cdbrown

You are probably right Draco, but after hours of installing, reboots, frozen screens, crash reports to windows, reboots, uninstall, swear words and no sign of improvement seeing Evolution work without these issues was a massive relief. Thanks again for the tips and trying to help.

Update: Uninstalled GameEx, GameEx Arcade and GameEx Evolution. Deleted the folders that remained. Rebooted. Installed GameEx Arcade. Rebooted. Froze on the please wait screen again. Mumbled some profanities. Uninstalled GameEx Arcade. Rebooted. Installed GameEx Evolution. Ran set up. Took me a while to get the folders to work properly and be pointed at mame64.exe. Ran GameEx Evolution and was able to play a game. This can be marked Resolved through giving up. Thanks for trying to help.

Tonight I will uninstall all GameEx, GameEx Arcade and GameEx Evolution and start fresh with just GameEx Arcade (as I only plan on having mame on there and Evolution throws up java errors in the setup wizard). Hopefully a fresh install will clear out any bugs. Will report back in about 10 hours. Cheers -cdbrown

Ok downloaded the bak.mp4, made sure it had the correct name and placed into the default - default/media folder. Changed the config back to Default - Default and started up Arcade. Back to being stuck on the please wait screen, the background arcade sounds play after a bit, in fact they continue to play for about a minute after I ESC from the program. log.txt

1. renamed bak.mp4 to bak.old and restarted (I can run bak.mp4 in a media player no problems). GEArcade gets past the please wait screen and loads a list of genres. However as I scroll through one or two it freezes and windows asks whether to close or wait. As i was scrolling (list is on the right side) and there weren't any icons showing on the left side. I had to rename hideos.exe as that is a pain. 2. there is no bak.avi in the MEDIA Folder 3. I installed the Draconus theme and changed the config to Draconus as per instructions in the download page I got this error message06:43:53.76 22-Oct-18: Opening Configuration File 06:43:53.79 22-Oct-18: GameEx Arcade Edition x64: Version 15.52: Starting Log 06:43:53.93 22-Oct-18: Windows 10 Home 64-bit 06:43:53.93 22-Oct-18: Aero running 06:43:53.95 22-Oct-18: Initializing Vista/Windows 7 volume control 06:43:53.96 22-Oct-18: Getting CPU and RAM info 06:43:53.96 22-Oct-18: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 8157MB 06:43:53.96 22-Oct-18: 3.09Ghz - 4 Cores or CPU's 06:43:53.98 22-Oct-18: Running Randomize() 06:43:54.14 22-Oct-18: Loading PlugIns 06:43:54.22 22-Oct-18: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 06:43:54.22 22-Oct-18: Setting default net connection limit to 15 06:43:54.32 22-Oct-18: Running Misc startup tasks 06:43:54.32 22-Oct-18: Setting Menu types 06:43:54.33 22-Oct-18: Getting Configuration Values 06:43:54.33 22-Oct-18: --**-- 06:43:54.35 22-Oct-18: Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 06:43:54.41 22-Oct-18: at GameEx.GameEx.MainForm.a(Boolean A_0, String A_1, Boolean A_2) 06:43:54.41 22-Oct-18: at GameEx.GameEx.MainForm..ctor() 06:43:54.43 22-Oct-18: Disposing Plugins 06:43:54.43 22-Oct-18: GameEx is exiting with errors 06:43:54.44 22-Oct-18: Deleting search cache 06:43:54.44 22-Oct-18: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING 06:43:56.89 22-Oct-18: Bye I will reboot and see if that helps log.txt

Renamed the file, installed GameEx Arcade again. Updated the LAV codecs to latest. A few reboots and still the same stuck on the please wait page. SetupWizard.log log.txt GameEx.UpgradeBackup.ini GameEx.ini custominput.ini

So I've just recently updated to the latest version of GameEx Arcade (and the other flavours as well). Gone through the setup for mame My mame is in E:\MAME and it's mame64.exe version 0.202. Roms and CHDs in E:\MAME\Roms Setup goes through and verifies everything and then I run GameEx Arcade as Administrator and it begins some arcade audio and shows the start up screen saying GameEx please wait while loading.... And this loading screen will be there and show no signs of going away. Left it for over 30 minutes to see if was doing some update or something but still no change. ESC out of it and the audio will continue for a bit before finally closing. Any ideas? What have I done wrong? Also I have the HideOS disabled yet the program to hide the OS still runs. GameEx.ini log.txt SetupWizard.log

Just went out for a coffee at a little arcade themed coffee shop. Noticed a bartop 2 player machine in the corner. Closer inspection it's running GameEx. Nice to see it out and about. First time I've seen GameEx other than on my cab. Such a clean interface which smoothly scrolled between games and running demos. Need to fire up my machine again, update it and play some games. Cheers -cdbrown

I've got a reasonable machine in a dedicated cab so want mame and GE to run at highest settings. I'll try and get all the mame configs sorted within mame itself and just let GE run mame and rom as that seems to work best. I'll probably just stick with GE as well for the customisation options available.

Basically when I launched a known working game from GE it would say to wait while it loaded, screen would go black the arcade ambient sounds would then stop but then GE would crash and return to desktop. Or it just wouldn't take focus back after mame not loading, either way the GE wasn't running as an application anymore. Now that the mame options aren't in GE setup this crashing issue has stopped.

So I've removed those mame options and edited the mame.ini file in the mame folder and it works. Even enabled cpwizard (rather than the GE panel) and that works as well. Thanks RedDog. I did test running the games using cmd.exe and the command as per the log file and it worked through that so not sure why GE is having troubles with the extra options. But that issue is sorted. Any idea how to get my start/task bar to come back after crashing out of GE? Do I need to do a restart to get it to come back or is there a command I can use - I can bring up the start menu using the windows key on keyboard, but the bar doesn't stay there. Cheers -cdbrown

I initially thought it was CPWizard and the order things were loading, but I've disabled it and tried again and it just returns back to GE each time, no sign of any mame loading screens at all. So it's not CPWiz doing the damage. I must have a setting wrong somewhere as both GE and GE Arcade have the same problem

So have tried both GE and GE Arcade and get somewhat similar results. Have everything set up including having CPWizard to show my CP and the required buttons. I pick a game such as 1942 and it will then lauch CPWizard and after about 2 minutes it will return to GE Arcade, or just crash out to desktop if running GE (GE task is still running in background so have to kill it in task manager). Looking in the logs both applications try to run mame before cpwizard From the latest GE effort From GE Arcade Have tried with CPWizard disabled to see if it was the problem and it tries to load mame but then returns back to GE. Any ideas. Running mame0.190, have latest roms, have checked they work using the mame64.exe log.txt GameEx.ini

May help - but have you tried to set the following in the screen shot above? X Resolution 1920 Y Resolution 1080

I think the issue is that GE is still loading up HideOs even though Hide Desktop is set to NO. @RedDog did renaming HideOs.exe to something else have any detrimental effect considering GE still wants to load it?