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Ok. I basically got it working, but wasn't sure if I was missing something or some other possibilities. Thanks!

Can someone explain to me how the please wait bar animation is determined? Just want to make sure I get it right. (e.g., has to be that resolution, frames all go sequentially from left to right, how many frames are on the screen at once, etc.)

Well. Turned off the network game list options and a bunch of services and things are a bit snappier in getting back to menu - my gut is telling me it is the network lists that was causing the issue even though the PC is networked. Odd... I'll post again if something else pops up or I get a ridiculous delay again. Also, I did a few other tweaks and the cab is working way better than before based on that. Thanks guys! Appreciate the help.

Hrm...I *AM* using CPWizard....so that's odd. And that's the right path. I'll check that. (ALthough CPWizard gives me an entirely other set of issues w/working once then crashing out...so...we'll see.) And I was using the network features, but with MAWS being gone...not sure if I need anything else. I'll try tweaking a few things - good call on the aero/glass item. Completely overlooked that and 1-2 other tweaks I used to make before processing power got cheap and my normal PC was ridiculously overpowered (which aligns almost exactly with when I got a decent paying job, oddly enough ). Will post more once I tweak things out a bit.

I'll dig through everything to see. I just tried MAME straight up and there's zero lag exiting it using the esc key so it seems it's def. GameEx or some interaction of the two. Tested the two plugins, still happens. Oddly, if I go into the game, play real quick then exit it went back to GameEx faster. May have been a fluke. Tested the theme as well, still happening. Basically, hit esc/exit, black screen for 10 seconds or so, then gameex comes back up and buttons all light back up (via ledblinky, if it's running) It seems some games do this, others don't...maybe something to do w/writing cabinet/ram state to the disc or something?

Hrm...odd. Just redid it again (see additional log) and this time counted off (using mississippi's to get something consistent) and got up to 12 before things flickered and GameEx came back up. So...seems like this is potentially two things...MAME isn't exiting correctly and/or GameEx is taking awhile to come up... :/ And, possibly pertinent, esc is my mame/emulator exit key.

Uh...those are minutes, not seconds you're looking at. That's the 8 minutes I played the game. The applicable numbers are 13:24:09.7 (Shutting down the hook) and 13:24:42.2 (writing mame stats). And interesting. This one it took at least 10-12 seconds, but the log doesn't reflect that time. log.txt

Log is below. Ini is attached. You can see the lag of ~30 seconds between shutting down the rawinput hook and writring mame stats when you exit. 13:15:52.1 8/30/2012: Mouse Input is disabled 13:16:37.8 8/30/2012: Setting Up RawInput Hook 13:16:37.8 8/30/2012: Launching RawInputHook.exe 13:16:40.9 8/30/2012: Running: cmd.exe /c C: C:\Emulators\mame\mame.exe tapper -rompath C:\Emulators\mame\roms -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo 13:16:41.1 8/30/2012: Shutting down display 13:24:09.4 8/30/2012: Exiting game 13:24:09.7 8/30/2012: Shutting down RawInput Hook 13:24:42.2 8/30/2012: Writing MAME stats 13:24:42.3 8/30/2012: Plugin: Game Exit 13:24:42.4 8/30/2012: Plugin: Process Commands 13:24:42.4 8/30/2012: Restoring Window 13:24:42.4 8/30/2012: Reinitializing Graphics System 13:24:42.4 8/30/2012: Mouse Input is disabled 13:24:44.6 8/30/2012: Returning to GameEx 13:24:57.9 8/30/2012: Exiting GameEx! 13:24:57.9 8/30/2012: Disposing all videos 13:24:57.9 8/30/2012: Deleting temporary Karaoke videos 13:24:57.9 8/30/2012: Disposing Image List 13:24:57.9 8/30/2012: Disposing Fonts 13:24:57.9 8/30/2012: Disposing Surfaces 13:24:58.1 8/30/2012: Saving Settings 13:24:58.6 8/30/2012: Shutting down Bass 13:25:03.8 8/30/2012: Closing HideOS.exe 13:25:08.6 8/30/2012: Disposing Plugins 13:25:08.6 8/30/2012: Disposing Plugins 13:25:09.8 8/30/2012: Closing database connection 13:25:09.9 8/30/2012: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit 13:25:10.3 8/30/2012: Bye GameEx.ini

Did that last night (the upgrade) and it still happened. Seems to be consistent with Tapper (Budweiser version). I'll upload it tonight and hopefully it'll be something easily remedied. I'm fine with the SSD solution though - leaning towards it to quiet the cab a bit.

