[RESOLVED] Control layouts not showing

[Richard Knowlton]

I am using GameEx Arcade Edition, and for some reason, when I select a game, the option to show the controls before I select "play the game" is missing.  I really want people to be able to see what the buttons do before they play, what am I doing wrong?  Thanks in advance to anyone who might help.

[Draco1962]

Please attach copies of your gameex.ini and log.txt files for review. Thanks!

[Richard Knowlton]

Thank you SO MUCH for helping!  GameEx.inilog.txt

[tthurman]

Is controls.ini present on your system?

[Richard Knowlton]

Yes, in the DATA subfoldercontrols.ini 

[tthurman]

So was this previously working and suddenly stopped?  If the view controls option has never been present at any point, then I suspect a configuration issue.

Did you recently upgrade?  If so, then it's possible something went wrong during the process.

One option is to simply to run the installer again and see if it was just something that got botched during a version upgrade.   This is the way the upgrades work too, they simply install over the top of your existing installation.   If it has never shown in the menu, then I would suggest more troubleshooting before going to this step.

[Richard Knowlton]

It is a brand new install.  It was working at the beginning, but I started downloading emumovies, and testing different display styles, (3d vs not 3d, using 16 bit color, etc.) and one time when I opened up GameEx, it just didn't show the "Show Controls" option anymore and didn't show any control panels.  That was one of my FAVORITE FEATURES!  Any help would be awesome!

[Draco1962]

Do you have MAME setup in GameEx Arcade Edition within both the integrated MAME section of the Setup Wizard and Emulator 1 section? If so, from which might you be attempting to open the controller layout?

[Draco1962]

I ask this as the control layout shows by default for the integrated MAME, but not all games. I have Taito Type X setup as an Emulator, but no controls show even with a controls image.

[Richard Knowlton]

I think I originally set up both.  Not realizing.  Right now, I have ROM paths set up in both the "emulator Setup" and in "Mame Settings."    The controls selection worked at first, but now it doesn't show it.  Everything else is working well.

[tthurman]

Sounds to me like you found your problem, remove the emulator config, and update.

[Richard Knowlton]

I thought so too, but when I removed the "other emulator" section, it still was missing.  I am still thinking it is a simple setup issue, but I cannot see where I missed it.  

[tthurman]

Did you update?

[Richard Knowlton]

Yes.  i am running 16.33.  I uninstalled once, then reinstalled when this issue first appeared.  Everything since I lost it on the first install hasn't shown any controls at all.  FYI, I also tried out the other two versions of GameEx, if that matters...

[Draco1962]

I noticed in your original gameex.ini the following:

CPEnabled=False
CPPATH=\DATA\controls.ini

Within Setup Wizard, you can enable this under Enable/Disable Features > Enable Panel Viewer or modify the string in your gameex.ini by changing the False to True.

Also I noted that you some of your emulators and content under C:\Users\Richardknowlton\Documents\ which may be problematic if others login under a different profile or even cause other UAC related headaches due to enhanced permissions for the contents of C:\Users by the OS. I don't know if that is coming into play here, but it might be something to consider changing at some point.

[Richard Knowlton]

You all are amazing!  It is fixed, and thank all of you for your help!

[Draco1962]

Glad it is sorted!