04-16-2009, 10:38 PM
In case you were wondering why I wasn't online these 2 minutes, my PC crashed. No worries, I'm alive and kicking and so is my PC... To skip the jokes, here's my main concern, sorry for opening a new topic, but I didn't find something similar around.
8/8 times today my PC froze because the PCSX2 was running (no game loaded, just the EMU and the console were active) and idle, and I had to restart it. The sound (I always listen to music while working) became that irritating half seconds loop, and obviously the PC was unresponsive. It took me 5 crashes to realize it is due to leaving the emulator running without doing anything on it.
I can say for certain it is because of the active emulator, because my PC is otherwise top notch, crash-proof, and I could nearly bet my life on it.
It seems like the idle emu blocks the RAM memory, or something else, because the cpu was ice cold, barely breathing while browsing the forum.
I know this is quite general, but I don't wish to go through another 8 crashes, to really confirm this.... I repeat, the situation is that the PC freezes if the emulator is started, but not doing anything... The emu is 0.9.6 (not a beta).
Any similar cases?
8/8 times today my PC froze because the PCSX2 was running (no game loaded, just the EMU and the console were active) and idle, and I had to restart it. The sound (I always listen to music while working) became that irritating half seconds loop, and obviously the PC was unresponsive. It took me 5 crashes to realize it is due to leaving the emulator running without doing anything on it.
I can say for certain it is because of the active emulator, because my PC is otherwise top notch, crash-proof, and I could nearly bet my life on it.
It seems like the idle emu blocks the RAM memory, or something else, because the cpu was ice cold, barely breathing while browsing the forum.
I know this is quite general, but I don't wish to go through another 8 crashes, to really confirm this.... I repeat, the situation is that the PC freezes if the emulator is started, but not doing anything... The emu is 0.9.6 (not a beta).
Any similar cases?