Gatsu

Haven't tried that yet. Saw some screen shots though. You have any other suggestions for PC fighters? or just pc games in general? Wanna stay away from FPS's.....wanna stick with the "arcade" style games. I've got Mugen and Stepmania on their right now.

Got it working. Followed your steps and set it up as an emulator. Works like a friggin charm. Thanks alot man. now my system is......COMPLETE!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA*gah cough cough*

Thanky. I'll post my config as soon as I get home as well. It is muchly appreciated.

which config do you mean? the game config? or the config I use in the Advanced Setup menu of GameEx?

Recently finished configuring my cab with GameEx and have everything done and working....but 1 thing. I can't get my copy of Guilty Gear XX for PC to run from the GameEx menu. It'll run outside of the ffront end, but not when selected from the gameex menu's. I've got Mugen & Stepmania working fine.......why wouldn't this work? Its the most recent version of GameEx. Thanky.

Installed 7.96 and sometimes it'll start up right the 2nd and sometimes it won't until the 3rd or 4th try. It looks too like its skipping the donation screen sometimes too. It'll sit on that black screen for a sec, dump back to the desktop, then start up ok in the main GameEx menu. Odd...but its workin more than what it was. Thanks.

Okie dokie. I'll give her a go and see how she likes it. Thanks again.

Installed the latest drivers, restarted the computer. Started GameEx, ran it for a few minutes, shut the software down and then tried to restart GameEx. Screen flickers for a second, sits on a black screen, and then the 2nd error log I posted comes up.

I'll go download them right now and see.

I gave that a try a few minutes ago, shut them off in the configuration prog, and GameEx wouldnt start up again. Just generated another error after sitting on a black screen for a while. Heres the log: 11:33:49.2 3/25/2007: GameEx: Version 7.95: Starting Log 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Operating System Name: Windows XP 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: .net Framework 2.0 Installed 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.40GHz 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: 2.4Ghz 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Running Randomize() 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Loading PlugIns 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Running Misc startup tasks 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Setting Menu types 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Opening Configuration File 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Getting Configuration Values 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Using Theme: Default - MCE Glossy 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - MCE Glossy 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Launching HideOS.exe 11:33:49.3 3/25/2007: Hiding Taskbar 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Is Media Center running? 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Media Center Mode 2 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Snap Delay set to: 2 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Get other settings 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Start work for Form 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Getting Original Screen Size 11:33:49.4 3/25/2007: Initializing Component 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: MAME Path is: C:\mame113 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: MAME EXE file is: mame.exe 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: ROM Path is: C:\mame113\roms 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 11:33:49.5 3/25/2007: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Snap Path is: C:\mame113\snapshots 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: AVI Snap Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Flyer Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Cabinet Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Title Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Panel Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Manual Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Icon Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Marquee Path: Not Found 11:33:49.6 3/25/2007: Loading Custom Emulators 11:33:49.7 3/25/2007: Using 2D Animations 11:33:49.7 3/25/2007: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 11:33:49.7 3/25/2007: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS 11:33:49.7 3/25/2007: Initialising DirectDraw 11:33:49.8 3/25/2007: Creating DirectDraw Device 11:33:49.8 3/25/2007: Using Device: RADEON 9600 SERIES 11:33:49.8 3/25/2007: 113mb video memory available 11:33:49.8 3/25/2007: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color 11:33:51.1 3/25/2007: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 11:33:51.1 3/25/2007: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 11:33:51.2 3/25/2007: Creating Back Buffer 11:33:51.2 3/25/2007: Loading graphic Surfaces 11:33:51.3 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 11:33:51.3 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Volume 11:33:51.4 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Arrows 11:33:51.4 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 11:33:51.4 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 11:33:51.4 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 11:33:51.6 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 11:33:51.6 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 11:33:51.7 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 11:33:51.7 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Snaps 11:33:51.7 3/25/2007: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 11:33:51.8 3/25/2007: Creating Fonts 11:33:51.8 3/25/2007: Creating Menu Font 11:33:51.8 3/25/2007: Restoring Menu Font From Cache 11:33:51.9 3/25/2007: Creating Game Font 11:33:52.0 3/25/2007: Creating Font Black 11:33:52.2 3/25/2007: Creating Font Black Small 11:33:52.3 3/25/2007: Creating Game Font Faded 11:33:52.4 3/25/2007: Creating Title Font 11:33:52.4 3/25/2007: Restoring Title Font From Cache 11:33:52.5 3/25/2007: Fonts Created Succesfully 11:33:52.5 3/25/2007: 84mb video memory left available 11:34:17.2 3/25/2007: Text/Language: English 11:34:17.2 3/25/2007: Applying Language/Text 11:34:17.3 3/25/2007: Initialising Bass Audio Library 11:34:17.4 3/25/2007: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 11:34:17.4 3/25/2007: Attempting to load game list 11:34:17.6 3/25/2007: Loading last used Game List 11:34:17.6 3/25/2007: Setting Music Volume 11:34:17.6 3/25/2007: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename 11:34:17.6 3/25/2007: Creating DirectSound Device 11:34:17.6 3/25/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 11:34:17.6 3/25/2007: Loading Sound Files 11:34:17.7 3/25/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 11:34:17.7 3/25/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 11:34:17.8 3/25/2007: Unable to create a joystick device 11:34:17.8 3/25/2007: Playing intro sound file 11:34:17.8 3/25/2007: Initializing MCE Remote 11:34:17.8 3/25/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 11:34:17.8 3/25/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 11:34:18.8 3/25/2007: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING 11:34:19.1 3/25/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 11:34:19.1 3/25/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 11:34:19.1 3/25/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawBackground() 11:34:19.1 3/25/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It may be my copy of DirectX that I got off of this site. I'll get it off of Microsofts site and see what happens. *EDIT: Just turns out its the same one. I'll try re-installing it and rebooting and see if I get the problem again.

