Tom Speirs

Hey, I just got infected by a WMF file. It installed about 5-6 startup apps on my system. It was on my laptop too, and I have no anti stuff on here. If it happens to anyone else - A real good way to fix stuff, is just do a system restore. It wont change your documents, but restores the registry to how it was. Fixed it for me in about 5 minutes. Although I was panicking a little

I am aware of that issue its a known bug to me. Its supposed to do it already. I plan on fixing it shortly.

Take a look at runitgame.bat in the Data directory, this will show exactly what GameEx is launching. See if you can spot anything wrong, try launching it, and also post it here. It also seems that your using a seperate emulator for each game. The way I invisage PC games working is to have one emulator and list all the PC Games of a particular type. Anyway, I am sure runitgame.bat will shed some light. What might be happening is your launchbefore (which was not a feature in the earlier version you mentioned), is the only thing running, it runs then returns to gameex. I notice its a batch file so that would be normal behaviour if its called directly. You could try moving that to Also Launch instead. You also have Launchbefore set twice, so its probably running the latter batch file.

Yes, but what about MAME and the emulators themselves, when they run. I have thought about an HTML version of GameEx, but you still have the problem above. I also had the thought on streaming GameEx via video, but again you still have the problem of the emulators themselves. I also think there would be a big lag, and can think of no way to synchronize the video off hand. To be honest, with all these roadbloaks, I think its more likely we will see a homebrew XBox Media Centre for the 360 rather than GameEx running on it. Its really not designed to do this stuff from what I can tell. Although I do have an interest.

Ive just had a good look through the forum. I added GP49 to GameEx early in the year with Toonces. Only issue is, from what I can see he never posted his working solution for others using the built in support. Toonces if your out there could you post a description of how to set this up please? Many Thanks, Tom.

For anyone wanting to write an LCD plugin for GameEx, all I do with the LCD Smartie plugin is read the window title from GameEx. If you run GameEx in a windows yourll see the windows caption, with various fields seperated by a pipe. Just split the window title string. In the future I may update the registry as your navigating through GameEx to allow more detailed info, but I wont be disabling the current way of doing it. if you cant code, you could pay someone a few bucks to do it at www.rentacoder.com

I'm guessing this problem is just down to one disabled (and in your case removed too) service. I tend to disable a lot of services when I'm setting up systems, but I dont bother with using software to remove files from windows. I don't think there's much to be gained from that, when you can just as simply disable what you dont need. All I can see it saving is possibly a few meg on your hard disk and a slightly smaller registry. I can see 'that' kind of software has uses for special applications, possibly even a shelled arcade box (if your running an 800MHZ CPU with 10 GB Hard Disk or something), or for a dumb terminal for use at an airport/kiosk or internet cafe. But I have to ask, do you really believe your getting some great kind of performance increase doing what your doing over just disabling and not hacking your windows install? I just cant believe you are. Keep plugging away though if you like, but I recommend you do a normal xp install, Uninstall all the stuff you can from add/remove programs. Disable non essential services. Remove startup apps from the registry, and save yourself a lot of hassle, and run GameEx at the same time! If you get everything setup perfectly, then look at shelling. Or even once you have GameEx setup in a good test environment with everything setup perfectly, then build your ultimate streamlined system and simply copy over the config and games. I'm not at all annoyed that your trying to help and are looking at resolving the problem, but I really can no way support hacked OS's. UNLESS youve taken the time to do it in a planned organised way. IE Test System > Production System.

I'm closing this topic. It seems almost everyone seems to post here when they cant get mame or some other emulator to work, which is often for a ton of different reasons (seperate problems) with seperate solutions. Dynamic, for your particular problem, note that the line is not actually what GameEx runs. Look at Run Last Game in the program group and edit that batch file, to see exactly what GameEx does when it launches the game. If you add pause to that file and your using the regulalr command line version of MAME you should hopefully see the error MAME gives.

Your welcome, and yes.

Make sure your artwork is not in ZIPS, but extracted. ZIP support was removed some time back.

Hi, Its not a problem of where the error is occuring, as you can see from the log, I put in special code to trap it. It is a case of why it is happening. I am 99.9% sure it is because of your 'special' install. Basically this error occurs when GameEx trys to look at running processess using the diagnostic namespace in the .net framework. It's not a specific GameEx problem, its something on the PC that stops this part of the .net framework from working. If you can tie it down to a particular service or component that would be great, then I can document it for others. I am not concerned GameEx does not run under the modes your talking about, I can see no instance when it would be useful to run GameEx that way? but thanks for letting me know.

I dont know if there things you tried to try anf fix, but you should NOT be using dont wait for blitting on your system. Also try turning on sound and the gamepad. Maybe a bug in GameEx means they need to be turned on. Other than that cant see much else. Are you running GameEx on a local drive, disk space etc OK? Could it be some kind of apps or spyware running on your PC? It might be worth running a few tools to check that. Make sure the PC is not accidentally underclocked. If its overclocked, it could be overheating and that would cause GameEx to slow down. The sleep setting should help with that. I have a laptop with a normal P4 2.4ghz not the mobile version etc. My laptop gets very hot when GameEx runs, the CPU then steps down and then GameEx runs slow. Honestly, GameEx should fly on your system spec.

I am not sure whether it will work as a shell replacement but .net 2.00 supports 64 bit I think. So when I move to a .net 2 build it will probably happen then. Dont know when exactly but I think its likely it will happen.

Marty, please post your GameEx log. When you said you tried everything I am assuming you read the sticky post on this forum. So maybe your log will shed some more log. Also make sure your running the latest gameex. There were some optimizations in the latest version.

Try using 16 bit Colour, some Graphics cards do this with GameEx if they run out of memory. Although my laptop uses a radeon mobility 7500c and works fine.

Many thanks for the contribution

The earliest version that works would be the first version that supported the command line to output the XML game list. I dont know what that version is, but I am pretty sure its quite a bit later than 062.

I know I don't at the moment. What version of GameEx are you running? Post your GameEx log. Could it be a problem just with certain songs you select?

Thanks all. Happy Holidays!

lol, I am glad I wernt in Nam when I get one of those! Yes, they are context sensitive, its google adsense, and its a good program, although it only generates me a little bit of revenue. Cheers.

Did you try waiting 10-15 seconds and not pressing "1"?

21st December 2005 - GameEx 5.32 - Optimized I spent a fair bit of time trying optimize memory usage and clean things up resulting in possibly a slightly leaner and faster GameEx. It uses 5-25 MB less ram now. For me anyway. Startup is quicker if using Jukebox in Windows Media player mode, at least by 1-2 seconds. It seems to run a fair bit faster on my laptop. Theres a new theme variation in the install, BlueEx - Snap. Nothing too special I fixed the issues with the BlueEx MCE theme overriding the MCE startup and exit mode. The default theme is no longer animated as there were reports that this slowed things down, although I've no real idea why. I've added a default - animated theme. Anyone complaining of bloat (and not from Christmas chocolate), please at least give this version a go.

Could you turn off the bypass setting to confirm thats the issue.

log please

The MCE issue with BlueEx is a problem with theme. Ill fix it for the next release but in the meantime if youe edit: C:\-DATA-\-MY PROJECTS-\GameEx - VB.net\bin\THEMES\Default - BlueEx - MCE1024x768\theme.ini Remove the MCE Mode line. That will do it. If you want to view it with snaps as the background then change this line, again in theme.ini: DisplayBackgroundImage=True Thats intententionally there, but the issue with upon changing window size the snaps not showing is a bug which Ill fix in the next release. It does not happen if GameEx starts full screen. Thanks for alerting me to these issues. Tom