Tom Speirs

Wow, awesome. You mind if I replace the one on Pinballx.com with this?

Introducing PinballX 2.50, GameEx and GameEx Arcade Edition 15.00 Big updates for the season. These are mainly performance improvement related releases with general optimizations to key functions as well as rendering and the executable compiles. This should hopefully result in better FPS and speed improvements throughout although obviously it will be more noticeable on lower end machines. With GameEx several other areas have been improved for performance such as the Jukebox, loading Game Info, the Movie Library and getting Meta Data. In addition the YouTube feature is now working again and the Move Library has been improved significantly. Getting Meta Data for the movie library is now much quicker to and downloading music artist and album images is working again. I also made the decision to make the Media Library and DVD/BluRays on disk features free for all users and no longer a registered version feature. I am toying with the idea of releasing a sub version of GameEx without gaming features, purely as a free HTPC solution. Please let me know your thoughts on this. In preparation for the season I, and behalf of all of my loyal team and friends who work alongside me wish you all the best, happy thanksgiving, happy Hanukkah, Eid, Kwanzaa and Merry Christmas!. View the full article View the full article

Introducing PinballX 2.50, GameEx and GameEx Arcade Edition 15.00 Big updates for the season. These are mainly performance improvement related releases with general optimizations to key functions as well as rendering and the executable compiles. This should hopefully result in better FPS and speed improvements throughout although obviously it will be more noticeable on lower end machines. With GameEx several other areas have been improved for performance such as the Jukebox, loading Game Info, the Movie Library and getting Meta Data. In addition the YouTube feature is now working again and the Move Library has been improved significantly. Getting Meta Data for the movie library is now much quicker to and downloading music artist and album images is working again. I also made the decision to make the Media Library and DVD/BluRays on disk features free for all users and no longer a registered version feature. I am toying with the idea of releasing a sub version of GameEx without gaming features, purely as a free HTPC solution. Please let me know your thoughts on this. In preparation for the season I, and behalf of all of my loyal team and friends who work alongside me wish you all the best, happy thanksgiving, happy Hanukkah, Eid, Kwanzaa and Merry Christmas!. View the full article

I think it should just work like any other emulator although Ill admit I have never tried DosBox. I'm more of a retro console and arcade guy. I am sure plenty others have it working though.

Please post your gameex log and ini

Just try it already and contribute something.

Don't know about the whole scababg and just talking about gameex but personally I prefer player 1 button 1 as select, p1 b2 as shift and p1 b3 as back. Joystick just directional and don't care about anything else but its useful to have a button as volume shift. For MAME you should find a controller config for IPAC and set it.

Your cpu is about on par with a low end i3 on a single core basis, is that about right? So yes, I would definitely expect it to struggle a little. If someone can give me some 4k vids to play around with I will take a look but its all about CPU speed really. Its all optimized but its just a limitation with the libraries and frameworks in use and there really is still not any better options available right now to use even if I wanted to without moving to something entirely different across the board. Definitely worth checking out the Beta I posted yesterday though. It will do 1080p 30fps playfield (only) at nearly 30fps on an Atom X5 z8350

Please attach support files in fuil and I will try to duplicate the bug.

Just for the record: GameEX_Background.exe does two things when GameEx itself is not running. When GameEx is running the process closes. Temporarily they may both be running while GamEex start up or exits but then there is only one running. 1. Keeps GameEx Online running and connected. 2. Downloads artwork.

This is a BETA release of PinballX with installer only in the link below. I've spent a good amount of time trying to make optimizations with GameEx and PinballX and hopefully it should result in some quite news worthy performance enhancements to rendering and performance and in general. I think there ready for release but to be safe I would appreciate if a few people would try these versions and report any side effects that have been introduced if any. I am also obviously happy to hear about any successes with improved performance. PinballXSetup.zip

This is a BETA release of GameEx and GameEx Arcade Edition with installers only in the links below. I've spent a good amount of time trying to make optimizations with GameEx and PinballX and hopefully it should result in some quite news worthy performance enhancements to rendering and performance and in general. I think there ready for release but to be safe I would appreciate if a few people would try these versions and report any side effects that have been introduced if any. I am also obviously happy to hear about any successes with improved performance. I can now get 1080p 60fps on a modern intel atom if videos are limited such as removing the theme background video. 720p is still full 60fps on an Atom CPU. GameExSetupArcadeEdition.zip GameExSetup.zip

Couple of things: No GameEx AE is not intended to support touchscreen. GameEx is flagged as having touchscreen support but its the usual story of it depends on emulators whether its supported externally. PS: Iv'e been dragging my feet on it I am afraid but there is a new touchscreen front end solution in the works. So if you end up with another solution I recommend checking back here once in a while.

Please post your GameEx Log and GameEx.ini

I've found the issue. Its a bug and is fixed for the next release.

When it comes to 4k, yes, PBX is the bottleneck.

I would expect it to be slow as the rendering is not hardware accelareted. Not much can be done about it right now. At some point Ill look at moving to DXVA or similar. To be clear, its not the decoding its the rendering. There is a memory copy involved. It would be improved as CPU/RAM speed improves.

The main issue is with a real arcade monitor when using different resolutions the positioning needs adjusting for every resolution. Its hard to get a sweet spot. If the goal is just to run MAME only then yes 15khz is a good goal . These days too you are better using GroovyMAME than an ArcadeVGA. Things have moved along a bit with GroovyMAME and its associated drivers and utilities.

You may find 640x480 runs better. Although windows may not by default be able to use this resolution but GameEx and emulators certainly can. With a monitor such as yours and these days GroovyMAME is more about getting the exact refresh rate for silky smooth gameplay rather than the resolution itself. What you need to do is setup remote access to the cabinet with something such as teamviewer then play around as you will always have access to the desktop even if the resolution is out of sync. The out of range stuff is pretty normal for arcade monitors. If the display is otherwise working well, trust me its like gold dust. EDIT: With a real arcade monitor (Which you cant even buy anymore) there is a little work involved. You will need to do a bit of research yourself. I recommend build your own arcade forums.

Sorry Todd, should have read that before posting. Just wanted to add that its somewhat dated now and windows 10 is now fully supported for GroovyMAME. Running it myself.

Its the Visual Pinball auto configure setting guys. Edit: Sorry, see it was already answered.

No worries. Yes, it works but your CRT is wasted without GroovyMAME.

Look into Groovy MAME and associated utilities for modern systems with CRTs. Although requires ATI/AMD cards.

Just so I am clear are you talking about playing random videos or the screensaver? Could you also please search the start menu for "about your pc", open it and let me know the full version number of windows 10?

As far as GameEx itself from the horses mouth - likely not. As for drivers and other stuff perhaps.