Tom Speirs

Secondly I wanted to see if the display of Date/Time could be optional. And also if time display could have a AM/PM / 24 hr (military style) display choice? Yes, at some stage. Im not a yankee either. And on another matter, could you line up the descriptive text with the buttons like I've drawn in the attached picture? 'Cause now it's kinda floating somewhere in the middle. No. And no problem making feature requests. Feel free.

You need to import (add files) your music into the Windows Media Player Library, not export (sound like you already have this). Enable the Jukebox. Run GameEx, go to jukebox. If no music shows up Select Playlist then hit All Music. You should also be able to select any other playlist that is defined in Windows Media Player. You dont need to export. GameEx Jukebox reads from the WMP Library.

I am afraid your out of luck if you want to use OpenGL. At least for the moment.

Yep, my life is too sometimes

And the correct answer is A Just File Delete Gamelist.txt and Gamelist.ini

Yes do that. I did all this as I thought it was a bug in GameEx, but it seems its down to your config (work done will be useful in future though). Seems like it does not want to blit using directdraw anymore after its drawn the background. You could also try 16-bit colour and running at a lower res.

Can you delete the themes directory completley. Then reinstall 3.63. Then replace the exe and then post the log. Can you tell me what video card you have, and do you have new drivers for it? Thanks, Tom

And again please. GameEx.zip

Hi, Please do the same with this version.. GameEx.zip

Please extract the GameEx.exe in the attached zip over your current one. Run and then post the log. Thanks. Tom GameEx.zip

I need your config. Can you post Config\gameex.ini. Thanks.

Sorry, I dont plan to add support for any more builds of MAME other than official and legal ones. I did not realise MAME More is an illegal build, and I certainly dont want to get tied up in that or have any such talk on this forum I am afraid, and I certainly dont condone it Sorry but my official stance is to abide by MAME Dev's wishes and licence. I won't risk jeopardising this project or the wonderfull thing that is MAME. Use a legal build, or go elsewhere. If this was Mame.net youd be barred already. Tom

I guess I am getting old, not too used to slang/text/abbreviations Well at least it did not require a coding fix!

29th April 2005 - GameEx 3.63 Fixes loosing MAME games after log off or shutdown Improved and fixed transition between Radio and Jukebox Optimised/removed some of the code, should run a bit faster now. Added German translation by CU cupid Added Spanish translation by DoctorM Thanks. To all: All the translations need a little update because of new features. Please chip in if you can help. [*] Updated support files. Please support these guys. GameEx would not be the same without them http://www.arcade-history.com/ http://www.mameworld.net/catlist/ http://www.mameworld.net/mameinfo http://nplayers.arcadebelgium.be http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls.php

Thank you for providing detailed information. I have found the bug now. It will be fixed in the next release. Thanks again. Tom.

'Minimum requirements' you already have, and there on the web site. Browse the forum and find out what people are using to get a better idea if people dont respond to this. I am still trying to get a better idea myself. Once I have more info I will post on the web site. Its impossible to know how fast GameEx will run on as it depends on Hardware your Software, your OS, your Drivers, and how much you have tuned your PC, and know about PC's. Ive had it grind to a crawl on 400Mhz PC but run OK on a 550Mhz Compaq Laptop and play all the old skool games. Others have pretty good results on an 800Mhz, as have I. You say it runs badly on a 1.2. So its hard to anwser. I'd say anything above a 2.2Ghz with a decent video card and 512MB and it will run at full speed, so 'recommended' requirements would be that.

I also want to clarify for others making posts like this. The following: GameEx is a high end Front End. It is developed to run on the latest hardware. Much like the latest game software and windows media centre. Do NOT expect every single feature to run a 60FPS on anything less than a 2.4GHZ, and Radeon 8500. GameEx will run on older harder: In order to make it run on older hardware, you need to disable certain features, optimize the PC (thoroughly) have all the latest updates and modern driver, and follow all advice in the docs, and this forum. It requires effort and some skill to run GameEx on older systems with acceptable userability. If it still does not run good enough for you, ask for help. If noone can help - try another front end or build/buy a new pc.

Well Ive given you something for the first two. Have you tried them? Your log and gameex.ini file? Your harwdware, your OS? Run a game that runs slow. Exit GameEx. Then select run last game from the program group. Any difference? You need to be much more descriptive and provide more info, and not use slang. Otherwise this will go on forever (actually Ill give up first). What game did you view controls on. Does it do it everytime for every game.

Hi Emph, it will be happening. Many people have asked for this.

You might be surprised how well you remember it, once youve written it down and used it a few times. I managed to memorise it quickly, and I'm usually crap mentally at things like that. I did put some thought into this. Its nowhere need as complex as your average cheat for a console game. Youd also be surprised what hammer happy kids can do You could always write it down and lock in your cab. Of course if you have another suggestion?

Try the -Skipvalidtychecks setting for MAME. Search the board for more info about this. The lowest I've tested it on is a 2.4GHZ P4. Some videos such as 720 still run very slow, but most full speed. Also check your not loading Game images/videos on a thread. (Tweaks performance). As said before if your displaying them as a background image, turn off alhpa blending. This can make them run slow on even the fastest systems. This is a common problem. I am not sure if your are saying the MAME games themselves actually run slow, or just load slow. Please clarify.

Yes and thats exactly what Ill be doing. Spot on.

This is fixed in 3.62 - Just uploaded. Go try that. Thanks

This is fixed in 3.62 - Just uploaded. Go try that. Thanks

27th April 2005 - GameEx 3.62 - Bug fixes Now starts up for new installs. No more log shows 'Loading last used gamelist. Error' Fixed crashing for new installs or where no favorites defined. Fixed crashing in pictures when viewing a directory with no sub directories or pictures. Emulator and Daphne favourites now work when No game Info is enabled. No Game info setting moved to enabled/disable, as this now applies to emulators as well as MAME.