Posted: 5/30/2015 10:58 PM
Post subject: Problem starting BizHawk
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Ariel
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Im trying to startup the emulator and this error happens: http://imgur.com/q8G6bbL After that nothing happens, i have tried lots of things like reinstalling netframework each vers, slimdx, slimdx sdk,etc. i really dont know what else to do, if someone could know about this and help me out, ill be grateful
Posted: 5/31/2015 12:02 AM
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Amaraticando
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Have you installed the prereq installer?
Posted: 5/31/2015 1:05 AM
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Ariel
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I just did it and still the same error :S
Posted: 5/31/2015 1:40 AM
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Sappharad
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Did you unzip the archive properly? If so, you could always just copy the dll's from the dll folder into the main folder and see if it works then. You're not supposed to have to do that though.
Posted: 5/31/2015 1:53 AM
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Ariel
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Yes i did but still, man i hate this cant play mmx again u.u
Posted: 5/31/2015 4:10 AM
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zeromus
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installing slimdx wont help anything and in fact may hurt things. did you try re-downloading bizhawk? your system doesn't like the slimdx.dll that bizhzwk is using. It's giving the error messages that usually show up when there's a mismatch between 32bit and 64bit systems. We should be using all 32bit dlls so it's not clear how this would happen unless you're using someone else's bizhawk, and they've built it wrong; or maybe it downloaded wrong; or you built it wrong; or you pasted around dlls and picked the wrong ones. Perhaps you were originally having a different problem, and you only started having this problem when pasting in a slimdx.dll from somewhere far away. Regardless, get a fresh bizhawk.
Posted: 5/31/2015 5:24 AM
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Ariel
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yeah i did a lot of things will try to get a freash bizhawk again, anyways it wont be needed at all i found another emulator and its going pretty good, thanks for the help anyways
Posted: 6/5/2015 1:11 AM
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dwangoAC
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I had a very similar set of circumstances and finally discovered an offending copy of the .dll in my path elsewhere in my system. As part of your clean install you might want to do a search (tthat includes hidden and system files) for that .dll to make sure it doesn't exist somewhere else, as that can make you go completely bonkers. :) Best of luck!
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Posted: 6/5/2015 2:26 AM
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zeromus
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Thanks for the tip. We tell windows to change the dll search directory to the dll subdirectory, which should give our slimdx priority, so who knows why it would be finding another one first. At least it's a testable scenario. If there's something peculiar about slimdx we might be able to work around it by manually loading it.