Visual Pinball w/ Game Extender Problem

[kingb33]

Ive been testing this for the last 2 hours and havent found a solution

For some odd reason if i go into my advanced config setup for pinball and try to set up some image paths, like for flyers and titles art Gamextender doesnt seem to like it.....it causes it to always disconnect (i get a "receive error".....retrying message. i know this is true because when i went back into advanced config and deleted those 2 paths i had setup gameextender was fine again with VP......

anyone know why that is happening?

(and yes my images .png and i named everything exact just to be sure)

kinda driving me nuts

thx....

[Tom Speirs]

Ive been testing this for the last 2 hours and havent found a solution

For some odd reason if i go into my advanced config setup for pinball and try to set up some image paths, like for flyers and titles art Gamextender doesnt seem to like it.....it causes it to always disconnect (i get a "receive error".....retrying message. i know this is true because when i went back into advanced config and deleted those 2 paths i had setup gameextender was fine again with VP......

anyone know why that is happening?

(and yes my images .png and i named everything exact just to be sure)

kinda driving me nuts

thx....

Can you try the attached updated exe.

Also post gxren.png and gx.png from the data folder. If your running GameEx and viewer on the same machine therell be both on the same machine, otherwise gx.png will be on the machine running GameEx.

Are you sure the PNG's are not corrupted?

GameExtender.zip

[kingb33]

Can you try the attached updated exe.

Also post gxren.png and gx.png from the data folder. If your running GameEx and viewer on the same machine therell be both on the same machine, otherwise gx.png will be on the machine running GameEx.

Are you sure the PNG's are not corrupted?

Hi Tom,

I tried the new .exe and i get the same disconnection problem after launching a table....

"receive error".....retrying message

here is my config in case u need it.....and i also included the files u asked for an the actual .png im testing everything with......that one image is in my "C:\Program Files\Pinball\title" folder

---as i said as soon as i add C:\Program Files\Pinball\title in my advanced config it causes the gameextender to give me that receive error.....if i go back in and take it out everything is ok again

gamextender runs perfectly fine with mame and my other emulators....of course i dont have extra image paths setup for my other emulators yet either.....only mame.

[Emulator_3]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Pinball Games

TITLETEXT=Pinball

StartPageLogo=pinball

ROMFilter=*.vpt

RomPath=C:\Program Files\Pinball\Tables

SnapPath=C:\Program Files\Pinball\videos

TitlePath=C:\Program Files\Pinball\title

BoxPath=

CartPath=

ManualPath=

ControlPanelPath=

InstructionsPath=

WorkingPath=C:\Program Files\Pinball

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=C:\Users\kingb\Desktop\vp map file.txt

AlsoLaunch=vpauto.exe

Command=VPinball.exe -play -"[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

configFile=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=

DATABASE=

GamesIn7Zips=

PlayInScreenSaver=

ShowMostPlayed=False

RandomMostPlayed=

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

[GENERAL]

DumbyValue=

[Tom Speirs]

Sorry I meant post those files after the error occurs.

[kingb33]

Sorry I meant post those files after the error occurs.

i just noticed another odd thing......the ONLY table i have an image for is Circus Voltaire, no of my other tables have anything associated with them except for the preview videos ive made.....(i did this on purpose for testing purposes)

when i scroll thru my pinball tables list and choose any game "except" Circus Voltaire Gamextender is just fine......

as soon as i choose Circus Voltaire (the only game i have an image for in the "C:\Program Files\Pinball\title" folder gameextender automatically gives me the error......

***on a side note.....Tom how can i control what gameextender shows? id like it to not show that GamEX Statisitcs page and the game control panel

[Tom Speirs]

i just noticed another odd thing......the ONLY table i have an image for is Circus Voltaire, no of my other tables have anything associated with them except for the preview videos ive made.....(i did this on purpose for testing purposes)

when i scroll thru my pinball tables list and choose any game "except" Circus Voltaire Gamextender is just fine......

as soon as i choose Circus Voltaire (the only game i have an image for in the "C:\Program Files\Pinball\title" folder gameextender automatically gives me the error......

***on a side note.....Tom how can i control what gameextender shows? id like it to not show that GamEX Statisitcs page and the game control panel

Ill look into it. Theres no way to change what it displays yet. Maybe in the future.

[kingb33]

Ill look into it. Theres no way to change what it displays yet. Maybe in the future.

Another thing tested....i went into my Dreamcast Emulator and added a new path to it pointing to an image folder.....i did it for just 1 game.....hydro thunder......now when i go back into gamex and launch dreamcast...guess what? the only game that causes gameextender to crash is "Hydrothunder.......ther other games are fine

****So what it seems is that if you "ADD" any other image paths to an emulator "BESIDES" the default "Snaps/Video" folder (for some reason Mame doesnt seem to be affected by this) it will cause GameExtender to disconnect.....

thx Tom!!! yeah being able to give the user the control what GameExtender shows for different emulators (like for MAME just show the marquee and for VP just show a backglass) would be awesome for people who have dual monitor setups (which is pretty popular now)....my 2nd monitor is actually "above" my main monitor....so the effect is very cool.....but u lose some of the coolness with all the random images floating in

thx for looking into that problem Tom

[kingb33]

Hi Tom...

I know you are mega busy but was just wondering if this bug might be fixed in the next version ?

Hopefully its not a complicated bug...

Thx!