UI curroption when returning from emulators

[evilpenguin]

I'm having a little problem when I quit emulators and return to GameEX. I hit esc to quit the emulator, emulator quits and it goes to desktop for five seconds, and then GameEX starts up again, but the screen is completely messed up. Then a little later GameEX quits to the logfile and I get the "20 exceptions in a row" error. Anyone else had the same problems?

[jr9770]

I'm having a little problem when I quit emulators and return to GameEX.  I hit esc to quit the emulator, emulator quits and it goes to desktop for five seconds, and then GameEX starts up again, but the screen is completely messed up.  Then a little later GameEX quits to the logfile and I get the "20 exceptions in a row" error.  Anyone else had the same problems?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I continue to get random "20 consecutive exceptions in a row" error messages but I don't see a messed up GameEX screen prior to the crash. My error messages occur without warning and I have yet to determine exactly what causes it. It's just a nuisance I've learned to live with at this point. Your problem sound much worse though. It's got me stumped!

Jeff

[evilpenguin]

Oh, it's not that big of a deal. When it quits out I can get back to Sage with just my remote so I don't even need to get off the couch to fix things. I'm playing around with my settings to see if I can't just change some graphical options in GameEX or my emulators to fix things. I'll post if I figure something out.

[Tom Speirs]

I continue to get random "20 consecutive exceptions in a row" error messages but I don't see a messed up GameEX screen prior to the crash.  My error messages occur without warning and I have yet to determine exactly what causes it.  It's just a nuisance I've learned to live with at this point.  Your problem sound much worse though.  It's got me stumped!

Jeff

Evilpenguin,

No idea sorry. Your message seems to hint this is with lots of emulators. Are you sure its not with one (or two) in particular?

Jeff, oh well I thought we conquered that one.

Did you try the sleep setting as I suggested?

[evilpenguin]

Yeah, it's pretty much every emulator. VirtualNES, VirtualBoy Advance, and Gens all do the same thing. I've only tried running them in fullscreen up until now. Tommorow i'll mess with the emulator configs what I can find.

[jr9770]

Evilpenguin,

No idea sorry. Your message seems to hint this is with lots of emulators. Are you sure its not with one (or two) in particular?

Jeff, oh well I thought we conquered that one.

Did you try the sleep setting as I suggested?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've played with various sleep settings and have not found anything that's worked yet. Right now I have it set for 3 MS and it hasn't crashed in a few days. I'll let you know if it happens again.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah, it's pretty much every emulator.  VirtualNES, VirtualBoy Advance, and Gens all do the same thing.  I've only tried running them in fullscreen up until now.  Tommorow i'll mess with the emulator configs what I can find.

Do you think this might be something to do with the way you are launching GameEx from Sage perhaps?

[evilpenguin]

Do you think this might be something to do with the way you are launching GameEx from Sage perhaps?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Right on the money. I don't think GameEX likes that Sage is running in fullscreen mode behind it. I should be able to handle this from the Sage side, maybe minimize on launch or something.

[evilpenguin]

Ok, I tried a few things.

1- I tried leaving sage in fullscreen mode and making a call to show desktop before I launched GameEX and the problem remained.

2- I set sage to minimize to taskbar on sleep and apparently it liked that.

I can live with solution two, except I would really like a clean way to relaunch sage after GameEX exits. Is there anyway to get GameEX to run a generic cmd command when it shuts down? That way I could set up a batch file to wake Sage up when GameEX quits.

[Tom Speirs]

Ok, I tried a few things.

1- I tried leaving sage in fullscreen mode and making a call to show desktop before I launched GameEX and the problem remained.

2- I set sage to minimize to taskbar on sleep and apparently it liked that. 

I can live with solution two, except I would really like a clean way to relaunch sage after GameEX exits.  Is there anyway to get GameEX to run a generic cmd command when it shuts down?  That way I could set up a batch file to wake Sage up when GameEX quits.

There is another way to do this, and that is create a batch file to launch gameex and then on exit launch Sage. Something like this.

Create c:\runit.bat

-----------------------

C:

CD "\Program files\GameEx"

GameEx.exe

C:

CD "\Program files\Sage"

sage.exe

----------------------

Tell sage to launch this batch file instead of GameEx.exe

You might need to play around a little.

