Mednafen Beetle PSX HW core crashing upon content load

Libretro Cores
#1

I have troubles trying to run games on the Beetle PSX HW core as it crash upon loading the content, I had put the BIOS file correctly on the ‘system’ folder and the core doesn’t complain about missing bios or wrong MD5 of the files…

However as I start the content RetroArch crashes with the message: “This application has stopped working”…as a side note I successfully ran games on the Beetle PSX SW libretro core…

My OS is Windows 7 and my videocard is a GeForce 9600GT that supports OpenGL 2.1, could that be the problem?

#2

Yes, that is almost certainly the issue. Hardware rendering requires a fairly modern GPU with GL 3.x+ or vulkan, IIRC.

#3

Thank you! I will seriously try to upgrade to a newer rig because right now I am having a blast using RetroArch with the Beetle SW core on 2D games, it really runs everything with no issues and butter smooth…

#4

As nice as the hardware rendering is, if you’re getting by with software rendering, you can use shaders to help out a lot, and the software renderer can do increased resolution if your CPU is strong enough (probably not more than 2x, but even that goes a long way).

#5

Thanks for the Tip, I am not to used to get help on forums and yours was a nice first experience…

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