, but what version of DirectX is needed for zsnes windows? And could an older version cause this problem?

I think ZSNES requires DirectX8 to run.

johnny101 · Post by **johnny101** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:05 pm

Richard C. wrote:I can think of two possibilities.

1) You haven't used a new version since Nach changed the .dat format to text. I'm not sure if this is even caused by not deleting the old .dat file, but it's worth a shot. To fix this, delete the *.dat and *.cfg files in the ZSNES directory. Then, extract the newest version of ZSNES into the directory and run zsnesw.exe.

2)Something with your video card drivers, maybe. Update your video card drivers. I can't find your motherboard on Asus's web site, but here is a link to the drivers from Intel's site: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts ... uctID=1044.

hm, I went into the ZSNES directory and couldn't find the .dat file to delete but had no trouble finding the cfg. file. Perhaps a sign of the problem? I've already tried updating all of my drivers, including my graphics drivers. Just so everyone knows, this is my PC with the exception that I've upgraded the RAM to 1024 MB. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/gene ... =c00025829

here are the driver updates I mentioned earlier.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/soft ... =us&os=228

I'm also pretty sure I've got the latest Directx. Thanks for your help everyone!

Richard C. · Post by **Richard C.** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:27 am

Agozer wrote:
SquareHead wrote:You know I havent even bothered to check, but what version of DirectX is needed for zsnes windows? And could an older version cause this problem?
I think ZSNES requires DirectX8 to run.

and i think DirectX 9 comes with Windows XP

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:40 am

Windows XP with and without SP1 comes with DirectX 8.1, while SP2 comes with DirectX 9.0c - either way, Windows XP ought to not have difficulties running ZSNES.

My advice to the OP - make sure you are using ZSNES for Windows and not DOS.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:10 pm

Clements: That's odd, because my Windows XP SP1 came with Direct X 9.0 ready-to-go.

Post by **Nach** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:26 pm

I'm pretty sure my XP1a came with DX9a.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:46 pm

SP1 comes with 8.1

DX9 was only released a month before SP1a was. the only difference between SP1 and SP1a is the latter has MSs JVM removed.

Post by **Nach** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:52 pm

funkyass, my SP1a is on an OEM Win XP CD and it definitly has DX9a on it. In fact I got the CD about the time DX9c came out.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:57 pm

My Windows XP SP1 disc came with DX 8.1.

johnny101 · Post by **johnny101** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:12 am

hm have we run out of ideas? I was really hoping to use ZSNES considering its just about the best snes emulator I've ever used but I guess I won't be able to. Either way, thanks alot for your help! Oh and by the way, yes I'm sure I'm using the windows version and not the DOS version.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:58 am

Try scanning your system for spyware, adware, and viruses, just in case?

Sith · Post by **Sith** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:32 pm

IceFox wrote:Try scanning your system for spyware, adware, and viruses, just in case?

YES,if something goes wrong that's always something that you gotta do!