Tom Speirs

That's strange, please post your gameex log.

Working fine for me. Are you pressing the credit buttons? Which ones?

Could you post your GameEx log please.

I need the log when it does not work. Ie at first boot. Cheers. Tom

Could you just try uninstalling .net framework 2. temporarily just to confirm that is actually the problem. Thanks. Tom

Are other emulators working OK on first boot?

Could you guys with loading issues with Daphne post the Daphne and GameEx logs please? Also confirm, are you using Arcade Ambiance? Thanks. Tom..

Really no idea at the moment why that would happen. Edit: I thought GameEx didn't block the screensaver anyway. I have mine turned off anyway. I did think it blocked powersave though.

By the way if your using version 4.03 expect bugs and issues. There has been literally tons of updates since 4.03. What OS are you using, the safe to shutdown computer mesage is normal for windows 98. If you use 2000 or XP you probably wont get it.

Ive already answered most of these questions several times already for you, however here goes again, but Im making it brief this time. If you have feature requests post them there if not already there, and not ask for them again every couple of weeks please. 1) No not yet, but it is planned. 2) You cant. 3) No, not in an easy way. Although to wipe out ALL your game information delete the \DATA directory and reininstall. 4) No. 5) Just examine an included theme, and look at the WAV files, the only one not used is blank.wav 6) Tag your audio files, otherwise you cant. There may be some SW out there that can automatically do this, you could investigate that instead of asking for this feature every couple of weeks 7) No.

Assuming MAME is setup correctly it should automatically use the ini files you created. The created ini files are used by MAME not GameEx. To use the built in ArcadeVGA support in GameEx instead though just enable it in the configuration application. Set GameEx to use the resolution 640X288 also. Some games not showing sounds like it is a different problem entirely, check all the settings unders Advanced MAME settings and update the list, check things such as the filters and verify. You can also force GameEx to include certain games. Have another look then post back. Cheers

I did change what happened to the cursor at the startup, but it was 1 or two versions go. It does not hide on startup now, it goes to the bottom right corner, then hides after the normal timer or when a control is pressed. I did that so there was no cursor showing at startup as DirectX always seems to center the cursor upon initialising. I guess the controls problem is a bug, they will show if you enable the jukebox 0 or 1. Your really gonna get crap music support unless you enable the jukebox, including no randomization.

I think your misunderstanding a little. Im not waiting for the launched process, and I'm not changing the zorder any more, i Was sending HIDEOS to the back but that was unreliable as sending it to the back gave it the focus. Its also a little risky having gameex take for granted it has the right window handle. Some apps spawn more windows and processes such as visual pinball. I believe I am doing this now the most compatible and reliable way for all apps, emulators and systems. The wait is before GameEx closes HideOS, which will make the launched app visible. The apps process/es has already been launched. This only affects apps that need the showdesktop setting anyway.

Works fine for me. Check the Audio Path setting. Whats up with it, anything?

Thanks for the tip. I will try it, see if it works

Sorry about that, the download link was temporarily down, my FTP directory got corrupted somehow when I uploaded a new version a couple of hours ago, please try again and let me know if you still have problems.

EnableJukebox is now a redundant setting since I added support for using the Jukebox without using WMP. use Jukeboxmode=2 to disable. Why dont you use the config app? I've generally stopped supporting manual ini eiditing. Thats why I dont comment it anymore. Whats wrong with it in that you cant use it? Please explain so maybe I can enhance it?

Thanks for helping out on the forum HeadKaze and allowing me not to have the hassle of this crap, your proving to be a valuable member. Not to trying to suck up, just saying its appreciated

I think this might be to do with the way GameEx checks for running processes of itself and emus/apps. Maybe that service is used by .net to look up running processes. It might explain why users get the error up startup when checking for GameEx processes if theyve disabled this service. What do you think?

27th November 2005 - GameEx 5.24 Fixes restoration of Desktop Wallpaper and tiled setting.

I wonder why the list is getting corruped. How are yout shutting down your PC. GameEx writes the list on exit. All I can think is that it does not have time to finish. Hence gets corrupted. once a month to me would indicate it has to be something to with your setup or how you are shutting down your PC at times.

Im uploading 5.24 now which fixes the desktop issues. Its not to send keys. As I tried to explain in this release notes the wait now has an alternate function, in that this is the wait before it kills hideos.exe so the running emulator if just showing in a normal maximized window (not using directx) will then show. Believe me the other method was very unreliable. This is much better.

Thanks for the feedback guys, yes I am kind of proud of the DesktopMAME, I have it permantly running on my MCE PC

You should be able to copy over the entire GameEx directory then install over the top with the latest version. It should work, but backup first just in case.