Draco1962

Hope you have a great birthday! Hope I don't see any cell phone videos of you on YouTube in a stupor trying to eat a "Double-Double" on the bathroom floor!

May still be part of the same issue - sometimes I can continue to navigate away or deeper into the menu (unless the dbs are loading) elsewhere and when I come back, the image is there when it wasn't before.

Are you encountering this on the primary menu where the emu resides as well as within the menu for the system? Does it seem like it is "stuck" trying to load the logos, but when you go into a specific game and come back out, the logos appear (same sometimes if you go in and out of system menus). If yes to any or all, then I have been encountering the same or similar issue as of late.I have tried the default-default skin as well as others and end up with the same results. At first I thought it may be something with Custom Menus, but even upon using the GameEx defaults, rebooting the PC, etc, I get the same results. All DirectX drivers and .net frameworks up-to-date, no changes in video drivers or anything else I can think of that may contribute. I have a Quad 4 system with 8GB RAM and a current video card so the common rule-outs have been ruled out.

"Shut up, Bevis!"

I think the use of terminology is throwing things off. Let's simplify things with some common-sense definitions Icon = Small, tiny image that represents a program or otherwise further defines the text following or preceding it Logo = Big, large image that represents a system, menu, sub-menu, program, emulator, etc. Snap = Static image taken from in-game play of a ROM or game Video Snap = Video taken from in-game play of a ROM or game

Oh, you meant the flag icons that are in about every theme available on the themes site?

I bought a 25' HDMI cable for use with my PC and I must say I love the look of some of the themes at 1080p! I have a Galaxy GeForce 440 video card which supports HDMI sound (nice that it installs the drivers for support - found under the Playback settings as long as the monitor is selected in display settings, I can choose to default to my PC speakers or the TV - SWEETNESS!). I bought the BlueRigger High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet (25 Feet) - Supports 3D and Audio Return [Latest Version] through Amazon.com for $11.95 + Shipping. This was much cheaper than buying the oft pushed Monster cable from Best Buy for almost 10 times that amount and a few feet shorter. Hopefully this will allow me to improve and fine-tune future themes produced in the 1080p and 780p formats for HTPC. I am looking at putting together for my next few themes Media Center Studio format themes for Win 7 Media Center and theme related Windows Logon screen to accompany my GameEx themes as a complete package for those into the whole, cohesive Media Center experience.

The icons, if am understanding your reference, are generated by GameEx for the Arcade (MAME) games. There is not any means available to do so with other systems although I believe a few have requested that as a possible feature in the future.

Sounds like a feature request - go for it, Necro!

Yes it does, Bro. So where ya been hiding? Are ya just visiting or hanging about for a while? Huh? Huh? LOL!

Yes. Look under \gameex\media\ for stats.png

Good luck with that one! So far as I know it can be resized, however, since it is a relatively minor element, most of us have not played with the dimensions - trial and error! You can have a bar with no surrounding area but I would recommend that you have the pleasewait.png file saved as a transparency so that there is a file there, although it will not be visible. Remove it and likely GameEx will pull from the Default-Default theme. The bar (so far as I am aware) is not resizable and has always been split into 25 parts. I have used a blank bar in some themes with objects appearing to bounce, etc. Trial and error (or should I say explore and delight yourself and your creativity?). That would be a good question for Tom and/or Ben. What icons are you referring? Can you provide an example/file name? These logo files are hard-coded within GameEx and draw from the MAWS and GameEx dbs online. This is an easy one to answer - no, not formally. The forums are the only source of documentation other than the FAQs.

I have noticed some issues with updating previous posts as well which makes it a royal pain to get updates submitted. Maybe Tom or one of the admins that have access to the forum software can take a look at it and see if there is anything that can be done.

Merge with Blockbuster?

Or would you prefer something a little more icy?

Other than the inter-store politics and our lame-o district manager, it was alright for part-time work. I loved some of the smarmy techie-types that told me I would NEVER get Windows 95 to work on a 386 DX with 4 MB RAM. I had batch files running batch files tweaking memory on a per-game basis to prove them wrong.

I remember sellling them during my brief stint at Software Etc. (Bought out by Babbage's). They hardly moved. It probably didn't help that I pushed for the Nintendo and Sega consoles heavier (more titles, better support and program quality, etc.).

Snowy, snowy night... Actually not so much here in Florida, just tinkering with multiple layered effects, gaussian blurs, inner bevels, etc.

I believe anything build 0.143u3 or higher. I would recommend compiling to the latest u build.

Often you can fix the problem yourself by "forcing" a new DNS cache to be built on your local machines. The following setps are ones I have to use often through my work and at home - give them a try: In IE (or Firefox) - clear your temporary Internet files IE: - Click on Tools>Internet Options - Click Delete Files button in the middle of General tab under Browser History (IE 7 or higher - under Browsing History the Delete button), - Click Delete Temporary Internet Files then OK (IE 7 or higher - Check Temporary Internet Files and click Delete button at bottom) - Once finished, click OK to close Internet Options, then close all open IE sessions Firefox: - Click Options>Advanced>Network Tab - Click Clear Now button under Offline Storage - Once finished, click OK to close Options,close all open Firefox sessions Next - open a Command Prompt (under Start>Run in XP or earlier, otherwise, in Vista or Win 7, hit Windows Key+R on your keyboard if you have the default Admin Account or type CMD in the Search Programs or Files line, right-click on the CMD.exe icon and click Run with Administrator Rights) - On the Command Line, type ipconfig /flushdns - Hit Enter (should get response Successfully flushed the DNS resolver cache) Let me know if this resolved on your PC. If so, try these steps on each one impacted.

@Flashlight - Agreed. I would love to build a WHS box some time. I participated in the initial beta testing which was kinda rocky for a while but it has a lot of capabilities. Unfortunately, there wasn't much in the way of offerings for boxes ready-to-go - just add drives and they were pretty pricey. I am currently running a W2K3 Standard Edition rig. While I don't have the backups set I am able to store more in my configuration as the drives are not setup in any RAID configuration to appear as one contiguous drive. Less simple than WHS, but also gives me a chance to work with the software still supported by many small to moderate businesses. @Adultery - I think that you most probably could do so - at least with your ROMS and associated media. The choke point would be your internal bandwidth. You would definitely want to explore Gigabit routers and NICs on all devices. You would then be limited only by the robustness of your server (the more RAM and CPU cycles, the better) to stream your content. Any executibles (emulators and the like) would be best installed on each PC in your network.If you have enough storage on the server, you could set each machine attached for regular backups, keep copies of system default images, etc.

Anytime! I am a veritable font of useless info!

Always worth a go. I am not sure if changing font size will matter either. I would consider this in the bug category.

Not with WHS. It is derived from Windows 2003 (which is actually XP at its core). It isn't really designed for running as a stand-alone OS. It is more file server/NAS and is designed to be headless and this is why there is no need for DirectX support.

To be honest, GameEx is not designed to run on Windows Home Server 2003 (which is further removed from XP than Server 2003 is). If this is what you are runnijng, I think we might need to stop right here until you have a dedicated Windows OS to knock about. I know there may be some temptation to be able to run your games and emus from every room, but this just isn't going to work if that is the case.