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Yes I do. Everything is working fine stand alone, it seems to me that somehow HideOS is interfering.

Draco, thanks for looking into this. Interestingly, out of 31 Sega Model 2 games I tested 4 do work, them being Behind Enemy Lines, Dynamite Cop, Fighting Vipers and Virtua Striker 2. All of the others show that black screen consistently, examples being Daytona USA, Dead or alive, Dynamite Baseball, Indy 500, Sega Rally Championship and more. In Sega Model 3, all of my 22 games do not work and show a black screen instead. Examples for testing: Daytona USA 2, Fighting Vipers 2, Star Wars Trilogy...

Hi guys, I am experiencing black screen issues when using integrated Model2 & Model3. I can hear the games running just fine, just behind the black screen. Everything's running fine when starting the emulator using runitgame.bat. I am using Win 11 24H2. Is this something you can look into? Thanks! log.txt GameEx.ini

Hi Tom, yes the attached dll is working, thank you very much. All problems solved! btw tried again 19.00 (without the new dll) which is not working. Tried both my Win 10 and Win 11 setups with no difference. Thank you again for your help!

Windows 11 Pro 24H2

Yeah, with the new setup I completely forgot to check the 'run as administrator' box... I did now, GameEx.ini (from 19.00) attached. GameEx.ini

I did some installing, please see attachment. It seems to me that it is not related to the Windows version and happened from GameEx 18.84 to 18.85. 18.84 works with Win 11 as well, that‘s not in the attachment (As for the ini all I can say that it‘s a new configuration from scratch and that there was no text editing or the like). Thanks for your effort!

Yes they do. I have two wireless controllers, an old Xbox 360 and a fairly new Xbox Series X controller with up to date firmware. Both are recognized in the setup wizard for settings and can be used in emulators, both standalone and via GameEx. They both seem to work correctly according to joy.cpl. Some more info: I have an old Win10 setup with GameEx 18.64 (working) and the new one (Win11 Pro with 18.99). I‘ll try to pinpoint things later after work and will report back. Thanks for looking into this.

Hi guys, have there been changes in the way GameEx controls with a standard Xbox controller? In my new 18.99 setup GameEx won't accept any joystick input, the exact same configuration in my old 18.64 setup is working flawlessly. Thanks for helping me out! custominput.ini GameEx.ini log.txt

Well that certainly was fast. I can confirm the issue to be fixed. Thanks as always guys!

Hi guys, since updating from 18.87 to 18.94 I am experiencing black screen issues. Problem persists with 18.95, my whole setup was working flawlessly with 18.87. Games start allright from Gamex, but when returning all I see is a black screen while GameEx is continuing to run in the background. With each return to GameEx there is an additional instance of HideOS.exe running, I had up to 4 instances simultaneously. Maybe that could hint to what is the problem. Note that I set HideDesktop = No in the Display Settings. Thanks very much for looking into this! GameEx.ini log.txt

OK, I see. Pity though, I really like that feature although I can imagine it's probably not widely used in the community. That's perfectly viable for me, thanks. I think I'll go down that road. Thanks for helping me out, as always.

Hi Draco, thanks to you as well. Do you mean the GameEx profiles in C:\GameEx\CONFIG\USERS? How would I check those for local admin rights? (For clarification, I am strictly talking about different GameEx users, not Windows User Profiles). Additionally, I tried to create a new GameEx user profile with the current 18.50 install which worked flawlessly. So there's always the fallback of recreating the broken GameEx user profiles.

Hi tthurman thanks for looking into this. I did use elevated permissions with the install (did an over the top reinstall just now). Same error log.

After updating as stated above GameEx crashes on startup, ini and log files enclosed. However… (idk if this may be helpful): I am using Login.exe with three different User Profiles. The crashes only happen with the two profiles that were not in use during the update. The “main” profile being in \GameEX\CONFIG during the update starts just fine. Thanks for helping me out! GameEx.ini gameex logfile.txt

Looks okay for me... thanks again!

Thanks @Draco1962, no problem. I can always reencode the video snaps as a workaround. Or I‘ll give it a try and look into the theme editor, have no experience whatsoever with themes, sounds like fun!

This one's not a biggie, but I recently noticed that 16:9 Emumovies video snaps lose their aspect ratio when used within the Space Invaders HD theme. Furthermore, they're not filling up the horizontal space (black bars left and right) Btw. it all looks good with 4:3 videos. Is there a way to fit a 16:9 video snap into the available space while keeping its aspect ratio? btw, thanks a lot @Draco1962 for creating this! theme.ini GameEx.ini

Thanks for hinting me to the registry which solved my problem if only with a workaround. Somehow GameEx keeps looking for C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs\bin\gswin32c.exe, no matter which GS version is installed on my system (I tried GS v9.50 with both the 64 and 32bit builds). I did a registry search for that path with no results. What I did is reinstalling the 32bit GS version to the above path (which includes manually editing the suggested path in the GS installation wizard). This topic is closed - thanks again!

Just a minor thing: I can't seem to find the correct setting in the Setup Wizard to point GameEx to my GhostScript directory. As a result I'm not able to display manuals. I could of course change the GS dir as suggested here, but surely there must be a better way. What am I missing? Thanks! GameEx.ini log.txt

Wow, Raiden II... I haven't been playing much lately, but Raiden II is a very good reason to fire up the cabinet again! In fact, when I built my cabinet, I did so having just a few games in mind with Raiden II being one of them (was pretty disappointed when I found out Mame couldn't run it but settled for Raiden Project on PS1 which I think is a nearly flawless port). Raiden II for me is one of the best games ever made so I'm looking forward to this quarter's comp. @Cynicaster @Floyd Turbo I think Mame 0.155 was the first version to be able to run Raiden II (and Raiden DX). I remember it being a major breakthough for the devs. I can confirm Mame 0.187. score 487,260

I changed the background mode setting in the Setup Wizard - no success. I then removed the line DisplayBackgroundImage=Snap from the theme.ini and everything is back to normal. Thanks guys for your quick replies. As always.

While updating from 15.10 to 15.27 something happened to the way my Space Invaders HD theme is presented. The issue persists with 15.31 and I can reliably restore the old look by reinstalling an older GameEx version. It's best described by looking at the screen shots below: Before (15.10 and older): After (15.27 and newer): Probably a Change View issue. I’d happily try to Change Views but after the update the Change View option in the theme is gone as well. (I have disabled „Hide Change View“ in the Enable/Disable Features section.) Do you make any of it? Has there been a change in the way GameEx handles themes in 15.27? I also tried other themes, the issue does not occur with the Default themes. I also did a complete reinstall, to no success. Thanks for any hints! smario log.txt GameEx.ini

Well I hadn't thought about it that way... interesting! For me, that, ahem ... second volcano level is quite tough. The instant an enemy is on-screen it starts to spill bullets which very quickly amounts to a bullet hell kind of scenario. The only chance you stand is to get rid of every single enemy as fast as you can which requires exact memorization of flight paths. Since this is the only level I use "doubles" instead of lasers, the constant button tapping adds to the general sense of hectic and loss of control. After that, the game cools down considerably in terms of difficulty, even in the last level, the enemy base. So here's my latest entry - 343,400 (loop 2 stage 1)

I'm also not done yet But damn is that inverted volcano level hard!