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I will try this at the weekend and report back, thanks headkaze. Draconus

Yes I have had the same problem from the start, vista eventually offers to close the program to free up memory, you have to then manually restart cpwizard. I was hoping someone else noticed this, I thought it was just me, I know I should have posted but I don't have a dedicated cab so Its not critical for me yet untill I get one. Definately a memory leak though! Draconus

no nothing has changed on the system, drivers or hardware. I recently installed vista sp1 but the problem was there after that (it only seemed to fix itself after installing gamex v 9.27), I will keep an eye on it to see if it happens again though, fingers crossed it won't though! thanks anyway Tom, Draconus.

Hi Tom , Just to update you all, (I Haven't had a chance to post in a while) but I installed version 9.27 a few days ago and my problem of a very slow startup with gameex seems to be solved! gameex now loads in about 10 seconds or so, when I looked at the release notes for v9.26 it mentions that it fixes a memory leak specially when you run the screensaver (which I like to do when not playing). Can you confirm for me please Tom (for piece of mind) that this bug was what I was probably experiencing or might it start happening to me again? If it is solved for good thanks very much - fantastic! Best Regards, Draconus

Thanks Headkaze, I was waiting for a reply before I try this! I will try it after work (it is only 8.15am at the mo) and let you all know if I have any luck! Thanks again, Draconus.

Thanks BK, Would clearing the paging file help do you think? is that safe to do on vista? Regards, Draconus.

Hi Tom, The startup is just as slow launching it normally (the log file is not from a media centre launch). I already had automatic updates disabled in advanced configuration. So it isn't that. also when I goto advanced configuration from the interface it seems gameex takes almost as long to close as it does to start before launching the advanced configuration utility. I have a load of themes in my themes directory - would too many themes in there cause the slow down? I am also running at 1920x1080 resolution if that makes any difference (although it worked fine before). Also do you think it would be helpful if I changed the name of my gameex directory to "gameexold" and reinstalled gameex and gradually introduced my settings back in. Just an idea, this problem also seemed to coincide with using the console database files in advanced configuration for a few emulators. could this cause the slowdown? do I need ms access installed to properly read the databases maybe? I am just throwing a few thing out there, maybe one might give a clue. Thanks again for your help, Draconus.

Ok Thanks Tom and Bkenobi, I will check this evenining after work if turning off automatic updates makes any difference. Regards, Draconus

That could definately be an issue Tom as my PC has not got any internet access! (I have a wireless router though for media streaming arount the house). Is there something I can do about this in the advanced settings? e.g. turn off checking for internet connection/do not connect to the internet? I always manually download my updates at work. Thanks Draconus.

Thanks for your reply Tom. I am Indeed a registered user for almost 2 years now, This happened to me for the first time for a short period a couple of updates ago (v9.12 I think), but seemed to sort itself out so I didn't think much about it, unfortunately I don't remember if it was due installing the next update or upgrading my nvidia drivers that seemed to sort it out as I update gameex with every update, I was just hoping I suppose that someone else had this problem and maybe found a solution. Or that my log file might give you a clue. I am using the valhalla theme, don't know if that makes a difference or not! Regards, Draconus.

Hi Everyone, I hope someone can shed some light on this for me, I have just installed the latest version of gameex v9.21, But it takes up to 2 minutes to startup on vista 32 ultimate, I have checked taskmanager for the gameex process and it is there, but it shows no cpu usage for over a minute then it gradually increases the memory consumption before it eventually starts, I have attached my log file so I hope someone can help! (please note- I know that some emu configs are incomplete at the moment in the log file, but if you look at the timestamps on the log you will see where it seems to pause and it is not where it verifies the setup - it used to work fine before anyway) Thanks as always, Draconus.log.txt

I second this, I also would like audio back with the video previews, this last worked in the early 7.-- releases of gameex (7.49 I think but I could be wrong), Is this a bug? I think so as back then if Iregressed one version of game ex the audio worked fine again with the video previews without any changes to the ffdshow installation. Pleeeease Tom any chance of taking a look at this? Thanks. Regards, Draconus.

Ditto! Great job adultery, Thanks! keep em coming. Draconus.

Thanks Headkaze, I look forward to see what you come up with. BTW I am using a compiled for intel core2 processor version of mame 0.123 with hiscore123.diff and bezel.zip.

Hi Bkenobi, Pressing the appropriate buttons to bring up cpwizard while mame was running never worked in any version of cpwiz for me no matter what I changed the key to in CPwiz options. It used to come up every time when I pressed pause and escape as well for some reason!(only toms "c" button to bring up his cp viewer from within gameex works for me). Thanks for your help though. are you using vista or the latest 1.61 cpwizard version and is it working ok for you? Draconus