[RESOLVED] Problem accessing configuration utility within Gameex

[gamepimp]

Hi all. I can run the Setup Wizard fine outside of Gameex, but when I try to access it through the "configuration" option within Gameex I just get a black screen. Any thoughts on why it's not working? Here are my system specs in case they're helpful:

Intel i7 2600k CPU

Win 7 Pro 64-bit OS

8 GB Ram

ASUS EN9600GT Silent 512MB video card

Thx in advance!

[Draco1962]

Hi all. I can run the Setup Wizard fine outside of Gameex, but when I try to access it through the "configuration" option within Gameex I just get a black screen. Any thoughts on why it's not working? Here are my system specs in case they're helpful:

Intel i7 2600k CPU

Win 7 Pro 64-bit OS

8 GB Ram

ASUS EN9600GT Silent 512MB video card

Thx in advance!

Please provide a copy of your gameex.ini file. Thanks!

[gamepimp]

Please provide a copy of your gameex.ini file. Thanks!

Here ya go. Thx!

gameex ini.txt

[Adultery]

Here ya go. Thx!

Here's your problem!

CMD_99=GameExConfig.exe

That might need to be changed to:

CMD_99=SetupWizard.exe

Maybe that's legacy?

[gamepimp]

I'll give it a try. Thx!

[gamepimp]

Unfortunately, that didn't seem to help. :-( Interestingly enough, the original ini values seem to work just fine when I open the setup wizard w/in GameEx on my laptop. It's just that it doesn't seem to work on my arcade machine. Any other thoughts? (Note: I not only changed the CMD_99 value from GameExConfig.exe to SetupWizard.exe, but I also attempted to specify the exact path to the GameEx folder on the hard drive as well as tried putting in the entire path for the command line instead of putting just the name of the executable. None of those things worked.)

[Adultery]

Crap now I gotta test! Lol!

[gamepimp]

Sorry about that. The help is greatly appreciated. The weird thing is that the setup wizard program works fine w/in GameEx on my laptop w/ the same ini settings as the PC in the arcade machine...

[headkaze]

I thought that was fixed a long time ago. You can alt-tab to it I believe which is a temporary work-around.

[Draco1962]

Seems everyone is focused on the GameEx.ini file. I have a hunch, and I have been known to be wrong before.

@gamepimp aka Corey - try copying the SetupWizard_en.xml file from your laptop to your arcade PC (found under the \gameex\config\ path). Also verify that you have full rights to your program paths on that machine.

[gamepimp]

Seems everyone is focused on the GameEx.ini file. I have a hunch, and I have been known to be wrong before.

@gamepimp aka Corey - try copying the SetupWizard_en.xml file from your laptop to your arcade PC (found under the \gameex\config\ path). Also verify that you have full rights to your program paths on that machine.

It worked! Fantastic. Thx again to everyone who helped me troubleshoot this issue. I was about to pull my hair out. LOL! :-)

Now on a slightly different but somewhat related topic, in the Setup Wizard under the "Tweaks/Performance" page, I set the "Choose your closest system configuration" option to Very High (Quad Core 2.4GHz/NVidia GForce 6600/2GB Ram) since that seems to be the closest option to my system. However, when I go back to that page after closing the Setup Wizard app, the "Choose your closest system configuration" option goes back to Medium (Pentium III 1.2 GHz/Geforce 4 MX/512MB Ram). First off, will this have any impact on performance of GameEx? And secondly, does anyone know why the setting I choose won't stick?

Thx again in advance.

Corey

[Draco1962]

Mark this down - I was right! Who's your daddy? <insert Church Lady's Superior Dance dance here>

Glad this is fixed for you! Will go ahead and mark this topic as resolved!

[Adultery]

The setting for high will be applied but the radio button doesn't remember its position when you reload it. It's a small insignificant bug.

You can look at the settings xml and see it's been applied already.

[Draco1962]

Adultery is correct. The setting you select is retained even though it does not display in the Setup Wizard.I had originally gone back and responded to that but in my exuberance of being right did not save my response.. so much for being right!

[gamepimp]

Ok. Now I have to complicate things. The solution proposed by Draco1962 worked this morning. I copied the SetupWizard_en.xml file from my laptop and pasted it into the Config folder on my desktop (thus replacing the file of the same name that potentially had issues). When I went into GameEx and opened that "Configuration" screen, the Setup Wizard launched. However, since that initial launch, it has not successfully launched again within GameEx. I'm back to where I was in the beginning (black screen). Could my desktop somehow be corrupting this file when it accesses it for the first time?

And Adultery, thx for the info on the "Choose your closest system configuration" bug. Would I look at the GameEx.ini file to vfy that it's set correctly? If so, what is the parameter called (to help me search the ini file)?