Tom Speirs

All I can suggest right now it trying a different MAME build. I also notice your running Windows Server, that could possibly be the problem, but dont know for sure.

2/3 is good going Dont know about the background at the moment. What OS, patches etc are you using? Do you have any software installed that could affect it. How are you exiting GameEx? Could you also post your log.

No, that sounds like your probably OK then. Really not sure why those settings are not working. All I can suggest is a fresh install of GameEx, which it sounds like you already have. Weird that those settings are not working. Not had anything like that reported before. You could maybe try a different theme. Does the GameLauncher theme displays the images as the background? Cant offer much more help right now. Tom.

I never tried changing the trusts myself, I was just told that works. So maybe its something that's not easily done. There is a command line option to specify a different config file which can be on a mapped network drive. Maybe that's what yourll need to do. I have considered using a database, but that would not affect speed of GameEx though. It could help with the config app speed, and make things a bit cleaner with how GameEx handles its lists though. My only concern with that though is the additional dependencie it would add, and possible additional support related problems. Assuming you've registered GameEx and its configured well, startup speed should not be too bad.

Rob, please give me a bit more info when you have a chance, I dont want to tick off my only moderator

That's strange, both options should work fine. Double check your running version 1.1 of the .net framework. If you look at the top of the GameEx log file it will tell you what versions you have installed. I've noticed weird bugs with the configuration when running just version 1.0. MCE ships with version 1.0 so that might be the issue. Let us know how that works out. Thanks, Tom.

do the files have the .mpeg extenstion or .mpg extension? Make sure there .mpg? Are they are genuine mpeg 1 files? If not that could be why. I really dont know what could have changed that could stop them playing since random startup videos where introduced. Has anything else changed your end? Do the files play in Windows Media Player? BlueEx runs in ArcadeMode. The mouse should never have worked. Not sure why it did. If you edit the theme.ini for that theme, and turn off ArcadeMode you should be able to get the mouse to work. If it was working before it was an unintended feature/bug.

The background setting is not broken. Maybe you edited the ini wrong or are using an old version of GameEx. Set MCE mode under Tweaks/Performance in the config application to do what your asking.

19th December 2005 - GameEx 5.31 Fixes random startup videos not working if the path had a slash (\) on the end. Uses even less of the cpu when running in the background after launching something. Showing 0% and 15MB on a 2.4GHZ Exits emulators and apps slightly quicker Please try this version if you experience any slow downs or problems running emus and apps.

By the way, the Anibak setting does nothing on the CPU, its handled completly by the video card. If its slow it must be a driver or old hardware issue. The only difference with anibak is it does a blit stretching a surface, rather than blitting the surface at the same size. Its bearly 11 lines of code including the changing of dimesions. Really dont know what that can be about, maybe another NVidia issue?

Can you explain exactly what you find the same. C'mon make it easy for me to fix. Or are you just ganging up on me!?

Hi, This is a common thing with .net apps as they offer higher security than standard executables. You need to configure GameEx as a trusted application for .net. In control panel you should have some settings for .net framework, within those set GameEx as a trusted application. It should work then. EDIT: Cant do much about the configuration tool at the moment. It has to deal with a lot of data. I may improve this later.

Hi Rob, welcome back. Not sure what's going on with the videos. WMV videos are working fine for me.

1. What format are the video files in? 2. Can you plug in a mouse and see if that's working. Are you running at an Arcade Monitor resolution, or turned on ArcadeMode? This disables the mouse. 3. This was a problem in versions before 5.30 but should be fixed now. Could you confirm its deffinitly still happening in 5.30? Thanks, Tom

Rob, once youve checked the other stuff, please try these two new binaries, see if stepmania is any better, and also post the log. Cheers. bin.zip

Rob, Check your Jukebox settings, in between those two log items, GameEx loads the Jukebox library and may start playing a radion station if enabled. Could you see if it is hideos.exe that is causing the slowdown by just replacing that old binary and using it with the new GameEx.exe? Only other thing I can think that would affect it is GameEx checking the GamePad for an exit combination. Thanks for reporting the problem, I'd rather know about it so I can fix it. Could you check those things out and let me know. EDIT: Also are you using an advanced emulator config with joypad mapping? that could cause stutter as it only makes gameex sleep for 10ms. Thanks, Tom.

Just wanted to give people a heads up. If you go to the extras/links section on the GameEx homepage, this and any other useful links are there. http://gameex.net

If you use the skip existing/resume item (scroll down) when creating snaps, it will skip any existing snaps.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. You can remove them by disabling all items that are active within those menus - Configuation, Web ApplicationS, External Applications, DVD, Videos, Pictures, Jukebox, and Radio. You can disable these in various sections in the config, hopefully you can find them.

Not sure why it used to work, nothing has really changed that I think would make a difference. Emulator favorites do save immediatly, although MAME favorites have ever only saved when exiting/shutting down GameEx. Can you post the log after a 'turn off' so I can see what's happening?

It's not a known problem. Please post your GameEx log after this has happened.

Glad you sorted it finally. I was very concerned that you wern't getting your dose of retro porn goodness

It does not increase it in all cases, just mainly at lower resolutions, such as ArcadeVGA res's and 16:9 resolutions.

Not sure why gameex is not finding the files, but I tested adult games with the latest GameEx version, and the 'included' files in the install. I deleted the data by using the new admin feature, and updated the list. Still works fine for me.

Again, working fine for me. I think maybe your cab powered down before gameex got a chance to exit properly and save the games list.