ZSNES Filter Crash

[Ban Kai]

Hi to all who read this.

I need help. In ZSNES, when I go to the video option to change the filter to HQ2x, the emulator sends me straight to desktop with no error messages or anything. I have downloaded and tested most if not all versions of ZSNES and i come up with this same problem everytime. Could someone please tell me whats wrong.

My computer specs are: 2.5 GHZ dual core processor, 2 GB Ram and 1GB nVidia Geforce 9400GT.

Note: The Snes9x v1.52 HQ2x, HQ3x and HQ4x filters work perfectly on my PC.

[Reaper man]

No clue, but if you know how to use IRC, you can talk to one of the zenes devs over on #zsnes at freenode. They'll be able to help you there.

(or alternatively, you could use bsnes, as that's a lot more accurate.)

[The 9th Sage]

I'm not sure if this would help, but have you tried many different resolutions?

[CollinFalling]

I used to have the problem with crashing when resolutions was set too high like The 9th Sage stated.
I'm assuming you are using the Windows version. You could always try to put it into compatibility mode for a previous windows version. You may have some luck with that if nothing else works.

[Ban Kai]

Nope no luck but it doesn't matter. i can play with no filters enabled. thanks to all.

BSNES would be da best snes emulator if the turbo speed and turbo options didn't suck.

[Reaper man]

hmm, maybe byuu can loook into that issue.

[appollo147]

I used to have that problem too but after some research I found that this is a known bug in zsnes. The solution is simple and I'll post the instructions below.

1.) Open up the zsnesw.cfg file with notepad

2.) Scroll down to the section labeled "Use HQ*x Filter"

3.) Look for "hqfilter=" and change it to say "hqfilter=1"

4.) Under "Set HQ*x level [2..4]" look for "hqFilterlevel=" set it to the level that more closely matches your screen resolution, for example, if your resolution is 1024x768 or higher you would use a setting of 4. So your file should read "hqFilterlevel=4"

5.) Close the zsnesw.cfg file and on the window that says "the text in zsnesw.cfg has changed would you like to save the changes" click "Yes"

6.) Open zsnesw.exe, go into the filter settings and check to make sure that the HQ2x filter is on if it is just exit out of the settings window and start playing.

[Ban Kai]

Thanks appollo147. I eventually figured out how to do it. Not sure if I figured it out before or after your post but still, thanks.