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After much head scratching and reading of the forums here I've managed to get winuae working. I've used Headkaze's config creator and the amiga tosec roms. Does everyone else have really slow loading times of the games? Once the game has started the speed of the game is fine and as accurate as I remember the amiga to be. But the times it takes the games to load is slower than the real amiga was?! Is there a setting I'm missing?

Thanks for the replies everyone. As I've a got a fair few iso's I think I'm going to go the pSX route, as configuring every game with ePSXe seems like a lot of effort. Is there a great deal of difference between the output of these emulators? If it's that much of a difference then I may be tempted to put the work in, if it's going to produce vastly superior results.

Just wondered which one you guys recommend. Which is the best for compatibility, ease of setup in GameEx etc All opinions/guidance gratefully received.

I have registered. Such a good product it'd be a crime not too.

Right, ok thank you.

I have the amstrad cpc goodmerge set, I have the option enabled in GameEx for 7zip/goodmerge support for this config but it only shows the folder names within GameEx. When I go into a folder it shows a letter and no games? I know I'm missing something simple, can anyone please enlighten me?

Works beautifully. Thanks a lot Nologic.

Same things happening for me too. I can run games from winape by loading a disk, then using run "gamename", when I use GameEx I get the same as studmeister.

Wow! I have to say that this is the friendliest and most helpful forum I've ever come across. Thanks a lot Nologic.

Nope, I pm'd Adultery a few days ago but I haven't had a response. Is there anyone else out there that has it or can help please?

Set GameEx to run at 1440x900 and 'not to change the res' and -fullscreen -x 1440 -y 900 in the daphne game options field did the trick. I get an error in the daphne log about it trying to run at an obscure resolution everytime, but it works so I dont care.

I don't believe it, that's done it. I've just run both games over 20 times in different instances of GameEx (just to make sure it wasn't just luck) with no problems. I cant thank you enough Brian, you persisted with various ideas where as others might have given up, until we found the solution. You are a star, thank you.

1440x900 is the native res for my 19"ws, anything else looks rubbish. Well I've been playing with the display settings all day, using different combinations. The odd thing is, is that one combination will work for a couple of times and I think I've cracked it, then next time I try one of the games I get the error again!?! At least I know that if I need too then I can run them with daphne loader with no problems. I just don't like it when things beat me. Thanks again for the help Brian.

Weird. Worked using runlastgame.bat with the following log - --DAPHNE version 0.99.7 --Command line is: Daphne.exe dle21 vldp -fullscreen -framefile I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\framefile\lair.txt --CPU : AuthenticAMD 2000 MHz || Mem : 2048 megs --OS : Windows NT/2000 || Video : NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO Set 640x480 at 32 bpp with flags: 80000001 Initializing sound system ... Joystick #0 was successfully opened Remapping input ... Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U1.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U2.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U3.bin...8192 bytes read. Framefile parse succeeded. Video/Audio directory is: I:/GameEx/downloaded emus/Daphne/mpeg/ YUV overlay is hardware accelerated. Booting ROM ... Play LDP : disc is already playing, play command ignored Play Display disable received Search to 323 received - [25] Attract Mode, Sequence 0 Attract Mode NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Play Freeing memory used to store audio stream... Shutting down sound system... Shutting down video display...

My desktop res is 1440 x 900, although I run gameex at 800x600. I'll try what you've suggested and report back tomorrow, it's getting late here and I've had enough daphne for one day... Thanks for your advice so far though.

I dont know if it matters but, looking at the logs, it appears that daphne loader runs the -fullscreen command after its looked at the -framefile command. Where as gameex runs -fullscreen after its set up the vldp. Could that make any difference?

No joy. --DAPHNE version 0.99.7 --Command line is: Daphne.exe dle21 vldp -fullscreen -framefile I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\framefile\lair.txt --CPU : AuthenticAMD 2000 MHz || Mem : 2048 megs --OS : Windows NT/2000 || Video : NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO Could not initialize video display: DDraw created surface with wrong size Video initialization failed!

