Loss of joystick input in 15.32

[Gildahl]

Hi Tom,

I just updated to 15.32 and I am experiencing loss of joystick input again (as well as my other two open issues).  It's a little different this time.  Originally joystick control was gone upon loading GameEx.  This time jJoystick works fine at first, but after playing a game for a while and returning to GameEx, joystick control is gone.  I use Ultrastick 360s.

So to recap open items.

1.  Loss of joystick control (but only after returning from a game).
2.  Loss of interface sounds after returning from games (game sounds and video snapshot sounds still work). Restarting GameEx gets sound back temporarily.
3.  Loss of Daphne game list in my custom menu.

Dave

log.txt

GameEx.ini

CustomMenu.ini

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for your patience. Ill try and get to this shortly.

 

Tom.

[Tom Speirs]

Hey,

I have not looked at the Daphne issue yet, but is it a particular emulator causing a problem as I cant duplicate eh audio or gamepad issue?

[Gildahl]

I did a little more testing today.  The joystick issue is hard to pin down.  When I started up today, all was good (joystick & sound), after playing a bit of Asteroids I returned to GameEx and found the joystick not working; however, after a few moments it started working again.  After playing some more, most of the time the joystick would be ok after returning to GameEx, but I did encounter one more "delay" of about 5 seconds of dead joystick before it became functional again.  So I can see how this might be hard to duplicate.  It has definitely never done this sort of thing before 15.30 though.

Regarding sound, interface sounds (clicks and chimes) are always fine upon first loading GameEx but are gone for good after returning from pretty much any game.  As I reported earlier, sound from video snaps still work in the interface and sound in games is fine, it's only the interface sounds that disappear.

[Gildahl]

Just to follow-up, I deleted the whole contents of the GameEx folder (just the files in the root, not the subfolders) and replaced the contents with a backup from 15.27 and both the joysticks and sound seem to work fine/normal (unfortunately, however, the Daphne issue is still there).  As soon as I revert back to the 15.32 files again, the sound and joystick issues return (I can at least now confirm that when it happens the joystick remains dead for about 5 to 10 seconds after returning from a game). 

I should also remark that just replacing the GameEx.exe with the 15.27 .exe does not fix the issue, it is only when I replace all the files in c:\GameEx with the ones from 15.27 that the problem goes away.

[Tom Speirs]

I did change libraries between those versions so it would explain it. I will have to post you a version with some logging to help troubleshoot the issue. As for audio Ill just try reinitilaing after coming back from game launch. Ill get back to you.

Tom.

[Gildahl]

Hi Tom,

Just a note that I updated to 15.34 today and still get loss of interface sound after returning from some games back to GameEx.  It doesn't happen with all games, but Visual Pinball X seems to be the most reliable in killing the interface sounds.  As before, if I revert the files in the c:\GameEx folder back to those from 15.27, I have no issues.

I didn't test extensively, but didn't notice any joystick issues this time, so maybe that's fixed now?  I'll follow-up if I see that again.

Also, on the Daphne issue that I was having, that seems to be resolved.  On a whim I toggled the switch in the Wizard to disable then enable Daphne and the games now show up again, so it was just something funky in the configuration that seems to have happened after a recent update.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for reporting back. I've not done much on your issues but will try to make audio reinitialize on return from game.

[Adultery]

Hi @Tom Speirs: Just to throw my hat in the ring, I have the missing audio when returning from a game as well. Nothing suspicious in the logs.

After I run a game and use ESC to exit the emulator, all my GameEx menu sounds are gone. I also lose my pagination controls on the joystick, although the menu nav controls and the confirm/cancel buttons still work. I can reproduce this reliably every time I exit a game.

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23:13:30.02  7/10/2018:  Bye

 

 

[thurmansevolution]

Hello and Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening! :D 

I hope all is going well for everyone in the GameEx family.  It's been a little while since I was last active, mostly due to life going a bit fast (switching jobs, remarried, school) - I've been getting more into the IT field, and now work in the IT department of a university here in Mississippi.  

Anyway lol...

I came across this post, and saw something that may or may not help out, at least with the audio.

I was having a similar audio issue in the latest versions of GameEx.  I normally have a music playlist going outside of running a game.  After exiting a game and returning to GameEx, sometimes the music volume would be really low, to the point to where it sounds muffled....and there would be no menu sounds.  Exiting and restarting GameEx would fix this temporarily, until exiting another game where it would randomly occur again.  

When troubleshooting, there was something I noticed within the GameEx logs....when exiting a game and returning to the FE, this issue happened only when GameEx would "Initialize Audio".  When GameEx didn't initialize audio, the audio would work normally.  I reverted to an older, backed up version of GameEx as a work around.

I seen something in the logs that was posted by Adultery:

23:13:19.89  7/10/2018:  Initialising Audio

 

I hope any of this information helps :). 

[DazzleHP]

On 7/11/2018 at 3:16 PM, thurmansevolution said:

 hope any of this information helps :). 

All information helps my man, even if not immediately. Thanks for the share.

[Tom Speirs]

Sorry for the delay. I will get to this very shortly.

[Tom Speirs]

The audio issues are fixed in the latest release. Now available.

Im not sure about the gamepad issues right now. Any more information would be helpful.

[Adultery]

I meant to update you on this, mine was a faulty USB port. I replaced the hub and I'm not having an issue any longer. Was watching it in Function Logger and my key presses are all processing fine.

I'll holler back about the audio after I play around in there some.

[Gildahl]

Should have a chance to try out the audio fix tomorrow.

[Gildahl]

Hi Tom,

Woo-hoo. 15.35 does appear to fix the audio re-init problem.   Thanks for that.   

With that said, I have another issues that I will post in a separate thread that are still preventing me from using the latest build.  It has some relation to the game controller issue and might provide some more info toward fixing that.

Dave