Mednafen PSX - Audio, but No Video on only a couple titles

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

I am not sure what is causing this issue…

I’m still building my library, but as of now, both Dino Crisis 2 and Spider-Man 1 will only give me audio when they start. There is a black screen. I got Spider-Man to go in-game by hitting buttons, so I know it’s working, it’s just not rendering video.

I thought maybe changing from video driver gl to d3d would fix it, but that just makes RetroArch crash :frowning: I also tried replacing the version I had with ones from different sources, but no change.

Any suggestions?

#2

If you are using the xmb menu driver, change it to rgui for D3D to work.

#3

Well that explains why that only freezes on the menu…

Is rgui that black/green one? Are there any others, or just the two?

Do you think that will fix the issue I’m having? I saw some other stuff like nul and sbdl or something too.

#4

[QUOTE=SkyHighGam3r;36437]Well that explains why that only freezes on the menu…

Is rgui that black/green one?

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Yes, try it

#5

It looks like the files I had were bad. Despite the multiple sources I tried lol I found one that worked… That’s good to know about the drivers though. Does video run better in d3d in general? Feel like I heard that somewhere…

#6

It depends on your pc.

#7

As far as what? I have some seriously over-the-top performance.

#8

It depends on drivers and specific GPUs. AMD is known for having worse OpenGL performance in Windows as compared with DirectX, but it’s never been a problem for me, so I just stick with OGL.

#9

Ah ok, I’m running an AMD R9 390X 8GB 1.5Ghz So I don’t suspect issues anyway, I was just curious if there was a general rule or anything related to emulation. Good to know.