2 bugs (or 2 things I couldnt find info on)

[Atari800]

Hi there

GAMEEX is awesome and does everything I want it to do except I noticed a couple of things when transferring my system to a more powerful system

#1 If there is NO c: - the attract mode does not work correctly

The next launch of a video game or vide or pressing escape exits GAMEEX out to OS - the first game in attract mode works, just touching button or joystick will boot you out

I know I am 1/10th of 1 percent that does nto have a C: drive

But if anyone is running into this , map a network drive to your windows drive and map to the letter C:

This seems to fix it

AKA something is hardcoded to an expected drive of C: some where in the attract mode routine

#2 Again releated to attract mode - something happened to videos

Only mpg1 videos will play in attract mode and no mpg2 videos

*unless random is only picking mp1 videos each time .....theres a joke in there

Now I went from Windows 2003 server, 2.8 ghz, 1gig or Ram with NVidia Geforce 5200

to a Windows 2003 Server, 3.06 Ghz HT, 1 gig of Ram with NVidia Geforce 6800

so other than speed (and hyperthreading) the machines are about the same

Except on the 3.06 machine Windows boots from G: drive where as the 2.8 booted from C:

Now I turned overlays on and off and about every compination of settings with in Media Player ...just to try something...but I am stumped

It *smells* like a real C: drive may need to be there - maybe for scratch pad reasons and maybe a network drive isnt fast enough for *whatever* it is doing to prepare for an MPG2 video to play

I am running low on disk space and need to add anothter drive here pretty soon and I can force it to be C: but if the C: drive isnt the case and WINDOWS also need to be resident on C:, I'd like to know that so I can do some juggling of mass amounts of data or reinstall Windows on that C drive...or something

Any clues,ideas, facts, or theories are welcomed

/|\tari800

[hansolo77]

Thats a hard thing to diagnose. I have a C: drive, but my ROMS and EMULATORS and GAMEEX are all stored on D:. When I'm running GameEx, I'm never accessing anything on C:. So if I'm reading your problem correctly, you shouldn't have any problems, as I do not. I run the screensaver all the time. It gives me ideas of some new games to play. I don't have it set to play the videos though. I have all the videos for MAME, and they play fine, I just don't like having them in the screensaver because they're usually LOUD and too short.

So, what could your problem be then? It might be a codec problem. Or maybe your files got corrupted. It's hard to say. Sorry I couldn't be of much help, but it's further narrowing down your problem by process of elimination.

[Atari800]

Thanks for any reply

I was thinking CODEC as well but the videos play if I migrate to them within GAMEEX

*I am not ruling codecs out at all - could be some voodoo thing

Now if I set attract mode to play video games only

and C: does not exist (not mapped to G:)

and attract mode kicks in - the 1st video game in attract mode will play

after 2 minutes it tries to load the next one...it just exists out to the OS

If C: is there (mapped to G:)

the attract mode works normally

(well for video games only that is)

Does anyone know of some setting to activate some advanced logging or tracing so maybe something behind the scenes can be spotted?

Even if log/trace files grow at a fanominal rate...I just need it on for about 5 minutes

TIA

/|\tari800

[Atari800]

Well I got the videos working in attract mode

FFDSHOW wasnt installed <----CODEC

Great work there hansolo77

Bascially I just installed the latest NVIDIA drivers (99.83) and latest FFDSHOW(2006-05-26)

But I am 100% percent sure it was FFDSHOW because I tried all the NVIDIA drivers already

*This time I was making a list of all the versions of drivers I was trying

The C: Drive existance still is an issue...

But 50% of my problem is solved

[Adultery]

I also find that interesting - I run GameEx mosty on my N: drive (since I got alot of external / internal HDs and DVD-Rs and such) and GameEx isn't even physically installed on my C: drive. I do HAVE a C: drive though, so that may be why I don't have any problems. Not sure.

Did you try doing a fresh GameEx install? Sometimes that's the best medicine.

Hope that helps!