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yeah its nice. you adjust the master slider with that control. but, it doesn't do what i mean - and i know this isnt really your problem but youre the GameEx guy whos holding all this together so im gonna be cheeky and ask i now have one emu much louder than the others, so i'm thinking of either turning them all up to 100% volume (probably easiest) or finding some other way to quiten down e.g. Zinc. anyone know a command you can send windows (in a batch file) to set the master volume slider? then i could maybe do something with LaunchBefore= LaunchAfter= i guess the other way would be to have an adjustment for GameEx's sound effects relative to the master volume (let them go louder than they are now?) this is not very important though so no worries.

ok, so, i have one gamepad controlling GameEx (a super smartjoy). now what if i want to allow two gamepads to control GameEx (one of the Super Smarjoys and one of the Adaptoids) is this possible? would be cool so people could use whichever type they are holding to play the games.

only prob i have with FCEU is that it switches res too many times when starting up.. um this is nothing to do with gameex.. any ideas please anyone? edit: actually a bigger problem with FCEU, which i should probably be asking on FCEU forum but ill ask here once excuse me, is that with Vsync on audio is very bad, and with it off video is not smooth.. anyone have any ideas about this please? ive tried fiddling with buffer size and secondary buffer etc.

i didn't notice that, i thought it was for the jukebox/radio.. hmm.

i don't find GameEx unstable at all currently 4.69 (many thanks), was just thinking ahead. i'll report any crashing..

this must have already been mentioned, but in case: it's not possible to have multiple rom paths for emulators (other than MAME?) when i try: RomPath=C:\Games\ROMs\Genesis\World;C:\Games\ROMs\Genesis\32X 14:47:23.3 30/07/2005: Error: Emulator_10: ROMPath Does Not Exist 14:47:26.0 30/07/2005: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING please allow this Tom! RomPath=C:\Games\ROMs\Genesis\World is fine.

the G400 is getting really old, and poor driver support. i still have one, it was a great card, but with a Dx6 feature set and no more driver updates looking likely, its probably time to move on... even the cheapest new cards have far more features (although the TV out is still great on the Matrox )

idea (possibly not great one): option to set system master (or wave?) volume on app/emu launch and reset it on exit, for emulators that don't have their own volume control (i'm looking at Zinc right now) - ? maybe an option for GameEx to set this when its started would be good also, in case GameEx crashes.

sorry i mean these two lines: LaunchOnExit= LaunchOnExitNoWait=

depends how you use OnExit, i have to watch that the machine doesn't standby when its finished updating. i just thought since listupdate is a special mode that isnt used for playing games it shouldnt use the normal automation. but it shouldnt be a big deal since hopefully when i have this set up i wont update that often.

just a very small note: when you run GameEx with -listupdate, when it exits it triggers OnExit.. probably shouldn't.

