Ok, new Windows XP laptop, and it is ****e.
Bottom line is, it wont do anything that I tell it to, and it keeps going wonky.
Despite desperately wanting a refund, Toys R Us wont give me one without authorisation from Medion, who after Ive told about all the problems simply tell me that its doing what it is supposed to do, and then tell me to go away since I wont be getting a refund.
These are my problems, they are mostly emulator related:
1) 1964 (N64 emu) wont run, because it says DX8 can't be initialised. Despite the fact Im fairly certain I have DirectX 9 on my laptop. Why wont it work? What is DX? Is it possible my laptop doesnt actually have DX?
Is 1964 notorious for doing this?
2) The sound only works 50% of the time when I load it up. Most of the time when I try and use anything with audio, it either says direct sound can't be initialised, or that "something else is using the sound blahblah" and that I need to close something down. Nothing helps and I am forced to reboot.
Why doesnt audio play? Is it a case of the audio drivers not loading up?
It drives me nuts since I load the laptop up to listen to media player only for an explamation mark to appear next to each song saying nothing can be played.
3) DOS emulators such as Gencyst and Nesticle simply DO NOT work. I double click on them, the screen goes black and nothing. I have to do cntrl+alt+del in order to shut the programs down. They seem to load, but point blank refuse to work. Its seriously pissing me off, since I got this laptop partially to play games whilst my collection is in storage and I can't even get the ****ing NES emulators to run.
4) Which leads me onto another problem. Whenever I use Windows based emulators, or manage to get ANY DOS program to actually work, they are always anti-aliased by default, and I cant seem to stop this.
DOS is ALWAYS anti-aliased and looks all blurred over, like some idiot went and wiped vaseline all over my screen.
This is not based on the emulator settings and seems to be ingrained into DOS pr possibly windows. Whoever came up with this idiotic idea needs to be shot in the balls, I hate it when ANYTHING is anti-aliased. The blurriness makes me physically sick.
How do I get rid of this bloody awful blurring effect, so that my Windows based emulators run in fully pixelated glory, and so that the DOS programs that do actually work also run pixelated. Or is this a problem that cannot be solved? I hate blurry images.
5) My WGENS Sega CD emulator does not seem to recognise the CD drive at all. It keeps saying no drive detected. Meaning I cant run the few actual sega cd games I brought with me.
Its a DVD-R CD-RW combo drive, that for some idiotic reason is incapable of actually running DVD-R media, despite being able to burn them. Medion tells me its to cut costs, I tell them it renders the laptop useless but they ignore me.
Anyway, how do I get WGENs to recognise the CD drive?
The WGENs help file mentions something about ASPI drivers.
Why in the name of all that is holy must I update drivers on a new laptop to run a 2 year old emulator? Why!?
So, what are ASPI drivers, where do I get them, and how to get my drive to be recognised?
6) DVD films only load up maybe 20% of the time.
When i try and run a commercially bought UK DVD on my DVD drive, that has been set to the UK region, in most cases it loads up with a giant black box in the middle of the viewing display. I get a 2mm border around the outside of the viewing screen that actually displays the film, whilst in the middle there is this giant black square obscuring everything. Sound plays fine, in fact the whole film plays fine except the main section of screen cannot be seen.
I have tried everything, different players, different filsm etc.
The only option is to reboot the system and try again.
Sometimes it works and I can watch the entire film, but if I stop it and try and put another film in, it wont work.
This means it can sometimes take 10 minutes of constantly rebooting my system until it decides to play the film without this bloody black square in the middle.
What is going on with this?!
If anyone can please answer all these questions and fix these problems I would eternally be in your debt, since I am pulling my hair out here.
I can never understand why PC's simply do not do what it says on the box.
The box says "plays films", so I expect it to play godamn films, not showing me a fecking black aquare!
Sorry for the anger, but since buying this piece of crap 2 weeks ago, I still have not actually been able to do anything with it, and Medion refuses to refund me, saying it was designed to work like this.
Lousy bastards.
