dschulpius

Hi all. I need a little GPU advice. I've been searching the www and and this forum can't find the answer I need. I hope and figure you who are building these platforms are the people to ask anyway. I built a gaming rig over 9 years ago using Gamex as the front end running most of the popular emulators running Mame, Daphne, Exc. This rig has a WG lower res arcade type monitor that is able to plug directly into a GPU card. Sorry, it's been so long that I don't remember it's name and model number. Anyway I don't think it will run on anything higher then a 600 x 800 resolution and I remember windows XP locking up if it was set any higher. Fast forward 9 years and the computer running Win XP (high end and fast at the time) stops working. Probably a motherboard issue because everything else checks out OK. I figure now's the time up upgrade everything. I now have a i7 based computer with a ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Low Profile GPU with DVI-D outputs and the latest version of Gamex installed. My issue comes hooking the WG lower res arcade type monitor to the DVI-D output of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Low Profile GPU. I know I need to have a converter adaptor to change the digital signal coming from the DVI-D of the GPU to the analog VGA input of the monitor. However I'm not sure how to feed it the lower resolution of 600 X 800 from this GPU. Is it even possible? I don't see that low res offered in the res choices. Is there a way I can use this card to get this lower resolution? If not possible is there a powerful GPU card out there that will offer a lower resolution like I need and still have the oomph needed for fome of the more demanding games? I need a low profile card that will fit into this skinny case I now have or I'll have to move everything over to my old case that is full gameing size. Thanks in advance for the help this old timer needs. LOL. Dave

Thanks tthurman !

I've been away from setting up gamex and my rig for years and years. Recently the computer running everything up and died. It was running XP and a very old version of gamex. I decided to buy a new i7 based computer and download the most recent gamex frontend available, then reset everything up. I'm amazed to see how far gamex has come and all the cool new features. Wow! One thing I see is if I get a lifetime membership I have access to gamex online. I'm not sure I need the full version of the Game X and I'm looking at possibly using the arcade version. My question is if I'm a lifetime subscriber can I use gamex online in the arcade version of gamex? If it matters I'm not using a computer monitor but rather a arcade type monitor in my rig. It's not a true arcade monitor but one that I can plug into my computer directly. It's been such a long time since I worked on setting up gamex and all the emulators. I'm really looking forward to getting back into this and relearning everything and seeing all the cool things I can do. Perhaps I'm better off with the full version? I guess that's yet to be seen. I'm totally open to any advice. Thanks in advance, Dave

Understood. I wasn't serious. Just having a little fun.

2020? Grown.......

Thanks Nullpointer for the info and this program. As I get into this and find I need help I'll drop a line asking my questions. Till then thanks again, Dave

Thanks! Just what I was looking for. Just a couple more questions. I guess I'm showing my newbieness. Maybe I should be asking this in that release thread but....; Will this work for stand alone CD ISO's I own? For example I have Monkey Island 3 & 4 and both games have mutable CD's ISO images. I copied them from the actual CD's I own. From what little I read it looks like this neat program works through emulators. So, I guess I'd have the game installed on the hard drive and the ISO would have to be mounted to play the game just like I'd be playing it with the real CD on a desktop PC. Adultery mentioned in that release thread that he wanted to make a plug-in to make this program seamless. Did he ever do that? Thanks again, Dave Schulpius

Hi All, I asked this a few years ago and never got it truely figured out. Then I got me rig up and running, went on to other things in life and never creacked it open again to work on this. Oddly I've never had the need till now. Anyway, Has anyone come up with a way of swapping mounted ISO images of CD's in a mulit CD game? What happens when your done with the first CD's ISO and need to mount and play the 2nd image? Do I unmount the first and then mount the 2nd? Will the conputer Know I've done this? Also I see now there is auto ISO mounting in the latest versions of Gamex. Do even to wright command lines to do this? Thanks for any insight or help, Dave Schulpius

I do know that when playing a game off a real CD ROM using a real CD drive the game wont see the second disk inserted unless you use the same CD drive you installed from and are playing the game from. My guess is that I'll have to use the same virtual drive I've mounted the image to that I'm playing the game from. I'll probabley have to unmount disk 1 image when it askes for disk 2 and then mount disk 2 image. My guess is that the game will pick up the second image mounted and start up play from there. Just like it were a real CD ROM in a real CD ROM drive. Of course this is just a guess and games probably load the second disk differently. I wont know till I get to that point. Thanks, Dave

ok, sorry. I didn't know I could change it. I'll look into finding how to do that next time I get into a spot like that. Thanks for the guidance, Dave

