CPS3 On Vista Crashes!

[theoriginal]

Ok when I load games using the CPS3 emulator on Windows XP I have no problems. However, when I load games on windows vista, it crashes. I keep reloading the game on vista but it keeps crashing. Any idea on how to fix this problem?

[Agozer]

Do you use Aero?

 

I don't know, maybe CPS3Emulator just doesn't like Vista. Then again, it's not like that emulator is your only option.

[Robert]

You could try MAME... or get rid of Vista.

[L.S.D]

I am using Vista and my CPS3emu run just fine. How many RAM do you have?

[theoriginal]

I am using Vista and my CPS3emu run just fine. How many RAM do you have?

 

I'm using 1.5 gigs of ram on Vista

[L.S.D]

Must be your RAM then. I have 4G of Ram. 1.5G is not enough to run Vista and run CPS3 I presume.

[Agozer]

I find it hard to believe that one would need 1.5GB of RAM just to run Vista and a fairly simple emulator in it. Not to mention that I've never seen an application crash just because a system supposedly doesn't have enough RAM.

 

If you ask me, this is another one of those Windows' Weird Incompatibilities™ is raising its ugly head (i.e. some arbitrary hardware/software/driver incompatibility). The crash could be caused by a number of things, but I don't think the lack of RAM has anything to do with it.

[theoriginal]

It's weird but when I try the CPS3 Test version of the emulator all the games load without a problem. I find it odd that the roms crash when I load them on the final version of the CPS3 emulator.

[L.S.D]

Well, the only thing i can think of is the memory since I run practically fine without hiccup with 4GB Ram on Vista while his can't.

 

And i have another PC running Vista with 2.5GB RAM, and I can tell you it loads Vista SLOW

[NeoRAGERx]

i use xp sp3 and fba to run cps-3 and eats max 100mb ram, mame++ on kaillera eats max 200mb...so ram problems these days and on nt systems is pretty irrelevant, oh and yeah get rid of vista...windowblinds does miracles on xp