keithdok

Well, I'll keep you updated, but damndest thing, I rebooted and tried again and now it seems to be working. :idunno:

That fixed it for me! Thanks Tom. Edit: On further inspection, it fixed it for some videos, but not for others. Edit edit: Actually, what it appears to do is make the FIRST video I play work correctly, no matter what video it is, but any video I play after that it crashes and I have to CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill the GameEx process and try it again.

I'm using the latest CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) with its default settings on an NVIDIA FX 5200.

Happens even when using default theme. Happens running windowed or fullscreen. Not running background videos. Last it worked was a year or so ago on this same box, no hardware changes since then (e.g. ever). Between now and then we didn't have a spare TV to hook it to, just reconnected it the other day.

Well, my GameEx box is an AGP nVidia FX 5200!

Reposting in this thread as it seems more of a current issue. Getting the same thing on mine. I'm not sure if it was the update today or not, because coincidentally I just added my videos to it again today. Running at 640x480 on a standard def TV. One thing I've noticed: If I tell GameEx "Do Not Change Resolution", the crash happens upon exiting the video. However, if I tell GameEx to specifically use 640x480 as its resolution, the videos will start playing but give a different error at the start of the video that doesn't stop the video from playing but does seem to mess up the overlay. But, after that error, it won't crash when I exit the video. I hope that makes sense? In summary: GameEx not changing resolution = crash on exiting any video GameEx changing to a specific resolution = error when starting video, no overlay, but no crash on exiting Tried it with GameEx set to Windowed or Fullscreen. Same results. It also doesn't seem to matter what theme I'm using. I tried it with Default - Hybrid Blue and the Default MCE themes. This is on Windows XP. Here is my log from when it crashes on exiting a video.

Edit: posted in this thread because it seemed more current.

Thanks for this loader, it works great! My only question would be -- and excuse my ignorance but I have no idea how these things work -- is it possible for a loader to automatically switch any options to Vertical (if there are any in NullDC Naomi) to rotate the screen for vertical games like Ikaruga? Still a fun game sideways, but still. Appreciate the loader. Very easy to use, got it running in less than ten minutes.

I've been working on iTunes this morning using Coverflow fullscreen and Xpadder with a dual-analog gamepad. Basically the digital pad controls volume, left stick is next/previous track, right stick is next/previous albums. Various buttons for play, pause, return to currently playing album. Works great. The only problem I have left is that I cant' get it to switch to fullscreen when it launches from Gameex. Fullscreen is Ctrl+F, so I have send keys set to ^F, and I've tried all kinds of variations, from 3000 to 30000, on how many seconds for it to wait, with no luck. Edit: figured it out. Set wait to a whopping 50000 milliseconds, and the sendkey to %vf instead of ^f.

Thanks, but it's OK. Worked around it by using Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, and binding a button to Alt+F4 in Xpadder. Alt+F4 didn't seem to work reliably in Firefox for some reason.

OK. I've played around with it a bit but must confess that I have no idea what the heck I'm doing.

Thank you. I didn't see the Advanced Config option under the External Programs, but I'll go back and look for it when my wife is done watching the dog show on hulu. Also just discovered Hulu Media Player since posting this. Going to try this too.[ <-- Edit: This won't work any better, no keyboard options.

Hulu.com is a youtube-like embedded video site but with actual, legal, high-quality network content. I really wanted to add it to Gameex because I don't use a Cabinet. Instead, Gameex is my HTPC frontend for our family TV. What I did was to setup Firefox under External Programs. Enabled_8=True name_8=Hulu path_8=C:\Firefox cmd_8=firefox.exe snap_8= showdesktop_8=True mapkeys_8=False WaitBeforeKeys_8=1000 SendKeys_8={F11} {F11} tells it to go to fullscreen when launched. Then, set Hulu.com as Firefox's homepage and turned off as many of firefox's nagging popups as I could find. Then setup an Xpadder profile for Firefox with Backspace [back] and Shift+Backspace [Forward] bound to the L1 and R1 buttons on my gamepad, the left analog stick emulating a mouse, the right analog up/down axis doing the up and down arrow keys (to scroll down a page), and the start button doing Escape (needed for Hulu to exit fullscreen mode). The only thing I haven't figured out is how to Exit Firefox and go back to Gameex using only the gamepad without using Firefox's menus. I can't leave Mapping on because, again, you need the Escape key for Hulu's functionality. Ideas? Complications: Firefox and Internet Explorer have fullscreen mode with F11, but no exit shortcuts. Chrome has an exit shortcut, but no true fullscreen mode.

Peggle Nights works surprisingly well using only a gamepad and gameex's built-in mouse emulation, but is even better with Xpadder so you can bind a key to Space for pause and the right analog stick to the left and right arrow keys for fine-tuning your shot. Beyond Good and Evil works brilliantly with a gamepad and Xpadder. Halo 1 has builtin gamepad support but you still need Xpadder to bind a button to Escape to use the game's menus. Burnout Paradise also works well with Xpadder or a 360 Controller. Worms Armageddon also works brilliantly with Xpadder AND looks amazing even in widescreen 720p! I'm quite certain any of the Grand Theft Auto games would work nicely. Not so well? Diablo 2 - it "worked" but it wasn't fun. Silent Storm - same. I had a devil of a time figuring out how to launch a different xpadder profile for each game in Gameex. It always wanted to load the last profile I'd used, or no profile at all if I turned "load last profile" off. I ended up having to make a separate batch file for each game because the command that it tells you is correct just will NOT work in gameex for some reason. So each one looks like this: @echo off START C:\Emulation\Xpadder_Gamepad_Profiler\Xpadder halo halo /M "Halo" is repeated twice only because I have 2 controllers. This tells it load the same profile for each one. A question: if you turn Mapping off because you need to use Esc in the game to access menus or something and you don't want it to exit to Gameex every time you hit Escape, is there some other way to map another shortcut?

CONTROLS: Logitech wireless PS3 controller and Logitech wireless rumblepad 2. DISPLAY: 36" Sony Bravia 720p RP-LCD HDTV. SYSTEM: Windows XP SP2, 1GB of RAM, nVidia 7600, AMD64 3500+, 2x160GB HDD + 250GB HDD. THEME Default - Hybrid Blue - Widescreen. MAME SETUP Version: MAME v0.129 compiled for HISCORE support. Other: Circo's EmuMovies Video Snaps, Other screenshots, artwork, etc. EMULATORS Nintendo 64 (Project 64) Super Nintendo (ZSNES) Nintendo Entertainment System (Nestopia) Gameboy Advance (VisualBoyAdvance ) Sega Master System, Genesis, 32X (Kega Fusion) Sega CD (Gens+) Sega Saturn (SSF) Sega Dreamcast (NullDC) NEC TurboGrafX-16 + TurboGrafX CD (Magic Engine) NEC PC-FX (Magic Engine FX) Sony Playstation (pSX) Atari 2600 (MESS) Mostly though, 99% of my time with it is watching downloaded videos. The latest version of FFDShow tryouts and Gameex play nicely together, and handle every format I throw at it.