This was being touched upon in a different thread but I thought I'd get a broader opinion on it. I hope this doesn't break any forum rules. I'm not sure how to set up Gamex to start up a second disc image in a 2 CD set. I have several games like this (Grim Fandango, Monkey Island 3 and 4). Do I just mount the CD image when the first disk is through with Daemon Tools with a command line like this? : daemon.exe -mount 0,"J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2\Grim Fandango - Disc 2.nrg" and let the game pick it up? Or do I need to set it up as a different Emulator and start up the game again with the command line and mount the image in the Launch before line in the Gamex config? I now have Grim Fandango disk 2 set up as a different Emulator. I've tried to start up the game from the second image and all I get is a blank screen. Here is my .ini as I have it now but don't know if it will work till I get to the end of disk one: [Emulator_22] Enabled=True STARTPAGENAME=Grim Fandango (Disk 2) TITLETEXT=Grim Fandango (Disk 2) StartPageLogo= ROMFilter=*.lnk RomPath=J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2 SnapPath= TitlePath= BoxPath= CartPath= ManualPath= ControlPanelPath= InstructionsPath= WorkingPath=J:\DAEMON MapKeys= WaitBeforeKeys= SendKeys= ReplaceDash= ReplaceUnder= Capitals=True RemoveBrackets=True ShowDesktop=False Debug= MAPFile= AlsoLaunch= Command=daemon.exe -mount 0,"J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2\Grim Fandango - Disc 2.nrg" OLDatZip= LaunchBefore= LaunchAfter=J:\daemon\daemon.exe -unmount 0 configFile=[Mapping Off] Exit (ENTER, ALT+F4) ExcludedFiles= CustomBackground= PlayMusic= DontShowInfo= PlaySelectionMusic= SelectionMusicFolder= PCGame= DATABASE= GamesIn7Zips= PlayInScreenSaver= ShowMostPlayed= RandomMostPlayed= CDCheck= CDCheckFile= [GENERAL] DumbyValue= Thanks for the help. Dave

This is exactly my problem. I'm not sure how to set up Gamex to start up the second disc. Do I just mount the CD image with Daemon Tools with a command line like this? : daemon.exe -mount 0,"J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2\Grim Fandango - Disc 2.nrg" Or do I need to set it up as a different Emulator and start up the game again with the command line and mount the image in the Launch before line in the Gamex config? I now have it set up as a different Emulator, Here is my .ini as I have it now but dont know if it will work till I get to the end of disk one: [Emulator_22] Enabled=True STARTPAGENAME=Grim Fandango (Disk 2) TITLETEXT=Grim Fandango (Disk 2) StartPageLogo= ROMFilter=*.lnk RomPath=J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2 SnapPath= TitlePath= BoxPath= CartPath= ManualPath= ControlPanelPath= InstructionsPath= WorkingPath=J:\DAEMON MapKeys= WaitBeforeKeys= SendKeys= ReplaceDash= ReplaceUnder= Capitals=True RemoveBrackets=True ShowDesktop=False Debug= MAPFile= AlsoLaunch= Command=daemon.exe -mount 0,"J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2\Grim Fandango - Disc 2.nrg" OLDatZip= LaunchBefore= LaunchAfter=J:\daemon\daemon.exe -unmount 0 configFile=[Mapping Off] Exit (ENTER, ALT+F4) ExcludedFiles= CustomBackground= PlayMusic= DontShowInfo= PlaySelectionMusic= SelectionMusicFolder= PCGame= DATABASE= GamesIn7Zips= PlayInScreenSaver= ShowMostPlayed= RandomMostPlayed= CDCheck= CDCheckFile= [GENERAL] DumbyValue= Thanks for the help. I think I'll start a new post under this subject. Hope that doesn't screw things up. Dave

Yes, from what I remember from the post I read your right about being involved. I think it involved mounting one image with Daemon Tools then going through a bunch of other steps after mounting the second image. The system is just images of PC games. Doss and Windows formats. It's probabley better just mounting the second disc image when asked for Disk 2 and launching it after the first part of the game from disk 1 is complete. Thanks, Dave

OK, I've got it figured out and working now. There was another program running in the background that my .bat file was launching at the same time as decompressing the zip file the games are in and launching dossbox. It was a program called Choice.exe that gives me info about the games about to run and then asks me if I want to keep the files de-compressed after I quit the game. Don't need it, don't want it. Everything runs and quits fine with out that choice and info. I just changed the name of the Choice .exe so when the .bat files look for it, they will just move on to the next command line when not found. Thanks for the support, Dave

Thanks! I looked and looked at that damm line and didn't see the space.

