ChanKast Corruption and Crashing

[wywywywy]

Hi all,

Finally the Emutalk forums are back online

Okay, over the last two days hours I've been trying to get this to work, but no joy.
I have got:

- ChanKast 0.2a
- ChanKast Utilities 0.2a
- roms that I legally own
- all BIOS's
- VMS

Basically everytime I try to run a rom, the game would crash ("chankast.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience") AFTER showing the corrupted Dreamcast logo.

By the way I can get into BIOS, most gfx are okay.
Also tried the 3 favors of v0.1, same result.

System spec:
P4 1.8
512mb ram, plenty of page memory left
Over 2gig harddrive space left
Matrox Parhelia-512 128mb AGP

I tried to use 3D Analyzer and disabled everything (rendering, texture, HW T&L, lighting, etc) and it still crashed. GeForce, Radeon, TNT2, Intel 855 all work okay (some with the use of 3D Analyzer).

No applications are running. All unnecessary services disabled.

Additional info:
- Win XP Pro with all patches
- DX9b
- Tried many gfx card driver versions, including the latest, the very old, and the "special edition" ones
- Tried re-downloading everything

Please, I do know that the min requirement stated is "GeForce/Radeon", but it is not like ChanKast is using any of the GeForce/Radeon specific features - even people with TNT2 or Intel 855 can run it with SW T&L. So take it as a "Feature Request" or "Help Needed" instead of a "Bug Report".

Please help.
Many thanks.

 

[SeiferAlmasy]

ChanKast Utilities 0.2a

Please, do not comment these hacks in this fórum, are impression mine or somebody already was alerted on this?

 

[TheFreeman]

Hello. First, there are no DREAMCAST roms, they are game images. Secondly, I believe your error could be with something deep into de win xp core. If you can, try to run a clean install of win xp, and reinstall the latest drivers of you card. If this doesnt work, I would think its a Vcard-related problem.
Its only a matter of crossing out posibilities, nothing genious. lain:

P.S= do you the ASPI drv installed?

If not, try to grab this file: ftp://ftp.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll
And save it to the \Windows\System32 subdir, then restart for precaution.

 

[mezkal]

ChanKast Utilities 0.2a

Please, do not comment these hacks in this fórum, are impression mine or somebody already was alerted on this?

Excuse me, since when are we referring to Chankast Utilities and Kryso's work as hacks? Granted I (and many others) have had issues with SpeedPig but the other portions of the Utilities (such as region changing etc) are very nice thank you. Seifer, it may be nicer for you to read up a bit more before insulting someone's work outright.

Cheers,

Mezkal

 

[wywywywy]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.
I personally don't think ChanKast Utilities are a hack - more like plugins, so I use it.
Anyway I've got another copy here without ChanKast Utilities, same result.

I do have ASPI driver, as I have Nero installed...
But the same happens with Daemon and Alcohol 120% as well.

And I have tried many versions of the driver already.

Many thanks.