castlevania dawn of sorrow and page file

tucows · July 8th, 2007

this is the problem when im playing castlevania dos the page file increase from the normal 237 mb to 1.5 gb and up more(have to close ideas) and the fps down form 60 to 40 the problem is only in this game i have test others even the other castlevania and have no problem can this be solve.

kismayas69 · July 10th, 2007

most this rom i experience in the past few months its too risky to play and the white screen huhuhu..... you just sacrifies the game

Casval03 · July 10th, 2007

I have experienced the problems with large page file and white screen in this game as well. Hopefully the problems will be solved soon.

LightningLockey · July 10th, 2007

It is bad memory management in the game, there was a large thread a month ago about it. The emu can play it, but not efficantly. Just be glad the speed is improved from the last version. This game seems to be built pretty complex so going to be a while for it to run at a normal speed without killing your ram.

On my system, it will sponge about 2.3gb of ram before the white screen then drop about 500mb of ram.

Also, don't count on the save states and rooms working 100% of the time. Best to use both for when one way of saving doesn't work.

With patience, the game can be completed. Also, turn off the music to help it play better.

kismayas69 · July 11th, 2007

and also the DoS have a bugs like when you start in the character menu it crash like the older version of iDeaS its seems i have to use the older version but still i keep eye on the next version will be release soon enough.... thanks lino and can i ask how can i use the AR codes it needs the .cht file what should i do with this....God bless...

gdmk · July 11th, 2007

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Originally Posted by kismayas69

Rockman ZX advent(playable)

but it can't see the man and enemy

.

SCHUMI-4-EVA · July 11th, 2007

It would be a better idea to ask stuff like that in PM considering it comes from his sig....it may also not have been iDeaS..it may have been no$gba...just ask in PMs.

RockmanForte · July 11th, 2007

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Originally Posted by gdmk

but it can't see the man and enemy

.

Same here. The same for NeonDS. The no$gba still crashes.

LightningLockey · July 14th, 2007

kis, try and completely remove the ideas directory and the rom (if your using one) then get them both again. The older version of ideas corrupted a rom on me to the point of being unable to use it. And make sure it is unzipped. Then it should work, turn off sound also for better stability.

Hiei-YYH · July 14th, 2007

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Originally Posted by RockmanForte

Same here. The same for NeonDS. The no$gba still crashes.

i can't hack the game this way

well, guess i have to play it normally for now

**Lino** · July 14th, 2007

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Originally Posted by LightningLockey

kis, try and completely remove the ideas directory and the rom (if your using one) then get them both again. The older version of ideas corrupted a rom on me to the point of being unable to use it. And make sure it is unzipped. Then it should work, turn off sound also for better stability.

corrupted rom? but thing you say?

Hiei-YYH · July 14th, 2007

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Originally Posted by LightningLockey

kis, try and completely remove the ideas directory and the rom (if your using one) then get them both again. The older version of ideas corrupted a rom on me to the point of being unable to use it. And make sure it is unzipped. Then it should work, turn off sound also for better stability.

lol, IDEAS can't corrupt your rom. It doesn't write anything on your HD besides the ini file and saves.

sigmax · July 14th, 2007

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Originally Posted by LightningLockey

kis, try and completely remove the ideas directory and the rom (if your using one) then get them both again. The older version of ideas corrupted a rom on me to the point of being unable to use it. And make sure it is unzipped. Then it should work, turn off sound also for better stability.

maybe a virus currup your save

don't blame iDeaS

Tony Luey · July 15th, 2007

Same problem in Desmume too. After CGI scene, it just freeze & then crash.

LightningLockey · July 15th, 2007

I'm only stating what happened to me, I think when the older version of ideas (1.0.5) would crash, it caused the file corruption. Any number of problems can occur when a program doesn't close properly. I highly doubt it is a virus related problem as this happened 2 months ago and no problems ever since. I deleted the folder with the roms and old saves and downloaded them both again, no more problems. I'm assuming what ever caused the file corruption was fixed, even if it was and unknown problem. So that is why I suggested deleting both and getting fresh copies of both again, it see if this problem still exists.

I was able to complete the game in 1.0.6. In 1.0.8 I'll probably come back to it and see what is all improved.

Desume won't load the graphics for the lost village. I'm able to get the beginning where you fight the three monsters in the city and even that is a mess. The title screen in desume doesn't show anything, but you can still click on the options if you can find them...

Hiei-YYH · July 15th, 2007

I said and I'm going to say again, no emulators OVERWRITE YOUR ROM IMAGE FILES, if the file was corrupted, it was before you play them on IDEAS.

