GameEx autoupdate issues anyone?

[Deadly]

I just recently had the chance to fire my cabinet up which was probably a couple revs behind on GameEx. The autoupdate kicked on....took a LONG time to update but finally finished. Let me mention I have 8 meg down 768 up soo that's not the issue. GameEx tried to restart and bombed out with "GameEx performed an illegal option blah blah." I rebooted and tried again same thing. I downloaded the latest version of GameEx and installed it and it worked fine. I just now had a house full of people show up and wanted to play the arcade. I tried firring up GameEx and the autoupdate kicked on. Yet again taking for ever to update and then causing that error again. Sorry I don't have the exact error but I was embarrased that my pride and joy was crapping out in front of my friends ANYWAY again I had to install the latest GameEx and it worked again. So my question is this....why in the heck is this stupid thing trying to update if I have the supposive latest? Is Tom pumping snapshots down the pike or what? Secondly I disabled the autoupdate to prevent this from happening again. This system has a completely fresh Media Center 2005 load and the latest and greatest GameEx. I have had NO problems until this latest GameEx got pushed.

Thanks!

[Tom Speirs]

I just recently had the chance to fire my cabinet up which was probably a couple revs behind on GameEx. The autoupdate kicked on....took a LONG time to update but finally finished. Let me mention I have 8 meg down 768 up soo that's not the issue. GameEx tried to restart and bombed out with "GameEx performed an illegal option blah blah." I rebooted and tried again same thing. I downloaded the latest version of GameEx and installed it and it worked fine. I just now had a house full of people show up and wanted to play the arcade. I tried firring up GameEx and the autoupdate kicked on. Yet again taking for ever to update and then causing that error again. Sorry I don't have the exact error but I was embarrased that my pride and joy was crapping out in front of my friends ANYWAY again I had to install the latest GameEx and it worked again. So my question is this....why in the heck is this stupid thing trying to update if I have the supposive latest? Is Tom pumping snapshots down the pike or what? Secondly I disabled the autoupdate to prevent this from happening again. This system has a completely fresh Media Center 2005 load and the latest and greatest GameEx. I have had NO problems until this latest GameEx got pushed.

Thanks!

Sorry about that, there was a bug in earlier versions (and everyone here knows earlier versions can mean a couple of weeks ) that caused auto update not to work correctly, and crash when updating to the latest version exactly as happened to you. This was because the install was not getting time to finish and certain files were not being installed required by the latest version causing it to crash when ran. The fix for this is to do a manual install and download from the web site like you did. There 'should' be no more problems after that, but I'm guessing somehow the update got cached on your PC or by your ISP, unless there is something else I need to fix but I don't think so. If the problem persists please let me know, and can you double check in the log what version is actually installed?

Again sorry it crapped out on you.

Thanks,

Tom.

[Deadly]

Sorry about that, there was a bug in earlier versions (and everyone here knows earlier versions can mean a couple of weeks ) that caused auto update not to work correctly, and crash when updating to the latest version exactly as happened to you. This was because the install was not getting time to finish and certain files were not being installed required by the latest version causing it to crash when ran. The fix for this is to do a manual install and download from the web site like you did. There 'should' be no more problems after that, but I'm guessing somehow the update got cached on your PC or by your ISP, unless there is something else I need to fix but I don't think so. If the problem persists please let me know, and can you double check in the log what version is actually installed?

Again sorry it crapped out on you.

Thanks,

Tom.

I just like using the phrase crapped out is all I'll post back if any more issues.