post your plugins and settings. if you could throw in your system specs that would help as well. ive seen that error message before but i dont remember how it was fixed. since you are using vista, have you tried disabling DEP? DEP is known to cause weird stuff to happen when its on, it can do this in XP as well from what i know but it seems to occur more often in vista for some reason.

 

You are really a......., that window you're seeing/appears is a normal one, called the ( console out put window), and what the hell you're doing, while trying to minimize the emu_window,,, you must be a new user than,,,,OK,,, here are some instructions, and don't bother people around here in future 'cause just you don't read the instruction included in documentations (mostly READMEs) within programs...OOOOK:

1 - To minimize/exit without errors, while playing in fullscreen, push ESC button to pause emulation & get back to emu main window, and than you can minimize/exit in secure w/o errors.

2 - For the the (console out put window) : Its a normal/included window with ePSXe, in fact its really a usefull one that shows you actions did by the emu, and you can Enable/DESABLE it like this (Main GUI Menu/RUN/Enable Logs)...
DONE..nthepull

 

The hWnd error is not related to the console log. Let us hear from th OP before making bold assumptions.

 

For your information i do press escape to minimize epsxe and i have been using it for years and have never come across this window before.

 

You are really a......., that window you're seeing/appears is a normal one, called the ( console out put window), and what the hell you're doing, while trying to minimize the emu_window,,, you must be a new user than,,,,OK,,, here are some instructions, and don't bother people around here in future 'cause just you don't read the instruction included in documentations (mostly READMEs) within programs...OOOOK:

1 - To minimize/exit without errors, while playing in fullscreen, push ESC button to pause emulation & get back to emu main window, and than you can minimize/exit in secure w/o errors.

2 - For the the (console out put window) : Its a normal/included window with ePSXe, in fact its really a usefull one that shows you actions did by the emu, and you can Enable/DESABLE it like this (Main GUI Menu/RUN/Enable Logs)...
DONE..nthepull

if you are trying to out-douche me then you should know that i have already won, so resistance is futile. mmmkay? dont make him feel stupid when you dont really know what you are talking about yourself.

 

Which sound plugin were you using?
Is subchannel reading enabled?
Which game were you playing when this error happened?

As requested, post your currently used plugins and their settings.

 

Here are my plugins and settings

Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.76
GFX card: Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- Filtering: 5
- Hi-Res textures: 1
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60.0

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: none

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Sound Plugin: Eternal SPU 1.41

CD Plugin: P.E.Op.S CDR Driver 1.4 but am running games from images


Basic computer specs:
Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz with 760 MB of ram

I am playing breath of fire 3 and sub-channel reading isnt enabled

 

make sure you directplay and directmusic drivers are up to date. can you post the settings you are using for the eternal plugin? and what boxes do you have enabled in the spu selection (there are 4)?

and while i doubt this is related, its useful to know anyway- how are you playing the images, are you mounting them on a virtual drive or what? and what format did you make them in?

 

Sound, CDDA sound and XA sound are enabled. SPU IRQ is disabled

Audio device: Directsound Buffer size: 32

Audio out method: SPUasync Async mode: Smooth

All other settings are default and all fixes are disabled

I am running the ISO file directly

it is in ccd/sub/img format

 

subchannel reading enabled in epsxe ?

 

I have just tried mounting the image and enabling sub-channel reading but have the same problem

I have directx 9 and directdraw is version 5.03.2600.2180 directmusic is same version

also when i close the window and ok the error the emulator maximizes to full screen again ( not a problem but thought id mention it)

 

Sound, CDDA sound and XA sound are enabled. SPU IRQ is disabled

Audio device: Directsound Buffer size: 32

Audio out method: SPUasync Async mode: Smooth

All other settings are default and all fixes are disabled

I am running the ISO file directly

it is in ccd/sub/img format

use this setup:

audio device- directsound
buffer size- 64
audio-out method- thread
all 3 special game fixes enabled
"wait for XA buffer is free" enabled under the "misc" section
neill's reverb

have you tried turning DEP off yet?

 

I have found two references to it from google and it seems to concern c++

hWnd property
refers to the propertys of hwnd
and
Visual C++ Express, OpenGL, Vista - Please Help - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
has
if (hWnd && !DestroyWindow(hWnd)) // Are We Able To Destroy The Window?
{
MessageBox(NULL,"Could Not Release hWnd.","SHUTDOWN ERROR",MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);
hWnd=NULL; // Set hWnd To NULL
}
about a third of the way down in the scrolling box/window in the third post

but i have zero experience in c++ so have no idea could anyone help?

Im not on vista :lol: its xp

tried the settings you gave but window is still there

 

you using PAL games right? have you tried patching them with a .ppf patch? before we get onto the topic of code i want to rule a few things out just to be sure because i know ive seen an error like that before and the more things i can eliminate the better.

btw if you dont really care about visual enhancements, you might want to give another emulator like psx a shot and see how things go.

 

Post all settings used, not a few. Did you try the moobycdr plugin? (with subchannel reading enabled)
The hWnd errors do not really have a specific onesizefitsall fix, so be as specific as possible.

 

yeah try out different plugins and see how it reacts. have you also tried playing from the disc instead of from an image?

 

Do you mean that you have 2 epsxe running now?
Try to use task msn and shut down epsxe.exe in the processes and restart epsxe.

and does that problem appear over and over again?
Sorry if I misunderstood your problem.

 

I have both PAL and NTSC Versions and both do the same I have tried other games and they seem to have the same problem

 

Both instances of epsxe are using the same process

Just gonna try your suggestions with plugins

 

Try to re-download and re-install the emu and set everything up again, if this is a new issue.
Maybe you changed something you didn't realize.

 

Don't miss understand me,,,,but I think you're using some magic for your PC/emu, well for that problem/msg you got man no one noticed such, non-common one,,,,deh,,,get a clean system man!!

 

Don't miss understand me,,,,but I think you're using some magic for your PC/emu, well for that problem/msg you got man no one noticed such, non-common one,,,,deh,,,get a clean system man!!

Uhhh... what are you trying to say? O..O

 

Have tried playing from cd and using mooby plugin with subchannel but problem remains I have also tried different graphics and sound plugins too
Tried basic graphics settings and optimized ones too...

 

Uhhh... what are you trying to say? O..O

well,,,,,,:
1 - He's repporting a simple problem....(check screenshots)
2 - Can't make a relation between the first & secon scrshots,,,no relation between the simple problem he's about and the message he gets.
3 - did get another thread (annoying boy) about hdw!! problem/c++ coding

And I'm preety sure he's about to fake around, and the first scrshot shows all stuff he's about, I did got that problem too, and its nothing more than what I did posted/answred in first steps,,,but I guess he's about (I'm new here, Need to talk, need....),,,anyway....he should/must try a lot before posts some...:laugh:

 

well,,,,,,:
1 - He's repporting a simple problem....(check screenshots)
2 - Can't make a relation between the first & secon scrshots,,,no relation between the simple problem he's about and the message he gets.
3 - did get another thread (annoying boy) about hdw!! problem/c++ coding

And I'm preety sure he's about to fake around, and the first scrshot shows all stuff he's about, I did got that problem too, and its nothing more than what I did posted/answred in first steps,,,but I guess he's about (I'm new here, Need to talk, need....),,,anyway....he should/must try a lot before posts some...:laugh:

That was a hard read, but I still don't get any of tit @@"