GameEx runs painfully slow after a while

[djrobx]

Hi, firstly, I love GameEx!

It runs great at first. The problem is after loading about 30 games, the UI absolutely CRAWLS. I can hit alt-enter twice to go to windowed mode and back to full screen mode and it immediately becomes responsive again. The emulators themselves will run fast when I launch them, but GameEx gets slower and slower. Things seem just fine for the first 20 roms or so, but it quickly deteriorates past a certain point.

GameEx does *not* get slower when it's been running random MAME games all day long. It's only when I pick things (especially emulators) in the UI. It is not tied to a specific emulator. The same thing happens regardless of whether I'm going through Sega, Nintendo or Atari games.

I have tried disabling vsync, it does not help. I am using the default media-center-esque theme. I just updated it to the latest version (3.70 I think?). It seems to take longer than it used to with the older version I had, but it definitely still happens.

I am running a P4 3.0ghz, 1GB ram, with a NVidia fx5700.

[Tom Speirs]

  djrobx said:

Hi, firstly, I love GameEx!

It runs great at first.  The problem is after loading about 30 games, the UI absolutely CRAWLS.  I can hit alt-enter twice to go to windowed mode and back to full screen mode and it immediately becomes responsive again.  The emulators themselves will run fast when I launch them, but GameEx gets slower and slower.  Things seem just fine for the first 20 roms or so, but it quickly deteriorates past a certain point.

GameEx does *not* get slower when it's been running random MAME games all day long.  It's only when I pick things (especially emulators) in the UI.  It is not tied to a specific emulator. The same thing happens regardless of whether I'm going through Sega, Nintendo or Atari games.

I have tried disabling vsync, it does not help.  I am using the default media-center-esque theme.  I just updated it to the latest version (3.70 I think?).  It seems to take longer than it used to with the older version I had, but it definitely still happens. 

I am running a P4 3.0ghz, 1GB ram, with a NVidia fx5700.

Hi,

I know what the problem is. Thanks for pointing this out, you have actually identifed the fix. I just need to reinitialize DirectDraw when returning to GameEx each time.

[djrobx]

  TSpeirs said:

I just need to reinitialize DirectDraw when returning to GameEx each time.

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Version 4.01 is working perfectly. Life is good ... very good. Thanks for the fast fix, Tom!