[RESOLVED] Windows 10 ePSXe and Daemon

[jmk55412]

Hi folks,

I have been having a heck of a time getting the SPTD driver to take in Windows 10 using Daemon Tools. When I try to create a new SCSI drive, it just has me reboot as if I hadn't already done that multiple times.

Anyhow...this got me looking around at potential alternatives to Daemon, so I downloaded Alcohol 120% v2.03. I know that ePSXe usually requires that you be using a SCSI drive, and when trying to just use the standard drive in Daemon games wouldn't load at all in ePSXe and therefore GameEx. I had been using the Launch Before and Launch After command lines that have been posted here in the past in GameEx, which do still work in Windows 8 and older, but do nothing in Windows 10 since I cannot create that SCSI drive.

What I found with Alcohol 120% is that the games load perfectly fine in ePSXE, even the ones with CD-Audio. Yay! That's the really good news.

The bad news is that I have no idea how to set this up in GameEx. I think it involves something along the lines of [virtualdrive], but I'm clueless.

Can anyone help me out, please?

Thank you, in advance!

Edited August 21, 2015 by tthurman
Moved to GameEx - General

[stigzler]

Ouch. So not only are DT totally messing up their own software, it's looking like drive mounting is getting sticky in Windows 10 too?

That's precisely why I'm putting off updating to Windows 10 - too much work re-installing obscure, unsigned drivers etc....

You tried the new command line for DTools? It's being:

DTAgent.exe -mount, scsi, F, "D:\Images\SomeImage.iso"

Great that they changed to whole executable name! Really good for legacy apps using their software!

[Adultery]

There's a plugin that handles all the heavy lifting and offers native Alcohol 120% support which GameEx does not on its own.

Look in the Repository Manager for Virtual Drive Loader and kiss those Launch Before and After commands goodbye.

[nullPointer]

Look in the Repository Manager for Virtual Drive Loader and kiss those Launch Before and After commands goodbye.

Also remember to kiss the cook.

[jmk55412]

There's a plugin that handles all the heavy lifting and offers native Alcohol 120% support which GameEx does not on its own.

Look in the Repository Manager for Virtual Drive Loader and kiss those Launch Before and After commands goodbye.

Awesome! I hadn't even heard of that plugin or even knew about the plugins available.

It works great.

Thank you, thank you!

No matter what I did I couldn't get anything to work with Daemon. Apparently Windows 10 requires the SPTD 2.0.2 64 bit driver, and my older version of Daemon used 1.87 and earlier. At one point a notification popped up by Microsoft stating the SCSI passthrough is not compatible with this version of Windows. Even when I have 2.0.2 installed (which works perfectly with Alcohol 120), I couldn't get it to work with Daemon.

What a great tool this plugin is. No more fiddling around with launch before/launch after and all that jazz. I wasn't sure where to put it in my command line because I have an extra command in there to create a unique memory card for each game, but I put it after like below, and it works fine.

epsxe.exe -nogui -slowboot [ALCOHOL] -loadmemc0 "memcards\[rom].mcr"

Thanks, again.

[tthurman]

Adultery spoils us with all his goodies.

Glad to hear he got you all fixed up!