[RESOLVED] GameEX v18.90 - v18.92 broke some RetroArch Emulator Execution

[Lorecarver]

Just noticed when testing Emulators as always after each new install of a new version of GameEx.

All emulators running 100% in versions up to v18.87.

After installing GameEx v18.90, some RetroArch Emulations for some platforms will load, but are shown with a completly black screen.

These include, Nintendo Game Cube, Nintendo Wii / Wiiu.

Tried reverting to Dolphin Emulator with Nintendo Game Cube, and found it exicutes the emulator, but will not exit the emulator.  Looked at all settings and ensured proper kill switches were enabled and still the emulator just laid running without a kickback to GameEx.  (Went Back to RetroArch, now knowing this could all be from the new version update(s) as reverting back works flawlessly with all the emulators).

 

Nothing was changed in the emulators or in the config to these emulators.

This occurs in GameEx v18.90 to 18.92, but not in later versions of the program.

Reverted back to GameEx v18.87 and everything starts as it is suppose to and all emulator's working / starting / performing at 100%.

I feel this might have gone unnoticed, however, as stated, after each new install of a version update, all emulators are retested to ensure nothing was broken from version to version.

I have uploaded the following files to have a look at (GameEx.ini, runitgame.bat & log.txt) for versions 18.87 & 18.90.  I left out v18.92 as it was the same as v18.90 and the issue started at v18.90.

If someone can have a look at this, it would be helpful.

Thank you in advance guys!

 

GameEx (v18.87).ini GameEx (v18.90).ini log (v18.87).txt log (v18.90).txt runitgame (v18.87).bat runitgame (v18.90).bat

[Tom Speirs]

Its a feature. Check the emulator show desktop setting but thank you for your help.

[Lorecarver]

@Tom Speirs You are absolutly correct! the "Show Desktop" was stet to true, but for some reason in the versions 18.90 and upward, the Game Cube and Wii were not showing the RetroArch Emulator screen though it was present in the background.  After doing some more investigation, i found that if I switched the RetroArch core from loading video = Vulkan to video = glcore, then everything worked again.  It was just odd that the "Vulkan" video output worked for RetroArch for all console platforms before the update.  Sorry for jumping the gun on this one!  I deffenitly will be more intrusive in my investigations of emulators prior to posting next time.  However, for those who do run into the same issue as I did, this is something they can check out in their RetroArch Emulator should it occur.

Thank you for the speedy response aswell! :)