[hieule91]

Hi Tom,

I'm building a MAME system and would like to use your GAMEEX front end tool because of its beautiful display. For the most part, everything running great. However, I'm getting the same error message and crash as evilpenquin. I don't run any SAGE program at all. Just straight from window XP. I'm trying to launch both MAME and GAMEEX with 1024x768 settings.

The crashes happened quite often and it has becoming kinda annoying when I was trying to show off the system to my cousins/friends this past weekend (just had it working last week). Happen about 3rd or 4th time I launch or quit any game with ESC key.

Please help me out. Sorry I have to email you since I can't seem to post/reply to any message even though I've created an account "hieule91" and logged it.

Thx

Hieu

Here is the log file:

23:36:34.8 3/27/2005: GameEx: Version 3.45: Starting Log

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Operating System Platform ID: Win32NT

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Operating System Version: 5.1

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Running Randomize()

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Running Misc startup tasks

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Hiding Cursor

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Opening Configuration File

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Getting Configuration Values

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Using Theme: Default - Video Fun

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Video Fun

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Applying Language/Text

23:36:34.9 3/27/2005: Launching HideOS.exe

23:36:35.6 3/27/2005: Hiding Taskbar

23:36:35.7 3/27/2005: Getting Original Screen Size

23:36:35.7 3/27/2005: Loading ICON

23:36:35.7 3/27/2005: Initializing Component

23:36:35.7 3/27/2005: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

23:36:35.7 3/27/2005: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

23:36:35.7 3/27/2005: Initialising DirectDraw

23:36:35.7 3/27/2005: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

23:36:35.8 3/27/2005: Creating DirectDraw Device

23:36:35.8 3/27/2005: Setting Resolution to 1024x768 32 bit color

23:36:37.0 3/27/2005: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces

23:36:37.0 3/27/2005: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

23:36:37.1 3/27/2005: Creating Back Buffer

23:36:37.1 3/27/2005: Loading graphic surfaces

23:36:39.0 3/27/2005: Creating Fonts

23:36:39.0 3/27/2005: Creating Menu Font

23:36:39.1 3/27/2005: Creating Game Font

23:36:39.2 3/27/2005: Creating Menu Font Standard Size

23:36:39.6 3/27/2005: Creating Font Black

23:36:39.7 3/27/2005: Creating Font Black Small

23:36:39.7 3/27/2005: Creating Game Font Faded

23:36:39.8 3/27/2005: Creating Title Font

23:36:40.1 3/27/2005: Initialising Windows Media Player Component

23:36:40.1 3/27/2005: HTML Apps is on, initialising Web Browser Component

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: MAME Path is: C:\mame\mame094b

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: daphne Path is: D:\Daphne

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: daphne EXE file is: Daphne.exe

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: Use daphne on. Daphne.exe will launch games

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: MAME EXE file is: mame.exe

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: ROM Paths are: D:\MAMEDATA\mame1\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame2\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame3\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame4\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame5\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame6\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame7\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame8\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame9\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame10\roms

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

23:36:40.2 3/27/2005: Loading Custom Emulators

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Snap Path is: C:\mame\mame094b\snap

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: AVI Snap Path is: C:\mame\mame_videos_shrunk

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Flyer Path is: C:\mame\mame094b\flyers

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Cabinet Path is: C:\mame\mame094b\cabinets

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Title Path is: C:\mame\mame094b\titles

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Panel Path is: C:\mame\mame094b\cpanel

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Icon Path is: C:\mame\mame094b\icons

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Marquee Path is: C:\mame\mame094b\marquees

23:36:40.3 3/27/2005: Attempting to load game list

23:36:40.4 3/27/2005: Loading last used Game List

23:36:40.6 3/27/2005: Initialising Bass Audio Library

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Loading music from Windows Media Player

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Error accessing Windows Media Player, check you are running Version 9 or above

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Turning off Jukebox

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Creating DirectSound Device

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Loading Sound Files

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Creating ICONS

23:36:40.8 3/27/2005: Restoring Cached ICONS from File

23:36:41.3 3/27/2005: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support

23:36:41.3 3/27/2005: Playing Startup Video

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Playing intro sound file

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Getting Tick count

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Checking for song change

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Front buffer exists?

