shroud Posted October 6, 2017 Posted October 6, 2017 This is another problem I've had for ages, and never figured out how to fix... MAME games work fine when I launch them from GameEx in window mode, but the screen is all black when I start them from GameEx in fullscreen. I tried with and without either "-window" or "-bezel" in the MAME command line, and I tried with and without the "Don't use bezels" option, but it's always the same. It doesn't matter if the game is vertical or horizontal. Does this problem ring a bell to anyone? (attached are my latest log.txt and GameEx.ini files).
Draco1962 Posted October 6, 2017 Posted October 6, 2017 Might be something addressed in one of the subsequent versions to what you have installed at present. Let's take a look after you upgrade to the latest version of GameEx, OK?
RedDog Posted October 6, 2017 Posted October 6, 2017 I did some testing with shroud's config on my setup and was able to get the same issue in 14.96. It looks to be related to HideOS. When Display Settings > Window/Full Screen is set to Full Screen and Display Settings > Hide Desktop is set to NO, HideOS.exe will still launch when a Mame game is launched. The screen stays black and MAME sits in the background not in focus. Note, I did not do an other emulator testing. I renamed HideOS.exe in the GameEx directory and things ran ok then. I am really surprised I was able to replicate this issue. I would not think that something like this would slipped through the cracks between the 14.03 and 14.94 release. I mean, we should have had a lot of complaints. Maybe it is some combination of things that makes it happen. Anyway, attached is my GameEx.ini and several log.txt files from the testing. @shroud you may be ok holding of on upgrading for the moment...but renaming HideOS.exe is certainly a quick fix for the time being. @Tom Speirs Hey Tom, could you look over this one? log - HideOS disabled - HideOS renamed.txt log - HideOS disabled.txt log - HideOS enabled.txt GameEx.ini 1
DazzleHP Posted October 12, 2017 Posted October 12, 2017 Yup, HideOS is only advantageous in certain circumstances, otherwise it should be disabled.
cdbrown Posted October 13, 2017 Posted October 13, 2017 6 hours ago, DazzleHP said: Yup, HideOS is only advantageous in certain circumstances, otherwise it should be disabled. I think the issue is that GE is still loading up HideOs even though Hide Desktop is set to NO. @RedDog did renaming HideOs.exe to something else have any detrimental effect considering GE still wants to load it?
RedDog Posted October 13, 2017 Posted October 13, 2017 11 hours ago, cdbrown said: @RedDog did renaming HideOs.exe to something else have any detrimental effect considering GE still wants to load it? I disabled the HideOS.exe to test a theory, so I didn't take the testing far beyond that. Since the log.txt file did not throw up any errors, I would doubt there would be any residual problems with the rename. I would only suggest flagging the Hide Desktop in the Display Settings to No in the Setup Wizard. I do not run GameEx with Hide Disktop because I am always tinkering with things and just never quite get it to a 'finished' state. 1
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