Game EX launches to black screen (Sometimes)

**massop** · April 29, 2016

Good evening people.

I have a very peculiar problem, and I need somehelp

Sometimes when I launch game EX I get a black screen. I can hear the Game EX intro music but after that I am not even able to hear the curser move when I try to navigate blind. Also the ESC key does not work, I have to literally CTRL+ALT+DEL and end task via task manager to exit game EX.

log

00:18:17.5 30/04/2016: Opening Configuration File
00:18:17.5 30/04/2016: GameEx: Version 14.40: Starting Log
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Aero running
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Initializing Vista/Windows 7 volume control
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Getting CPU and RAM info
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4785T CPU @ 2.20GHz, 8143MB
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: 2.19Ghz - 8 Cores or CPU's
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Running Randomize()
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Loading PlugIns
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Loaded Plugin:"Virtual Drive Loader" Version 1.2.1 By Adultery
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: PlugIn: "Virtual Drive Loader" Initialized OK
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Using Plugin System Version: 1.41
00:18:17.6 30/04/2016: Loaded Plugin:"Xpadder Plugin" Version 1.3.5 By Adultery
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: PlugIn: "Xpadder Plugin" Initialized OK
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Using Plugin System Version: 1.41
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Setting default net connection limit to 15
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Running Misc startup tasks
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Setting Menu types
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Getting Configuration Values
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Using Theme: Sidebar 1920x1080
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Sidebar 1920x1080
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Launching HideOS.exe
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: GameEx will check for media insertion (may affect performance)
00:18:17.7 30/04/2016: Hiding Taskbar
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Is Media Center running?
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Media Center Mode 2
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Custom Game Device Input enabled: Getting custom codes
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Snap Delay set to: 7
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Get other settings
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Start work for Form
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Getting Original Screen Size
00:18:17.8 30/04/2016: Opening Database Connection
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: Initializing Component
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: MAME Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: Model 2 Path Path is: E:\Games\emulated\Model 2
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: Multi Core/Hyper Threading detected. Looking for emulator_multicpu.exe
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: Model 2 EXE file is: emulator_multicpu.exe
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: Model 2 emulator with command line support detected
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: Use Model 2 on. emulator_multicpu.exe will launch Sega Model 2 games
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: MAME EXE file is: mameui64.exe
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: ROM Path is: E:\Games\roms\Mame\New ROMs
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: Catver.ini is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini
00:18:17.9 30/04/2016: controls.ini is located at: C:\GameEx\data\controls.ini
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: History.dat is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\history.dat
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: command.dat is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\command.dat
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Loading Controls.ini map file
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Snap Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64\snap
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Database Snap Path: Not Found
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Background Snap Path: Not Found
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: AVI Snap Path is: E:\Games\Images & Video\Arcade Collections\MAME [Videos][MP4][480p][MAME .148][EM 20130306]
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Flyer Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64\flyers
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Cabinet Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64\cabinets
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Cabinet 3D Path: Not Found
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Title Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64\titles
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: PCB Path: Not Found
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Artwork Preview Path: Not Found
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Panel Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64\cpanel
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Manual Path: Not Found
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Icon Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64\icons
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Marquee Path is: E:\Games\emulated\MAME UI64\MameUI64\marquees
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Applying Language/Text
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Text/Language: English
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Loading Language/Text
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Using 3D Alpha Blended Animations.
00:18:18.0 30/04/2016: Retrieving resolution setting
00:18:18.1 30/04/2016: Using General Font: Agency FB
00:18:18.1 30/04/2016: Using Title Font: Impact
00:18:18.1 30/04/2016: Initialising Direct3D
00:18:18.2 30/04/2016: Applying GameEx is Loading Image
00:18:18.3 30/04/2016: Setting Resolution to 1920x1080 32 bit color
00:18:18.3 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Creating Back Buffer
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading.
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Loading Button Data
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Loading Font Data
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Loading Layout Data
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Loading Taskbar Data
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Loading graphic Surfaces
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Display is running at: 1920x1080 32bit color, 60hz
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
00:18:18.4 30/04/2016: Max texture size: 16384x16384
00:18:18.5 30/04/2016: Available texture memory: -24MB
00:18:18.5 30/04/2016: Initialising Bass Audio Library
00:18:18.5 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Volume
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Arrows
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Toolbar
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo
00:18:18.6 30/04/2016: Creating Surface Unselected
00:18:18.7 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Snaps
00:18:18.7 30/04/2016: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars
00:18:18.7 30/04/2016: Creating Fonts
00:18:18.7 30/04/2016: Creating Game Font
00:18:19.0 30/04/2016: Creating Game Font Faded
00:18:19.3 30/04/2016: Creating Title Font
00:18:19.4 30/04/2016: Restoring Title Font From Cache
00:18:19.4 30/04/2016: Creating Font Black
00:18:19.4 30/04/2016: Creating Font Black Small
00:18:19.5 30/04/2016: Fonts Created Succesfully
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Initial Emulator Load
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Loading Custom Emulators
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 7: [Handheld] Atari Lynx (Handy)
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 17: [Console] Nintendo N64 (Project64)
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 18: [Console] Nintendo NES (Nestopia)
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 19: [Console] Nintendo GameCube (Dolphin)
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 21: [Console] Nintendo Wii (Dolphin)
00:18:19.7 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 22: [Console] NEC TurboGrafx-16 (MagicEngine)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 23: [Console] Sony Playstation (ePSXe)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 24: [Console] Sony Playstation 2 (PCSX2)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 27: [Handheld] Sega Game Gear (Fusion)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 28: [Console] Sega Master System (Fusion)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 29: [Console] Sega Genesis (Fusion)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 32: [Console] Nintendo SNES (ZSNES)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 38: [Console] Sega Saturn (SSF)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 40: [Console] Sega 32X (Fusion)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 47: [Console] Sega Dreamcast (nullDC)
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Loading Emulator 48: [Arcade] Taito Type X
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Checking if Steam enabled
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Steam is installed correctly
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Base Install Folder: c:/program files (x86)/steam
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Tomb Raider. AppID=203160. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Awesomenauts. AppID=204300. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Awesomenauts
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. AppID=212480. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: THE KING OF FIGHTERS '98 ULTIMATE MATCH FINAL EDITION. AppID=222420. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The King of Fighters'98 Ultimate Match
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH. AppID=222440. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION. AppID=222940. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\King of Fighters XIII
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Bleed. AppID=239800. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Bleed
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Shovel Knight. AppID=250760. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Shovel Knight
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: TowerFall Ascension. AppID=251470. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TowerFall
00:18:19.8 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: GRID Autosport. AppID=255220. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GRID Autosport
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Broforce. AppID=274190. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Broforce
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: NOT A HERO. AppID=274270. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Not a Hero
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Street Fighter V. AppID=310950. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\StreetFighterV
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: GRID 2. AppID=44350. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\grid 2
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Found Steam Game: Portal 2. AppID=620. Location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Portal 2
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Found Steam games. Steam enabled.
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Checking if Origin enabled
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Cannot find origin executable
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Checking if Uplay enabled
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Cannot find UPlay executable
00:18:19.9 30/04/2016: Attempting to load game list
00:18:20.2 30/04/2016: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo
00:18:20.2 30/04/2016: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support
00:18:20.2 30/04/2016: Unable to create a joystick device
00:18:20.2 30/04/2016: Loading Start Page
00:18:20.2 30/04/2016: Initializing MCE Remote
00:18:20.2 30/04/2016: Playing intro sound file
00:18:20.3 30/04/2016: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!
00:18:20.3 30/04/2016: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame
00:18:21.3 30/04/2016: [XPADDER PLUGIN] Xpadder Plugin (1.3.5) Initialized successfully!
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Exiting GameEx!
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Disposing all videos
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Deleting temporary Karaoke videos
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Disposing Image List
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Disposing Fonts
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Disposing Surfaces
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Saving Settings
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Saving Settings
00:18:38.0 30/04/2016: Shutting down Bass
00:18:38.1 30/04/2016: Closing HideOS.exe
00:18:38.2 30/04/2016: Disposing Plugins
00:18:38.3 30/04/2016: Disposing Plugins
00:18:38.3 30/04/2016: Closing database connection
00:18:38.3 30/04/2016: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit
00:18:38.3 30/04/2016: Bye

