Crashing on Startup

[Saphellae]

**EDIT**

As always, I post a question somewhere and then figure something out on my own lol. I realized that FF9 is not very compatible with the 1.6 version that I have. I will try and find the other version (I believe I read 1.5.4?). Though, I am still having an issue with my gamepad! I tried to run another game and only the keyboard was working properly. My drivers are installed for my gamepad. It's Logitech Rumblepad 2.

Also, after installing the second last version of the program, I am still having crash issues with FF9 and any other game I attempt to run.

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Original post:

Hiya.. I am having an issue with the ePSXe.

I have been playing around with the configurations, and I'm not sure where I went wrong (this is my first day using it) but any game now crashes when I attempt a startup. Before this problem, I could not use my Rumblepad 2. I installed the driver after the games started to crash, so I'm not entirely sure if I have one problem, or two.

If anyone could help I would be really appreciative! I will keep checking here but if someone would be so kind, my Yahoo ID is on my profile.

Thanks a bunch!!!


**I should mention I am using Windows Vista. I saw a thread concerning some special configurations that were required.**

[Shendo]

The recommended version of ePSXe for playing FF9 is 1.5.2.
Since you are using Vista put ePSXe.exe to DEP ignore list and run ePSXe with admin privileges.
Optionally you may want to use Pete's D3D plugins as OGL ones currently have problems in Vista.

[Saphellae]

Thank you, that worked beautifully I completely forgot about the Run as Admin. I do need to look for some new sound and graphic plugins though, the ones I have are awful! And it skips between scenes.

[Squall-Leonhart]

Optionally you may want to use Pete's D3D plugins as OGL ones currently have problems in Vista.

With ATI cards

[Saphellae]

Mine has nvidia.

Thanks for all the info

[Squall-Leonhart]

not all games have fully supported rumble just so you know... among these are FF8,.. Crash Warped.

[Saphellae]

I will for sure keep that in mind. What type of controller would you recommend that is readily available today (without rumble)?

Darn, the game crashed at a certain point after my save. I guess it's a fruitless war

[Code Monkey]

Might I suggest....Revert to XP, since it is not an attempt to pirate OSX from mac, and is far more stable than Vista ever will be in the next few years? There is still little to no reason to use Vista other than it is "new and trendy" in Microsoft's definitions....

As far as controllers, I'd still recommend a genuine PSX controller with the "Boom" PSX/N64 USB adapter. I have had one for a long time now, and it supports up to PS2 and N64 controllers (with OEM connections for both), and works flawlessly under all Windows versions I have tested, from win98SE through to XP.

The Final Fantasy series has many issues with emulators in general, perhaps boring them to death with calls to large caches of text files. I have no immediate workaround, but you may want to try looking for the ePSXe command-line switches.

I hate to be circular on a forum, but have you checked here?

[Saphellae]

I'm aware of the situation between XP and Vista. However, new laptops are prefabbed with Vista.

There was a flood in our apartment, which is why I did not have access to my console, or my PC with XP.

I was just looking for something to pass the time with (no electronics for a geek is boringgggg!). Now that I have it back, it is not likely I will use the emulator again.

[Squall-Leonhart]

a friend of mine got a laptop preinstalled with Vista.

a format later and XP works nicely on it.

[Saphellae]

For what I do on my laptop, a format is not required.

[Squall-Leonhart]

it was in my friends case, something borked and the OEM Key wouldn't validate, making it impossible to use.