Rice and Directx... not the best of friends?

[ragnor]

Not too many days ago, I tried to close 1964 while running Zelda, to switch some textures in my hi-rez directory. Sadly, this caused it to crash for no appearant reason, and Rice would no longer run in DirectX mode on 1964 or PJ64... I assume it was a registry error of some sort? So I tried to remove a registry entry for Rice, didn't help. I'd been putting off my re-install of XP, and I finally gave in. A day later I was back in business with a fresh install of XP. Started up PJ64 with everything working fine, and I was a happy camper. But I was trying to figure out which of my OOT roms was the one I had my save-game on, thus starting and closing in succession. Bam, pj64 closed out, and Rice no longer loves DirectX. Is there a fix that I just couldn't find when I was searching the forums? Sorry, it's not neccesarily a Hi-res specific question, but I was using the Texture loading at the time, and I dunno of a Rice-specific forum. Anyone else have this problem? Repeatedly? Any help, Rice? (BTW, the plugin is awesome, but this is going to give me gray hair soon...)

[Trotterwatch]

You say you cleared out the registry entries, but Rices unfortunately tends to create a new one for each version of the plugin, and can get a bit congested:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RICEDAEDALUS
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RICEVIDEO

Just get rid of the lot, and I guess try reinstalling the plugin (and updating graphics drivers).

[ragnor]

well now... this is interesting... Yes, what you said is indeed the correct fix. However, I find that it crashes quite often right now. Like, I saved, and then loading later caused it to crash, requiring the removal of the registry entries, then reinstallation of the plugin. Is this a RicePlugin conflict, or is this more the emulator hating me?

*edit*
yeah, now PJ64 crashed after stopping emulation properly, and then attempting to close it. Some memory problem. =/

Oh, if it makes any difference, I've been using 6.1.0c, probably through all of the crashes that I've experienced (so maybe the 10th beta would be more up to snuff for me?)

[Doomulation]

Savestates can be a bit of problem. Try saving the normal way in the game. It might just solve some problems for you.
There is a known problem about pj crashing opengl plugins but... not directx. hmmm.