CRT_emu drivers and SSF saturn emulator

[Tzakiel]

Not a groovymame question per se but related to Calamity's drivers.

I am running winXP32 with the crt_emu drivers and can't seem to get SSF to run.  Windows says I have directx9.0c, which I have read is the right ver, but the program just refuses to run, it crashes on startup.  Wondering if it could be a video driver issue since I have seen that as the other thing to try (update video drivers)

[Calamity]

Hi Tzakiel,

When a program crashes, it isn't fair to assume it is a video driver issue. It is the responsibility of a programmer to make sure his program doesn't crash. If it was a video driver issue, you'd probably see something serious like a blue screen.

Probably SSF is assuming something that is not true, like a certain video mode must be present (800x600?), and it's failing because of that.

[stellarola]

Hi Tzakiel,

When a program crashes, it isn't fair to assume it is a video driver issue. It is the responsibility of a programmer to make sure his program doesn't crash. If it was a video driver issue, you'd probably see something serious like a blue screen.

Probably SSF is assuming something that is not true, like a certain video mode must be present (800x600?), and it's failing because of that.

That's exactly the same issue I had. You'll need access to a higher resolution than 640x480. Not as good, but another option would be Yabause (Sega Saturn emulator). Hope this helps.

[Tzakiel]

OK... thanks for the info.  Looks like there is no way to get it going on a 480i display then?  I'll look into that other emulator.

[bulbousbeard]

Just use MESS. It actually runs some games that SSF doesn't (but SSF runs some games that MESS doesn't).

MESS with HLSL looks awesome anyway.

[Tzakiel]

Mainly I am trying to run radiant silvergun, astal, guardian heroes. Especially radiant- mame can't se to handle it well even with my 4.2ghz i5.