Can i Restart Gameex If problem occurs?

[MameDownUnder]

Hi All

is there anyway i can hack windows to poll and check to see if gameex is running?, if not, restart it

I mean on the very odd occation gameex crashes, especially when im not there and the people that use it has no idea how to fix it (or even start gameex)

so if it does fail for some reason or another, i would like it to restart within lets say 30 seconds

Thanks

Neil

http://www.mamedownunder.com.au/

[Tom Speirs]

Hi All

is there anyway i can hack windows to poll and check to see if gameex is running?, if not, restart it

I mean on the very odd occation gameex crashes, especially when im not there and the people that use it has no idea how to fix it (or even start gameex)

so if it does fail for some reason or another, i would like it to restart within lets say 30 seconds

Thanks

Neil

http://www.mamedownunder.com.au/

Its fairly easy to keep running GameEx if its not loaded by just setting up a batch file that loops, but not to easy to tell if it is crashed even with a custom exe to do that. It really shouldnt crash if its setup properly. What sort of crashes are you getting? Or are you talking about emulators crashes?

Run notepad.

Paste in this:

cd "c:\program files\gameex\"

"c:\program files\gameex\gameex.exe"

call gameex.bat

Select Save as, Select All file types and save gameex.bat in c:\program files\gameex

Then run gameex.bat instead of gameex.exe

[bboysnj]

Its fairly easy to keep running GameEx if its not loaded by just setting up a batch file that loops, but not to easy to tell if it is crashed even with a custom exe to do that. It really shouldnt crash if its setup properly. What sort of crashes are you getting? Or are you talking about emulators crashes?

Run notepad.

Paste in this:

cd "c:\program files\gameex\"

"c:\program files\gameex\gameex.exe"

call gameex.bat

Select Save as, Select All file types and save gameex.bat in c:\program files\gameex

Then run gameex.bat instead of gameex.exe

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Tom - 'nother member here chiming in. Thanks so much for all the support!

Could you explain what running GameEx as .bat will do, as opposed to .exe? Sorry - not system savvy and I'm having similar issues with things freezing as I scroll through the game list. In my case, however, ctrl-alt-delete doesn't even respond, and I tend to have to reboot (I have GameEx in startup and it goes right back to the app no prob.) It sometimes freezes in attract mode on videos as well.

THANKS TOM!

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Tom - 'nother member here chiming in.  Thanks so much for all the support!

Could you explain what running GameEx as .bat will do, as opposed to .exe?  Sorry - not system savvy and I'm having similar issues with things freezing as I scroll through the game list.  In my case, however, ctrl-alt-delete doesn't even respond, and I tend to have to reboot (I have GameEx in startup and it goes right back to the app no prob.)  It sometimes freezes in attract mode on videos as well.

THANKS TOM!

This sounds like it could be the codecs your using, which is? Either that or GameEx has an issue playing too many videos, I'm assuming you have video snaps as probably the other report has?

Its not running as .bat its a seperate file altogether from gameex.exe also called gameex. A bat file is a batch file, its like an old fashioned script. It can be launched like an exe. GameEx uses batch files to launch emulators.

[MameDownUnder]

next time gameex crashes, ill take a screenshot, i mean it happens very rarely that i hadnt bothered

with the gameex.bat, how will it poll, to restart?

Neil

http://www.mamedownunder.com.au/

[Tom Speirs]

next time gameex crashes, ill take a screenshot, i mean it happens very rarely that i hadnt bothered

with the gameex.bat, how will it poll, to restart?

Yes, please help me fix any bugs.

It doesnt do anything like polling, Its just a loop that keeps running GameEx. Everytime GameEx exits it restarts it.

It would be kind of crazy for me to code a crash system, and i'm not going to do it. The idea in software is to fix the bugs that cause the crashes!!

To me this is all a little crazy talk, but I do understand where your coming from.

Tom.