[RESOLVED] Setup Wizard crashes

[logik1]

There are "soft" crashes in the setup wizard which I have seen on three different installs of Windows, XP and Win7 flavours. "Soft" as in you can continue, I'm guessing the wizard is written in .net or something like that?

Photos are attatched from a Win7 install and also an XP install, both are fresh installs.

Recreation steps are basically click "Advanced" and then click through all the pages which will crash on the pages in the photos.

For reference I have two external emulators (Snes9x and Atari 2600) installed as well as Mame which were downloaded and installed via the setup wizard.

[headkaze]

By the looks of it you have dragged a copy of SetupWizard.exe onto your desktop. It needs to launch from the GameEx folder. If you want an icon on your desktop then create a shortcut to it.

EDIT: Judging by your "Firefox" icon you have shortcut arrows turned off. So they could be shortcuts but the fact the SetupWizard.exe can't find GameEx.ini does appear like it's not being launched from the correct location. Anyway I see in your other thread you say that updating your system has fixed your problem. I'm just curious that this happened on both an XP and Win7 machine. Seems a little odd.

[logik1]

By the looks of it you have dragged a copy of SetupWizard.exe onto your desktop. It needs to launch from the GameEx folder. If you want an icon on your desktop then create a shortcut to it.

EDIT: Judging by your "Firefox" icon you have shortcut arrows turned off. So they could be shortcuts but the fact the SetupWizard.exe can't find GameEx.ini does appear like it's not being launched from the correct location. Anyway I see in your other thread you say that updating your system has fixed your problem. I'm just curious that this happened on both an XP and Win7 machine. Seems a little odd.

This happens if I launch from the Start menu, the icon is a shortcut.

The screenshots from Win7 were specifically launched from the start menu.

I can edit any of the settings and they reflect in GameEx so presumably the setup wizrd is finding GameEx.ini just fine?

[headkaze]

This happens if I launch from the Start menu, the icon is a shortcut.

The screenshots from Win7 were specifically launched from the start menu.

I can edit any of the settings and they reflect in GameEx so presumably the setup wizrd is finding GameEx.ini just fine?

So in your other thread where you say "OK machine updated, problem solved." you're not referring to this problem?

Can you post your GameEx.log and GameEx.ini.

[logik1]

This happens if I launch from the Start menu, the icon is a shortcut.

The screenshots from Win7 were specifically launched from the start menu.

I can edit any of the settings and they reflect in GameEx so presumably the setup wizrd is finding GameEx.ini just fine?

Poking around with Process Monitor reveals two files that the setup Wizard can't find

09:32:17.6635999 SetupWizard.exe 8820 QueryDirectory C:\GameEx\SetupWizard.INI NO SUCH FILE Filter: SetupWizard.INI

09:32:55.0092595 SetupWizard.exe 8820 QueryDirectory C:\GameEx\Interop.DvdCore.INI NO SUCH FILE Filter: Interop.DvdCore.INI

Not sure if these are important or needed?

Which file is causing these parse errors? If you let me know which file it is I could post it here as an attachment.

[logik1]

So in your other thread where you say "OK machine updated, problem solved." you're not referring to this problem?

Can you post your GameEx.log and GameEx.ini.

Yes, problem solved was referring to the download failed message that popped up every 20 seconds.

I will post these two files in a moment.

[headkaze]

There is no SetupWizard.ini so not sure why it's trying to access this file.

How did you install GameEx? Did you install it by running GameExSetup.exe?

[logik1]

Here is my GameEx.ini

I don't have any file on this machine called GameEx.log, do I have to turn logging on?

GameEx.zip

[logik1]

There is no SetupWizard.ini so not sure why it's trying to access this file.

How did you install GameEx? Did you install it by running GameExSetup.exe?

Yes, just by running GameExSetup.exe

[headkaze]

Okay I can replicate the problem using your GameEx.ini file. Will sort it out soon.

[logik1]

Okay I can replicate the problem using your GameEx.ini file. Will sort it out soon.

Many thanks, I would be interested to know why this only seems to be affecting me though

[headkaze]

Okay the problem is you don't have a default theme set. Go to Custom->Theme Selection in the Setup Wizard and set it to something.

The error was because it couldn't find Theme.ini. I'm not sure why you didn't have a default theme set, but perhaps Tom has changed GameEx.ini in the default install. Either way I have modified the Setup Wizard so it will not cause an exception if a theme isn't set.

[logik1]

Okay the problem is you don't have a default theme set. Go to Custom->Theme Selection in the Setup Wizard and set it to something.

The error was because it couldn't find Theme.ini. I'm not sure why you didn't have a default theme set, but perhaps Tom has changed GameEx.ini in the default install. Either way I have modified the Setup Wizard so it will not cause an exception if a theme isn't set.

Actually, that is something that I was wondering about myself.

It seems that by default there is no theme set.

Many thanks, selecting a theme fixes this problem