HideOS running despite hide desktop disabled

[stigzler]

Permission to shoot me as I'm probably missing something really obvious. I have "Hide Desktop" set to No in Display settings, yet HIdeOS is still running on game launch. Searched through settings, can't find any others to trigger HideOS. I'm sure I've asked this before, but can't find the thread. 

Any ideas? Papers attached. 

GameEx.ini

Theme.ini

[Draco1962]

I can vouch for this happening on my setup as well.

[Tom Speirs]

There is no setting to completely disable hideos.exe from launching. What exactly is the issue? Deleting the exe will work.

[Draco1962]

In some events where I have had a game abend unexpectedly,  I was unable to gain control, as if all focus was lost and a black screen was displayed.  The only option was to shutdown. The log.txt file does not show anything useful. 

[Tom Speirs]

To close HideOS just alt tab to it and press ALT-F4. If you don't want it to show for an emulator set the option to show desktop for that emulator. No offence but taking that into consideration - what you said does not apply to hideos.exe specifically.

 

 

[Draco1962]

I am not running anything other than integrated support for MAME,  the online services, and Gamebase. When the black screen occurs, it is a toss up if I can get alt tab to even work.

[stigzler]

On mine, both Hide Desktop set to No and Show Desktop set to Yes for specific Emu. However, GE still seems to run HideOS between GameLaunch and Emu start. A process/focus map:

15:05:07-50 [P] 14380 | 0792074 | ProcMessage | GameEx
15:05:11-55 [H] 14380 | 1776556 | GameEx|Playing:|Tai Fu - Wrath of the Tiger|57/60| | GameEx
15:05:12-03 [X] NO FOREGROUND WINDOW
15:05:12-61 [P] 11792 | 1251386 | GameExHideOS | HideOS
15:05:12-78 [P] 13280 | 1383390 | Focus Spy | FocusMonitor.vshost
15:05:13-60 [P] 09096 | 1776630 | PCSXR | pcsxr
15:05:14-81 [T] 09096 | 1776630 | PCSXR | State 0 | pcsxr

ignore "Focus Spy" - that's the process logging the active window/process. 

My worry about deleting the HideOS file is that it'd be re-installed on update. Wonder if any way to have global setting "disable HideOS" or whether this'd be a ball ache? Could easily knock together a script to check for and delete the exe on GE startup, I suppose. 

Bet it feels like "small beer" in comparison to getting Evo ready + out!