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Yes, everything is named fine and matching the roms, paths are correct, and they are a mix of JPEG and PNG. When I go into the 32x or Genesis section to get a list of games, the snaps, boxes, carts, and manuals all work fine and show up. Thats why this stumps me. I will up a sample a little later today or tonight. I have my machine torn apart at the moment. I am fitting it to my cabinet right now.

Same here. I didnt know that either....damn I guess the old saying is true..."i do learn something new everyday" Thanks Draco

I got the ISO mounting part installed and working, but I still cant see snaps for 32x and genesis. the rest work great. I might have to uninstall and reinstall GameEx.....

Adultery, you were right. super easy to fix the issue I had with the weather. opened the theme editor and just moved the time and date over no resizing necessary. simple....done and looking good. I really do love this theme. I have uploaded a pic showing what it looks like now. Thanks for the help

Well i tried the screen down the next available which was 1280x768 and the weather icon worked. It was perfectly spaced and everything. I will be re-installing the gameex program tonight to get the ISO mounting installed. I will let you all know if the snapshots for 32x and genesis come back

Brian -- I love the idea of being able to load different configs on the fly. That would make things much easier. I will try it out for you and see how it is working. Necromancyr -- Thanks for the input. I was thinking about doing exactly what you mentioned. Shifting Config, Vol up, Vol down, p1 coin, and p2 coin (have kids and they will earn $$$ to play games by doing chores, homework, and being good. a reward thing, so I dont want them to know about the p1 coin and p2 coin. I have a working coin door that they will have to put 25 cents in play....hehehe...i know mean dad!) Pause and Esc are going to stay on the top of the cab. I guess the bottom line is the UHID is the one I will get. Thanks to everyone that chimed in on the topic.

I run MSTSC all day at work, and your right direct3d is disabled to save on bandwidth. I didnt even notice that at all, at least not till you pointed it out. DAMN....Now I feel like an idiot, since I didnt catch it in the log.

------------ DxDiag Notes ------------ DirectX Files Tab: No problems found. Display Tab 1: No problems found. Direct3D functionality not available. You should verify that the driver is a final version from the hardware manufacturer. Sound Tab 1: No problems found. Music Tab: No DirectMusic ports were found. Input Tab: No problems found. Network Tab: No problems found. Yep....driver issue. Even though the driver works and is accepted, DirectX isnt seeing it. trying re-intsalling Directx 9c again or maybe even getting 10, that might fix the issue. Try that before you go looking for another driver for the video card. EDIT: Its a driver issue. your computer is using the "generic driver" from windows. You dont have to re-install DirectX, thats not the problem.

You are using windows home server 2003?? no none of guru3ds drivers will work for you. I was looking at the log and it said win xp 64 bit. The only place I know of to get WHS 2003 drivers is on the manufacture of the video card website, and even then you will be lucky to even find them. drivers for WHS are hard to find period. Now the next question should be for Tom or a programmer. Is GameEx compatible with Windows Home Server? In my honest IT opinion, drop server and go with xp home or professional. better yet go for win 7. I running win 7 professional 32 bit and it works like a charm.

You know what, I think i do have that 1280x720 setting.....in fact if I remember correctly i can go 1280x960, 1280x900, 1280x800, 1280x768, and 1280x720 on that monitor. I'm just guessing since I am not at home, but I run a pretty dam close setup at work as I do at home. most of things in my cab were hand me downs or I already had. Good thing since this is my first cab....now my second cab is going to be a "SPARE NO EXPENSE" type cab.

The site I used to get my video card drivers is http://www.guru3d.com/ Click on downloads and then the ATI Catalyst for your operating system. Their descriptions tell you right away if they WHQL certified. EDIT: What version of DirectX are you using? have your tried running the DXDIAG from RUN in windows START menu. This will tell you what version your running, check WHQL certification and you will be able to run tests fro DirectDraw and Direct3d

Not sure if this will work for you, but I had this error when I first started GameEx a couple months ago. Its looks like its bombing on the Direct3d portion of directx. Could be a video card driver problem. The way I had to get it working was to change my video card drivers to an older driver (i use an nvidia 8800 gts with driver 204.65 and not the newest driver of 275 something.)Im not sure if this is the problem or not for you, but I couldnt use drivers that WERE NOT WHQL certified, kept crashing every time I used NON WHQL CERTIFIED drivers...... thats why I had to drop down to an older driver. Just wanted to throw out what I did to fix this issue for me. Maybe Draco, Freq, or Adultery will have a more definite answer for you.

Sure....I will do that tonight after work. I need to get some more materials to finish getting the cab built, but after it gets dark i will work on the software. i will upload that tonight.....Hey thanks for the help.