LightningLockey · July 16th, 2007

Well, how come it stopped working when ideas crashed? It crashed when I tried to equip items, a known point in the game that would cause ideas 1.0.5 to crash.

Is it not possible for a file to be corrupted if it is being read from and the program reading it crashes?

Hiei-YYH · July 16th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by LightningLockey

Well, how come it stopped working when ideas crashed? It crashed when I tried to equip items, a known point in the game that would cause ideas 1.0.5 to crash.

Is it not possible for a file to be corrupted if it is being read from and the program reading it crashes?

no, only by programs that can actually write to the file, like hex editors for example.

LightningLockey · July 18th, 2007

This has happened with other emu's in the past for me. It is rare, maybe this is the 4th or 5th time ever out of 8 or so years that I've used emulation. Look at the date I created my user account and lack of posts, though most of that was forgetting the url of this site lol. When it has happened, it was after an improper shutdown of the emu or both the emu and OS (though the last emu that took out the OS on me was a win98).

I don't know at all if was the emu, or if it is more related to windows. All I know is sometimes they get hosed on me and gotta get a new copy. Instead of wasteing time to figure out how it got corrupted, I've just gotten another copy and see if it happen again, which so far the same rom never got corrupted twice. I've come to adopt a method of backing up the rom for when it does get hosed one way or the other. This has been a rare occurance and ideas has gone threw plenty of improper shutdowns using castlevania. I'd say that out of maybe 100 total improper shutdowns, only once did the rom end up corrupted. I've had from roms from NES, SNES, game boys, up to DS get corrupted.

The rom was downloaded in a zip file that is stored in a different folder. In this case, all I did was delete the whole ideas directory. Unzipped the new version of ideas and the original rom file. Currently a copy of the original rom image works. So we can rule out that the original rom file was corrupted.

I'm not going to argue any more for it is not worth any more of my time. This is what happened to me and what I did to resolve the issue. My system has no malware and is not corrupted or throwing constant errors of missing or corrupt windows components. My current OS is windows xp pro Sp2. It also usually takes less then a minute to boot from POST (rarely get to see the welcome screen of windows) so can't even rule a slow older system.

In the future, if a rom image ever becomes corrupted on me again. Before deleting it, I'll offer a copy for analysis to anyone who wants to look at it. Though like I've said above, it is rare and can be a long time before it happens again.

No hard feelings on this at my end, just different viewpoints. And a hell of a mountain formed from a small mole hill.

July 8th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
tucows Tensai to Tenshi Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Heaven Posts: 53	castlevania dawn of sorrow and page file this is the problem when im playing castlevania dos the page file increase from the normal 237 mb to 1.5 gb and up more(have to close ideas) and the fps down form 60 to 40 the problem is only in this game i have test others even the other castlevania and have no problem can this be solve. Last edited by tucows; July 9th, 2007 at 20:30.

July 10th, 2007	#2 (permalink)
kismayas69 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: phil Posts: 127	most this rom i experience in the past few months its too risky to play and the white screen huhuhu..... you just sacrifies the game __________________ game finish: Rockman ZX Rockman ZX Advent castlevania Dawn of sorrow(Bugs) current playing iDeaS: final fantasy XII revenant wings castlevania Portrait of ruins(in-game) Megaman Starforce leo/peagasus/dragon(game glithces) TIPlay the game with no cheat its have an excitement thats all

July 10th, 2007	#4 (permalink)
LightningLockey Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 57	It is bad memory management in the game, there was a large thread a month ago about it. The emu can play it, but not efficantly. Just be glad the speed is improved from the last version. This game seems to be built pretty complex so going to be a while for it to run at a normal speed without killing your ram. On my system, it will sponge about 2.3gb of ram before the white screen then drop about 500mb of ram. Also, don't count on the save states and rooms working 100% of the time. Best to use both for when one way of saving doesn't work. With patience, the game can be completed. Also, turn off the music to help it play better. __________________ LightningLockey Running, cheap on gas

July 11th, 2007	#5 (permalink)
kismayas69 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: phil Posts: 127	and also the DoS have a bugs like when you start in the character menu it crash like the older version of iDeaS its seems i have to use the older version but still i keep eye on the next version will be release soon enough.... thanks lino and can i ask how can i use the AR codes it needs the .cht file what should i do with this....God bless... __________________ game finish: Rockman ZX Rockman ZX Advent castlevania Dawn of sorrow(Bugs) current playing iDeaS: final fantasy XII revenant wings castlevania Portrait of ruins(in-game) Megaman Starforce leo/peagasus/dragon(game glithces) TIPlay the game with no cheat its have an excitement thats all

July 11th, 2007	#7 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Xenophobia FTL Posts: 4,599	It would be a better idea to ask stuff like that in PM considering it comes from his sig....it may also not have been iDeaS..it may have been no$gba...just ask in PMs. __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM (OEM), 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT (256MB GDDR3 PCIe), Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 HDD, Windows XP SP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

July 10th, 2007	#3 (permalink)
Casval03 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Unknown Posts: 27	I have experienced the problems with large page file and white screen in this game as well. Hopefully the problems will be solved soon.

