Hey,
I am coming home on Friday so I will try again, but no matter what emu I run it does the same thing. Screen (skin goes black) as if its trying to load the emu and then it doesn't appear. If i ctrl+alt+del I see Lazarus is not responding so I close it, then the emu runs?
Jim
It's supposed to do this.... when a game is loaded lazarus locks itself ... if you were to ctrl+alt+del at any point when a game is running it would tell you that it isn't responding.... it's right it isn't, it's designed that way.
Also this means that the display doesn't refresh, so if something covers it, it will turn the color of the thing in front of it....
in other words your emulator is starting and then it looses focus for whatever reason. btw while the rom is loading you will NOT get a mame screen if hidden is the display mode. That part is hidden so while the rom is loading you are going to have to wait.... in other words if you load up metal slug lazarus is going to look like it's "locked up"..... actually it's just waiting for the huge metal slug rom to load, which can take up to a minute on some systems..... keep that in mind....
So test with pacman, not your latest 30 meg fighter.
i think your problem is a focus issue.... you need to find out what application is stealing focus
some of the geforce screen managment programs are infamous for this, so be sure to disable them.