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MESSUI64 won't load anymore?


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Hey guys. Need a quick tip. MESS64UI doesn't load anymore. I can run the program, and it displays the application in my taskbar. When I hover on it, the popup window (Windows 7 people know what I mean) shows the program window in the thumbnail. But I can't click on it to open it up. It's like it's having trouble rendering the UI for full screen. If I click it enough times, eventually Windows will crash the program saying it's not responding.

So I need a little help. Is there a work around for this? I have all my MESS emulators configured in GameEx to use just the mess64.exe and not the mess64ui. That's solved the problem of the emulators not running. But I need to be able to access the UI because I need to enable the wait for VSync global option. Unless there's some kind of command line or ini I can enable.

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Hey guys. Need a quick tip. MESS64UI doesn't load anymore. I can run the program, and it displays the application in my taskbar. When I hover on it, the popup window (Windows 7 people know what I mean) shows the program window in the thumbnail. But I can't click on it to open it up. It's like it's having trouble rendering the UI for full screen. If I click it enough times, eventually Windows will crash the program saying it's not responding.

So I need a little help. Is there a work around for this? I have all my MESS emulators configured in GameEx to use just the mess64.exe and not the mess64ui. That's solved the problem of the emulators not running. But I need to be able to access the UI because I need to enable the wait for VSync global option. Unless there's some kind of command line or ini I can enable.

I'd have to test this to see what exactly is going on. What version are you running?

As far as a command-line, there is command-line options available. There is also a way to create a config as in MAME to make things even easier and the command-line more clean.

To create the config do the following from command prompt:

mess64.exe -cc

This will create a config called mess.ini which you can then edit.

The command-line option for that would be (taken from the help file):

MESS Command-line option
-[no]waitvsyncWaits for the screen to draw before drawing the next frame (reduces tearing of graphics)

-waitvsync meaning to wait and -nowaitvsync meaning not to wait.

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You should be able to use command line options with MESS64UI the same as MAMEUI64. Have you rebooted your PC after that occurs? You may want to post a copy of your configs/ini's from MESS and GameEx so that one of the guys can assist. Mesk is a MESSaholic so he may be able to help! ;)

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Thanks Freq, I found the vsync option in the ini it created. Don't know whats going on with the UI. Used to work, before I started adding a bunch of roms to the emulators. OH well.

The MESSUI.ini file probably got corrupted somehow or something is messed up on it. I would delete this file and see if it will run normally then. This will however erase your setting for MESSUI. I would backup this file before deleting to be safe. If that doesn't work then again, I'd have to test myself to see what's going on.

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