GameEx Crash When Daphne Executable Not Found

[RedDog]

I noticed this the other day when I forgot to turn on the external drive I use for my emulators. The error log specifically calls it out. I found that if I disable Daphne in the Setup Wizard, the error does not occur.

Can anyone else confirm if this is happening for them?

log.txt:

 

12:52:42.5  8/15/2016:  Opening Configuration File
12:52:42.5  8/15/2016:  GameEx: Version 14.52: Starting Log
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 64-bit
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Aero running
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Initializing Vista/Windows 7 volume control
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Getting CPU and RAM info
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 450 @ 2.40GHz, 8173MB
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  2.39Ghz - 4 Cores or CPU's
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Running Randomize()
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Loading PlugIns
12:52:42.7  8/15/2016:  Loaded Plugin:"Virtual Drive Loader" Version 1.2.2 By Adultery
12:52:44.1  8/15/2016:  PlugIn: "Virtual Drive Loader" Initialized OK
12:52:44.1  8/15/2016:  Using Plugin System Version: 1.41
12:52:44.1  8/15/2016:  Loaded Plugin:"Function Logger" Version 1.0.6 By Adultery
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  PlugIn: "Function Logger" Initialized OK
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Using Plugin System Version: 1.41
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Checking for applications to Launch On Startup
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Launching and not waiting: D:\Games\GameEx\HiScore Updater\HiScoreUpdater -type 0 -mappath "D:\Games\GameEx\HiScore Updater\HiScore Competition.map"
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Setting default net connection limit to 15
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Running Misc startup tasks
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Setting Menu types
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Getting Configuration Values
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Using Theme: Sidebar - 1920x1080
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Sidebar - 1920x1080
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  GameEx will display on Secondary Device
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Initialising Video/MNG DLL's
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Is Media Center running?
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Checking/Creating LCD Registry values
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Media Center Mode 0
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Custom Game Device Input enabled: Getting custom codes
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Snap Delay set to: 6
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Get other settings
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Start work for Form
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Getting Original Screen Size
12:52:50.5  8/15/2016:  Opening Database Connection
12:52:50.7  8/15/2016:  Initializing Component
12:52:50.8  8/15/2016:  MAME Path is: E:\Emulation\Mame\mame0161b_64bit
12:52:50.8  8/15/2016:  Cannot Find MAME Path: MAME Disabled
12:52:50.8  8/15/2016:  daphne Path is: E:\Emulation\Daphne
12:52:50.8  8/15/2016:  Cannot Find daphne Path
12:52:50.8  8/15/2016:  Closing database connection
12:52:50.8  8/15/2016:  Disposing Plugins
12:52:50.8  8/15/2016:  GameEx is exiting with errors
12:52:50.9  8/15/2016:  Deleting search cache
12:52:50.9  8/15/2016:  ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING
12:52:51.1  8/15/2016:  Bye

GameEx.ini

[DazzleHP]

Hey RedDog,

Looking at the log, both MAME and Daphne are kicking up errors, both in regards to your "E:" drive.

This can be the result of a few things unfortunately.

1. Did you use an external drive when setting up GameEx?

2. If so, is it plugged in now and working?

3. Did you manually give this drive a letter ie M: O: or X: for example?

 

If not, i would suggest powering it up before booting GameEx, assigning the drive a letter  (given the circumstances i would assign "E:"), restart Windows then restart GameEx.

 

[RedDog]

1 hour ago, DazzleHP said:

1. Did you use an external drive when setting up GameEx?

2. If so, is it plugged in now and working?

3. Did you manually give this drive a letter ie M: O: or X: for example?

Hay Dazzle,

1. Yes, I use an external drive for everything related to GameEx except for the GameEx install and PC Games (ie it contains roms, snaps, titles, videos, emulators, etc).

2. If Daphne is enabled in the Setup Wizard and the drive is not operational (unpowered/unplugged/whatever), GameEx will crash in the way I posted above.

2b. If the Daphne is disabled in the Setup Wizard and the drive is not operational (unpowered/unplugged/whatever), GameEx will not crash. Instead, it will load with all of the emulator options greyed out. I only started working on setting up Daphne recently and did not encounter this issue until the first time I forgot to turn on my drive. It was at that point that I did some troubleshooting that lead me to conclude that Daphne's missing path was causing the crash.

3. No, I did not manually assign a drive letter to the external drive...but I am aware of the pratfalls of using an external drive with the gameex.ini that has static paths. I can say that this issue is not related to drive assignment mismatch. Also, I have done reboots on the off chance that it was some wierd glitch. Same result. I should also mention that I have been using this setup for about a year with no problems with other emulators.

 

Also, I do want to be clear that I reported this issue in the event that it is also an issue for other users. I am not worried about fixing this on my rig if it's only a one-off. I just want our lovely GameEx to work well.  

[RedDog]

Hey Dazzle,

Maybe try this. Enable Daphne on your setup (if you haven't), clear the 'Daphne Path', and run GameEx. Does it crash for you?

[RedDog]

OK, after further testing it appears that the Daphne path itself is not to blame. When GameEx attempts to confirm the existence of the Daphne executable, if it cannot do so because of a filename mismatch or an incorrect Daphne Path, then GameEx crashes.

I tested this on two different mahcines.

I changed the title of this thread to reflect this.

 

[RedDog]

Just wanted to bump this to see if anyone else can replicate.