Windows 7 64-bit Compatibility

Isozyme · Post by **Isozyme** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:42 pm

First I wanted to thank everyone here for their work on Snes9x. I've been using it on and off to play old favorites for what feels like the last decade.

I recently changed my OS to Windows 7 64-bit. I downloaded Snes9x 1.52 and upon loading the emulator I get the following error:

"Unable to initialize XAudio2. you will not be able to hear any sound effects or music while playing. It is usually caused by not having a recent DirectX release installed."

I have searched the forum a number of times trying to see if 64-bit windows releases are done, with no luck (though I have seen 64-bit versions of other operating systems produced).

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out a way to get snes9x running on Windows 7 64-bit. Perhaps others would find this useful as well!

OV2 · Post by **OV2** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:22 am

You can try as the message suggests and install the latest DirectX runtime:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... 6652cd92a3

You can also choose a different sound output method in Sound->Settings.

Camo_Yoshi · Post by **Camo_Yoshi** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 6:22 am

Some older audio cards also don't like Xaudio2, like my Creative AudioPCI ES1371/3.

Isozyme · Post by **Isozyme** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 6:08 pm

Thanks. Every time I've installed windows I do not think that I have had to manually add DirectX. Adding that did the trick, it works perfectly. Thanks so much!

iceman101101 · Post by **iceman101101** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:24 am

Although my onboard audio (Realtek... ugh) isn't old, it doesn't seem to like Xaudio2, as Camo_Yoshi mentioned about older sound cards, both here and on the thread I started about a week ago, when even after I downloaded the current directx 9.0c updates, Snes9x would still crash randomly. I switched to DirectSound and since then I haven't had any trouble. However, I'm running Win7 32 bit.

squall_leonhart69r · Post by **squall_leonhart69r** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:10 am

there is no problem at all running Xaudio on any sound card. Drivers on the other hand are usually the source of the problem.

Camo_Yoshi · Post by **Camo_Yoshi** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:24 am

I've upgraded to WIn7 since my last post and now Xaudio seems to be working fine. Thanks for the link though.