[ RESOLVED ] desktop goes black

[simbamame]

Not sure if this has been brought up before but couldn't trace it it so...

GameEx is working fine, but when i exit to desktop all i get is a black screen. if i click show desktop i get the icons but with a black background my wall paper has gone i have to go to personalize and re-select my wallpaper. Any Ideas?.

[Draco1962]

Mind attaching your gameex.ini and log.txt files to take a look at any clues they might provide? Thanks!

[simbamame]

hi mike, ive looked threw both any nothing shows im wondering if its a windows problem and not related to GameEX.

[Tom Speirs]

The log would help but you can turn off hide desktop to disable that feature.

[simbamame]

Thanks dont know what ive done but it now seems to work..i dont loose the desktop, all i ve done is alter the colour depth to 16bit, wonder if it has summit to do with the theme?.

 

 

[stigzler]

Sounds like HideOS.exe to me. I've had similar problems with it. There's a setting in GemVoy to disable HideOS.exe entirely. That stops it for me.

[simbamame]

thanks for that @stigzler might try that if it comes back :-) 

BTW love your MinerWilly aviator :-) +1 for that.

[stigzler]

You never know when Matthew Smith might rock up...

[simbamame]

@stigzler

i met matt at a computer expo at london many many years ago there were a whole load of them including jeff minter, john Philips ( who wrote nebulous ) andrew braybrook to mention a few.

[stigzler]

Awesome. Was Jeff Minter stoned?