GameEx is no longer responds to joystick controls.. any ideas?

[Joe C]

Just looking for some suggestions here..

Arcade has been running great since I finished it months ago. Decided to finally do an update yesterday to the newest version of GameEx and mame. After I did the updates, everything ran fine, but when I turned it on today, Gameex wasn't responding to any of my buttons or the joystick on my tankstick. (with the exception of the trackball)

Nothing that I know of has changed in my configuration; I still have have "Enable custom keyboard" enabled, and I've verified in both wordpad and mame that my tank stick is operational.

Because I haven't seen any other posts relating to this being an issue with the new version, is there something I'm missing here? Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks!

[lingpanda]

Just looking for some suggestions here..

Arcade has been running great since I finished it months ago. Decided to finally do an update yesterday to the newest version of GameEx and mame. After I did the updates, everything ran fine, but when I turned it on today, Gameex wasn't responding to any of my buttons or the joystick on my tankstick. (with the exception of the trackball)

Nothing that I know of has changed in my configuration; I still have have "Enable custom keyboard" enabled, and I've verified in both wordpad and mame that my tank stick is operational.

Because I haven't seen any other posts relating to this being an issue with the new version, is there something I'm missing here? Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks!

Are you using an I-pac or something similiar? Maybe a driver error?

[Joe C]

Are you using an I-pac or something similiar? Maybe a driver error?

That is what gets me, nothing in my configuration has changed, and I can't imagine what driver would be needed?? Again, I can go into wordpad and see the joystick outputs the appropriate keys.

[lingpanda]

That is what gets me, nothing in my configuration has changed, and I can't imagine what driver would be needed?? Again, I can go into wordpad and see the joystick outputs the appropriate keys.

Well if you can go into notepad and see the leys then it's not a driver issue. Can you post your log file after you start GE and exit?

[Joe C]

Well if you can go into notepad and see the leys then it's not a driver issue. Can you post your log file after you start GE and exit?

Good idea. I'll post it this afternoon once I get home from work.

[Joe C]

All,

Attached is a log from this afternoon. Please if anyone sees anything odd, that might fix this, it would be greatly appreciated. Really trying to avoid installing gameex all over again.

*note* I have tried enabling and disabling the direct input - no change

log.txt

[lingpanda]

All,

Attached is a log from this afternoon. Please if anyone sees anything odd, that might fix this, it would be greatly appreciated. Really trying to avoid installing gameex all over again.

*note* I have tried enabling and disabling the direct input - no change

Try turning these two settings off. Also are you able to do a system restore to before you did the updates?

SlikStik support enabled

Using DirectInput for keyboard input

Can anyone tell me what this is "Creating instance of global keyboard hook"?

[Joe C]

Try turning these two settings off. Also are you able to do a system restore to before you did the updates?

SlikStik support enabled

Using DirectInput for keyboard input

Can anyone tell me what this is "Creating instance of global keyboard hook"?

The funny this is that both of these were turned off originally.. Ironically enough, now that I turn both back off, it works... I just don't get it. I guess I will enable and disable several times before posting! Thanks again for the insight lingpanda

[lingpanda]

The funny this is that both of these were turned off originally.. Ironically enough, now that I turn both back off, it works... I just don't get it. I guess I will enable and disable several times before posting! Thanks again for the insight lingpanda

I wonder if updates might reset certain settings to default values? I dunno. Atleast it's working again.