Do you mean the rom name? if so thats dle21 or do you mean game 1 options? thats -framefile "I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\framefile\lair.txt"

Space Ace log - --DAPHNE version 0.99.7 --Command line is: I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\daphne.exe ace vldp -framefile I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\framefile\ace.txt -fullscreen --CPU : AuthenticAMD 2000 MHz || Mem : 2048 megs --OS : Windows NT/2000 || Video : NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO Set 640x480 at 32 bpp with flags: 80000001 Initializing sound system ... Joystick #0 was successfully opened Remapping input ... Loading compressed ROM image sa_a3_u1.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image sa_a3_u2.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image sa_a3_u3.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image sa_a3_u4.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image sa_a3_u5.bin...8192 bytes read. Framefile parse succeeded. Video/Audio directory is: I:/GameEx/downloaded emus/Daphne/mpeg/Space Ace/ YUV overlay is hardware accelerated. Booting ROM ... Play LDP : disc is already playing, play command ignored Play Display disable received Search to 148 received - [ 0] Introduction, Sequence 0 Attract Mode NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Play Display disable received Search to 1148 received - [ 0] Introduction, Sequence 0 Attract Mode NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Search to 1148 received - [ 0] Introduction, Sequence 0 Attract Mode NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Search to 1148 received - [ 0] Introduction, Sequence 0 Attract Mode NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Search to 1162 received - [ 1] There's Borf's Ship!, Sequence 0 Freeing memory used to store audio stream... NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Play Freeing memory used to store audio stream... Shutting down sound system... Shutting down video display... Dragons Lair Log --DAPHNE version 0.99.7 --Command line is: I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\daphne.exe dle2 vldp -framefile I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\framefile\lair.txt -fullscreen --CPU : AuthenticAMD 2000 MHz || Mem : 2048 megs --OS : Windows NT/2000 || Video : NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO Set 640x480 at 32 bpp with flags: 80000001 Initializing sound system ... Joystick #0 was successfully opened Remapping input ... Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U1.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U2.bin...8192 bytes read. Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U3.bin...8192 bytes read. Framefile parse succeeded. Video/Audio directory is: I:/GameEx/downloaded emus/Daphne/mpeg/ YUV overlay is hardware accelerated. Booting ROM ... Play LDP : disc is already playing, play command ignored Play Display disable received Search to 323 received - [25] Attract Mode, Sequence 0 Attract Mode NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Play Display disable received Search to 306 received - [25] Attract Mode, Sequence 0 Attract Mode Freeing memory used to store audio stream... Search to 1423 received - [ 0] Introduction, Sequence 0 NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate. Play Freeing memory used to store audio stream... Shutting down sound system... Shutting down video display... Both logs above when ran through daphne loader.

Arrgh, bloody daphne.... Ok, after a day of messing around with different combinations Dragons Lair now works from gameex first time (although sometimes just audio) Space Ace works but doesnt respond to any keyboard input (thus is unplayable). I got this far by disabling the vista aero theme and just using the vista basic theme, and also removing -nohwaccel from the command line. It seems like a memory issue to me (although I have 2Gb) I dont get it!!! Both games work everytime from daphne loader even with vista aero theme enabled.

I'm looked through the myriad of posts on here regarding Daphne but, cant for the life of me find the solution to my problem. I have Dragons Lair and Space Ace working fine through daphne loader. I've double checked all my paths in gameex but, I keep getting the following error - --DAPHNE version 0.99.7 --Command line is: Daphne.exe dle21 vldp -fullscreen -x 800 -y 600 -nohwaccel -framefile I:\GameEx\downloaded emus\Daphne\framefile\lair.txt --CPU : AuthenticAMD 2000 MHz || Mem : 2048 megs --OS : Windows NT/2000 || Video : NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO Setting screen width to 800 Setting screen height to 600 Could not initialize video display: DDraw created surface with wrong size Video initialization failed! Any ideas what I'm doing wrong please guys?

Thats great, thanks Nologic. Hopefully Adultery will see this and post it up.

I don't think its there, I looked through all the links and I couldn't find it.

*bump* Sorry to revive this old thread. The link in step 2 of the first post for Nologic's WinAPE wrapper doesn't work. Any chance of a fresh link please. Thanks.

Xpadder ok. Saw it mentioned on here before but didnt know what it was. Will google, thanks a lot.