July 14th, 2007	#9 (permalink)
LightningLockey Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 57	kis, try and completely remove the ideas directory and the rom (if your using one) then get them both again. The older version of ideas corrupted a rom on me to the point of being unable to use it. And make sure it is unzipped. Then it should work, turn off sound also for better stability. __________________ LightningLockey Running, cheap on gas

July 15th, 2007	#14 (permalink)
Tony Luey Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 168	Same problem in Desmume too. After CGI scene, it just freeze & then crash.

July 15th, 2007	#15 (permalink)
LightningLockey Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 57	I'm only stating what happened to me, I think when the older version of ideas (1.0.5) would crash, it caused the file corruption. Any number of problems can occur when a program doesn't close properly. I highly doubt it is a virus related problem as this happened 2 months ago and no problems ever since. I deleted the folder with the roms and old saves and downloaded them both again, no more problems. I'm assuming what ever caused the file corruption was fixed, even if it was and unknown problem. So that is why I suggested deleting both and getting fresh copies of both again, it see if this problem still exists. I was able to complete the game in 1.0.6. In 1.0.8 I'll probably come back to it and see what is all improved. Desume won't load the graphics for the lost village. I'm able to get the beginning where you fight the three monsters in the city and even that is a mess. The title screen in desume doesn't show anything, but you can still click on the options if you can find them... __________________ LightningLockey Running, cheap on gas Last edited by LightningLockey; July 15th, 2007 at 14:43.

July 15th, 2007	#16 (permalink)
Hiei-YYH THE Hentai M@ster Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: MAKAI Posts: 1,423	I said and I'm going to say again, no emulators OVERWRITE YOUR ROM IMAGE FILES, if the file was corrupted, it was before you play them on IDEAS. __________________ 冥界の王 My NEW Site BEST anime ever!! My Official Code Breaker DS Codes

July 16th, 2007	#17 (permalink)
LightningLockey Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 57	Well, how come it stopped working when ideas crashed? It crashed when I tried to equip items, a known point in the game that would cause ideas 1.0.5 to crash. Is it not possible for a file to be corrupted if it is being read from and the program reading it crashes? __________________ LightningLockey Running, cheap on gas

July 18th, 2007	#19 (permalink)
LightningLockey Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 57	This has happened with other emu's in the past for me. It is rare, maybe this is the 4th or 5th time ever out of 8 or so years that I've used emulation. Look at the date I created my user account and lack of posts, though most of that was forgetting the url of this site lol. When it has happened, it was after an improper shutdown of the emu or both the emu and OS (though the last emu that took out the OS on me was a win98). I don't know at all if was the emu, or if it is more related to windows. All I know is sometimes they get hosed on me and gotta get a new copy. Instead of wasteing time to figure out how it got corrupted, I've just gotten another copy and see if it happen again, which so far the same rom never got corrupted twice. I've come to adopt a method of backing up the rom for when it does get hosed one way or the other. This has been a rare occurance and ideas has gone threw plenty of improper shutdowns using castlevania. I'd say that out of maybe 100 total improper shutdowns, only once did the rom end up corrupted. I've had from roms from NES, SNES, game boys, up to DS get corrupted. The rom was downloaded in a zip file that is stored in a different folder. In this case, all I did was delete the whole ideas directory. Unzipped the new version of ideas and the original rom file. Currently a copy of the original rom image works. So we can rule out that the original rom file was corrupted. I'm not going to argue any more for it is not worth any more of my time. This is what happened to me and what I did to resolve the issue. My system has no malware and is not corrupted or throwing constant errors of missing or corrupt windows components. My current OS is windows xp pro Sp2. It also usually takes less then a minute to boot from POST (rarely get to see the welcome screen of windows) so can't even rule a slow older system. In the future, if a rom image ever becomes corrupted on me again. Before deleting it, I'll offer a copy for analysis to anyone who wants to look at it. Though like I've said above, it is rare and can be a long time before it happens again. No hard feelings on this at my end, just different viewpoints. And a hell of a mountain formed from a small mole hill. __________________ LightningLockey Running, cheap on gas

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