Gamex wont come back to life

[dschulpius]

I've been working on this for days and am about to pull my hair out. I've studied as many posts as I can find on this problem and changed a bunch of settings and custom configs. Looks like I haven't found the right ones.

What I'm trying to do is run dos games through Gamex with D-fend Reloaded. I've gotten the games installed, set up in d-fend and got them working there. I've tried making shortcuts using the drop down menu in the game list in D-fend and then in Windows pointing to the installed game. Anyway, when I set up Gamex to run the shortcuts as described in other posts everything runs well until I quit the game (from inside the game). What I think happenes is d-fend closes Dosbox and then shuts down it's self. Although I don't know how d-fend would close it's self without my telling it to (maybe that's the problem). I get kicked back to Windows XP with Gamex running in the background and I cant bring it forward. I have to close it through Task Manager or use Alt-F4. The only thing Task Manager shown running is Gamex.

The same thing happens if I set up Gamex to run the games straight through Dosbox without d-fend.

The only way I can get Gamex back after I play dos games is to have it launch D-fend and launch the games from there. After playing I can exit out of D-fend and Gamex will reappear.

Any ideas how I can get this all working better or if I could be doing something wrong? Am I missing something being a nubie? I'd really like to launch a dos game right from Gamex and be returned after play.

Is there another better way to run dos games? I've read about hacks that can be used instead of Dosbox. Where can I read about them?

Any help or direction would be welcomed, Dave

[chriss]

i'm no expert on this just throwing in my two cents...

it seems like you have a problem with dosbox itself since the error also happens without the frontend.

i guess gameex doesn't know that the game was exited. it should also reappear after you killing the file hideos.exe in task manager

did you try to check if it works with the map buttons option enabled in gameex setup wizard?

[dschulpius]

i'm no expert on this just throwing in my two cents...

it seems like you have a problem with dosbox itself since the error also happens without the frontend.

i guess gameex doesn't know that the game was exited. it should also reappear after you killing the file hideos.exe in task manager

did you try to check if it works with the map buttons option enabled in gameex setup wizard?

Thanks for your two cents.

I'm sure your right about Gamex not knowing the game exited. Now I'm not so sure d-fend actually closes. I'm not sure how d-fend knows how to close down it's self down when I exit the dos game from inside the game. Maybe it's still running and not listed in Task Manager?

To answer your question; yes I have tried both map buttons on and off. With map keys off I return to windows with a black screen.

Thanks, Dave

[Brian Hoffman]

Close the game with ALT+F4 and see if gameex comes back to life.

[dschulpius]

Close the game with ALT+F4 and see if gameex comes back to life.

Thanks Brian,

I'll give it a try. Do I need to set the Advances Config to "Exit, ATL + F4?

Dave

[Brian Hoffman]

Thanks Brian,

I'll give it a try. Do I need to set the Advances Config to "Exit, ATL + F4?

Dave

If it works that would do it

[dschulpius]

If it works that would do it

OK, I've got it figured out and working now. There was another program running in the background that my .bat file was launching at the same time as decompressing the zip file the games are in and launching dossbox. It was a program called Choice.exe that gives me info about the games about to run and then asks me if I want to keep the files de-compressed after I quit the game. Don't need it, don't want it. Everything runs and quits fine with out that choice and info. I just changed the name of the Choice .exe so when the .bat files look for it, they will just move on to the next command line when not found.

Thanks for the support, Dave