Volume control

[popcorrin]

I have gameex set up to run as shell and everything seems to work pretty well but I lose the ability to use the volume control on my keyboard or remote. I was wondering if someone knew if there was an easy fix for this?

I thought maybe I could use a batch file as shell that would load whatever process needs to be loaded to allow volume control with the remote and then load gameex.

[popcorrin]

Anyone have any ideas?

[headkaze]

What's your question? Sounds fine to me just run a batch file before GameEx using the LaunchOnStart= or probably better the LaunchOnStartNoWait= key in GameEx.ini. Just point it to a batch file that loads the remote control software.

There is another way to do this. Since GameEx, I believe, requires a key to be held down in conjunction with the up and down keys to get volume working, you could just use AutoHotkey to assign whatever input from the remote or keyboard you want to the volume keys. Just write a little .ahk script and compile it to an .exe and use the LaunchOnStartNoWait to run it at the beginning of GameEx. AutoHotkey is very powerful and flexible to do things like this.

Perhaps Tom could consider making the key assignments a bit more flexable, ie. So you can modify the dual key assignments. Perhaps you can already, I'm not sure.

[popcorrin]

Actually, from what I can tell, the process that needs to be running in order for the volume control to work is 'explorer.exe', which is of course what I am trying to avoid by running gameex as shell.

I guess what I was wondering was what program I could use to allow me to control the volume with either my keyboard or my remote without loading explorer.exe.

[headkaze]

This is probably a stupid question, but have your tried holding down the alt key while pressing the up and down arrow keys in GameEx? These are the default buttons assigned for volume control in GameEx.

[popcorrin]

This is probably a stupid question, but have your tried holding down the alt key while pressing the up and down arrow keys in GameEx? These are the default buttons assigned for volume control in GameEx.

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Yes that works but I what I really wanted to be able to do is control the volume with the volume control on the mce remote and I assume that the volume control on the remote uses the same process as the keyboard volume control to control the volume. When I say keyboard volume control I am referring to actual buttons specifically for controlling the volume and not the keyboard shortcut, alt plus up or down arrow keys.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this.