GameEx Crashes After Loading Emulator Game List

[Quinn]

Greetings,

Recently, after adding quite a few games to my Nintendo 64 (Project64) ROM folder, GameEx started "reliably" crashing whenever I would attempt to load the game list. The list *would* actually load, but, a few seconds, GameEx would error out, producing the log output, which I have attached to this post.

Any input into what is causing this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks kindly!

--Quinn

log.txt

[mightypeniz]

Shouldn't be too many games - I've had 20,000 commodore64 roms in a single folder (stupid move), and GameEx didn't have any problems - aside from taking a good couple of minutes to bring up the list of games..

Can't help much with the debug log, I'm not a developer's butt. Obviously its something to do with DirectX, but beyond that...... got latest drivers for your video card? (don't rely on WindowsUpdate drivers)

cheers,

brett

[Quinn]

Brett,

This box is running the latest version of the nVidia drivers from nvidia.com, so, drivers shouldn't be an issue (the card may be, but, I'll cover that in a moment)...

Not to fault Tom at all (he has always been very good about dealing with bugs, so many kudos) but it's my opinion as a software dev myself that this may be caused by a re-emergence of the "apostrophes in filenames" bug that crept up and was "fixed" recently.

To get back to my second idea, regarding the "card itself," this wouldn't be the first time in which this card has given me issues with DirectX stuff...For instance, several Direct3D games seem to have graphical corruption or BSOD'ing issues with this card (some applications run perfectly as well, oddly enough) however the card has never shown ANY reproducible issues with OpenGL apps. And, before you ask, "yes," I have actually downloaded all of the latest DirectX updates from Microsoft's DirectX page.

Anyway, thanks for your input, let me know if you (or anybody else for that matter) can think of anything else that might be the culprit, or if you might have any suggestions for me relating to any of the previously mentioned possibilities.

Thanks again for your assistance!

--Quinn

PS: As for the apostrophes in filenames issue, I will try and make time this morning to schedule a little experiment of my own to test that theory, and will post back with those results, for anybody (including, possibly, Tom) who might be interested.

[Quinn]

Greetings,

Found the cause of this...it is one of my old "gremlins" coming back to haunt me...I have found that disabling the emulator's Info Page and clearing it's "Database" setting cause this bug to stop occouring. This was a bug that I was experiencing quite a few releases ago, it appeared to get cleared up for a bit, and after one of the 2 most recent updates it appears to have returned.

Anyway, Tom, if you get around to reading this, might be something worth looking into, as this (at least for me) seems to be a recurring issue. I'll leave it up to you where (if anywhere) you want to take this.

Thanks again, and sorry to have wasted all your time,

Quinn

[Tom Speirs]

Greetings,

Found the cause of this...it is one of my old "gremlins" coming back to haunt me...I have found that disabling the emulator's Info Page and clearing it's "Database" setting cause this bug to stop occouring. This was a bug that I was experiencing quite a few releases ago, it appeared to get cleared up for a bit, and after one of the 2 most recent updates it appears to have returned.

Anyway, Tom, if you get around to reading this, might be something worth looking into, as this (at least for me) seems to be a recurring issue. I'll leave it up to you where (if anywhere) you want to take this.

Thanks again, and sorry to have wasted all your time,

Quinn

Hi,

It's not to do anything suggested in this topic, but it will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks