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ok, there is a new mamegui.exe on mameplus site which fixes the instability i saw does anyone else find all the scaling effects very slow in this version? to the point where even the fastest ones likes Scale2x cause <100% speed on an Athlon 3000+. this is not normal is it? with Metal Slug 5: Scale2x - ~95% speed LQ2x ~ 90% HQ3x ~ 60% using DDRAW gives horrible video quality so i'm on D3D9 with the None scaling. any ideas anyone please? Radeon 9550, Cat v6.1

Seagate has now been bought by Maxtor. not sure what this means to the products, presumably soon all Maxtor drives will have the same internals as Seagates?

Snes9xpp (waiting for Snes9x v1.5 official!) all other Snes emus have horrible controller bugs Nestopia Kega Fusion of course umm that's about it I gotta find a good TG16/PCE emu, and get into the Amiga and Atari stuff still.

how are you going to get all those custom timings with an LCD?! also most LCDs are made for 60hz, or a very limited range..

1) it's a radeon 9250 with some custom output circuitry? 2) needs a CRT monitor. no LCDs gonna work seems a good product on paper some rant: if anyone does a topic like this, please put some indicator of subject in title. thanks

I was gonna say, bad harddrive. bad luck. i've been buying all seagate drives recently and touch wood not had one fail yet. but ya never knew. thanks for the reminder to sort some backup out. at least i'd only lose some game saves and configs

you know what would be super-neat? an option to sendkeys to each emulator before quitting it. that would probably be the save state key whaddayareckon? edit: other than, this should be in feature reqs, sorry :/

Marker0077, i know what you mean, it's really hard to get the thing stable and JUST LEAVE IT ALONE! btw mameplus 107 has been out for a few days and im using it, the gui is unstable for some people but games seem to run fine from cmd Tom, good point, but does that affect normal users or just devs really? i'm not seeing a huge difference over VNC and why can't use you use ddraw in 107 with the old result?

ah well could you possibly please do a normal user version that doesn't exit if people are playing (for killing games when someone pauses a game and walks away for hours) gameex has all my gamepads open for navigation so i think this is possible? not sure

this AutoExit games feature.. how does that work sorry? just a simple timer that kills any launched process after x minutes? no checking for input?

i like this before you either had a windows progress bar (if you use mamegui) - looks crap, or a blank screen (bad, dont know whats going on, esp for big games)

if -nofilter is the same as turning off bilinear filtering, i get horrible scaling artifacts (to 848x480). also these show through enhancements so i leave filtering on and use some enhancement effects i don't think its possible to have both crisp pixels and no scaling issues unless you run a perfect multiple res for each game. and i can't run diff reses per game its too complicated. this is not an issue with 107 though - i like 107, i think it should be faster if you have a decent D3D9 video card. havent tested yet. and you can fall back to ddraw anyway. anyway, this is the future and you're going to have to adjust to it at some point unless you want no further improvements and become one of this trogladites that says "yarrrggg, i'm stikin with me old version forevaaaahh"

you can drop a file called ui.bdf in your mame dir to change all the ui fonts now.. i've done this, looks good

advantages of using a MAME32 version is you dont need to change command line options in gameex config. you can config MAME from the MAME32 gui. and just run the .exe from gameex, and MAME will load its config (even if you run the command line version).

ah, of course. i'm using CTRL+ESC to get out of gameex, then not releasing CTRL until after gameex has lost focus. changing the paging key out to fix this.. i have another Q, with custom input, how can make backspace and space both go back? im pretty sure they both used to work but there seems to be no way to bind more than one key in custom, or did they do different things?

oooh i think i asked for that.. can you not make that use an activity timer (general input on the system)? otherwise it could quit people having long gaming sessions. it could be set really high like 4 hours but im not sure how useful that would be.

actually, i was wrong, sorry - it's nothing specific to do with running the mameplus gui just leaving and restoring gameex sometimes causes this - but i can't see what exactly makes it happen sometimes. and running and quitting a game doesn't always fix it. pretty annoying. i'll try custom keyboard input so i can set the paging key and see if toggling that is a workaround.

faster bootup on the PCs i could care less about, since i leave them on all the time. fast startup of gameex OTOH matters because as the HTPC comes out of standby (suspend to RAM) almost the whole wait is gameex loading. and when you want to watch a film/game etc. on htpc you want it NOW baby not later like you're using a computer. hmm ok just a rant there. gameex is good. but i'd still appreciate faster return to gameex from apps, for the same reasons.. the wait is disconcerting to users, they thing something's gone wrong.

the faster startup farkin rocks. i didnt thank you properly for that before tom (mainly cos i didnt upgrade straight away like usual cos prev 6.3x was so stable ) anyway, as above, on the return to gameex i can count to about 6 now.. which is about as fast as its ever been for me.

i can tell you specifically what causes this on my system: minimise GameEx with CTRL+Escape key combo restore gameex < note up/down arrow keys working fine minimise GameEx with CTRL+Escape key combo again start mame plus 107 ui exit mame plus restore gameex < note up/down arrow keys are skipping whole pages now! start game exit game < note up/down arrow keys working fine again repeat as often as you like its something to do with capturing/releases the keyboard input on lost/resume focus? or what is mame plus gui doing? this is not such a big problem now that i know what causes/fixes it, but still i'd like to know what's going on please

edit: no its not to do with prescale sorry it seems you *have* to keep bilinear filtering enabled if you want to use scaling effects (without them looking horrible) i like the new scale effects menu in the mame in-game ui.

sometimes gameex acts like i'm holding the key to skip whole pages, when i'm not. this applies to keyboard only. so its like pressing page up/down when i only want to move one row with the up/down arrow. i can still navigate properly (up and down single items) using any joystick. KeyboardDirectInput=False (i had other issues when this was true, like keys getting "stuck" down) edit: btw, restarting gameex fixes this, but i'd like a proper fix please. any ideas please?

i would say clrMAMEpro is necessary - especially if you want to turn off verify roms in gameex (and even with that option on, you'll wonder why many games are missing if you dont use a rom manager) at first i tried to get by without it (because im lazy), but got in a mess. it's worth spending half an hour learning how to use, will save time in long run.

well the instability of MAMEPlus UI should not matter to GameEx users - though it may well be unstable in games aswell, i don't know yet haven't used it enough. the video issues are more worrying if you like the enhancments, not sure if they're solvable, but you can always drop back to ddraw - assuming that works the same as before, im not sure yet.

agreed, it is ridiculous. every time it comes up, Tom says turn off subscriptions or something. however, there clearly is a bug, or we're very stupid. im assuming youve turned off everything you can see. theres some option weve missed that someone could post screenshots of?