I have several games that have two discs. Is there a methods of creating a single ISO containing all info into one ISO? I know I read how to do this somewhere on this forum but I cant find it now. Can someone point the way or tell me how to do it? Thanks, Dave

I guess I'm a little rusty on my command line rules. I don't see a space. Could you point It out? Dave

Thanks Brian, I'll give it a try. Do I need to set the Advances Config to "Exit, ATL + F4? Dave

Thanks for your two cents. I'm sure your right about Gamex not knowing the game exited. Now I'm not so sure d-fend actually closes. I'm not sure how d-fend knows how to close down it's self down when I exit the dos game from inside the game. Maybe it's still running and not listed in Task Manager? To answer your question; yes I have tried both map buttons on and off. With map keys off I return to windows with a black screen. Thanks, Dave

I've been working on this for days and am about to pull my hair out. I've studied as many posts as I can find on this problem and changed a bunch of settings and custom configs. Looks like I haven't found the right ones. What I'm trying to do is run dos games through Gamex with D-fend Reloaded. I've gotten the games installed, set up in d-fend and got them working there. I've tried making shortcuts using the drop down menu in the game list in D-fend and then in Windows pointing to the installed game. Anyway, when I set up Gamex to run the shortcuts as described in other posts everything runs well until I quit the game (from inside the game). What I think happenes is d-fend closes Dosbox and then shuts down it's self. Although I don't know how d-fend would close it's self without my telling it to (maybe that's the problem). I get kicked back to Windows XP with Gamex running in the background and I cant bring it forward. I have to close it through Task Manager or use Alt-F4. The only thing Task Manager shown running is Gamex. The same thing happens if I set up Gamex to run the games straight through Dosbox without d-fend. The only way I can get Gamex back after I play dos games is to have it launch D-fend and launch the games from there. After playing I can exit out of D-fend and Gamex will reappear. Any ideas how I can get this all working better or if I could be doing something wrong? Am I missing something being a nubie? I'd really like to launch a dos game right from Gamex and be returned after play. Is there another better way to run dos games? I've read about hacks that can be used instead of Dosbox. Where can I read about them? Any help or direction would be welcomed, Dave

I actually made it work. I discovered a "make shortcut" menu option on the drop down menu when I right clicked on the set up game title in D-fend Reloaded. I put this in my shortcut folder and pointed my ROM path to it. It starts the game perfectly. Next problem: when I close the dos game from with in the game it closes, d-fend shuts down but Gamex stays in the background and I return to the windows desktop. Any ideas on how I can get Gamex to show up? Here's my .ini: [Emulator_21] Enabled=True STARTPAGENAME=PC Games (D-fend Reloaded) TITLETEXT=PC Games (D-fend Reloaded) StartPageLogo= ROMFilter=*.Lnk RomPath=J:\Emulators\D-Fend Reloaded\VirtualHD\Shortcuts SnapPath= TitlePath= BoxPath= CartPath= ManualPath= ControlPanelPath= InstructionsPath= WorkingPath=J:\Emulators\D-Fend Reloaded MapKeys=True WaitBeforeKeys= SendKeys= ReplaceDash=True ReplaceUnder=True Capitals=True RemoveBrackets=True ShowDesktop=False Debug=False MAPFile= AlsoLaunch= Command=[ROMPath]\[RomFile] OLDatZip= LaunchBefore= LaunchAfter= configFile= ExcludedFiles= CustomBackground= PlayMusic= DontShowInfo= PlaySelectionMusic= SelectionMusicFolder= PCGame= DATABASE= GamesIn7Zips= PlayInScreenSaver=False ShowMostPlayed= RandomMostPlayed= CDCheck= CDCheckFile= [GENERAL] DumbyValue=

Hi all, I'm trying to set Gamex to launch my PC (dos) games. I've read threads that tell me to use D-fend Reloaded to set up the old games and then set up shortcuts (.lnk) to the config files to launch the games through Gamex. Well, I've got d-fend setting up and running the games nicely and know how to set up the shortcuts in Games. However I cant figure out what to point the shortcut to. Does d-fend make a config for that game launch and if so where is it stored? I found some files in d-fend's Confs folder that has the games name and an extension of .prof. When I point the shortcut to that and start it through Gamex windows tells me that it's cant run that file. Thanks for the help, Dave