Dragon Quest VIII freezes

[jlwmanagement]

1.1.0 eh? Is that the latest stable DL? Because it looks like 1.0.0 is. How do I get 1.1.0...or is that a typo?

[Bositman]

That's the current development builds, latest stable is 1.0.0.
http://pcsx2.net/download/development/svn.html

[jlwmanagement]

Ah. Thanks! I always use the sable unless there is some game specific fix needed. Perhaps that is why I do not experience the crashes.

[Malachi]

Ok after another hour of playing, the game crashed on me just as I got back to Farebury. However, this time around it did not immediately crash. The game froze and I could click on the PCSX2 menus but nothing I clicked on did anything (I tried saving the state so I wouldn't lose any progress...didn't work).

[Preet]

Right click on pcsx2 shortcut & in properties tick run as administrator & apply !
Also strongly recommended to install it outside from program files.
In c/pcsx2 wil be fine or any other drive e.g. E,F,G
also in plugin/bios selector set dev9 plugin to null.

[Malachi]

Which one? There are two DEV9null.

There is the r5403 version and just regular DEV9null.

Also Preet you might be on to something. I did run the game as admin last night for the hell of it but didn't this morning. Will try playing again to see what happens.

[Preet]

I said select whatever dev9 null in plugin/bios selector.
Not dev9 gigaherz,u can select anyone but it should be null

[etking]

Some SVN builds of pcsx2 include two copies of each plugin but the files are identical and just have a different filename.

I managed to create a DQ8 USA savestate which crashes every time after around 1 minute of cutscene in pcsx2 1.1.0.5628 gsdx 5627 DX11 AVX (hardware) but works perfectly fine with gsdx 5627 DX9 (hardware) renderer:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-Yp9BvE...sp=sharing

So in theory, maybe selecting D3D9 will avoid the crashes, we will find out...

I also had these random crashes with the translated version of Dragon Quest V in pcsx2 1.0 but these occurred once every 10-15 hours only. This was the reason for me to try out the devbuilds.

My current settings are:

[Settings]
allowHacks=0
ModeWidth=1920
ModeHeight=1080
ModeRefreshRate=120
Renderer=0
Interlace=7
AspectRatio=0
upscale_multiplier=1
windowed=0
filter=1
paltex=1
vsync=0
logz=1
fba=1
aa1=0
nativeres=0
resx=1280
resy=1080
extrathreads=4
msaa=0
UserHacks_AlphaHack=1
UserHacks_HalfPixelOffset=1
UserHacks_SpriteHack=0
UserHacks_SkipDraw=0
ShadeBoost_Contrast=50
ShadeBoost_Brightness=50
ShadeBoost_Saturation=60
ShadeBoost=1
UserHacks=1
UserHacks_MSAA=0
UserHacks_WildHack=0
UserHacks_AggressiveCRC=1
UserHacks_AlphaStencil=0
UserHacks_DisableCrcHacks=0
Adapter=10DE:124D:05701028:A1
UserHacks_TCOffset=0

[Malachi]

I'm still getting the merge error is null from the activity log, even while running as admin. I am currently at Port Prospect and the game has crashed at least 4 times now from Alexandria to here.

[Saiki]

try one of these, see if any of these work (these are all official ones from a while ago. back up your gsdx.ini)