Black screen/freezing and Persona 3 FES

[cbsigh]

Hello;

I'm relatively new to using this emulator. I wondered, how does one fix games from going to black screen or freezing? I get about five minutes into P3 and the screen goes black with music in the background or it freezes alltogether. I tried F9ing but on W8 it just brings up the search menu. I'm using a laptop and I can give specs if that would help. Sorry, I know I am probably being a noob about something but I'd really appreciate this.

[Nobbs66]

Settings?
Any cheats?
PC specs?
PCSX2 version?
Disc, ISO, CSO, Gzip?

[cbsigh]

Settings?
Any cheats?
PC specs?
PCSX2 version?
Disc, ISO, CSO, Gzip?

Settings here, hope imgur is okay! http://imgur.com/Rwp2aD9

Enable cheats is on, but none that I've added.

Inspiron 3542
Intel Core i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz 1.70 GHz
8GB RAM
64-bit x64 processor
Windows 8.1
tries to press f9 but menu instead

version 1.1.0.5766 (svn) of emulator

ISO, I believe

i hope this helps;

[willkuer]

Please update pcsx2 to its latest version and post emulog after the hang.

[cbsigh]

Updated to latest version, same settings, still encountered black screen upon the same event in game (finding faculty office)

here's the emulog when it hung:


PlayStation 2 ======== Update reboot complete
cdvdman Init


IOP Realtime Kernel Ver. 2.2

Copyright 1999-2002 © Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Reboot service module.(99/11/10)
cdvd driver module version 0.1.1 ©SCEI
Load File service.(99/11/05)
Multi Threaded Fileio module.(99/11/15)
iop heap service (99/11/03)
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥SIO2MAN.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 25, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥SIO2D.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 26, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥PADMAN.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 27, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥DBCMAN.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 28, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥MC2_S1.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 29, ret 2
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥LIBSD.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 30, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥CRI_ADXI.IRX;1 args 20 arg sdinit=0 spucore=1
CRI ADX Driver Ver.9.44(Feb 28 2005 19:25:04)
CRI ADX Driver : sceSdInit Call = 0
CRI ADX Driver : Main Thread Priority = 39
CRI ADX Driver : PSM Thread Priority = 39
CRI ADX Driver : DTX Thread Priority = 48
CRI ADX Driver : SPU CORE Number = 0
loadmodule: id 31, ret 2
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥SDRDRV.IRX;1 args 0 arg
SDR driver version 4.0.1 © SCEI
Exit rsd_main
loadmodule: id 32, ret 2
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥MODHSYN.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 33, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥MODMSIN.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 34, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥MODSESQ.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 35, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥SKSOUND.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 36, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥SKHSYNTH.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 37, ret 0
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥SKHSYNTH.IRX;1 args 0 arg
loadmodule: id 38, ret 1
loadmodule: fname cdrom0:¥LIB31¥SKSESQ.IRX;1 args 24 arg maxtrack=16
loadmodule: id 39, ret 0
(UpdateVSyncRate) Mode Changed to PAL.
(UpdateVSyncRate) FPS Limit Changed : 50.00 fps
### hdd fs get file object
### hdd fs get file object
### hdd fs get file object
### hdd fs get file object
### hdd fs get file object
SDR callback thread created
PS2RNA: sceSifAllocIopHeap(266304) ret=0x000bdd00
PS2RNA: sceSifAllocIopHeap(2256) ret=0x000fee00
PS2RNA: sceSifAllocIopHeap(16448) ret=0x000ff700
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥DATA.CVM;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥BGM.CVM;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥BTL.CVM;1"

[willkuer]

This is unfortunately not the full emulog.

It would be quite interesting to know if you are using the disk directly or an iso. Because of the driver messages it looks to me like a disk drive read and not from iso but just guessing here.