Fails to Find a Valid Mode

[darksol84]

Failed to find a valid mode (perhaps you need to switch your desktop to 32 bit mode?)

Failed to initialize D3D device

Unhandled exception. Save a crash dump?

No matter how I save the dump, the .mdmp file is 0 bytes. PSX 1.5 continues to ask me if I want to save a crash dump until I finally say No, and then I get "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."

PSXFIN caused an invalid page fault in module PSXFIN.EXE at 016f:0046dd3b.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=0046dd3b EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000001 SS=0177 ESP=00cbfcd8 EBP=01410c30
ECX=00000015 DS=0177 ESI=0050e774 FS=5e87
EDX=000001e0 ES=0177 EDI=00000004 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 10 6a 00 56 6a 01 51 8b 0d 3c f8 50 00 6a 00
Stack dump:
00000000 000088ae 00000500 00000400 00000000 00000016 00000015 00000016 00000019 00000018 00000017 00448ed1 000009ec 00000280 00000000 00000000

The same thing happened when I tried PSX 1.4. My desktop is already in 32-bit mode, but DXDIAG tells me that Direct3D functionality is not available; is that the problem, or am I just saddled with an obsolete system that I can't afford to replace?

[pSX Author]

If dxdiag says that you have no 3d support then pSX is not going to work. What video card/chipset do you have?

[darksol84]

Don't laugh, please don't laugh.

S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR.

[Ultima]

Indeed, that's quite an old card. I used to have a Savage S3 in my old computer as well (a system with Intel Pentium 133MHz, for reference as to how old I'm talking about here xP).

Edit: I take that back, your graphics chipset isn't all that old =T

[darksol84]

I'm looking at an entirely new system in the near future, something like this:

Intel Celeron D 2.80GHz
ASUS P5SD2-X LGA775 Motherboard
1GB PC-4200 DDR2
250GB 7200rpm STAT HDD
MSI NX6200TC 256M PCI-E

Properly configured, will pSX run on it?

[Ultima]

Any recent system will run pSX just fine. And to be more direct... well, that system, even though it's a Celeron, is more than enough to run pSX =]

[Sune]

ultima said:

Indeed, that's quite an old card. I used to have a Savage S3 in my old computer as well.

I'm thinking it can't be that old if it has DDR memory..?

Though, maybe DDR means something else in this particular case.

pSX ran my games just fine on my wife's Celeron 1.20 with on board Intel video (as soon as pSX author allowed pSX to run in 16-bit mode :-) It's an eMachines PC from 2001.

@ darksol84: Do you have the latest drivers for your S3 card installed?

Also see if you can locate the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard.

-Sune

[Ultima]

Interesting point... I didn't actually take a look at what the ProSavageDDR actually was, as it carried the S3 name, and I had thought the brand was phased out already. Anyway, after doing a big of googling, it turns out the ProSavageDDR is a chipset with an integrated graphics solution that uses DDR, for mobile computers (laptops)... I believe it handles 3D, and was released somewhere in 2002. Sorry for the uninformed post before =|

Mmm... Anyway, I agree with Sune Salminen, try updating the drivers. The newest version I've seen so far is 13.94.

[patrickp]

Also, darksol84, do you have DirectX 9.0c installed (the current version)? That is needed to run this emu, I believe - just having an older DX installation isn't Ok.

[ryssen88]

I got the same problem , though i could play the emulator before just fine (well with some crashes) , Now im going nuts .... I dont got 32 bit mode ...suckage