I'm having a few issues with lag on exiting a game (like on the 30-90 seconds level). This is in MAME w/the most recent version of GameEx. I'm wondering if anyone knows any causes for this and if using a SSD might alleviate it somewhat if it's related to a write to disk or read related issue for GameEx itself. TIA. (Also, for those that remember me my cab is done and out in my main basement area - and my theme is done. It works for me but isn't comprehensive enough across GameEx for submission. I'll have to post a video sometime.)

Anyone else using custom menus and having GameEx crash when you enter search?

Couldn't you just open in the editor and save as v3/v4 and get the icons? Or would it completely go nuts based on missing settings?

Could be related - not the same thing as I saw though. That was just a different (wrong) background/layout being used under certain conditions. This could be related and be associated (i.e., arising from the same cause) - not sure though since I don't have this item in my lists.

Did you turn on the advanced controls? (You need to set the first option in that section to yes for any of them to work I believe). And custom lists are done via 'Custom Folder' like files from MAME32UI. (Check here for some more details: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=8213&st=0&p=60212&hl=+custom%20+game%20+lists&fromsearch=1entry60212 )

IN addition to the log, try hitting esc twice, see if that resolves it and it drops back faster. If so, it means you're emu either isn't exiting quickly on esc or it's taking a bit for gameex to kill the process.

Flip what adultery said around - you can remap pg up/pg down. Directly mapping alpha paging (i.e., not using the modifier key) isn't possible.

Also, you can turn off the zoom effect in Enable/Disable features - just found that by accident.

Is it possible to have: - CPWizard be your CP viewer. - The 'View Controls' item appear in the Game Info menu - which launches the CPWizard control view for that game. - The controls do NOT appear before each game gets launched. So far I've turned on CPViewer use in setup, turned on Control Panel select, and I'm getting the internal CP viewer when the menu item is selected and before a game launches...not sure what/where the appropriate settings are for this.

Edit: Resolved issue of not being able to drop back into menus of CPWizard in GameEx by setting CPWizard to only show a control layout. Working ok now with back/select dropping right out of the CP view.

Ok...last bump and check. I've got this working near 100% with LEDBlinky, but the controls for GameEx aren't appearing correctly...

Wait, I'm supposed to READ your posts? Crap.

For a HTPC on a TV, I still highly recommend XBMC - it's more polished from the media perspective and has a huge support base to work from. Then just run GameEx on your arcade machine OR run it FROM XBMC to do emulator stuff. Just my recommendation. Regarding the central location for medial, you're talking about a media server based approach which is what I have. I have a Windows Home Server acting as a file server that my different 'interfaces' all point to for media. Basically, either map your network drives to a drive letter on each computer that needs to access it and enter those paths into GameEx/whatever or directly enter the network paths (e.g., \\SERVER\MEDIA\) if the software accepts that.

If you're going purely HTPC, why wouldn't you use XBMC? Not a hit on GameEx, but XBMC was designed specifically with that as it's core focus whereas GameEx was designed with emu/games as it's core focus.

(lil' bump) Anyone? I think what I'm trying to do would be common...maybe. And the bug seems fairly big - is it a Win7 64 thing, a me thing, etc?

Ok, narrowed this down a bit to a few things that are occuring and I think I understand why, but don't know if one of the options in the plugin would let me do it the way I want. Note that I'm only using 'state' - nothing is set as always on. What I would like to occur is the following: - In GameEx menus (Non-ROM Lists): Light GameEx Profile - In Emulator Menus (i.e., GameLists): Light Game (MAME) or Console (NES, Atari - setup via a profile)) Controls Current Issue with this: - GameEx profile is always on in emu lists - making certain buttons always be lit even when in an emu list. - The above COULD be a result of, when switching profiles, LEDs not being toggled to an off state. - I'm using a PAC Drive, so the item above could be due to the way that requires things discretely turned off. Other Bugs: - In 2.87 of the plugin, the editor issue I noted above definitely exists - if a profile exists for something, it's selected and then another profile is selected the UI doesn't update. Any suggestions on getting this to work would be great...as it is, only option is to have no gameex profile and nothing lit when in 'general'/non-Gamelist menus. Few other details that might be useful - I'm using custom menus and individual layouts for emulators and modules...not sure if that effects state calls or however the plugin is hooked into GameEx.