Jim bob

MAME works OK on it's own without the Gamex front end. It's as though something presses the escape key all by itself

I tried the autoupdate again and it worked this time so that's not a problem. I checked to see if MAME ROMs are working but same problem there. Gamex has updated OK but MAME ROMs are still exiting after 30sec Maybe I should try reinstalling MAME

Hi folks, It's been a while since I used Gamex. I fired it up today and all appeared OK. Go to start a MAME ROM. The ROM will start but after about 30sec the ROM self exits back to the Gamex. Does this for all ROMs (sort of like when you hit escape). I thought maybe I should update Gamex. I perform autoupdate. On install of the autoupdate it crashes. I pasted below some of the update script, 14:54:58.7 2/06/2012: Using Title Font: HandelGothic BT 14:54:58.7 2/06/2012: GameEx will try to reduce CPU usage 14:55:02.6 2/06/2012: Initialising Direct3D 14:55:02.6 2/06/2012: Applying GameEx is Loading Image 14:55:02.7 2/06/2012: Setting Resolution to 1920x1080 32 bit color 14:55:02.7 2/06/2012: Creating Surfaces 14:55:02.8 2/06/2012: Applying GameEx is Loading Image 14:55:02.9 2/06/2012: Setting Resolution to 1920x1080 32 bit color 14:55:02.9 2/06/2012: Creating Surfaces 14:55:02.9 2/06/2012: --**-- 14:55:02.9 2/06/2012: Error: Error in the application. 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Manager.GetDeviceCaps(Int32 adapter, DeviceType deviceType) 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at o.a(Form A_0, Int32 A_1, Int32 A_2, Boolean A_3, Boolean A_4, Boolean A_5, Boolean A_6) 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at o..ctor(Form A_0, Int32 A_1, Int32 A_2, Boolean A_3, Boolean A_4, Boolean A_5, Boolean A_6) 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at ag.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Int32 A_4) 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at ag.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Int32 A_4) 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at ag.b(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2) 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at ag.a(Boolean A_0, String A_1, Boolean A_2) 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: at ag..ctor() 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: Closing database connection 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: Disposing Plugins 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: GameEx is exiting with errors 14:55:03.0 2/06/2012: Deleting search cache 14:55:04.7 2/06/2012: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING 14:55:06.5 2/06/2012: Bye I'm not sure if the update error and the ROM error are related or if the ROM error is related to MAME. platform: Asus core i7 12Gb ram Geforce GTX440M OS: Windows 7 64bit MAME version: MAME 64 thanks if you can help