Posted: 9/5/2007 1:23 AM
Post subject: Mupen and Vista
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Rising_Tempest
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I recently picked up myself a rather good laptop, but with one serious drawback. Vista. Long story short, I have all my usuals up and running on Vista with no issues save Mupen, which invariably crashes my computer everytime it plays a game for more than 30 seconds. Any other Vista users with Mupen around, with any advice around this problem? cause, being able to TAS while I'm at my boring ass job would be rather nice.
Posted: 9/5/2007 10:57 AM
Post subject: Re: Mupen and Vista
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Halamantariel
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Rising Tempest wrote:
I recently picked up myself a rather good laptop, but with one serious drawback. Vista. Long story short, I have all my usuals up and running on Vista with no issues save Mupen, which invariably crashes my computer everytime it plays a game for more than 30 seconds. Any other Vista users with Mupen around, with any advice around this problem? cause, being able to TAS while I'm at my boring ass job would be rather nice.
I too have a rather good laptop with Vista on it. However, I didn't experience the same thing with Mupen. Everything works fine here. I know it's kind of pointless to reply to say I don't have the problem, but it's just to point out that it's not Vista vs. Mupen that is the problem. At least, not in my case.
Posted: 9/5/2007 5:31 PM
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Rising_Tempest
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Upon closer inspection, what cause it to crash is the very first shot fired in my movie when playing it back. The sound of the shot emulates fine, but the game and computer crash immediately afterward, meaning it's either the streak from the gunshot or the yell of the guard which doesn't work right and crashes my machine. Though it's a lot to ask halamantariel, would you be able to try playing back my movie (any m64 file I've posted in the thread) up to the first shot I fire on the Dam and see what happens on your Vista laptop? If I can isolate the problem to just this machine and not the OS in general I may be able to sort something out and not be hideously bored at work.
Posted: 9/6/2007 1:13 AM
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Raiscan
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What makes you sure its the combination of Vista and Laptop that causes it? Could you go into more details as to what happens with the crash? does the screen freeze/sound repeat for 5-10 seconds before it restarts or is it instantaneous? Do other demanding games play okay?
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Posted: 9/7/2007 7:11 PM
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Rising_Tempest
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I've basically isolated the issue to video playback/video recording, just doesn't seem to work for some reason. Using the emulator normally is no problem though. Very strange.
Posted: 9/8/2007 12:37 AM
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Raiscan
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This may be related very loosely to the Vista AVI generation problem previously mentioned in this thread. Perhaps you could try the fix and see if anything changes?
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