Tom Speirs

Can you post the log and gameex.ini?

Hopefully this is related to drivers, and not purely DX 10 itself. Ill try and do some testing later. If anyone wants to help out on this id appreciate it.

In regard to 1, I know the games dont appear in most played until youve played them several times. You also need to make sure there set to appear for each emulator, although I think the default is yes. Are they showing up in the statistics?

Also, one thing I would try is to set GameEx not to change resolution. Please come back to us.

This error has popped up quite a few times with ArcadeVGA cards now. It has to be some kind of driver issue. Can you post your gameex.ini please? Thanks. Tom

Sorry, got nothing else for you other than the usual, get the latest drivers, windows updates, and reinstall windows.

Try turning on the Start/Wait option in advanced config under advanced MAME settings.

For GameEx to work at all you must have .net 2 installed Can you post your GameEx log please, with this happening. Thanks. Tom

HK, summed it up. But basically there is going to be very little benefit for the amount of work involved, same goes for changing video libraries (at least for now). It runs fine on 64-bit and on most hardware as it is. It does not run on everything, eg. directx issues, but I dont think many commercial games etc run on all systems. I dont think it will ever run on every system under the sun, but what does, even windows doesnt! When you think how many posts we get here in a day (dont keep up for more than 4 days, and you pretty much cant), we get very few issues that arnt resolved quickly, its just they stand out. The hardest thing about writing software, is trying to get it working on everyone's machine. MS Windows is actually a marvel in itself when you think all the hardware out there. Apple have a pretty easy life writing an OS.

How about this one? GameEx.zip

I dont think that is anything to do with the update. I dont know what type of file that is, but its not included or supported by GameEx.

I think it may be due to reserved words in oledb. I made some changes yesterday that might work. Can you try the attached gameex.exe please? GameEx.zip

Thanks Tempest.

You could try using Powerstrip http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm This should allow you to create that resolution.

Just noticed Maximusarcade is showing up in the ads sometimes. Interesting.. Probably not the best place to advertise

I also see another thing that could be causing this, and that is your video card is reporting a refreh rate of 200 to GameEx. This is obviously wrong and may cause GameEx not to reduce cpu utilisation. What drivers are you running?

Are you talking about shutting down the computer from GameEx (by selecting the item), or shutting down in windows using the start button?

If I could find out what is involved in hidng the login mouse cursor technincally, I would update instant sheller. Last time I looked into it I could not figure it out.

Can you try the attached replacement gameex.exe and let me know the results please. GameEx.zip

Also did you install GameEx to the default path?

This normally is because of lite or nlited windows install. There's no complete known fix at the moment. It could be data.mdb got corrupted. So you could delete it and reinstall GameEx.

Sorry, realise your not using an arcadevga card. I think the anibak setting should solve it. If not read what I said about nvidia drivers in the FAQ. It might apply as your using an older card (by todays standards).

Usage varies by system, and it depends whats happening at the time, like if its playing msuic and/or video. Totally idle its about 5-10% on my dual core athlon 4000. Maybe its just your system, I dont know, I would try a reinstall, but make sure you delee the entire contents of the gameex folder after the uninstall, in case the config is messed up. How new is your ArcadeVGA card? I know the original radeon 7000 based models are pretty slow. You could try turning off the anibak= settng in theme.ini in the theme your using, this can cause slowdown on older cards.

Immediatly when I posted that message.

This is fixed in 9.13. Now available. Thank you all for your help fixing this.