Hello there,
I use an old w7 machine for retroarch & the LPRS2 core does not work. I tried looking up some information to see if there was anything I could possibly do to get it working. The only thing I came up on explaining the problem is this.
Is there anything I could try?
hmm, yeah, probably not anything you can fix on your end. It’s looking for dependencies that apparently don’t exist on Win7. If you could get those libs from a later version of Windows, you might be able to drop them into your RetroArch directory.
Would you know by any chance if anyone has done that? Even if I had those dlls would windows know what to do with them if retroarch calls it or would retroarch handle that? Is it possible if a dev worked on it to have the core detect the os & then if windows 7 drop requiring those?
What do those dlls even do?
I don’t know what they do. One appears to be related to directx, at least. I don’t know if anyone’s tried just plopping them into the folder. Programs should look in thelocal folder for libs first, but I don’t know how well that works with system-level libs (if that’s what these are).
If I get a hand on those 2 dlls i’ll report back here what happens. I currently use PCSX2 1.6.0 to play PS2 games on that machine any version after that does not work. Some games stutter or move in super slow motion while theres others that work perfectly fine.
I hope we can figure something I would love to be able to play True Crime: Streets of NY, The Sims Bustin Out, & a few others which don’t run well. TC:SONY crashes the pcsx2 & sims bustin out goes black after the loading screen loads.
I have a Windows 8.1 machine and the same thing occurs here.As was mentioned before it’s no doubt looking for some files or some dependencies because it simply won’t load on Win 8.1.
Same thing happens with the newer/latest Dolphin core as well since it got updated. Just out of curiosity, can you check if the newest Dolphin core works/loads for you?
I took a look for you & yes it’s basically the same thing missing that .dll which looks like windows 11 has & the kernel is failing as well because of the procedure import steps which is most likely only in win 10 & 11. If you want to check any other emulators or future versions I will show you how.
Download Dependencies
Run dependenciesgui.exe Open the exe of the emulator in dependencies.
After it opens on the left side panel look for any icons that may look like a cogwheel or question mark in red.
You can hover your mouse over these to get the error problem or click them. For example with Dolphin where the kernel fails it says “C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll module has missing imports” if you hover over api-ms-win-devices-config-11-1-1.dll. The error states “api-ms-win-devices-config-11-1-1.dll could not be found on disk” this dll is on windows 11.
In this photo if you click on kernel32.dll in the top right panel you can see the steps that failed they will have a purple reddish tab next to it. If you were to show this to someone who was looking into it you would have to scroll through all of that & show them every point which has a purple reddish tab.
Very interesting, thanks. I might take a look myself using this program.