So, who can help?
Bottom line is, it wont do anything that I tell it to, and it keeps going wonky.
Despite desperately wanting a refund, Toys R Us wont give me one without authorisation from Medion, who after Ive told about all the problems simply tell me that its doing what it is supposed to do, and then tell me to go away since I wont be getting a refund.
These are my problems, they are mostly emulator related:
1) 1964 (N64 emu) wont run, because it says DX8 can't be initialised. Despite the fact Im fairly certain I have DirectX 9 on my laptop. Why wont it work? What is DX? Is it possible my laptop doesnt actually have DX?
Is 1964 notorious for doing this?
2) The sound only works 50% of the time when I load it up. Most of the time when I try and use anything with audio, it either says direct sound can't be initialised, or that "something else is using the sound blahblah" and that I need to close something down. Nothing helps and I am forced to reboot.
Why doesnt audio play? Is it a case of the audio drivers not loading up?
It drives me nuts since I load the laptop up to listen to media player only for an explamation mark to appear next to each song saying nothing can be played.
3) DOS emulators such as Gencyst and Nesticle simply DO NOT work. I double click on them, the screen goes black and nothing. I have to do cntrl+alt+del in order to shut the programs down. They seem to load, but point blank refuse to work. Its seriously pissing me off, since I got this laptop partially to play games whilst my collection is in storage and I can't even get the ****ing NES emulators to run.
4) Which leads me onto another problem. Whenever I use Windows based emulators, or manage to get ANY DOS program to actually work, they are always anti-aliased by default, and I cant seem to stop this.
DOS is ALWAYS anti-aliased and looks all blurred over, like some idiot went and wiped vaseline all over my screen.
This is not based on the emulator settings and seems to be ingrained into DOS pr possibly windows. Whoever came up with this idiotic idea needs to be shot in the balls, I hate it when ANYTHING is anti-aliased. The blurriness makes me physically sick.
How do I get rid of this bloody awful blurring effect, so that my Windows based emulators run in fully pixelated glory, and so that the DOS programs that do actually work also run pixelated. Or is this a problem that cannot be solved? I hate blurry images.
5) My WGENS Sega CD emulator does not seem to recognise the CD drive at all. It keeps saying no drive detected. Meaning I cant run the few actual sega cd games I brought with me.
Its a DVD-R CD-RW combo drive, that for some idiotic reason is incapable of actually running DVD-R media, despite being able to burn them. Medion tells me its to cut costs, I tell them it renders the laptop useless but they ignore me.
Anyway, how do I get WGENs to recognise the CD drive?
The WGENs help file mentions something about ASPI drivers.
Why in the name of all that is holy must I update drivers on a new laptop to run a 2 year old emulator? Why!?
So, what are ASPI drivers, where do I get them, and how to get my drive to be recognised?
6) DVD films only load up maybe 20% of the time.
When i try and run a commercially bought UK DVD on my DVD drive, that has been set to the UK region, in most cases it loads up with a giant black box in the middle of the viewing display. I get a 2mm border around the outside of the viewing screen that actually displays the film, whilst in the middle there is this giant black square obscuring everything. Sound plays fine, in fact the whole film plays fine except the main section of screen cannot be seen.
I have tried everything, different players, different filsm etc.
The only option is to reboot the system and try again.
Sometimes it works and I can watch the entire film, but if I stop it and try and put another film in, it wont work.
This means it can sometimes take 10 minutes of constantly rebooting my system until it decides to play the film without this bloody black square in the middle.
What is going on with this?!
If anyone can please answer all these questions and fix these problems I would eternally be in your debt, since I am pulling my hair out here.
I can never understand why PC's simply do not do what it says on the box.
The box says "plays films", so I expect it to play godamn films, not showing me a fecking black aquare!
Sorry for the anger, but since buying this piece of crap 2 weeks ago, I still have not actually been able to do anything with it, and Medion refuses to refund me, saying it was designed to work like this.
Lousy bastards.
So, who can help?
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