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[RESOLVED] Issues With Latest Update (12.92)

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gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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I'm sad to report that this latest update is wreaking havoc with my setup. My computer boots into GameEx. Aside from my main monitor, I have a monitor for my marquee and one in my control panel. I launch Marquee Magician upon startup of a game to display artwork in those two monitors. Prior to 12.92, MM would load the artwork fairly quickly, usually before the emulator started running the game. Now, when I launch a game, the emulator will come up quickly and MM will take forever to load the artwork. Unfortunately, during the time that MM is doing its thing, the main monitor will go black with only the sound from the emulator coming thru. And in some instances, the emulator will actually minimize. Could this be a side effect of the new caching system? One other thing I've noticed about this issue is that after I exit out of GameEx, it's not running explorer.exe to bring up my desktop. I've attached my ini and log files to help with any triage.

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Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Without looking, it sounds like your issue is actually more related to Marquee Magician... Like it's stealing focus and slow to load. I'll peek at the log but aside from focus loss (which as my recent experience with Xpadder taught me) the slightest trigger can cause GameEx to lose focus. Anyhow, this really doesn't sound like a GameEx issue to me. :(

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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But wouldn't this have been an issue all along? Or is it possible that the latest changes in GameEx could have made it more susceptible to having the focus stolen?

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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It does sound like it may not be directly related to the update but emulators now often load quicker with this release so it may be some kind of timing problem with the other applications.

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Is my only recourse to go back to the previous version of GameEx then? Unfortunately Marquee Magician is really my only option for displaying artwork on the additional monitors...

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

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I would post in Tempest's Marquee Magician thread and ask if he'd look at it for ya. ;)

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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There are other things you can do. You could try launching mm from a batch file and adding a little app that makes it pause after launching such as sleep.exe included with GameEx.

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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I will ask Tempest about MM stealing focus. If nothing can be done about that program, I will consider the batch file option with delay that Tom mentioned. In the meanwhile, would I be able to get a copy of the previous version of GameEx.exe so I can swap that in and go back to when everything was working ok? LMK. Thx!

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Unfortunately we don't keep old builds around. :(

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Wow! That's a bummer. Basically I won't be able to display artwork on those extra monitors until I find a solution to this problem. I looked at creating a .bat file to run MM. But I'm not sure how I can pass the variables of the template name and rom name to MM when the .bat file runs. Any thoughts?

Draco1962 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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I would definitely recommend reaching out to Tempest regarding the MM plugin to see if he can address for you.

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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I have. But I'm not sure if MM can be changed to resolve this issue. I guess I just wanted to prepare for the worst case scenario that it can't be...

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gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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I figured out what my issue was here and I'm happy to report it was not Marquee Magician or GameEx. I had foolishly updated the program that Marquee Magician uses to display images awhile back. That program is IrfanView and I went from 4.32 to 4.33 to stay current. Well, it appears that the newest version of that program makes the images load significantly slower than the previous one. This long loading time interferes with the emulator load and caused the emulator to be minimized. I restored version 4.32 and the images load extremely fast thus preventing any interference with the emulator. Unfortunately, it took a lot of frustration and a complete uninstall of GameEx to figure this out. I guess what they say is true: 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Lessons learned here. LOL! :)

GimmeClassics GameEx God (Top Rank)

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@ gamepimp: i am also planning to build a cabinet in the near future.

Could you perhaps post a link to Marquee Magician 4.32?

And i understood you have a secondary screen for your cab's marquee: could you perhaps upload a photo of your cab and/or post a link of a custom made cab using such a screen.

I'd also like to know how you have to set this up / how you have accomplished this?

Thanks!

Draco1962 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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I believe he was referring to IrfranView 4.32. Marquee Magician 2.1 can be found here.

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