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Nope, works with and without custom menus enabled. I am just wondering if maybe the Directx display drivers had a little hiccup and rebooting resolved the issue.

OK, color me somewhat embarrassed and a little bit confuzzled. While working on my newest theme, it appears that the functionality of the media bar is working again in fullscreen mode with Foreground Top-Most enabled. Not sure if something got a little hung up during my previous sessions to prevent it from working, but as of this morning it is working as designed. For now, handling this as a resolved issue unless it recurs.

Good luck, Dave! I did not get my first New, Never been owned before Vehicle until 6 years ago. Since my teens, always bought used as I a.) could not afford new and b.) prefer to let someone else take the depreciation hit on the cost.

Have heard that Atari++ is good as well.

HI Neal and welcome back! You have a few questions rolled into the post so I will attempt to help as I can and others will likely chime in as well. I will likely have to answer your questions with some questions. GameEx has some built-in support but a lot depends on what you are using and how you intend to use it within GameEx. What kind of gamepad are you using? Any profiler software (Xpadder, Joy-to-Key, Logitech Profiler, etc.). Are you using a specific theme at present? Usually, you can click "Change View" until the desired background displays from within any theme, however, you will have to have the in-game videos and/or snaps for the game(s) to do so. Do you have these already? The Emulator Databases are located under the \gameex\data\emulators directory. You may need to change the rights to these files that you modify to read only to prevent them from being overwritten during updates (but I am not the expert on this so will defer to one of the more experienced forum members for a definitive answer. For C64 are you using a regular emulator or accessing through Gamebase? If accessing via Gamebase, the db is housed with in it and is not accessible as far as I am aware for editing.

Enhancement request - Add Theme Used and Resolution details to Statistics - individual and on GameEx Live.

It appears that Toolbar/Media Controls are not disappearing with Foreground Top-Most enabled. I have confirmed this by manipulating the settings for Display to hide toolbar and Foreground Top-Most enabled in the theme. When I disable Foreground Top-Most, the toolbar/media controls behavior is correct and only reappear upon mouse-over. Regardless of whether or not Foreground Top-Most is enabled, these elements should exhibit the same behavior in either setting.

Glad you were able to get this one resolved!

That is a great idea so we can make things theme specific.. Since the theme folder contains a MEDIA folder, perhaps if the enhancement pointed to that media folder instead?

I wonder if you might need to use a profiler with your PS3 controller (Xpadder comes to mind)?

Troy - Please upgrade to the latest version of GameEx - 12.04. Let me know if your issue is resolved following the upgrade. Thanks!

@AcidBrain - Please try updating your GameEx version to the latest (12.03) and let me know if you are still having issues with your Media Controls, etc.

@ehuonder - When Foreground is set to Top-most, all serviceable text elements (Title, Date, Time, Select1 & 2, List, Weather) and visual elements (Image, Image2) will reside on the middle layer below the foreground image but above the background image, unless this feature is disabled. Elements for Top Bar, Media Controls, Arrows, etc. will remain editable and, when in use, will reside in the System layer above all else. These settings will help us to minimize the amount of foreground image "cutting and cropping" for these elements to show. In the future, I would love to see us to be able to position any element up and down through various layers as needed. We currently have 2 layers to work with at present that we have direct control over the elements within. To be able to independently have control of color for each text element as well. To have the level of control I am thinking of my require a major rewrite of the Theme Editor and portions of GameEx altogether and may require more resources than some of the older systems (PCs and GPUs) can handle. I am an idea man, not a programmer so I may be wrong (and frequently am)!

Thanks, Tom! 12.00-12.03 changes are going to make quite a few very happy campers - myself included!

Nobody else showed - well, Aaron showed but was on Halo Reach. I as there, all by my lonesome... The bullets, the blood... how much can one take by themselves? It was a good thing never-the-less, I got to kill a few, get killed a lot, and sort through getting my headset working properly, my Xbox moved to the firewall DMZ (otherwise, moderate NATting occurs). We will try again!

We used to refer to bugs as "Undocumented Features or Enhancements."

This one has me "by the short hairs" as well. The only thing besides codecs if nobody can replicate would be the video card, however, I find it difficult to reason why now after all of this time if it had been working fine before? I know that there have been some issues with older Radeon cards, but I thought we got most of those ironed out (either that or the cards had been upgraded and the issue resolved accordingly).

Not to worry, we will likely give one of the Halos a go as well!

You may want to try the Shark007 Codec Pack instead of K-Lite. Try uninstalling K-Lite and give Shark007 a try. Another video card may be in your future as well, but this is worth a shot.

The DirectX Runtime version and the DirectX version that gets installed are two separate things. The runtime will install the updates for latest DirectX version written for the respective Windows OS. The runtime package is usually an update provided for systems that are not connected to the internet as DirectX is included with the OS. INstalling the updates will certainly not hurt anything and if one of the updates is corrupt, may help.

The latest version of DirectX for XP - SP3 is 9.0c 4.09.00.0904 (RC0).

@Duke - You may wish to post these under the Pinned Topics > Features and Enhancement Requests thread so that they receive the proper focus! Good suggestions!

Thanks, Tom! The fixes in this and 12.01 releases resolve the issue with the media controls, etc.

Testing the game pads is not as straightforward as everyone may have things configured a little differently, use different gamepads and profilers, etc. I am using an original XBox wired controller at present and I am not having any issues with it. I must note that I am not using it in conjunction with any profiler software (yet). The themes should have no impact on how a controller responds, never-the-less. Since most of the changes implemented as of late are geared towards V4 themes, I wonder if it may be something in those changes that is causing the impact. There were a few other issues similarly reported by other users prior to the 12.01 release (and possibly prior to 11.99 although don't hold me to that). Regardless, please provide a copy of the log.txt file after the incident occurs. Info about your gamepad, profiler software, etc. may be useful.

Clan G-Ex to meet Saturday night at between 10:30-11PM EST for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on XBox Live. Figured we could use the half hour to get acquainted and get in a practice round or two before Clan G-Ex takes on the rest of the world in some Team Death Matches!