GameEx 5.45 - Released

[Tom Speirs]

25th January 2006
- GameEx 5.45

• When viewing game artwork
  full screen you can now navigate through the other
  artwork without going back, and can also view the
  snap even if your using video previews. A feature
  request asked for several times.
• More intuitive display
  initialisation:
• If GameEx can't set a full
  screen resolution it will run at the current
  windows resolution and not error.
• When 32 bit colour not
  available will automatically switch to 16 bit
  colour.
• Much better compatibility
  with Remote Desktop/Terminal Services. Because of
  the above should run full screen without changing
  settings.
• In most cases GameEx will not
  crash when connecting to it through remote
  desktop.
• Fixes issue where any
  advanced emulator config game device mapping was
  mapping all buttons above 6 to 6.
• Fixes slowdown issue
  navigating emulator lists when GameExtender
  enabled and you have no snap for a game.
• Fixes toolbar not working
  when media controls disabled.
  

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[Toonces]

WooHoo! more new versions Excellent as always Tom. I have a suggestion for you. Make a sticky out of the topic "Updating to new version of MAME, read this" and put remove skip_disclaimer in it. Seems to be about half of the problems!

Also, any chance of a GUI key remapper? The feature is great but has a steep learning curve for those of us with short attention spans.

Thanks!

Toonces

[Tom Speirs]

WooHoo! more new versions Excellent as always Tom. I have a suggestion for you. Make a sticky out of the topic "Updating to new version of MAME, read this" and put remove skip_disclaimer in it. Seems to be about half of the problems!

Also, any chance of a GUI key remapper? The feature is great but has a steep learning curve for those of us with short attention spans.

Thanks!

Toonces

Thanks buddy.

That's a coincidence you said that, as I just updated the docs page with the info!

Yep, just down to time and priorities, your existing feature request is still there and remembered

Thanks,

Tom

[Smiff]

gah. not restoring properly. people tring to use it and it won't come back after quitting MAME. what can cause this please?

edit: i think it restores the first time you quit, not the 2nd. then gameex has to be restarted.

edit2: gone back to 5.44, will report if any better

last time was really using gameex was 5.3x, it never didnt restore

[Tom Speirs]

gah. not restoring properly. people tring to use it and it won't come back after quitting MAME. what can cause this please?

edit: i think it restores the first time you quit, not the 2nd. then gameex has to be restarted.

What version of MAME are you using, did you upgrade?

[Tom Speirs]

What version of MAME are you using, did you upgrade?

Also, can you run runitgame.bat and make sure that it it does not leave a command window open after quiting MAME. Its all working fine for me.

Do you have something in the run after ?

[Smiff]

MAMEplus 102 or 103 ,can't remember which. 103 stable (not u) i think

i will try runitgame.bat next time this happens

no i have no runafter for MAME (or any other app afaik)

no its not leaving a command window open.. mame is quitting clean, gameex is running but not restoring.

edit: 5.44 same, trying 5.36

edit: runitgame.bat is BLANK, just contains:

@echo off

what does this mean please?

ok more info: this only happens after playing MAME game for a while. if you start and quit a game quickly, gameex restores fine.

[Tom Speirs]

MAMEplus 102 or 103 ,can't remember which. 103 stable (not u) i think

i will try runitgame.bat next time this happens

no i have no runafter for MAME (or any other app afaik)

no its not leaving a command window open.. mame is quitting clean, gameex is running but not restoring.

edit: 5.44 same, trying 5.36

edit: runitgame.bat is BLANK, just contains:

@echo off

what does this mean please?

ok more info: this only happens after playing MAME game for a while. if you start and quit a game quickly, gameex restores fine.

runitgame.bat in the data directory. GameEx creates that file every time it runs a game. Should deffinitly be something in it. GameEx checks if that is running to resume rather than MAME. Unless its some other bug, I am guessing that is not ending.

See what you find.

Cheers.

[Tom Speirs]

runitgame.bat in the data directory. GameEx creates that file every time it runs a game. Should deffinitly be something in it. GameEx checks if that is running to resume rather than MAME. Unless its some other bug, I am guessing that is not ending.

See what you find.

Cheers.

Also, is GameEx still running in task manager?

[Smiff]

yeah runitgame.bat was blank (empty) apart from the @echo off

i'm stumped.. mame is launching fine.

what can cause this?

yes gameex is still running in task manager.

machine is in use but i can make them wait if you need the config

edit:

5.36 seems ok! not sure yet

there was a proper command line in runitgame.bat after exiting KOF2002 and it restored fine that time anyway

edit2: yeah 5.36 seems to be restoring ok. hmm what to do.

this is why i update often, so if something gets broken i can report it fairly quick. only here i seemed to have missed something between 5.36 and 5.45 :/ sorry.

my mame command line is:

MameOptions=-triplebuffer -nowindow -joy

erm

ShowGameInfoPage=False

/me scratches head. what else do you need to know? please ask

yeah its MAMEplus 103 but i really don't think that's the issue because MAME is starting and exiting fine?

[Tom Speirs]

yeah runitgame.bat was blank (empty) apart from the @echo off

i'm stumped.. mame is launching fine.

what can cause this?

yes gameex is still running in task manager.

machine is in use but i can make them wait if you need the config

edit:

5.36 seems ok! not sure yet

there was a proper command line in runitgame.bat after exiting KOF2002 and it restored fine that time anyway

edit2: yeah 5.36 seems to be restoring ok. hmm what to do.

this is why i update often, so if something gets broken i can report it fairly quick. only here i seemed to have missed something between 5.36 and 5.45 :/ sorry.

OK the fact that runitgame is blank probably helps me. Sounds like an exception is occuring. Can you try the attached EXE? thanks.

GameEx.zip

[Smiff]

ok i will update back to 5.45 then use this exe

brb

edit: well, we can't get it to *not* restore now, using that exe. it was not restoring after every long play, not sure how long. will keep trying a bit.

did you change anything? i assumed that was just a logging build?

this exe attached seem to work fine, so far anyway.

thanks alot.

sorry hard to be precise as not sure what the factor was, if it was length of time played, which game or something else?

[Tom Speirs]

ok i will update back to 5.45 then use this exe

brb

edit: well, we can't get it to *not* restore now, using that exe. it was not restoring after every long play, not sure how long. will keep trying a bit.

did you change anything? i assumed that was just a logging build?

this exe attached seem to work fine, so far anyway.

thanks alot.

sorry hard to be precise as not sure what the factor was, if it was length of time played, which game or something else?

I did change something, seems the right change.

Ill get a new build out ASAP so I don't scare of the newbies.

[Smiff]

just tried 5.45 exe, confirmed problem

with this exe, haven't replicated problem after 8-10 attempts.

[Tom Speirs]

just tried 5.45 exe, confirmed problem

with this exe, haven't replicated problem after 8-10 attempts.

Thanks for your help mate (I do appreciate it). Seems I hit it on the head. I've just upped 5.46 that has the fix.

[Vynce]

5.46 fixed this problem for me as well. Thanks!