mistermorcus

Great news! I tested it and everything seems to be working great now. Steam loads, game loads, played for a a while and then exited back to gameex. log.txt

The new version unexpectedly passed the loading screen and worked this time with the new dll. Here is the log:log.txt After I got it working, I loaded it up and tried it again with switchball. Game loaded fine, but when I exited it did not go back to Steam. Gameex was still running in the background, but I could not recover it, so had to kill the task. I don't want to throw too much at you at once, but thought you might want to see it. To finish out the test, I did confirm that there is something about the other dll's, and the enhanced logging one that you provided that must be different to get it to load. I restored the other version, and it is stuck at the loading screen again. Thanks Tom for all your hard work! log2switchball.txt

Updated tonight and tested. Got a slightly different log, full log attached. Last few lines here for convenience: 22:03:43.62 10/30/2025: Warning: Emulator_8: Video Snap Path Does not exist 22:03:43.62 10/30/2025: Validating: Emulator_8: Database: [Console] NEC TurboGrafx-16 22:03:43.62 10/30/2025: Validating Gamebase 22:03:43.62 10/30/2025: Load steam 22:03:43.62 10/30/2025: Is enabled log.txt

I wish that there was some different behavior. I compared today's log with the updated dll to the one I provided here the other day and they look the same to me. log.txt

gamexe log and ini.7z I updated to 19.52 this morning. Same behavior as before. I do have validate turned off. I'm going to let it run for a while, but might be good if some of the other guys having issues could test on their system. If I turn off Steam in the settings, everything else boots up just fine. I am not too worried about this issue if it is only affecting me because I already had some work arounds for it.

Sorry, it took a bit to test this, I just saw that you had posted about it. I tested it the other day with the latest version that was out at the time, and when I enabled Steam on startup, it never could finish scanning the database on startup. I let it go a couple hours just to be sure it wasn't going to get through it. I attached my log file for your review. log.txt

log.txtGameEx.inicustominput.in I recreated the error tonight. My arcade machine is on Windows 10 22H2 (OS Build 19045.6216) From what I can see in the behavior, the game will either startup right away if steam is open, but it exits to GameEx at around 45 seconds. This time it had to open steam first, so the game was only running for about 10 seconds once the game got started before going back to GameEx. I read about ensuring Steam Overlays are enabled so I already made sure that they are.

I am having this issue myself. I would need to go back and regenerate the log file, but ultimately it just showed shutting down display when the game was started. I just wanted to provide my work around to this problem if it would help. I setup a shortcut to launch steam in big picture mode and am launching that in GameEx now instead of my game. Not as cool as launching the game itself but that does work for me. I used to leave steam open all the time, but found that this only works if you keep steam closed and then have the shortcut open it. Exiting steam takes you back to GameEx.