Theme background flash between switching games

[igotnothing123]

I'm fairly new to GameEx and have been trying to figure out an issue I've been having. I'm sure others have seen this, but I have not been able to find reference on it.

The problem I have is when I switch between games, if the two games I am switching between both have their own background file, during the switch between games I see the theme background flash momentarily before the background for the next game comes up.

Any ideas? I've tried this on 3 different computers, one of which is a Core i7 with 6GB of RAM. Am I missing a setting in GameEX somewhere or is this a known issue?

Thanks!

[Draco1962]

Welcome to the forums. To better help you out, please upload a copy of your gameex.ini and log.txt files. Thanks!

[igotnothing123]

Thanks for responding. I attached the files you requested. This was off my Core 2 Duo computer, but I get the same effect on my Core i7 computer. If it helps, the backgrounds, artwork, snaps, etc. that I have were downloaded directly from Emumovies.com.

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[Draco1962]

I think what you are experiencing may be view and/or theme-specific. There is almost always going to be a slight lag between the unloading of a snap and the loading of the next. In the mean time, GameEx will try to display the default background image for the theme selected.

You may need to tinker a bit with the Change View options. While it may be preferable to have the individual snap appear in the background it is not optimal (I am assuming the game image in the background is from the actual game snap and not from the theme itself).

[igotnothing123]

Thanks. I've tried different themes and it didn't seem to change anything. You are indeed correct, it is the delay between the current background snap for a game and the next background snap at which point you can see the theme background. As you suggest, I'll play around a bit with it. I'm not sure how it is coded, but it may be nice for a future improvement to see if GameEX can load the game previews in to frames; it could be tweaked to load the next game info into a overlay frame and then drop the old frame, which might make it more seamless if someone is using background snaps (and if the new game doesn't have a background snap, revert to a transparent background where you will see the theme background).

[Tom Speirs]

I noticed this or something similar too the other day. Its in effect when certain views are in use. I will look at it.