"Failed to initialise D3D device"

[smegforbrain]

I'm having some problems with the emu locking up for 10-15 seconds at a time, and it'll do it at random. Eventually, after doing this 3-4 times, it kicks me out of full screen mode, I have to close the program, it crashes, etc.

And then I'm getting the error msg from the subject line after trying to reload the emu (any version) after it has crashed.

I don't know how to go about fixing this, because the only solution at the moment seems to be to reboot my computer.

[Truth Unknown]

What version of DirectX do you have?
And did you install any new software recently? if not check for Spyware.

[smegforbrain]

DirectX 9.0c, and no spyware problems that I'm aware of.

Seeing as how pSX loads fine, and this error does not occur until after pSX crashes, there seems to be something in there that pSX isn't releasing (for want of a better term) when it crashes.

On a side note, since I'm testing games with all versions of pSX, I've disabled frame skipping, and that's made everything run a lot smoother - and so far I haven't gotten any of that lag again in full screen mode, which is still strange, because the games did look smooth (ie, no frames being skipped) in full screen mode with frame skipping enabled.