GameEx Minimizing on Video play?

[Voxx]

I setup Project64 in GameEx, and I have a bunch of Manuals and Videos for a lot of the Roms.

When I choose a Project64 game in GameEx that has a video, FDDshow pops up and asks me if I want to use it(FDDshow) or not.

If I choose not to use FDDshow, GameEx goes black and in minimizes to desktop. I can hear the audio playing. Bringing GameEx back up just makes it auto-minimize again, unless I can quickly select a game that has no video.

If I choose to use FDDshow, GameEx stays up, but the video part stays black. I can hear the audio, but then GameEx freezes up (audio still playing) and I have to relog to get control of my PC back.

I'll be the first to admit that setting up GameEx has confused the hell out of me and I probably just did something wrong somewhere. I have no idea what, though.

Here's a quick snap of my Project 64 setup.

[bkenobi]

Sounds like the FFDShow system tray icon is stealing focus from GameEx. You say that a dialog pops up and then GameEx minimizes, so you already know the problem. The solution is to stop the dialog from popping up. Basically, this is a codec issue. Make sure you use the FFDShow codec download from the GameEx homepage first, then we can go from there.

[Voxx]

Ok, apparently the version of FFDShow I downloaded was too new or something. grabbed the one of the GameEX site and it works now.

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Now when I choose a game to play, the screen goes black and I can hear the game but the video doesn't load. This only happens if I try to load the Rom through GameEx, and not manually in Project 64.

Also all of the sounds through GameEx are really really really loud. I have to turn my volume to 1 for it to be bearable. Sounds coming through Project 64 are fine (because there is a volume slider).

[Tempest]

Ok, apparently the version of FFDShow I downloaded was too new or something. grabbed the one of the GameEX site and it works now.

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Now when I choose a game to play, the screen goes black and I can hear the game but the video doesn't load. This only happens if I try to load the Rom through GameEx, and not manually in Project 64.

Also all of the sounds through GameEx are really really really loud. I have to turn my volume to 1 for it to be bearable. Sounds coming through Project 64 are fine (because there is a volume slider).

Alot of times the black screen issue is because the emulator is not set to run fullscreen, in PJ64, find the option to set it to fullscreen, then try it again.

[bkenobi]

If the emulator starts and is audible, but you can't see the screen, there are two solutions.

1) Make sure you have correctly set the emulator to run in full screen (like Tempest said)

2) If the emulator is already set to full screen, then you can try turning hide desktop to false (or is it show desktop to true). This will disable the black screen (HideOS) and let you see your emulator.

[Voxx]

Awesome, thanks a ton guys. Any idea on why my video snaps playback so loud?

[Tempest]

Awesome, thanks a ton guys. Any idea on why my video snaps playback so loud?

The only thing I can think of is if you have the volume on your computer turned up, then are using the volume control in pj64 to cut it back some.... in other words, turn the volume up in PJ64, and down on your computer and see if they end up being equal.

[Voxx]

The only thing I can think of is if you have the volume on your computer turned up, then are using the volume control in pj64 to cut it back some.... in other words, turn the volume up in PJ64, and down on your computer and see if they end up being equal.

Yea, no. My computer is setup so my speakers are turned to about 50%, my PC volume is 50%, my Winamp is 50%, PJ64 is 50% ..etc. Everything sounds perfect and it gives me the ability to lower and raise my volume in any way I want. Yet for some reason when I play a video in Game Ex the sound is so loud I cringe.

Basically what you are asking me to do is to turn my speakers down to like 10% and raise the volume on every program I use and turn every program I use up to 90%?

Can't I just adjust the volume somewhere in GameEx? =D

[Tempest]

Yea, no. My computer is setup so my speakers are turned to about 50%, my PC volume is 50%, my Winamp is 50%, PJ64 is 50% ..etc. Everything sounds perfect and it gives me the ability to lower and raise my volume in any way I want. Yet for some reason when I play a video in Game Ex the sound is so loud I cringe.

Basically what you are asking me to do is to turn my speakers down to like 10% and raise the volume on every program I use and turn every program I use up to 90%?

Can't I just adjust the volume somewhere in GameEx? =D

Yeah, that's what I was thinking....But apparently that was not a good answer.