The odd thing is this happens randomly per boot, as in the only way to get it to work is to restart my PC until it works.

I did a forum search and found nothing related.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

**tthurman** · April 30, 2016

I've experienced this, and I after using task manager to kill the process a couple times, I just decided to just let it go one day. I'm pretty sure I went down and had breakfast, but the sounds where still there even though the screen was frozen. When I returned, it was running as normal. I have no idea what caused it to delay like this, and I've perhaps experienced this on a couple more occasions. For lack of a better solution, you may want to just wait it out, and if it comes up, change your theme, exit GameEx, shutdown and cold boot. This was several months back, but that's what I did, and I've not seen this issue since.

I'm still on 8.1 on my GameEx rig, not 10, but these two OS's are close enough to share something odd that may be causing this randomly. Regardless, even though it's a bit of a shot in the dark, it's a pretty easy one to give a go!

Good luck!

**massop** · May 1, 2016

I Updated to the latest version of Game EX and for now I can say the problem has not occurred again.

I will leave this thread open for a little longer incase it re-emerges.

On a sidenote, Iwas unable to get gameex autoupdate to work so I did it manually. Is the below page the place I use to enable autoupdate? (by putting in my username & password)

**Kustom Kid** · May 1, 2016

There's another section that asks if you want to auto update. I believe it's a few screens before this one, but I'm not at home to check.

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