in case anyone is interested/amused by what startup scripts im using to keep GameEx running startup.bat (this runs on boot from startup folder) TASKLIST |find "pstrip.exe" IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GOTO :SKIPPSTRIP CD "C:\Program Files\PowerStrip\" START pstrip.exe CD "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents" :SKIPPSTRIP echo .>>GameEx_monitor.log echo %date% %time% Starting GameEx from startup.bat>>GameEx_monitor.log START start_gameex.bat ping -n 2 localhost> NUL START /low gameex_monitor.bat :quit start_gameex.bat (just starts gameex with right switches and priority) TASKLIST |find "GameEx.exe" REM ECHO Find GamEx.exe Errorlevel is %ERRORLEVEL% IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GOTO :SKIPSTART REM echo %date% %time% Starting GameEx from start_gameex.bat>>GameEx_monitor.log CD C:\HTPC\GameEx\ START /NORMAL GameEx.exe -quick :SKIPSTART CD "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents" EXIT Gameex_monitor.bat (this runs all the time in a loop) TITLE gameex_monitor :RECHECK @echo off echo %TIME% echo In a few seconds this will check if it should (re)start GameEx... REM ping -n 2 localhost> NUL ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 2000 >NUL COLOR 2 REM TASKLIST |find "standby_system" REM TASKLIST /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq standby_system" REM ECHO Standby Errorlevel is %ERRORLEVEL% REM IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 GOTO :SKIPRESTART TASKLIST |find "PSSDNSVC.EXE" REM ECHO Find PSSDNSVC.EXE Errorlevel is %ERRORLEVEL% IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GOTO :SKIPRESTART TASKLIST |find "GameEx.exe" REM ECHO Find GameEx.exe Errorlevel is %ERRORLEVEL% IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GOTO :SKIPRESTART COLOR E echo %date% %time% Restarting GameEx from gameex_monitor.bat>>GameEx_monitor.log REM CD "C:\HTPC\GameEx\" echo ******************************STARTING GAMEEX****************************** START start_gameex.bat GOTO :RECHECK :SKIPRESTART echo GameEx is still running OR System is shutting down - repeating! echo . GOTO :RECHECK standby_system.bat (just starts PSTools with switches - GameEx calls this itself when it exits) TITLE standby_system REM ping -n 2 localhost> NUL CD "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents" echo x seconds till standby echo %date% %time% PSshutdown Standingby System>>GameEx_monitor.log psshutdown -d -c -t 10 -m "If you do NOT want the computer to turn off press ENTER or click Cancel NOW! Otherwise Standby is automatic." all these files are in My Documents.. obviously paths need to be set right if you use them. its hammy like i said but seems to work so far. i just fiddled with the priorities cos i noticed ping was using a few percent of cpu time (i don't know any easier way). anyone has any ideas (generally) please let me know, or if you want to use it please do edit: i'll redo this with sleep .

well i figure im exempt after all the time i spend on project64 (not really im not entitled to anything i appreciate all your work.) if in an app, Escape after x minutes (could set this very high, like hours, or disable it - even in most emus i think people will use keyboard occasionaly), then exit gameex (when in gameex) after y? i.e. have seperate times for each. i'll have a think about this, good point.

brilliant, thanks. presumably that'll take care of the ordering aswell (although that's not life and death). the main new feature i'm hoping for atm in addition/instead of attract mode is "exit gamex after n minutes inactivity" (and trigger the onexit events). this would take care of power management since apparently it IS too much to ask people to exit gameex when they're done... :/

no problems here so far, will test more later (basically, when someone who actually wants to play games comes along we'll probably find some crashes then ) thanks Tom.

any chance of an option to force external apps onto the main menu please? (how about default "ShowOnStartPage=False"?) i'm using flat start page because i don't want e.g. my DVD player to be under "other games and programs". but as i add more emulators etc, the main menu is going to get ridiculously long if things aren't nested. just an idea, thanks

starting from the command line, the rom browser isn't even loaded (until/unless you end emulation). so rom browser settings don't matter. (this is how pj boots games pretty fast using command line...). but yep the only compression supported currently is plain old .zip, from zlib.dll Also Capp you can set ShowDesktop=False, pj is a dx app and it looks neater this way (wfm anyway).

are your ROMs showing up in the GameEX menu? do you have the paths right? are your roms in folders (if so, take them out) the only thing you need to do in project64 options is make it start fullscreen (and config the plugins to your liking).

yep i just realized after posting you are doing the right thing with the language. sorry.

even MORE optimisations? u Da Man! even though i have new-ish system, all resource savings are appreciated as more for the games, quicker loading, etc thanks on that last point aswell, should make upgrading "ezy" btw, these optimisations.. do they have any drawbacks at all?

i have the same problem and reported it, Tom says its intentional. I don't know why.. it only takes a second to turn them off again. also the language gets set back to English i think which is a bit annoying.

seems fine so far, haven't tried the custom input for Keyb/pad yet though. thanks again Tom. edit: saw a problem once where after tabbing back into GameEx gamepad navigation didn't work - had to restart GamEx. not sure where the fault is there?

as people may or may not know you can set the Title of a dos box with "TITLE [whatever]" in the batch file. Could GameEx be made to look for that? edit: sorry i think i misunderstood what the problem is. i haven't tried to set up PC games yet

there are lots of stories about newer nVidia drivers not being good for old hardware. the "unified" thing is a bit.. misleading imho.

ok well it looks like the mystery is solved, thanks all