[RESOLVED] GameEx Crashing During Startup

[sty151]

Hello,

I'm not sure what I did but GameEx will not start up. It drops back to Windows before I see anything (black screen) with an error message (included as attachment). I was trying to get Visual Pinball to work and was working with the wizard. I tried to get GameEx to launch pinball tables and was very close when I had to take a break. After a week or so I came back, fired up my cabinet and GameEx and started receiving this error. I don't think I did anything in between with the computer or Windows. I manually updated to the latest version and I've attached my log and ini file.

As always your help is appreciated,

sty151

GameEx.ini

log.txt

Windows Error Message.txt

[nullPointer]

Errors like this are always a bit tricky since they are often related to OS, hardware, and/or drivers. First thing I would recommend would be to reinstall GameEx. You can install directly to your current installation directory, and it will not overwrite your settings.

I'm also curious about that theme as it's not one I'm familiar with. Does this error occur regardless of your theme selection?

Lastly there are the standard driver questions. Are your Drivers up to date and behaving nicely?

[sty151]

Good news. I got GameEx working. Bad news, technology has made me look like a boob again. While I had checked to make sure Windows and GameEx was up to date after nullPointer's help I double checked. And while everything still showed no problems when I told Windows to check for updates it said automatic updates were turned off. They weren't, but when I did turn them off my anti-virus software (AVG), popped up saying it needed to restart to update. After that Windows could update, and there were quite a few, and then flash wanted to update. Apparently they were all holding each other back but telling me all was fine.

I don't know if this will help anyone else but thanks for your suggestion nullPointer.

[nullPointer]

Glad you got everything sorted out sty151, and it was a nice bit of detective work on your part as well!