wkupike2000

After spending at least 30 minutes walking through the setup line by line, over and over, and I still missed that one setting. I'm not sure I even knew it existed. Either way, that fixed it and all is well in the world.... I have volume again!!!! Thanks everyone for all the patience and help. This is resolved for me.

Sorry harder to see since I'm not at home(work pc won't let me do much). MAME Audio mode setting in the GameEx setup? Where did you detect this? Probably going to kick ourselves(those that helped me) for not seeing it.

Oh okay good. I'd always heard good things about you and thought I had offended you haha You want me to post the GameEx log and delete which specific ini files? I can do all that in about 3.5 hours(be home from work at 5:45 EST from work, maybe earlier).

But didn't the other user on here have a totally different version of Mame? I'm sorry I'm just not following the thought process. If my Mame runs fine by itself, how can it be the cause? I'm willing to go through any steps you want to figure this out but logically there needs to be more to prove it's related to Mame.Especially since I used it fine for several days(through GameEx) without issue. I'm also not understanding the comment "It would take all the games to run through attract mode for it to set it for each game hence why it took a few days." I don't keep my system on at night or much when I'm not playing, so I'd say attract mode only came on 10-12 minutes total the whole week if that helps. For background, I'm not an average computer user, I have a degree in it and have ran support teams for Microsoft. In treating this like other computer problems, by eliminating GameEx my volume was fine. Introducing it makes the volume go to -32db. That in itself makes the variable of GameEx questionable unless I'm crazy. Is there a way to revert to a previous version of GameEx to see if can correct my issue?

I updated to 0.148 but that was several days, maybe even a week before this started happening. Everything was fine until out of the blue, it started going silent. I had made no system updates, no Mame updates, nothing. I just started up GameEx as always and started playing. I'm not trying to blame GameEx, I just don't have any other logic to see how it's tied to my Mame. If I just run my MameUI.exe, all the sound is properly set to 0 db. I'm just looking for some help as I've exhausted all efforts, searches, and the 2+ hours Frequency(user on here) helped walk me through scenarios to try to eliminate causes.

I can upload tonight once I'm home from work. Frequency went through tons of scenarios with me through chat and eliminated it down to GameEx. My volume is perfect with just Mame(running MameUI 0.148) and it was fine for several days prior to this starting to happen last Sunday/Monday. We checked every INI file and setting within Mame and then as soon as I load GameEx, it kicks the volume to -32db. You can even see it in the log but we have no idea what is setting it. Is their something in the attract mode settings I could try to change to see if that corrects it? I thought I tried them all but am willing to do anything. At this point it's a tremendous pain to have to fix the volume in slider options every single time I play a game. Thanks!

It's been a few days and I've not seen a GameEx update which means the bug is still keeping my sound at -32db. Is there an update on this?

fRequEnCy has been working with me and we've figured out it's something in GameEx setting my volume to all games at -32db. He asked me to post this bat file(saved as ini in notepad as I wasn't allowed to attach a .bat ) runitgame.ini

No luck, no change. Thanks for continuing to work with me on this.

That was the file from the ini folder, I didn't know they resided in both. In the main mame directory(where the mameui32.exe file is), there is not a mame ini. There is the attached file. MAMEUI32.ini

I'm sorry I'm new but isn't that what I attached to the previous post? And my last line should have read "Should I try backing up my MAME.ini and then run "mameui32.exe -cc" from a command prompt? No idea where that "M=" came from.

Bizarrely enough, I have the EXACT issue that Damon has and I didn't do a hard reset or anything similar. The other day I had sound, shutdown GameEx and did something else(left computer on). I came back later, fired it up and bam, sound at -32db for every Mame game. I couldn't work on it until tonight but have had no luck correcting it. If I just open my MameUI 0.148 I have sound on every game. Should I try backing up my MAME.ini and then run "M=mameui32.exe -cc" from a command prompt? mame.ini GameEx.ini

Odd, tried that before multiple times with no success as the conifigure options were easy to find in DaphneLoader. Tried again after getting your email, so far so good. I've only tried with two games since Daphne roms are hard to get working but I'll take it.

I just got my Daphne up and running outside GameEx(have Mame, Nes, Genesis working for months). I have an X-arcade Tankstick and it works fine controlling all other systems/emulators. I for the life of me after searching and reading here and ALL over the net, have had no success getting my Tankstick to control Daphne within GameEx. I'm sure others have the Tankstick and have faced the issue of setting this up. I appreciate the help. Thanks!

That was it I renamed to the exact logo name and dropped it into the default theme's logo folder. It now plays when I go to the Emulated Games section. THANKS!!!