Go to advanced configuration > audio settings

Enable media controls, if set to yes, will put a volume control in your toolbar.

Music volume is a number from 1-100 to set the volume in gameex.

I found this by looking at the Gameex set up guide provided by Adultery

http://www.hfc-essentials.net/gameex/gesetup.php

I think I will use it today to see what else I don't know about Gameex!

Sorry for the bad advice before, I'm still learning too!

[bkenobi]

You can adjust the volume in GameEx by holding down the volume button and pressing up/down. I don't know what button that is by default off the top of my head, so you will want to check the documentation for that. I set mine up to be button 3...

[Voxx]

Enable media controls, if set to yes, will put a volume control in your toolbar.

Music volume is a number from 1-100 to set the volume in gameex.

Yea, I have the music volume set to 8, it has no effect on the video snaps' audio. It's for things like if you have background music when idling GameEx and stuff. The issue I'm having probably has to do with whatever GameEx uses to play the videos, the volume must be blaring on that.

There is no real in program volume control for GameEx, all it is doing is changing your computer's Master Volume. I have to turn it as close to off as possible and it's still a bit loud when the videos play.It just sucks that I can't hear anyone talk on Vent while I'm choosing the game I want to play, and I have the mute it (or put on headphones) if the GF is asleep. It's not a program breaking issue, just an inconvenience.

I'll deal with it.

[bkenobi]

I don't think there's any kind of volume control in the FFDShow codec, is there?

[Tempest]

Yea, I have the music volume set to 8, it has no effect on the video snaps' audio. It's for things like if you have background music when idling GameEx and stuff. The issue I'm having probably has to do with whatever GameEx uses to play the videos, the volume must be blaring on that.

There is no real in program volume control for GameEx, all it is doing is changing your computer's Master Volume. I have to turn it as close to off as possible and it's still a bit loud when the videos play.It just sucks that I can't hear anyone talk on Vent while I'm choosing the game I want to play, and I have the mute it (or put on headphones) if the GF is asleep. It's not a program breaking issue, just an inconvenience.

I'll deal with it.

There must be something though, so if you will bear with us, we'd like to keep trying....

Have you tried playing the video through media player, or whatever software you have to play avi's outside of Gameex?

[Voxx]

There must be something though, so if you will bear with us, we'd like to keep trying....

Have you tried playing the video through media player, or whatever software you have to play avi's outside of Gameex?

Argh!! I thought I had it. My default player is VLC, and whenever I opened a video the audio was stupid loud. I changed the settings and made it open videos a lot quieter, I was so happy....

Then I opened GameEx and the videos are still playing stupid loud.

Let me go through all of my media players, maybe it isn't using my default one.

Edit - Now I'm even more stumped. I only have VLC and WMP. Both have now had their default playing audio levels lowered, videos are still playing super loud in GameEx.

The gaming gods have thwarted me.

So maybe GameEx is ignoring my player's settings, or maybe GameEx uses it's own player?

[Voxx]

Another issue has now arisen. I've grabbed ePSXe, and I'm having the same issue I had previously with PJ64.. where the games would load as a black screen with audio. I fixed this before by changing PJ64 to load all roms fullscreen automatically. I believe I have this setup with ePSXe, but it hasn't fixed the issue.

So once again I find myself here looking for more help =)

I'm assuming the problem is with a .map or .ini file?

I have this in C:\Program Files\GameEx\CONFIG\[Console] Sony Playstation (ePSXe).ini

Enabled:  YES		
Import Emulator:
Export Emulator:  
Start Page Name:  SONY PLAYSTATION
Title Text:  PSX
Logo:  PSX
ROM Filter:  *.IMG;*.MDF;*.BIN  
ROMS in Folders?:  NO
ROM Path:  C:\Roms\PSX
Snap/Video Path:  
Title Snap Path:  
Box Art Path:  
Cartridge Art Path:  
Working Path:  C:\Emulators\ePSXe 1.6
Map Keys:  YES
Wait Before Keys: 
Keys To Send:
Replace Dashes:  YES
Replace Underscores:  YES 
Capitalise Words:  YES
Remove Text in Brackets:  NO
Show Desktop:  YES
Debug Mode:  NO
Map File:
Also Launch:
Command Line: EPSXE.EXE -NOGUI -LOADBIN "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"
Offline List DAT Zip:
Launch Before:
Launch After:
Advanced Config:
Excluded Files:
Custom Background:
Play Music:
Treat as 1 PC Game:  NO 
Database:  
7-Zip/Good Merge:

This is my ePSXe graphics setup.

