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Okay I'll try! Btw I used an older version of GameEx a year ago, and that one ran just fine. But I guess the program has advanced since then, and my laptop is too old, as you said. Anyway, thanks for your help!

I use Windows XP Hardware:laptop Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz, 480 MB of RAM I have a pretty crappy graphics card on my laptop: SiS M6r50_651_650_740 video memory type: DDR SDRAM, video memory size: 32,0 Mbytes, video memory clock 133 MHz I tried to switch to 16-bit color, but that didn't help! Thank you for your help!

22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: GameEx: Version 5.45: Starting Log 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: Operating System Name: Windows XP 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: Checking Registration 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: Running Randomize() 22:04:51.5 25-01-2006: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Running Misc startup tasks 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Setting Menu types 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Opening Configuration File 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Getting Configuration Values 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Using Theme: Default - GameEx 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - GameEx 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Text/Language: English 22:04:51.6 25-01-2006: Applying Language/Text 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Creating Scancodes.txt (List of DirectInput scan codes) 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Snap Delay set to: 1 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Is Media Center running? 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Media Center Mode 2 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Get other settings 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Using 2D Animations 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 22:04:51.7 25-01-2006: Launching HideOS.exe 22:04:52.8 25-01-2006: Hiding Taskbar 22:04:52.8 25-01-2006: Start work for Form 22:04:52.8 25-01-2006: Getting Original Screen Size 22:04:52.8 25-01-2006: Loading ICON 22:04:52.8 25-01-2006: Initializing Component 22:04:52.9 25-01-2006: Initialising Bass Audio Library 22:04:53.1 25-01-2006: Loading default loading screen 22:04:53.2 25-01-2006: Using General Font: HandelGothic BT 22:04:53.2 25-01-2006: Using Title Font: HandelGothic BT 22:04:53.2 25-01-2006: Initialising DirectDraw 22:04:53.2 25-01-2006: Creating DirectDraw Device 22:04:53.5 25-01-2006: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color 22:04:53.8 25-01-2006: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 22:04:53.8 25-01-2006: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 22:04:53.9 25-01-2006: Creating Back Buffer 22:04:53.9 25-01-2006: Loading graphic surfaces 22:04:53.9 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 22:04:54.1 25-01-2006: Creating Surface Volume 22:04:54.1 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Arrows 22:04:54.1 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 22:04:54.1 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 22:04:54.1 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 22:04:55.0 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 22:04:55.0 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 22:04:55.0 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 22:04:55.1 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Snaps 22:04:55.1 25-01-2006: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 22:04:55.4 25-01-2006: Creating Fonts 22:04:55.4 25-01-2006: Creating Menu Font 22:04:56.6 25-01-2006: Creating Game Font 22:04:57.1 25-01-2006: Creating Game Font Standard Size 22:04:57.5 25-01-2006: Creating Font Black 22:04:57.6 25-01-2006: Creating Font Black Small 22:04:57.7 25-01-2006: Creating Game Font Faded 22:04:58.0 25-01-2006: Creating Title Font 22:04:58.8 25-01-2006: Creating Control Panel Font 22:04:59.2 25-01-2006: Fonts Created Succesfully 22:05:24.2 25-01-2006: Initialising Windows Media Player Component 22:05:24.5 25-01-2006: MAME Path is: g:\mame32 22:05:24.5 25-01-2006: Cannot Find MAME Path: MAME Disabled 22:05:24.5 25-01-2006: Loading Controls.ini map file 22:05:24.5 25-01-2006: Loading Custom Emulators 22:05:24.9 25-01-2006: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 22:05:24.9 25-01-2006: Attempting to load game list 22:05:25.0 25-01-2006: Loading last used Game List 22:05:25.0 25-01-2006: Setting Music Volume 22:05:25.0 25-01-2006: Creating DirectSound Device 22:05:25.1 25-01-2006: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 22:05:25.1 25-01-2006: Loading Sound Files 22:05:25.2 25-01-2006: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 22:05:25.2 25-01-2006: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 22:05:25.4 25-01-2006: Unable to create a joystick device 22:05:25.4 25-01-2006: Playing intro sound file 22:05:25.4 25-01-2006: Initializing MCE Remote 22:05:25.4 25-01-2006: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 22:05:25.4 25-01-2006: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 22:05:25.8 25-01-2006: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING 22:05:26.2 25-01-2006: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 22:05:26.2 25-01-2006: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 22:05:26.2 25-01-2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame()

Hi! I'm new to GameEx, but have been using different frontends for many years now. I'd like to switch to GameEx, but I'm having some problems starting the program. Here's the error message I got: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() Can anyone here help me out?