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Thanks for the quick response, great product btw.

I decided to try out the new version of GE and when I try to select a mame game by year or name or category, it crashes with the following.... 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Snap path: Not Found 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: AVI Snap Path: Not Found 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Flyer Path is: C:\mame\flyers\fly2k6_1 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Cabinet Path: Not Found 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Title Path: Not Found 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Panel Path: Not Found 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Icon Path: Not Found 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Marquee Path: Not Found 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 18:34:57.7 1/17/2007: Attempting to load game list 18:34:58.0 1/17/2007: Loading last used Game List 18:34:58.0 1/17/2007: Setting Music Volume 18:34:58.0 1/17/2007: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename 18:34:58.0 1/17/2007: Creating DirectSound Device 18:34:58.1 1/17/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 18:34:58.1 1/17/2007: Loading Sound Files 18:34:58.2 1/17/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 18:34:58.2 1/17/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 18:34:58.2 1/17/2007: Unable to create a joystick device 18:34:58.2 1/17/2007: Playing Startup Video 18:35:20.6 1/17/2007: Initializing MCE Remote 18:35:20.6 1/17/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 18:35:20.7 1/17/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 18:35:21.5 1/17/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: First Exception: 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: Error in the application. 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuImages(Boolean over) 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: Last Exception: 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: Error in the application. 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuImages(Boolean over) 18:35:42.0 1/17/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() ...I've installed the latest .net and directx drivers...any ideas?