Games run fine if I don't use GameEx.

[Brian Hoffman]

What happens when you run the RUNLASTGAME.bat file in the gameex programs group in the start menu?

[Voxx]

I don't keep anything in my startup menu. A search for runlastgame on my HDD produced no results.

[Brian Hoffman]

I don't keep anything in my startup menu. A search for runlastgame on my HDD produced no results.

try RUNITGAME.bat

"C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\runitgame.bat"

[Voxx]

try RUNITGAME.bat

"C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\runitgame.bat"

Loads up the last game I played with ePSXe. Video and Audio working.

This is with no Emulator or GameEx running when I open it.

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When I run the File Verifier I get this

ROMFilter (*.mdf): No files found in "C:\Roms\PSX".

ROMFilter (*.bin): No files found in "C:\Roms\PSX".

Game Manuals Path: "C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Manuals\" does not exist.

Map File: "C:\Program Files\GameEx\CONFIG\[Console] Sony Playstation.map.map" does not exist.

The first 3 don't concern me because, well..there aren't any of those types of files for a reason right now.

I don't understand the map file though. Is that for keymapping?

[Brian Hoffman]

Loads up the last game I played with ePSXe.

In fullscreen?

[Voxx]

In fullscreen?

Sorry, yes. I don't have any snaps or text for my PSX games yet, so it's not a big deal if we can't figure it out.

All of a sudden my "[Console] Sony Playstation (ePSXe).ini " has changed to this.

[Emulator]
Enabled=True
STARTPAGENAME=[Console] Sony PlayStation (ePSXe)
TITLETEXT=Sony PlayStation
StartPageLogo=[Console] Sony PlayStation
ROMFilter=
RomPath=C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Roms\
SnapPath=C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Snaps\
TitlePath=C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Titles\
BoxPath=C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Boxes\
CartPath=C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Cartridges\
ManualPath=C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Manuals\
ControlPanelPath=C:\Emulation\Assets\Console\Sony PlayStation\Controls\
WorkingPath=C:\Emulation\Emulator\Console\Sony PlayStation (ePSXe)\
MapKeys=True
WaitBeforeKeys=
SendKeys=
ReplaceDash=False
ReplaceUnder=True
Capitals=False
RemoveBrackets=True
ShowDesktop=False
Debug=False
MAPFile=[Console] Sony Playstation.map
AlsoLaunch=
Command=ePSXe.exe -nogui
OLDatZip=
LaunchBefore=""C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools\daemon.exe" -mount 0,"[RomPath]\[RomFile]""
LaunchAfter="C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools\daemon.exe" -unmount 0
configFile=[Mapping Off] Exit (Process Close)
ExcludedFiles=
CustomBackground=
PlayMusic=False
DontShowInfo=
PlaySelectionMusic=False
SelectionMusicFolder=
PCGame=False
DATABASE=[Console] Sony PlayStation
GamesIn7Zips=False
PlayInScreenSaver=False
ShowMostPlayed=True
RandomMostPlayed=False
CDCheck=False
CDCheckFile=
[GENERAL]
DumbyValue=

Not sure what triggered this. It is still showing up in the Setup Wizard how I set it up.

[Brian Hoffman]

Perhaps your viewing the wrong one.

IE is there another entry on another page.

[Voxx]

Perhaps your viewing the wrong one.

IE is there another entry on another page.

Oh lord, I cleared ePSXe from my Emulators list so I could just recreate/config it. Now it isn't in the choices list anymore. haha.

[Brian Hoffman]

Oh lord, I cleared ePSXe from my Emulators list so I could just recreate/config it. Now it isn't in the choices list anymore. haha.

I find that PSX emulator is great and doesnt have alot of the plugin issues.

Heres a link.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/

We can get it up and going.. Ill be home in a few hours and will post my configs

[Voxx]

I find that PSX emulator is great and doesnt have alot of the plugin issues.

Heres a link.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/

We can get it up and going.. Ill be home in a few hours and will post my configs

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