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Confirmed problem to be dodgy Steam folder, seems to be working now on both machines without issue. Sorry to cause a fuss! Thanks to everyone who helped. -STE

i might uninstall steam, and its entire library, i have a pretty quick internet connection to reload everything overnight. At least it will get rid of another possibility of a corrupt steam folder. I will post on results tomorrow. Thanks for your continued help Tom.

finally getting somewhere, i renamed the STEAM FOLDER on main machine and now it does not hang. I re-enabled GAMEBASE and GAMEEX ARCADE so there was something at least in the EMULATORS section. everything ran fine.

Will post on results ASAP, a little harder to get to my main machine now its past 9pm, i dont want to wake people up !

Left it for 3-4 hours today while Loading "ADDONS". no change.

I will put as much time as required into this, I rely on games-ex to run my cab and it not working is not an option

I was thinking it was possibly STEAM but i could not find an option to totally disable it. Do i just leave the settings blank on the steam config screen? I have a huuuuge steam account, with 100's of games, so perhaps it is Steam causing the problem. I'm still slowly adding options to my working install here and still so far so good, including STEAM.

It cycles through loading different things at the bottom of the screen, and it freezes when it reaches "ADDONS". I guess you would call it the status bar.

i re installed game-ex since with no gamebase with the exact same result, hanging at "LOADING ADDONS". This is with a complete default setup with no changes. I apologize for not capturing the ini at that point. I've had success on my other machine here, so I'm really lost as to what is going on now. I will try re installing again on the main machine and take it from there.

i don`t have any emulators setup, it does this on default settings. with default gameex.ini. I tried deleting cache files as per AlphaUMi's suggestion with no change. I'm trying to setup on my other machine here with the same reg and will let you know how it goes.

The registration worked fine until last week 12.84. I also had to get a replacement last year due to it expiring for some reason. I will email Tom. Thanks for your help DRACO and AlphaUMi. Will keep you posted.

I have just un installed GAMEEX and re installed. and the problem persists immediately without any alteration to default settings.

Have to say no to both questions i'm sorry. The problems started with 12.85, it would not auto update so i came to the forums trying to find a solution. One i read was to MANUALLY install it which i did. Then the problems started to happen. Cheers, Ste

Hi Guys. Draco, I've had game-ex installed in the same path since 2010 with no problems until now? But i will try if all else fails i guess. AlphaUMi, cache deleted and problem persists. This is driving me insane. Cheers, Ste

its F:\Emulators\Gameex F is my emu drive as such with everything i need on that drive. Have just disabled UAC and gave it another go, with no change. Ste.