Greetings. Just started using the program and am loving it. Just have one issue thats hindering the progress of configuring my project. Whenever I exit GameEx back to the windows XP desktop, and then try to run GameEx again, it generates an error. It won't actually start up again until I shutdown and reboot my computer, then it works fine once. But if I shut the program off and start it back up again....error. Here is the Log: 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: GameEx: Version 7.95: Starting Log 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: Operating System Name: Windows XP 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: .net Framework 2.0 Installed 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.40GHz 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: 2.4Ghz 20:09:46.8 3/24/2007: Running Randomize() 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Loading PlugIns 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Running Misc startup tasks 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Setting Menu types 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Opening Configuration File 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Getting Configuration Values 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Using Theme: Default - MCE Glossy 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - MCE Glossy 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Launching HideOS.exe 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Hiding Taskbar 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Is Media Center running? 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Media Center Mode 2 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Snap Delay set to: 2 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Get other settings 20:09:46.9 3/24/2007: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 20:09:47.0 3/24/2007: Start work for Form 20:09:47.0 3/24/2007: Getting Original Screen Size 20:09:47.0 3/24/2007: Initializing Component 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: MAME Path is: C:\mame113 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: MAME EXE file is: mame.exe 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: ROM Path is: C:\mame113\roms 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Snap Path is: C:\mame113\snapshots 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: AVI Snap Path: Not Found 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Flyer Path: Not Found 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Cabinet Path: Not Found 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Title Path: Not Found 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Panel Path: Not Found 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Manual Path: Not Found 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Icon Path: Not Found 20:09:47.1 3/24/2007: Marquee Path: Not Found 20:09:47.2 3/24/2007: Loading Custom Emulators 20:09:47.3 3/24/2007: Using 3D Alpha Blended Animations. This could be slow 20:09:47.3 3/24/2007: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 20:09:47.3 3/24/2007: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS 20:09:47.3 3/24/2007: Initialising DirectDraw 20:09:47.4 3/24/2007: Creating DirectDraw Device 20:09:47.4 3/24/2007: Using Device: RADEON 9600 SERIES 20:09:47.4 3/24/2007: 113mb video memory available 20:09:47.4 3/24/2007: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color 20:09:48.7 3/24/2007: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 20:09:48.7 3/24/2007: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 20:09:48.7 3/24/2007: Creating Back Buffer 20:09:48.7 3/24/2007: Loading graphic Surfaces 20:09:48.8 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 20:09:48.8 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Volume 20:09:48.8 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Arrows 20:09:48.9 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 20:09:48.9 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 20:09:48.9 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 20:09:49.1 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 20:09:49.1 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 20:09:49.1 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 20:09:49.1 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Snaps 20:09:49.1 3/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 20:09:49.2 3/24/2007: Creating Fonts 20:09:49.2 3/24/2007: Creating Menu Font 20:09:49.3 3/24/2007: Restoring Menu Font From Cache 20:09:49.3 3/24/2007: Creating Game Font 20:09:49.4 3/24/2007: Creating Font Black 20:09:49.5 3/24/2007: Creating Font Black Small 20:09:49.7 3/24/2007: Creating Game Font Faded 20:09:49.7 3/24/2007: Creating Title Font 20:09:49.8 3/24/2007: Restoring Title Font From Cache 20:09:49.8 3/24/2007: Fonts Created Succesfully 20:09:49.8 3/24/2007: 80mb video memory left available 20:10:14.5 3/24/2007: Text/Language: English 20:10:14.5 3/24/2007: Applying Language/Text 20:10:14.6 3/24/2007: Initialising Bass Audio Library 20:10:14.7 3/24/2007: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 20:10:14.7 3/24/2007: Attempting to load game list 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Loading last used Game List 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Setting Music Volume 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Creating DirectSound Device 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Loading Sound Files 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Unable to create a joystick device 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Playing intro sound file 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Initializing MCE Remote 20:10:14.8 3/24/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 20:10:14.9 3/24/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 20:10:15.6 3/24/2007: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING 20:10:15.7 3/24/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 20:10:15.7 3/24/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 20:10:15.7 3/24/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawBackground() 20:10:15.7 3/24/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() 20:10:16.2 3/24/2007: Exiting GameEx! 20:10:16.2 3/24/2007: Saving Settings -------------------------------------------------------- Thanks.