Kega Fusion 3.64 and Windows 8.1

[AskaLangly]

To let others know, there's the good and the bad.

The Good: You may have noticed some slowdown when playing a game in fullscreen. I've noticed a speed-up when I utilized WineD3D, which allows OpenGL to handle Direct3D/DirectDraw; Microsoft deprecated DDraw on Windows 8. Download the following...
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Links are hidden from guests. Please register to be able to view these links. ...and you'll find various versions of WineD3D. Use version 1.6RC4 and extract the d3d9, ddraw, dxgi, libwine, and wined3d DLLs to the root of the Kega Fusion directory.
[Note: You can use these DLLs for older games that use hardware acceleration as well; Plants vs Zombies, for example. It'll run in fullscreen, as smooth as it did on Windows 7 and prior. Just extract them in the game's main directory.]

The Bad: I still haven't figured out why Kega Fusion crashes whenever I attempt to open another ROM, after playing with one earlier. Tried all Compatibility Modes, including setting it to XP and Run As Admin... nothing. Any help is appreciated.

[MaslowK]

I still haven't figured out why Kega Fusion crashes whenever I attempt to open another ROM, after playing with one earlier.

That is pretty strange. Just tested Fusion 3.64 in a Win8 VM and didn't have any crashing issues when loading games while another is running. The first thing I'd recommend checking is if there's an updated driver for your video card. To find out what model card/chipset you have, use a program like GPU-Z. Once you have that, just do a search for "nameofcard drivers".

If updating your drivers doesn't help (or if none were available) I would try using a different version of the emulator. On the authors homepage he does mention 3.64 may have bugs (though I've never experienced any with it), and to hold onto 3.63 just in case. You can find older versions here; http://www.eidolons-inn.net/tiki-index.php?page=Kega

[Zorlon]

Yeah 3.64 had some issues though not crashing issues more game compat that 3.63 has no issues with or any speed up and down issues, at least not on my end anyway

It would be worth dropping back to 3.63 though and see if it resolves the issues, that is after checking what MaslowK has recommended with the video drivers