Posted: 1/16/2010 9:18 PM
(Edited: 1/16/2010 11:00 PM)
Post subject: FCEUX in VirtualBox crashes on startup [FIXED]
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Derakon
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Last time I decided to try TASing, I compiled FCEU from source so I could run it on my Mac. Unfortunately I don't really like the SDL version; I'm rather fond of having a GUI available, and the sound emulation was pretty inaccurate. This time around I tried VirtualBox to set up an XP VM, and downloaded the win32 binary. It seems like that should work, but no. The program manages to pop up a window and create the cheats/snaps/fcs/movies/sav/tools directories, then crashes. Annoyingly there doesn't seem to be any error message; I just get the "blah has encountered a problem and needs to close" dialog box. Any ideas what went wrong and how to fix the problem? EDIT: enabling sound in the VM fixed the problem.
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Posted: 1/16/2010 10:15 PM
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sgrunt
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As it happens, I have an XP VM in VirtualBox (host machine runs Gentoo Linux), and FCEUX runs fine in it. Can you dig a little deeper into the error dialogue you get and see if you can turn up more information? (Those normally provide more technical details surrounding the crash, IIRC.)
Posted: 1/16/2010 10:54 PM
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Derakon
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Oh, wait. I forgot to enable sound in the VM. That's all it took. Oh, well. Sorry for the pointless thread.
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