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Post by darkfalz on Apr 19, 2006 3:40:09 GMT -5
I only have a few games, Tekken 3 being the one I play the most. I suppose this emulator doesn't support the short chains hack or whatever it was that allowed Tekken 3 not to screw up at the end of the round.
This emulator just freezes, and I don't mean the internal emulation freezes (which is okay), I mean the whole emulator freezes. I can no longer switch back to windowed or desktop to kill the frozen task. It means I have to reach for the hardware reset button... which should never happen in an emulator.
Internal faults/missing emulation features should never result in the crash of the emulator itself, especially when it locks up your whole system. Better exception handling is needed!
Otherwise concept is fantastic, totally self contained emulator in software mode.
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Post by Ultima on Apr 19, 2006 10:12:43 GMT -5
Yep, a handful of games crash the entire emulator, Tekken 3 being one of them. It would probably crash your system if you have it full screen, but on windowed mode, it shouldn't.
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Post by pSX Author on Apr 19, 2006 11:40:33 GMT -5
The emulator should never crash your entire system... it could be that it is writing out a crash dump - this can take a long time (I've seen it take several minutes). In fullscreen mode if a crash occurs and you have dbghelp.dll installed the emulator will always save out a full dump (because it doesn't have a chance to ask you).
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Post by Ultima on Apr 19, 2006 11:52:14 GMT -5
I'd say he might consider it as "crashing" when he can't get out of full screen and do anything with Windows, even though it technically didn't crash the system itself.
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Post by pSX Author on Apr 19, 2006 16:11:28 GMT -5
Actually the problem in Tekken3 is that it causes an infinite loop in the GPU code (this may actually be a bug in the game - I haven't looked into it closely enough). But: you should always be able to exit the emulator using ctrl+alt+del... if you can't its probably a video driver bug (I can get out fine on my machine when this happens - I just tried it).
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Post by darkfalz on Apr 20, 2006 7:10:15 GMT -5
Actually, I can ctrl-alt-delete to bring up taskman, but the pSX graphics remain in the foreground, so I can't actually access/see the task manager to kill it. This is a pet peeve of windows in general, that often 3D game crashes have this problem.
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Post by Ultima on Apr 20, 2006 10:06:51 GMT -5
Heh then it's basically what I suspected, and unfortunately, like you said, it's more of a Windows problem (at least the system hanging part). As pSX Author said, there should be no reason for pSX to be crashing your system unless there's something else critically wrong with it.
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Post by darkfalz on Apr 23, 2006 8:33:25 GMT -5
It's not really a Windows problem, the *internal* emulation locking up shouldn't stop the external parts (graphics, sound) from switching from full screened to windowed etc.
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Post by cradledani on May 5, 2006 10:09:15 GMT -5
if your stuck in full screen mode, press and hold ALT and then press TAB (the key to the left of Q). that will hopefully let you "switch" out of full screen and onto the desktop or another open folder or something else. if that dont work, try pressing and holding CTRL and pressing ESC, that should bring up the START menu (windows Start menu, not the game lol). hope this helps!!
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Post by Ultima on May 5, 2006 15:49:15 GMT -5
Generally, if there's a lockup, Alt+Tab or trying to display the Start Menu don't help in exiting a full-screen application.
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Post by zero on May 6, 2006 12:59:09 GMT -5
It probably wouldnt work anyway. Taskmanager (by default) is set to Always on top. So, if it doesn't show up then nothing else will.
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