FF7 Epsxe error?

[mkulchar]

I am currently playing FF7 and it seems that every couple mins or even every minute that i play i get an windows error " windows has performed an illegal action and will close" so i have to constantly save state to be able to play.. i do 1 battle " save state" so then when i crashes i load up ff7 and continue were i saved....

What is causeing these crashes??

current set up:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.8
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 8800 GTS/PCI/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 2
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: �
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- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: on
- Game fixes: on [00001002]

[22point8]

If you're on Vista try adding epsxe to your DEP exceptions list.

[mkulchar]

thx for the reply, but i am using XP pro....

seems not matter what i pick for video i still get the error.

[jonc2006]

use the dx diag utility and post the text file it creates.

[mkulchar]

What i did is that i have an attachment with the dxdiag notepad that was created there with my specs... cause it would take up to much space in the forum.. thanks for any help u can give

i can post it on the forum if the attachment is not suffice for u.


thanks

[jonc2006]

yeah thats actually what i ment anyway, give me a little while to look it over for anything odd. in the meantime, have you tried using any other emulators to see if this occurs in them as well?

[mkulchar]

well i tired using PSX emulator.. and i didn't get any errors when i tried it.. just the orginal emulator is junk compared to epsxe cause it has the + graphics.. and even tried psxeven couldn't get it to work in general.

for plugins i tired the [pec] plugin w/ combination of the petes drivers. and i still got the errors.. so i don't use the [pecs] plugins, just the straight drivers... maybe it was the pecs the messed it up.. but i don't use it anymore and i still get the windows " illegal error" so i doupt it was [pec]

The errors only happen during the load times. like for example.... before and after battles and during zoning.. anything that requires a load it stalls 50% of the time

[jonc2006]

and this is with every game or just ff7? does this happen in both versions of epsxe?

[mkulchar]

to tell u the truth. i only have tired 1 game.. cuase this the game that i am interested playing.. and i have tired different versions.. i currently use 1.5.2.. but i have tired 1.6 and still get errors.

[jonc2006]

its going to be a big help if you can find another ps game disc and see if this error pops up during play with that. im just trying to eliminate as many things as i can before i start to really get into the heavier stuff.

[mkulchar]

ok, ill get another game. and see what happens and post bak.

ok, i ran FF9 on the emulator also, and i got the same error " epxse.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close"

so i guess there is something wrong with the emulator..

AppName: epsxe.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: epsxe.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00022e5f

-I got this error on ff7 "epxse.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close"

AppName: epsxe.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: ntdll.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00001010

[mkulchar]

here is a screenshot of what the CMD screen looks like when i loads the epsxe.. seems to have "unknown register" values.

the screen is in Winrar to make it fit on the forum. thanks again

[jonc2006]

post you sound plugin, its exact settings, and make sure only the top 3 out of 4 boxes are ticked in the spu selection menu. there are one or two other things that might be related but i want to get this out of the way first.

[mkulchar]

Selected sound : Eternal SPU Plugin 1.50

i have the 1st 3 checked

1- Enable sound
2- Enable CDDA
3- Enable XA sound

Audio device : DirectSound Buffer size: 64
Audio out methoud : Thread

Misc: Wait for XA buffer is free
Fine tune: 0
Reverb: Neilli's

Special game fix: Update before accessing register


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If i didn't list it above it is not checked. or is defualt

[jonc2006]

enable all 3 game fixes. if that doesnt do anything ill go ahead and tell you my other suggestions.

[mkulchar]

up same error

AppName: epsxe.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: ntdll.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00001010

[malmern]

Hmm,
I'm not the expert here,
but when FF7 crashes,
it seems to have some problems with ntdll.dll (Nvidia graphics driver, right?),
but when FF9 crashes,
it has problems with the emu it self,
isn't that kinda strange?

ok, ill get another game. and see what happens and post bak.

ok, i ran FF9 on the emulator also, and i got the same error " epxse.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close"

so i guess there is something wrong with the emulator..

AppName: epsxe.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: epsxe.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00022e5f

-I got this error on ff7 "epxse.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close"

AppName: epsxe.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: ntdll.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00001010

[jonc2006]

first thing you might want to try is to wipe epsxe of your HD completely and then do a fresh install. also try installing an ASPI layer on your system and/ delete all the plugins you dont use.

Originally Posted by malmern

Hmm,
I'm not the expert here,
but when FF7 crashes,
it seems to have some problems with ntdll.dll (Nvidia graphics driver, right?),
but when FF9 crashes,
it has problems with the emu it self,
isn't that kinda strange?

ff9 is well known to have issues with version 1.6.0, so that could explain why. generally it needs to be run on 1.5.2 otherwise it will stop working at a certain point.

[mkulchar]

well that made it worse. i can't even get it to load the game now.. tells me no CD is dected.. with the ASPI installed What CD driver am i suppose to use.?

Thre is the error it gives

[jonc2006]

ePSXe CDR ASPI core 1.5.2, make sure it is looking towards the correct cd drive.