Project64 1.7.0.11

[squall_leonhart]

There's no more transparency in the start menu. Instead I only see a black background.

cannot reproduce.

[HatCat]

Mhmm maybe try turning on "Force Alpha Blending" for that?

Either way, I imagine that's a blending failure associated with your graphics card.

[irrelevantnotch]

Hmm, yea you're probably right. I just noticed that I can get the background to show up properly in windowed mode (though its a little squiggly looking). Its only in Full Screen that I get a black background.

edit by the way, is anyone having similar audio problems, or do I need to spring for a new audio card?

[HatCat]

The only way I know of to get rid of the crackling is to use game-to-audio sync, but you can also try a third-party sound plugin i.e. one not bundled with releases of Project64.

Full screen naturally has various support problems, but something like that you might be able to fix using a driver upgrade if you know what your card is.

[irrelevantnotch]

I just updated my video driver through steam so everything should be fine on that front. I tried Zilmar's audio drivers and got a similar experience.

[HatCat]

Hm I mean processing card drivers rather than the plugins. zilmar's sound plugins are all experimental and are better used for compatibility rather than sound quality.

[squall_leonhart]

Zilmar, can you start building with large address aware enabled?

this fixes most crash issues when loading large texture packs (but only on x64 OS, x32 needs to have 3GB set)

i was patching my game exe before, but now im getting Registered members warnings when patching it to enabled.

[HatCat]

Having found this--.
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=112556

Just for retextures though? It's just a bunch of PNG-compressed pixels that get decompressed and converted to N64HIGH/N64TRUE bitmaps. I'm curious what method the other emulators like 1964 do to not crash when loading large sizes of replacement texturing; I think that would be better than modifying the r4k emulator program for something that's not even related to emulation. Everything natural to the N64 couldn't need anything like this.

[zilmar]

Originally Posted by Squall_Leonhart

Zilmar, can you start building with large address aware enabled?

this fixes most crash issues when loading large texture packs (but only on x64 OS, x32 needs to have 3GB set)

i was patching my game exe before, but now im getting Registered members warnings when patching it to enabled.

I can look at it .. the next .exe will have some major changes internally so it might or might not have the issue.

[irrelevantnotch]

Originally Posted by rswedlow

Hm I mean processing card drivers rather than the plugins. zilmar's sound plugins are all experimental and are better used for compatibility rather than sound quality.

Sorry to ask, but what do you mean by "processing card drivers"?