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Since I'm using Project 64 1.7.0.49, but I don't have a voodoo card, I was told to use a glide wrapper, not glide 64. Well, I download that stuff, and put it in the plugin folders. I CAN'T GET ANY OF IT TO WORK. It just gives me an error message! How do I get the glide wrapper to work? I need start-to-finish, step by step instructions, because I am beyond confused.

I will look into this when I get a chance. what specs are the system you are playing on?
also, is there a particular reason you are using Glide, instead of Jabo or even Rice? and on an older version of the emulator at that? I believe 2.1 is the most recent Project64 out.

I'm running a Radeon R7 260X graphics card with 2GB of DDR5 memory, 8GB DDR3 ram, AMD Phenom 2 X4 2.6 ghz quad core processor, windows 7 64 bit. The newer project 64 seemed to be not as fluent with the framerate. The rice plugins are missing layers, the open gl plugins are missing even more layers, and the jaboo plugins are what I was using, before it keeps crashing. And its not just mario 64 when it crashes. I try amping up the graphics card settings to compensate for missing layers, but then the emulator wont run at full speed during full screen. Its always something. I also have the same mentioned problems with the newer project 64. Except the glide plugin only works sometimes, and never works on full screen.

UPDATE: I tried Project 64 1.6 which is supposed to be stable, along with glide 64. Full screen is always cropped. Same result with newest version of Project 64 and the Glide 64 final release.

alright, here is my steps I took with a fresh install of Project64. Downloaded Project64 1.6 (1.7 was, as far as I know, a beta version that was never officially released) and installed it. Downloaded Glide64 Final from

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http://code.google.com/p/glidehqplusglitch64/downloads/list

extracted files, placed plugin files into plugin folder, and Glide3x.dll into PJ64 main folder. Setup my full screen resolution of 1920x1080 @60hz x 32bits with Vsync on. Started Mario64. played for a few minutes with no noticeable graphics issues. It is in 4:3 format, as the original game; and I do not know of a way to force Widescreen with this particular plugin. The full image was displayed on my screen with no cropping.
Your system should be more than capable of running this emulator, I have a laptop with a dual core pentium and integrated graphics that can get full speed at some 13XX x 768 resolution and enhanced texture packs. Perhaps you have some graphics driver or even DirectX issues? I have never had a problem like this with Jabo's or Rice's plugins, as those are my mains because of the texture packs. I have little experience with Glide64, but this clean install with that plugin gave me satisfactory performance.

I did everything you listed. With version 1.6. Everything works, except when using Glide64, window mode beyond 800x600 crops the picture. Full screen at 1920x1080 60hz 32 bits shows the picture zoomed in, cropped, and off center. I just updated my graphics driver, thinking that was the issue, but that didn't help. Even after playing around with the settings and using the default setting. I think it may be an issue with OpenGL, but I can't find a driver. Is it because I'm using a radeon card, since OpenGL is usually associated with Nvidia GeForce? Or it could be Direct X. Would you be able to find the latest OpenGL driver that I could download, along with the newest Direct X? I seem to be having trouble finding them. Since I've tried pretty much everything else, maybe it is Direct X and/or OpenGL.

UPDATE: I'm officially confused and clueless. My PC has OpenGL 4.2 and I'm not sure what to make of Direct X. The "OpenGL Extensions Viewer" says I have Direct X 9, but the Direct X Diagnostic says I have version 11. Both of which I can't find any newer. Now I'm also trying multiple resolutions in both full screen and window mode for both Project 64 versions 1.6 and 2.1. Glide 64 now works for both, but the video during the gameplay is ONLY visible in its entirety (with no cropping or zooming) in 800x600 window mode. ANY other resolution, windowed or full screen, all aspect ratios, (including 800x600 full screen) the picture is zoomed in and off center. And this ONLY happens with Glide 64, which I'm also using the final version. All the other plugins are missing many layers. Except for Jabo's Plugin, which has great picture, but randomly crashes. Then there's Rice's plugin, which has great picture, but crashes every time I exit full screen. (slaps forehead in frustration) lol any suggestions?

well, Windows 7 is minimum of DX10, so while 9 might be located on your system, it is not the minimum. You probably in fact do have DX11. You could try to get the newest version of DX from Microsoft, but even the default from W7 should be sufficient. I hate to throw the blame on AMD, but I have 2 PCs here, one a heavy gaming station with NV graphics, the other a mediocre laptop with integrated Intel GPU; and I get 0 issues on either regardless of the graphics plugin I use. My only other suggestion ATM would be to uninstall PJ64, clear out ALL the settings from it, and start a new installation of it, with your closest-to-good plugin of choice and see what you get... maybe some of the others have changed various settings and when you was trying to get it running, the various adjustments you made, etc....

Yea, probably an incompatibility issue. Thanks for your time though. I really appreciate it.

if you cannot get it running after trying a fresh install of PJ64, MUPEN is a pretty good alternative....