[RESOLVED] Stella 4.2 issues

[Krakerman]

Stella 4.2 x64 crashes when launching it from within GameEx (as well as Hyperspin as I tested it with that frontend as well). When launching it outside GameEx (or Hyperspin) it runs just fine. If I revert back to Stella 4.1.1 x64 everything works just fine. Anyone else notice this at all?

I been scratching my head and can't pinpoint the problem as there is no error reported just a straight out crash with no info given. Not sure if it has anything to do with Win 8.1 or not but everything works just fine with the previous Stella builds so for now I guess I have to stick with 4.1.1 when using it with GameEx.

Launching Stella 4.2 outside loads the Stella game launcher and you can select and play any game just fine and exit back to desktop just fine. Very strange.

Note: Stella only crashes not GameEx as I am able to close the error and exit back to GameEx.

[Krakerman]

I figured it out now ..... Looks like Stella 4.2 uses SDL2.dll and 4.1.1 used SDL.dll so if you had both of those dll files in the stella directory it would crash Stella 4.2. So by deleting SDL.dll everything ran just fine.

Wow not sure why I didn't test that out earlier. Oh well so if anyone else has this issue then try that as it will fix your problem. If you did a fresh install of Stella 4.2 of course you won't have that issue but if you install 4.2 over the top of 4.1.1 then you might.