Hello everyone,
I am brand new here in the forums, and trying Daphne for the first time over the past few days. I have lots of experience with p.c.'s and software, and have managed to get past all the bugs, and get this working on Vista succesfully. (I am using home premium 64 bit) The first problem I ran into was with frame files. Chip's framefile wizard that is downloadable through the Daphne site is excellent, but you will need to know what number to put in for the .m2v start frame. (I think there was a thread here with that info, i'm looking for it again myself). The second issue I had after I got all my frame file problems sorted out was with video parsing issues. I found that certain games loaded up with the precache video option on enabled, which caused the problem. Vista is such a resource and memory PIG, that there was not enough available memory on my system to precache the neccesary video. (Wait until you see my system specs below, lmfao) *I read somewhere there were "3 files" that you needed to put in the system32 folder for xp, or wow64 folder for x64. Since I am not using x64, I put them in the sys32 folder, and it worked fine for me.* I can't remember right now what the file names were, or where I took them from??? I'll re-post that when I figure it out. (There is a wow64 folder though called "sysWOW64")
Another issue I ran into that I found was neccesary was to DISABLE ROM CRC 32 CHECKING. I would ALWAYS get errors until I turned this off, and then games loaded up without issue. I just got ESH to work by switching that to disabled. I do get a message when loading esh up though, saying "game can be completed, but driver is very immature, various video/sound problems. Perhaps when doing the crc32 check, this driver issue halted the game from booting???? Who knows - well, I guess chip and his buddies might
Anyhow, hope this helps someone out there fix their issues, it's been quite the battle for me this far, even with my extensive knowledge of p.c.'s.
**I never had to run Dapne in winxp compatability mode, nor did I have to run it as an administrator. As long as I corrected the above issues, it works fine for me every time now
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Here's my system specs:
Case: Antec 900 series gaming case (Look this on up online - AMAZING gaming case!!!!)
Power supply: Enermax "Liberty" 550 watt dual 12v rail with dual PCI-express gaming power supply. (This is absolutely KILLER!!!)
Motherboard: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe socket 775 with intel 975x express chipset crossfire. (Liquid nitrogen cooled)
Processor: Intel core 2 duo extreme 2.8 (Overclocked to 4 gigs)
Ram: 4x1 gig Corsair ddr2 pc 6400 800 mhz xtreme performance ram
Video: Radeon X1900 gt 512 meg PCI-E card and Radeon X1900 gt 512 meg PCI-E All-in-wonder card running in crossfire mode. Video is overclocked to quite insane levels as well
Hard drives: 3x 350 gig Western digital 7500 rpm sata 2 drives.
Optical drive: LG super-multi 16x dual layer cd/dvdrw
Monitor: 24" Viewsonic High definition widescreen 5 ms response with 1680x1050 resolution
Key & mouse: Logitech cordless desktop w/laser mouse
Joystick: Logitech cordless rumble pad 2
***Believe it or not - Vista uses up all this, and BEGS for more to just run SIMPLE applications!!!! It is slower at times than my athlon 2800 rig from 4 years ago!!!!! (Vista is still VERY immature, and has tone of compatability and driver issues. When patched up a few times, it will likely speed WAY up - at least I HOPE SO!!!!)***