Problem running pc game from Gameex

[popcorrin]

I am having a problem launching Tiger Woods 2004 from gameex.

I'll give some details of my setup.

I have gameex setup as shell. I have multiple pc games installed and they all work fine when launching from gameex except for tiger woods. Tiger woods crashes immediately when I try to run it. If I don't run gameex as shell and launch gameex from windows as a person normally would then I can run tiger woods from gameex with no problems.

This caused me to think that not loading explorer.exe was preventing tiger woods from working. But that doesn't seem to be the case, because I can launch tiger woods without loading up explorer.exe by executing the exe directly from the command line, or I can even launch it by executing the runitgame.bat file from the command line. Mind you, this is without loading explorer.exe.

This leaves me baffled. How would running it from gameex be different than executing the runitgame.bat file?

[Brian Hoffman]

  popcorrin said:

I am having a problem launching Tiger Woods 2004 from gameex.

I'll give some details of my setup.

I have gameex setup as shell. I have multiple pc games installed and they all work fine when launching from gameex except for tiger woods. Tiger woods crashes immediately when I try to run it. If I don't run gameex as shell and launch gameex from windows as a person normally would then I can run tiger woods from gameex with no problems.

This caused me to think that not loading explorer.exe was preventing tiger woods from working. But that doesn't seem to be the case, because I can launch tiger woods without loading up explorer.exe by executing the exe directly from the command line, or I can even launch it by executing the runitgame.bat file from the command line. Mind you, this is without loading explorer.exe.

This leaves me baffled. How would running it from gameex be different than executing the runitgame.bat file?

Well for kicks have you tried creating a shortcut and running it by the shortcut Eg... *.lnk

It might make a diffrence.

[popcorrin]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Well for kicks have you tried creating a shortcut and running it by the shortcut Eg... *.lnk

It might make a diffrence.

Yes, actually that is how I have all of my pc games set up. Is there another way to run them thru gameex?

[gryhnd]

An unhelpful reply from me here, but I've run into the same thing occasionally.

One of my kid's SIM games (Golf I think, coincidentally) will corrupt itself when booted via GX. Never happens when run direct.

Even Futurepinball will hiccup sometimes on tables run via GX. Go back to running it direct and it works fine.

Shrug.

[Brian Hoffman]

  popcorrin said:

Yes, actually that is how I have all of my pc games set up. Is there another way to run them thru gameex?

Tons actually

Rom filter *.bat

--make batchfiles-- Setup as an emulator with *.bat as your rom filter

Run the EXE directly

make a file GAMENAME.XXX

Rom filter *.xxx

Command = Full path and EXE of the game you want to run

Lnk or shortcuts

Scripts/Loaders etc....

If you can think it gameex can do it...

Youll just need to be a little inventive is all

[popcorrin]

  gryhnd said:

An unhelpful reply from me here, but I've run into the same thing occasionally.

One of my kid's SIM games (Golf I think, coincidentally) will corrupt itself when booted via GX. Never happens when run direct.

Even Futurepinball will hiccup sometimes on tables run via GX. Go back to running it direct and it works fine.

Shrug.

Well, at least I'm not the only one. It's not a real big deal as most everything works flawlessly but it just has me baffled.

[popcorrin]

I just noticed something even weirder. After I try to load tiger woods and it errors out, when returning to gameex, the mess emulator is being launched in the background. Why in the world would that happen?

[Brian Hoffman]

  popcorrin said:

I just noticed something even weirder. After I try to load tiger woods and it errors out, when returning to gameex, the mess emulator is being launched in the background. Why in the world would that happen?

Id export and post your config... I have no idea why MESS is launching...

The config may shed more light on things.

[popcorrin]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Id export and post your config... I have no idea why MESS is launching...

The config may shed more light on things.

Okay, here is the config.

[Emulator_10]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=PC Games

TITLETEXT=PC Games

StartPageLogo=

ROMFilter=*.lnk

RomPath=C:\PC Games

SnapPath=C:\PC Games\Snaps

TitlePath=

BoxPath=C:\PC Games\Covers

CartPath=C:\PC Games\CDS

ManualPath=

WorkingPath=C:\PC Games

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=[ROMPath]\[RomFile]

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

configFile=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=

DATABASE=

GamesIn7Zips=

PlayInScreenSaver=

ShowMostPlayed=

RandomMostPlayed=

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

[GENERAL]

DumbyValue=

[Brian Hoffman]

  popcorrin said:

Okay, here is the config.

[Emulator_10]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=PC Games

TITLETEXT=PC Games

StartPageLogo=

ROMFilter=*.lnk

RomPath=C:\PC Games

SnapPath=C:\PC Games\Snaps

TitlePath=

BoxPath=C:\PC Games\Covers

CartPath=C:\PC Games\CDS

ManualPath=

WorkingPath=C:\PC Games

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=[ROMPath]\[RomFile]

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

configFile=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=

DATABASE=

GamesIn7Zips=

PlayInScreenSaver=

ShowMostPlayed=

RandomMostPlayed=

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

[GENERAL]

DumbyValue=

Well Im not sure why it lauches MESS as it is not being called.... Howerver I notice your working path and rom path have spaces... Id change your command from [ROMPath]\[RomFile] to "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

Let me know if it make a diffrence

[popcorrin]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Well Im not sure why it lauches MESS as it is not being called.... Howerver I notice your working path and rom path have spaces... Id change your command from [ROMPath]\[RomFile] to "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

Let me know if it make a diffrence

The parenthesis didn't make a difference.

[popcorrin]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Well Im not sure why it lauches MESS as it is not being called.... Howerver I notice your working path and rom path have spaces... Id change your command from [ROMPath]\[RomFile] to "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

Let me know if it make a diffrence

Also, I set it up as a batch file and had gameex launch that and it did the same thing.

[Brian Hoffman]

  popcorrin said:

Also, I set it up as a batch file and had gameex launch that and it did the same thing.

Have you tried having gameex run the EXE directly?

Also what does the RUNLASTGAME.bat do? It is located in the gameex programs group in the start menu

[popcorrin]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Have you tried having gameex run the EXE directly?

Also what does the RUNLASTGAME.bat do? It is located in the gameex programs group in the start menu

Yea, earlier today I set up gameex to run the EXE directly and it crashed just like before.

If I load explorer.exe then I have no issues whatsoever. I can launch the program anywhich way I like, it's when explorer.exe isn't loaded and I'm trying to launch the game from gameex. I can launch the game from outside of gameex when explorer.exe isn't loaded, with no problems. It's only when I try to launch from gameex, when gameex is shell, and it's only Tiger woods pga tour that I have issues with.