ePSXe's "ghost" crash (Please, HELP!)

Im shure this geuss is way of base, but i belive that AGP 1x gives something like 700mb/s transfers. Im shure that wrong, but i know its a realy high number, and most lickly more than your current video card will need. unless its using ddr vram or something, witch im pretty shure its not. The only other thing that comes to mind is heat. You sound like a power user so you probably got fans up the wazoo, but if you dont, and you think theres any possibility of to much heat in your chasy, try takeing off the cover and putting a small desk fan somewhere around it to try and circulate the air. I know, realy off the wall, but heat could definatly cause this problem. Also, i know that ePSXe doesnt do this, but some games (like Diablo and a few others) leave behind an error log, usualy ending in .err or something, in the directory of the executable. you said youve crashed on Sims a few times, look in the executable directory for that game and see if you find any files with a recent date that you can read with a plain text editor, if you do and it looks like an error log, post it. If not then sorry, ill keep thinking, if i come up with anything ill post.

Good luck!

If youve got a VIA chipset make shure you have the latest 4-in-1 driver set. Same goes for you vid card too. Also make shure that all programs are closed when your playing, also make shure that your screan saver is turned off, since it doesnt recognize that the computer is in use while your in ePSXe and it might try to come one and that would crash it. (had that happens to me, took me forever to figure it out). You said that you were doing tweaks, check to see if your tweaker has a reset to factory defaults, if it does try that, also try reinstalling DirectX, if you dont have the latest (8a) just install that, if you do then the above is easyer said than done, cause you gotta uninstall it first, but thats kind of an extreme option.... hmm, what else..... Make shure your running in 16bit not 32 bit, im not shure if that graphics card supports 32 bit or not, but i know that most 3d apps dont like to run 32bit with only 16mb of vram. If your Vid card has ever been OC'ed or overheated in the past, you might wanna try and underclock it, this will somethimes improve stability on flaky cards. Also make shure you vid card has an IRQ to itself, windows likes to do IRQ sharing witch, for the most part, just doesnt work. Same goes for your sound card. Hmm, well theres smoke comming out of my ears at this point, so ill let this stand and see what happens, BTW, did you check for those error files, they would REALY come in handy (could prob tell you exactly what was wrong with one, if not than oh well, we'lll keep pecking at it.)