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Surfaces need restore?

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Checking Joystick for input

23:36:42.8 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Drawing Background

23:36:42.9 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Drawing Logo

23:36:42.9 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Flipping Surfaces

23:36:42.9 3/27/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

23:37:09.9 3/27/2005: Running: cmd.exe /c C: C:\mame\mame094b\mame.exe mvsc -rompath D:\MAMEDATA\mame1\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame2\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame3\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame4\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame5\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame6\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame7\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame8\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame9\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame10\roms -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo -resolution 1280x768x32 -triplebuffer -nouse_bezels -nowindow -joy

23:40:32.5 3/27/2005: Running: cmd.exe /c C: C:\mame\mame094b\mame.exe mshu -rompath D:\MAMEDATA\mame1\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame2\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame3\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame4\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame5\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame6\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame7\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame8\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame9\roms;D:\MAMEDATA\mame10\roms -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo -resolution 1280x768x32 -triplebuffer -nouse_bezels -nowindow -joy

23:42:19.9 3/27/2005: 20 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Tom,

I'm building a MAME system and would like to use your GAMEEX front end tool because of its beautiful display.  For the most part, everything running great.  However, I'm getting the same error message and crash as evilpenquin.  I don't run any SAGE program at all.  Just straight from window XP.  I'm trying to launch both MAME and GAMEEX with 1024x768 settings.

Can you try using the latest version 3.47. If that does not work, just use the default theme and not the video one. I think it may be the newly implemented background video feature. Although it would be useful to me to know if I fixed this in version 3.47.

There is a link to 3.47 on the forum. It IS NOT a BETA version.

Please let us know your results.

[hieule91]

Can you try using the latest version 3.47. If that does not work, just use the default theme and not the video one. I think it may be the newly implemented background video feature. Although it would be useful to me to know if I fixed this in version 3.47.

There is a link to 3.47 on the forum. It IS NOT a BETA version.

Please let us know your results.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tom,

I tried it last night w/ version 3.47 and still got the same crash. I'll try again with the default theme

thx

Hieu

[mfallon]

Hi Tom,

firstly thanks for such a great product, love the features.

I too am getting the same problem, I have the latest version 3.48 but as with the last two versions I still get the 20 consecutive expections error.

I am only running mame, and am using the default layout.

Regards Michael

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Tom,

firstly thanks for such a great product, love the features.

I too am getting the same problem, I have the latest version 3.48 but as with the last two versions I still get the 20 consecutive expections error.

I am only running mame, and am using the default layout.

Regards Michael

Michael and hieule91.

Can you please replace GameEx.exe with the one in the attachment. Then post the log. You may need to zip it as it will be big.

This is a debug version of 3.48 that will run slow, but should hopefully log enough info to tell me where its going wrong.

Thanks,

Tom

GameEx.zip

[mfallon]

Michael and hieule91.

Can you please replace GameEx.exe with the one in the attachment. Then post the log. You may need to zip it as it will be big.

This is a debug version of 3.48 that will run slow, but should hopefully log enough info to tell me where its going wrong.

Thanks,

Tom

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tom,

here is a logfile with the crash, whilst this time the program crashed while I was viewing a cabinet picture, on previous occasions the crash has occurred straight after exiting a game.

[mfallon]

Michael and hieule91.

Can you please replace GameEx.exe with the one in the attachment. Then post the log. You may need to zip it as it will be big.

This is a debug version of 3.48 that will run slow, but should hopefully log enough info to tell me where its going wrong.

Thanks,

Tom

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tom,

here is a logfile with the crash, whilst this time the program crashed while I was viewing a cabinet picture, on previous occasions the crash has occurred straight after exiting a game.

[mfallon]

Michael and hieule91.

Can you please replace GameEx.exe with the one in the attachment. Then post the log. You may need to zip it as it will be big.

This is a debug version of 3.48 that will run slow, but should hopefully log enough info to tell me where its going wrong.

Thanks,

Tom

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tom,

here is a logfile with the crash, whilst this time the program crashed while I was viewing a cabinet picture, on previous occasions the crash has occurred straight after exiting a game.