Game EX Random background switching...

[Riffman81]

Ok, so I've been a happy Game EX user for about 6 months! It's simply a beautiful front-end, with easy setup, and supports a massive amount of content... I simply can't say enough great things about it! All my emulators are working flawlessly with no problems at all. With that said, the problem I'm having is that sometimes when I select a system from the emulator list... let's say SNES, the background will sometimes revert back to a default background, rather then using the custom one included in the theme I'm currently using. I then have to exit out of the game list and return to the emulator list, then re-enter the game list and the correct background shows up. I'm using Crylen's Aeon Inspiriat theme, but this happens with any theme I use that uses different backs for each system/emulator... So I'm not sure it's a problem with the theme or something not right with my setup??

I'm running Game EX on a Windows 7 Prox64 Intel i5 system. I've updated my DirectX and video drivers with no luck on fixing the issue. I'm using the stock Intel GFX currently, and as I said, my emulators and games work fine. Also, sometimes upon starting Game EX, it will crash and report a DirectX error, but this is very rare... any idea's?

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[Riffman81]

Anyone have any idea's as to why this happens?

[Draco1962]

You could try deleting the files with cache in the file name or extension in the \Gameex\DATA folder. These will rebuild. One question - Are you using Custom Menus or the default menus for GameEx?

Additionally, I noticed something in the setup for Wii in your gameex.ini:

emu_16_custombackground=Theme_Background_Nintendo Wii_Foreground.png

Anything with _Foreground.png in the file name will invoke a foreground image, not a background image. This will cause the system to load a default image in the background for that system.

[Riffman81]

I'm using the default menus for GameEx. I fixed the custom background theme for Wii, I simply chose the foreground.png by mistake instead of the theme background. I'll try deleting the cache files in the gameEx/DATA folder. Will reprot back. Thanks Draco.

[Riffman81]

Deleted all the cache files, ran GameEx again with no luck fixing my issue. GameEx started fine, but crashed the moment I chose an emulator....

Log.txt

[Riffman81]

Excuse the bump, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea's on something I could try to resolve this?

[Adultery]

I see this from time to time too, it's not frequent enough to bother me. But what happens is it goes to black for a few seconds and the default emulator.png shows up, right?

[Riffman81]

I see this from time to time too, it's not frequent enough to bother me. But what happens is it goes to black for a few seconds and the default emulator.png shows up, right?

Yes. So I was wondering if maybe I had something in my setup that needed to be reconfigured? If it's just a "bug" in GameEX, than I suppose there isn't anything I can do to fix it. It wasn't happening all that frequent, but now that I have GameEX shelled, it seems to happen more frequently, and that's a real pain having to breakout the keyboard and mouse to start a new task everytime lol!