Network shared roms

[TogaForComfort]

Hi All

i have just installed and configured GameEx and am so far impressed. I have done an initial setup with some roms thrown into a local folder, which works fine.

however, all of my roms are stored on a server, I have tried adding the path to the server with no luck, when GameEx launches it says the path is not valid. I have tried //Server/Roms and mapping the share as a network drive with no luck.

Is GameEx not able to work in this way or am i missing something?

Thanks

[Tom Speirs]

Hi All

i have just installed and configured GameEx and am so far impressed. I have done an initial setup with some roms thrown into a local folder, which works fine.

however, all of my roms are stored on a server, I have tried adding the path to the server with no luck, when GameEx launches it says the path is not valid. I have tried //Server/Roms and mapping the share as a network drive with no luck.

Is GameEx not able to work in this way or am i missing something?

Thanks

Mapping the drive should work fine.

If you want to map the drive at startup then use NET USE from the command line, and have GameE run it at startup.

example:

net use h: \\server\share /user:username password

[TogaForComfort]

Mapping the drive should work fine.

If you want to map the drive at startup then use NET USE from the command line, and have GameE run it at startup.

example:

net use h: \\server\share /user:username password

Thanks for the suggestion. It was something to do with the share. I deleted it and recreated it, now it works fine. Must have been an access issue but I have no idea what.

[lahonda_99]

I have a similar setup; I have mapped the drive to letter 'Y' and store my ROMs and all extra media on that drive. I am connected to that drive via 100MBPS Lan. The problem is that highlighting a game and waiting for its screenshot to load is very long.

When I change the screenshot folder to a local drive the loading is faster. I would like to keep the screenshots on the network drive. Are there any tips for faster loading?

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I've been testing many emulator frontends like Gorilla and Quickplay alongside of GameEx. I'm most impressed with GameEx as I want to integrate it into an arcade machine later. Quickplay is capable of loading the screenshots very fast from the network drive so I know that it is possible.

[Brian Hoffman]

I have a similar setup; I have mapped the drive to letter 'Y' and store my ROMs and all extra media on that drive. I am connected to that drive via 100MBPS Lan. The problem is that highlighting a game and waiting for its screenshot to load is very long.

When I change the screenshot folder to a local drive the loading is faster. I would like to keep the screenshots on the network drive. Are there any tips for faster loading?

--

I've been testing many emulator frontends like Gorilla and Quickplay alongside of GameEx. I'm most impressed with GameEx as I want to integrate it into an arcade machine later. Quickplay is capable of loading the screenshots very fast from the network drive so I know that it is possible.

Get a gigabit card. a gigabit switch. and a cat 6 cable.. Upgrade your memory...Upgrade your processor. gameex is probably more resource hungry than those other FE's..

With all these features there comes a performance hit... Try disabling alpha blending.,, Use 16bit color.. Etc...

[lahonda_99]

I have

AMD Athlon 64 S2 Dual Core Processor 4800+

2.50 GHz, 1.93 GB of RAM

Gigabit network card, Gigabit enabled NAS (Network Attached Storage).

The only thing slowing me down is my 100Mbit router

I like your suggestion to turn off Alpha and use 16 bit color. Thanks for the help.

[LB11]

I think there is an option also on the speed of the snapshots. Put it to slowest. That should allow you to browse the list easier without waiting for the snap to show up.

[Brian Hoffman]

I have

AMD Athlon 64 S2 Dual Core Processor 4800+

2.50 GHz, 1.93 GB of RAM

Gigabit network card, Gigabit enabled NAS (Network Attached Storage).

The only thing slowing me down is my 100Mbit router

I like your suggestion to turn off Alpha and use 16 bit color. Thanks for the help.

Before investing in a gigabit switch use a crossover cable and bypass the router.... This should allow max speed and see if it make a diffrence