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I was playing some Chrono Trigger on version 1.52 after reading of 1.51's lack of support for diagonal movement... the update saved me from wasting $30 on another controller, but Saturday I try to open my minimized Snes9x window and there's no display. I heard the overworld theme, but then just made a save state and tried to google my problem.

Apparently, people have had Direct3D fail on them and either have no display or 9x wouldn't start up at all! I seem to have a unique problem, because I used 3d with 1.51 and it worked fine. I don't get why it would randomly fail....

Was Windows Update running in the background? If WU installs new GFX card drivers, then you'll need to reboot before D3D/DD apps will work again.

I turned auto updates off and I manually install my new drivers.

I have XP, running on 512 MB of RAM (!!!) with an NVidia 7300 LE. Decent card... should I get new drivers?

ROM info:

Name: CHRONO TRIGGER
Speed: 31/FastROM
ROM Map: HiROM
Type: 02
Kart contents: ROM+RAM+BAT
Header ROM Size: 32Mbits
Calculated ROM Size: 32 Mbits
SRAM size: 64Kbits (64Kbit)
Actual Checksum: 788C
Header Checksum: 788C
Header Checksum Compliment: 8773
Output: NTSC 60Hz
CRC32: 2D206BF7
Licensee: Unknown Company
ROM Version: 1.0
Region: USA/Canada

Now D3D works, but Snes9X will not recognize any keystroke or buttons on my controller, so I cannot navigate at all within the game.

Hmmm, I would visit nvidia's website and get the latest drivers for your GFX card.