NEWS: GameEx 7.64

[Tom Speirs]

19th February, 2007 - GameEx 7.64

Snap preview alternates to another artwork image

Added folder snap for pictures and videos

Clock animation when time changes

Please wait zoom animation

Fixes not been able to use all game devices to navigate

Fixes retuning to wrong position in list after exiting screensaver

Bit of a bling updateâ?¦.

[Nologic]

Sweet

Question any luck finding that bug I've ran into using Advanced Configs to exit games with gamepad button combo's?

I've tried it on two different systems...only thing the same is the CPU.

System 1 Spec's:

AMD X2 4600+

2gig PC3200

nVidia 6600GT

...

Logitech Dual Shock gamepad

WinXP SP2

.Net 1-3

System 2 Spec's:

AMD X2 4600+

1gig PC3500

nVidia 6150

...

Saitek P2900 gamepad

Win MCE 2k5

.Net 1-3

[Tom Speirs]

Sweet

Question any luck finding that bug I've ran into using Advanced Configs to exit games with gamepad button combo's?

I've tried it on two different systems...only thing the same is the CPU.

System 1 Spec's:

AMD X2 4600+

2gig PC3200

nVidia 6600GT

...

Logitech Dual Shock gamepad

WinXP SP2

.Net 1-3

System 2 Spec's:

AMD X2 4600+

1gig PC3500

nVidia 6150

...

Saitek P2900 gamepad

Win MCE 2k5

.Net 1-3

Please remind me what the issue is.

[Nologic]

Okay when using a gamepad button combo to exit an Emu would some times cause GameEx to crash...this was largely seen on the WinXP box, even after a fresh install (OS\.Net\GameEx\Emu's).

On the MCE box which hasn't been pounded on much I've experienced, nearly the same thing...Mame would exit but I wouldn't return to GameEx...black screen and system hang, requiring a hard reboot.

Note on the WinXP box I could ALT+TAB to the error box and close things out, or use the Task Manager to kill process's.

This is not a constant issue...its goes in streaks and not one directly after another. This appears to happen more often when closing and relaunching the same Emu.

I have not seen a way to consistently reproduce it...its largely hit or miss...and as I haven't seen others grumble about it...seems to be a corner case of only me thus far...tho I'm also unsure of how many people make use of the Advanced Config...I only just recently started to toy with it.

Link to prior thread.

[Brian Hoffman]

Noligic,

I have had really good luck doing this. For mame I use the UI cancel options in Mames configuration to exit back to gameex.

With 99% of my emus I use gameex advance config to simulate an ALT+F4 on mutiple key press. Are you doing the same thing?

Okay when using a gamepad button combo to exit an Emu would some times cause GameEx to crash...this was largely seen on the WinXP box, even after a fresh install (OS\.Net\GameEx\Emu's).

On the MCE box which hasn't been pounded on much I've experienced, nearly the same thing...Mame would exit but I wouldn't return to GameEx...black screen and system hang, requiring a hard reboot.

Note on the WinXP box I could ALT+TAB to the error box and close things out, or use the Task Manager to kill process's.

This is not a constant issue...its goes in streaks and not one directly after another. This appears to happen more often when closing and relaunching the same Emu.

I have not seen a way to consistently reproduce it...its largely hit or miss...and as I haven't seen others grumble about it...seems to be a corner case of only me thus far...tho I'm also unsure of how many people make use of the Advanced Config...I only just recently started to toy with it.

Link to prior thread.

[Nologic]

Brian,

Yes this is what I'm doing as well. Generally it works and works well...but there are times when things fail.

I haven't noticed the Emu's still running, so GameEx is closing them...it just seems to run into issues of its own some how.

[Tom Speirs]

Brian,

Yes this is what I'm doing as well. Generally it works and works well...but there are times when things fail.

I haven't noticed the Emu's still running, so GameEx is closing them...it just seems to run into issues of its own some how.

What exactly is the error displayed? Would be helpful.

[Nologic]

"GameEx has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Error Sig

AppName: gameex.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 AppStamp:45c4742c

ModName: mscorwks.dll ModVer: 2.0.50727.42 ModStamp:4333e7ec

fDebug: 0 Offset: 000a163b

[Nologic]

Well got the same error yet again with 7.65 release...on the XP box...have yet to try the MCE one.

AppName: gameex.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 AppStamp:45dddc0a

ModName: mscorwks.dll ModVer: 2.0.50727.42 ModStamp:4333e7ec

fDebug: 0 Offset: 000a163b

[Tom Speirs]

Well got the same error yet again with 7.65 release...on the XP box...have yet to try the MCE one.

Just about all erros are trapped in GameEx. An error like that is occuring outside of the GameEx code. I don't think there is anything I can do about it, but post your log.

[Nologic]

here you go

[Tom Speirs]

here you go

Can you try not having gameex send the keys to exit and just have it close/kill the process. See if that works please.

[Nologic]

Well thus far without sendkeys no issues.

[Tom Speirs]

Well thus far without sendkeys no issues.

I made some changes to the sendkeys code in the latest version (just upped a few moments ago). Can you test?

[Nologic]

Okay beat the hell out of it...and I did get the error again...but it seemed like it was harder to trigger.

This was with build 7.71

[Tom Speirs]

Okay beat the hell out of it...and I did get the error again...but it seemed like it was harder to trigger.

This was with build 7.71

That's a shame, there's really nothing else I can do that I can see. Everything is as solid as it can be.

It could just be some kind of conflict with a particular emulator? If so try a newer or different version etc.

I have nothing else to add to this as of now, but let me know if you discover anything.

[Tom Speirs]

That's a shame, there's really nothing else I can do that I can see. Everything is as solid as it can be.

It could just be some kind of conflict with a particular emulator? If so try a newer or different version etc.

I have nothing else to add to this as of now, but let me know if you discover anything.

You can try this GameEx.exe which waits a bit longer before forcibly closing the emulator.

Other than this I have nothing.

GameEx.zip

[Nologic]

Nope didn't do the trick...about the same difficulty triggering the error as prior.

I'll try to beat it up on the MCE box since it has fewer things running in the background (apps, services,...)

Thanks for the effort tho.

[Tom Speirs]

It sounds like its more stable than it was, so thats something.

[Nologic]

Yes its more stable...however I guess I'll avoid sendkeys unless required to.

Again thanks for the effort.

[kenclops]

It says in this version that snaps can alternate to another artwork image.

Now I know that you can have for a game preview a video followed by a box cover. They switch. Is there any way to add multiple .png or .jpg pictures to a game preview and have them alternate over time.

For example, for the game Popeye, I would like to have multiple snaps alternate in the game preview so that I can have a picture of each of the levels in the game preview in GameEx.

[Adultery]

It says in this version that snaps can alternate to another artwork image.

Now I know that you can have for a game preview a video followed by a box cover. They switch. Is there any way to add multiple .png or .jpg pictures to a game preview and have them alternate over time.

For example, for the game Popeye, I would like to have multiple snaps alternate in the game preview so that I can have a picture of each of the levels in the game preview in GameEx.

I don't believe there is any way to do that currently. That is, unless you create a video slide show AVI file and use that in place of your AVI previews... Good feature request though.