Ok look - someone has to help me out here

I've tried 1964, Project64, Mupen, UltraHLE.....a whole bunch of others that I can't recall. Not one of them works without causing lockups.

I've tried many different plugins with respect to graphics, sound, RSP and input, I *still* get lockups. I tried different versions of the emulators.....STILL lockups.

What am I doing wrong? Why are these games (Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, etc) all listed as supported and playable and yet they can't be played for more than a few minutes without freezing and forcing me to replay the entire level/area? Its getting extremely annoying now, I can't play PD or Pokemon Stadium like this because having to redo critical areas is just annoying.

What am I doing wrong? Is there anything better than these emulators yet? Right now I've found Glide64 (newest 06 build of the wrapper and wonder) and Azimer's WIP2 for audio work best, since swapping them out doesn't solve lockups.

The only reason I can possibly imagine for the freezing is the emulators themselves. However I thought Project64 and 1964 were the most used and highly rated? Doesn't anyone besides me play their games for more than 20 minutes to see these freeze issues? Its not my PC or anything, because its only the emulator that freeze causing me to just close and restart like nothing happend. Hell it still says "60/60" fps in the corner when it occurs.

So what do I do? I find emulation pointless if the games can't be completed.

But what you don't see is that I've been trying these over the span of many driver versions and reinstalls of XP. If there is a hardware problem, can you maybe let me know? I've listed my hardware and AFAIK I've not heard of incompatibilities with these programs. It just doesn't make sense.

Is there some debug mode I can use to see what exactly is causing the freezing? I fail to believe its my PC when XP doesn't even see the program as not resonding....the menus and everything work. Its just the actual emulation has suddenly frozen - exiting full screen I can see it *looks* like it is still working, and yet I can't forward any frames. The only solution is to reset the rom or exit.

Any ideas at all? Trying on another PC isn't an option since this is the PC I own powerful enough to get decent performance.

Iconoclast said:

There"$ more to your PC hardware factors of emulating the N64 than just your driver versions and your operating system. For example, you seem to have rooted this idea out, but one thing that can do it is if you're trying to run in 24 bit color depth. Is your monitor's color depth set to 24 bit?

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Why would colour depth freeze the games randomly? I've never heard of depth doing anything but affecting palettes...hardly the issue here.

I mean, like I said, that might not be it since you didn't get a Not Responding error or whatever, but it sounds like it's something about your PC, to me, and reinstalling Windows XP and different driver versions are only some, but not all, of the things to try to fix your problem.

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Well what is it then? A 'pc' is just hardware and I've listed my hardware. Its easy to blame the PC, but in reality I've noticed many people with similar if not identical pieces of hardware getting better results than me. I just wish there was a way to pinpoint the exact cause of the freezing, since it happens so randomly.

I've switched to the latest version of Mupen and thus far no freezing. Hopefully all is well.

I'm using the exact same setup with the exact same plugins in Mupen64. No freezing. I'm no rocket scientist, but I know which factor I would blame the freezing on.

Blanket? I play tons of games both old and new, and quite frankly I don't get freezing like this. Project64 and 1964 do. Mupen64 does not. Its as simple as that, problem solved.