No Exit on Screen Saver?

**logik1** · November 13, 2011

I have just left my newly biult machine alone for 20 minutes and the game screensaver kicked in.

Thing is, I couldnt exit by pressing any buttons... I'm running off a JPac with no mouse or regular keyboard.

Game video was playing on a loop with a snippet about the game at the bottom of the screen. I have yet to recreate this but thought I would post here first to see if this is a known problem?

GameEx was updated this morning.

**Tom Speirs** · November 13, 2011

Sometimes when a MAME game is first loaded GameEx is busy doing stuff like trying to skip nag screens so the key presses dont kick in straight away. Turning off the bypass disclaimer setting will help.

**Adultery** · November 13, 2011

No need for it if you do a custom compile anyhow.

**logik1** · November 13, 2011

Sometimes when a MAME game is first loaded GameEx is busy doing stuff like trying to skip nag screens so the key presses dont kick in straight away. Turning off the bypass disclaimer setting will help.

I've recompiled Mame to not have nags etc... I'm pretty sure it's exited before though.

I will keep an eye on it and report back.

**Adultery** · November 13, 2011

What I mean to say is since you use a custom compile turn that feature (bypass disclaimer) off and see if it helps since you won't need it and it probably defaulted to "true" when it was added.

My compile forces directinput instead of using rawinput so the new bypass prob doesn't work on mine and I didn't see this happen.

**Tom Speirs** · November 13, 2011

It may also be the 5 key (credit) was pressed which tells the screensaver not to exit so you can play the game.

**logik1** · November 14, 2011

It may also be the 5 key (credit) was pressed which tells the screensaver not to exit so you can play the game.

Not sure what state the machine was in. I beleive that I just left it on one of the GameEx menus.

**logik1** · November 16, 2011

The plot thickens... I've had the machine playing some movies for my daughter today and the screen saver has kicked in 3 times. 2 of these were reset crashes (pressing joystick left to exit with a JPac) and the third gave me an error log.

Possibly related to playing movies, can't be 100% sure but I have definetaly not loaded any games at all today.

Also, no coins have been entered either.

Error log is attached.

**logik1** · November 16, 2011

It may also be the 5 key (credit) was pressed which tells the screensaver not to exit so you can play the game.

Hang about, is the screensaver actually loading Mame?

**fRequEnCy** · November 16, 2011

Hang about, is the screensaver actually loading Mame?

Yes. That is correct!

**Adultery** · November 16, 2011

What's the dilly with your log? I can't read that. Could you put a txt up?

**logik1** · November 16, 2011

What's the dilly with your log? I can't read that. Could you put a txt up?

I can read it perfectly fine? Might be the size of your web browser.

Its basically crashing trying to render a DirectX 3D sprite... Maybe you need to download the attachment and view it in an external viewer?

I can get the text when this machine is next hooked up to a network, providing its still there? Does it get overwritten?

I saw this crash three times in a row and never since then!

**Adultery** · November 16, 2011

Ahh nah I was on the mobile.

I forgot your cab doesn't have net access.

**Tom Speirs** · November 17, 2011

Im going to need the log in text and gameex.ini to troubleshoot this. What codecs do you have installed? That could be the issue.

**Draco1962** · November 17, 2011

I know it isn't always convenient but you are going to need to find a way to port over your log.txt and gameex.ini files as we cannot see everything clearly in a photo image that we need to diagnose what is going on. I would recommend investing in an inexpensive thumb drive and you might reconsider not having any kind of connectivity within your network so that you can remote into your system or setup a KVM.

**logik1** · November 17, 2011

I know it isn't always convenient but you are going to need to find a way to port over your log.txt and gameex.ini files as we cannot see everything clearly in a photo image that we need to diagnose what is going on. I would recommend investing in an inexpensive thumb drive and you might reconsider not having any kind of connectivity within your network so that you can remote into your system or setup a KVM.

Yeah, sure, I have thumb drives a plenty. I've picked up a wifi card for this machine so will setup remote desktop asap.

**Adultery** · November 17, 2011

All that aside we often need the whole log and the GameEx.ini to do any kind of accurate troubleshooting.

**logik1** · November 18, 2011

All that aside we often need the whole log and the GameEx.ini to do any kind of accurate troubleshooting.

Sure thing, I've just seen a machine reset crash when pressing an input during the screen saver, I emmediately retrieved the logs but they are not showing anything speicial. log and config attached.

However, from fresh boot after retrieving these GameEx booted, started playing a random movie and then, after approx 2 minutes it has crashed with a log. I beleive this is when the Mame screen saver would have kicked in?

Perhaps this crash is related to the screensaver kicking in when its playing the initial random movie, when I say movie, I dont mean a Mame preview, I mean an actual Movie from the multimedia directory.

I'm using the Shark codec pack.

screensavercrashes.zip

**logik1** · November 18, 2011

All that aside we often need the whole log and the GameEx.ini to do any kind of accurate troubleshooting.

OK, here's a .ini and a .log showing something useful

11:40:02.1 11/18/2011: Starting Attract Mode

11:40:02.1 11/18/2011: Reading MAME hall of fame

11:40:02.4 11/18/2011: Shutting down display

11:40:02.5 11/18/2011: Exception occured running Attract Mode

11:40:02.5 11/18/2011: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

11:40:02.6 11/18/2011: at a.ᜄ(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2)

11:40:02.6 11/18/2011: at a.ᜅ()

11:40:02.6 11/18/2011: at a.ᜃ(Boolean A_0)

The screen saver tried to start when GameEx had been booted with no user input, playing a random movie from the multimedia collection. Shark Codec pack, etc.

GameExScreenInitSaverCrash.zip

**Draco1962** · November 18, 2011

You may want to reinstall the latest version of DirectX and see if that resolves the issue. If this does not resolve it, since you are loading random movies from your video library, can you try changing that setting to load only from the ROMs and not the videos to see if that works without error?

**logik1** · November 18, 2011

You may want to reinstall the latest version of DirectX and see if that resolves the issue. If this does not resolve it, since you are loading random movies from your video library, can you try changing that setting to load only from the ROMs and not the videos to see if that works without error?

Sure thing, can do.

I beleive this is only one of the problem's I've been having though.

I think there are two other different types of issues I've seen with the screensaver.

**Draco1962** · November 18, 2011

Well with some luck maybe we can kill two birds with one stone! Or at least better identify where the problem is originating.

**logik1** · December 11, 2011

Chaps, with all the problems I've had I simply decided to write my own frontend and media player. This way I can only moan at myself when it goes wrong.

Sorry for any hissy fits and good luck with GameEx.

Link to WIP video :

**Tom Speirs** · December 11, 2011

Well good luck with it, when you release be sure to post on forums.arcadecontrols.com and make a post at emumovies.com

**logik1** · December 11, 2011

Many thanks Tom.

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