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please..

 

can you give me a step by step procedure in running nullDC?

 

i downloaded dc_bios.bin and dc_flash.bin, and renamed dc_bios.bin to dc_boot.bin...

 

whats the next thing to do..???

 

please help...

 

im soo desperate in playing mvc2..

 

thank you to those who'll help...

 

EDIT: i get this message when i double click nullDC_100b1.exe.

 

"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem.."

 

please help.

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Use the nullDC installer package. For some reason, the regular archive (without Microsoft .NET Framework package) does not work for some people.

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Use the nullDC installer package. For some reason, the regular archive (without Microsoft .NET Framework package) does not work for some people.

 

 

hey thank you for that recommendation...

its working now..

 

BUT....

 

the graphics sucks.... whats wrong??

 

the letters arent clear..

 

please.. help

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Use the nullDC installer package. For some reason, the regular archive (without Microsoft .NET Framework package) does not work for some people.

 

 

hey thank you for that recommendation...

its working now..

 

BUT....

 

the graphics sucks.... whats wrong??

 

the letters arent clear..

 

please.. help

Either you have a very old graphics card or you have an integrated chip manufactured by Intel. (no support for hardware T&L).

 

If the above is true you can forget about using any Dreamcast emulator until get a better video card. If I'm wrong, you need to update your video card drivers

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Use the nullDC installer package. For some reason, the regular archive (without Microsoft .NET Framework package) does not work for some people.

 

 

hey thank you for that recommendation...

its working now..

 

BUT....

 

the graphics sucks.... whats wrong??

 

the letters arent clear..

 

please.. help

Either you have a very old graphics card or you have an integrated chip manufactured by Intel. (no support for hardware T&L).

 

If the above is true you can forget about using any Dreamcast emulator until get a better video card. If I'm wrong, you need to update your video card drivers

 

 

 

im such a noob...

but

 

what is an integrated chip?? and hardware T&L??

 

i wanna know so that i can buy a good video card...

 

as far as i know, my laptop has a very good video card.

 

please explain.. thank you

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Well, now that you said that you have a laptop, it's fairly clear that you have an integrated graphics chip.

 

Since laptops don't have enough room, they have to use integrated parts (read: permanently attached to the motherboard) so that everything will fit. This isn't a problem for desktop computers so they can use non-integrated solutions such as actual video cards.

 

Because a full graphics hardware need to be fit in a tiny chip, integrated graphics chips are never as good as actual video cards. So they lack many of the features that video cards have. (in this case T&L)

 

As for T&L, it's a graphics technique known as Transform & Lighting which is responsible for a number of special effects in games. Now, Dreamcast emulators need this very function from the graphics hardware in order to render Dreamcast graphics correctly. Since many integrated graphics chips (most notoriously Intel's chips) lack proper T&L support, you'll see messed up graphics.

 

Like I said earlier, you can forget about trying to get the emulator to run properly on your laptop. Same goes for every other Dreamcast emulator. Get your self a decent desktop computer with a decent non-integrated graphics card. That's the only way you are going to get acceptable graphics from Dreamcast emulators.

 

P.S. You can check what integrated chip you have by clicking Start --> Run, typing dxdiag and press Enter. The DirectX Diagnostics program should run. Then click on the Display tab and see what it says Under "Device:".

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Well, now that you said that you have a laptop, it's fairly clear that you have an integrated graphics chip.

 

Since laptops don't have enough room, they have to use integrated parts (read: permanently attached to the motherboard) so that everything will fit. This isn't a problem for desktop computers so they can use non-integrated solutions such as actual video cards.

 

Because a full graphics hardware need to be fit in a tiny chip, integrated graphics chips are never as good as actual video cards. So they lack many of the features that video cards have. (in this case T&L)

 

As for T&L, it's a graphics technique known as Transform & Lighting which is responsible for a number of special effects in games. Now, Dreamcast emulators need this very function from the graphics hardware in order to render Dreamcast graphics correctly. Since many integrated graphics chips (most notoriously Intel's chips) lack proper T&L support, you'll see messed up graphics.

 

Like I said earlier, you can forget about trying to get the emulator to run properly on your laptop. Same goes for every other Dreamcast emulator. Get your self a decent desktop computer with a decent non-integrated graphics card. That's the only way you are going to get acceptable graphics from Dreamcast emulators.

 

P.S. You can check what integrated chip you have by clicking Start --> Run, typing dxdiag and press Enter. The DirectX Diagnostics program should run. Then click on the Display tab and see what it says Under "Device:".

 

 

 

oh...

now that makes perfect sense...

 

i'll just transfer the emulator and the game to my desktop computer...

 

hopefully it meets the requirements.... coz its quite the latest... hehe...

 

thank you so much for the detailed info...

 

i'll be counting on you on my future emulator problems....

 

thank you so much

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Good. Holler back and tell us if if you're desktop computer is up to the task.

 

yes... its up to the task!!! im sooo glad..

 

but, there's a slight problem...

 

the speed is quite slow... not slow like a "turtle" but like, when i finish my fight with a super move, it takes time, its like the slow motion effect is more than enough...

 

please help...

 

thank you..

 

EDIT: and i cant play versus mode... why?

 

im playing mvc2 by the way.. thank you

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Well, if you're computer isn't very fast, you can expect slow gameplay and misc. slowdowns during gameplay.

 

As for Versus Mode, either you haven't enabled Player 2's controller in nullDC's options, or then Versus Mode isn't properly emulated.

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Well, if you're computer isn't very fast, you can expect slow gameplay and misc. slowdowns during gameplay.

 

As for Versus Mode, either you haven't enabled Player 2's controller in nullDC's options, or then Versus Mode isn't properly emulated.

 

oh...

is it because i have the sims2 and all of its expansions installed in my pc?

 

ok.. ill try right now to enable player 2.

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