[RESOLVED] Gameex 12.0 freezes at nag screen

[Rhocagil]

Ok, so here's my problem.

Had older version of gameex installed (don't remember version, installed about two years ago) and it worked flawlessy.

Replaced the hd where gameex and mame were installed (D:, system on C:) and installed gameex 12.0 (first 11.99 - same problem) and mame 0.143b on the new drive (D:).

Now gameex freezes at the nag screen (have tried waiting a long time), sometimes I can ctrl-alt-delete and terminate the 7zip extraction and make gameex load up, but then it freezes when it tries to load the listinfo.dat (stuck at 25%).

I have .net 2.0 and directx 9c installed on XP sp3.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

log.txt

[Adultery]

Man is XP just having a bad run or what?

I'll poke into the log and see what it says, but chances are the problem is after the nag screen.

.:EDIT:. Everything looks legit to me. I never seen the cmd line try and pull mame.exe -help before. Do you have that file in there where GameEx is looking for it? It's the last entry in your log file there.

[AlphaUMi]

Uhm.. forgive me if I'm wrong... but what's that -help doing in the command line?

13:17:44.6  2011-08-19:  Running: mame0143b.exe -help
13:17:44.6  2011-08-19:  Running: D: D:\MAME\mame0143b.exe -help > D:\MAME\help.txt

Check your GameEx.ini file you can find in GameEx\CONFIG\ directory, and make sure the entry "MameOptions" is set to "-nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo"

Adultery Ninja'd me! +1 for him!

[Adultery]

LOL!

I thought maybe that was exclusive to the unregistered versions, I admittedly don't have a ton of experience with logs from unregistered users.

Worst comes to worst, just put a blank help.txt in that location and see if you can get it past that point.

[Rhocagil]

Aah man what a stupid error I made!

The reason it puts the -help there is because I linked it to the zipped mame.

So it hangs 'cause it's starting to unzip the whole mame folder everytime.

[Adultery]

So it's fixed for you then?

[Rhocagil]

Yes, how do I put "resolved" on this one?

[Adultery]

Awesomesauce!

If you edit your 1st post you should also be able to edit the thread title to add [RESOLVED]