5.09 - Out

[Tom Speirs]

12th September 2005
- GameEx 5.09

• DVD Player now works with
  NVIDIA Codec, and likely a few others too.
  

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[Smiff]

just upgraded from 5.06 to 6.09, nice,

1) just had gameex quit with no error a few seconds after launching a SNES game.. probably not useful.. i'll keep a lookout for cause. having some problem with GameEx getting minimised in general. edit: not seeing this again, maybe a one off.

2) why is that i can often see the desktop after quitting an app ,with ShowDesktop=False? these are apps which quit themselves on ESC, not using mapkeys

3) also got problems with the mouse pointer occasionaly showing up in games, when starting and sometimes while playing, i think sometimes as a result of the mouse being moved. so its not being properly hidden. any ideas there please? :/

edit: i think its apps themselves showing the pointer.. how about a force hide pointer option, per app? bad idea?

5) when inserting coin during attract mode, sound doesnt start (MAME32FX v99u8)

alright sorry i think that takes care of all my outstanding Qs atm !

[Tom Speirs]

just upgraded from 5.06 to 6.09, nice,

1) just had gameex quit with no error a few seconds after launching a SNES game.. probably not useful.. i'll keep a lookout for cause. having some problem with GameEx getting minimised in general. edit: not seeing this again, maybe a one off.

2) why is that i can often see the desktop after quitting an app ,with ShowDesktop=False? these are apps which quit themselves on ESC, not using mapkeys

3) also got problems with the mouse pointer occasionaly showing up in games,  when starting and sometimes while playing, i think sometimes as a result of the mouse being moved. so its not being properly hidden. any ideas there please? :/

edit: i think its apps themselves showing the pointer.. how about a force hide pointer option, per app? bad idea?

5) when inserting coin during attract mode, sound doesnt start (MAME32FX v99u8)

alright sorry i think that takes care of all my outstanding Qs atm ! 

1. What are the problems in general with Minimizing can you explain in more detail?

2. I am assuming it just flashes for a second? This has happened all along as far as I know. Or is this something new?

3. I am not sure the mouse pointer can be controlled outside of GameEx itself. Ill have a look though at some time.

4. No four?

5. This is because youve got attract mode to start with no sound in MAME. You can change this setting.

PS. I dont think these are issues specific to a version, but I guess you posted in a hurry or wernt sure.

Cheers

[Smiff]

no sorry most of those problems arent new to this version, except 1 which i cant replicate but may have been related to using sendkeys - ive no realised Snes9x has a -hidemenu command so ive stopped using sendkeys there, may have helped, or maybe just a freak computer screwup crashing gameex.

2) is not new, but i wonder why sometimes i see desktop and sometimes dont. also you sometimes see all sorts of title bars growing and shrinking (Esp with MAME) whats that all about?

3) i had another idea, how about moving the pointer off screen or to the bottom right corner, this is what some apps do? presumable with a sendkeys type command

4) was supposed to be the getting minimised problem. also i'd like to know how other people handle system standby and resume, but this is probably a topic in itself

5) yeah ill check that sorry.. ok AttractModeAudio =2 , but i thought there was a control to start MAME sound when 5 pressed .. am i going mad? thats not possible is it?

[Tom Speirs]

no sorry most of those problems arent new to this version, except 1 which i cant replicate but may have been related to using sendkeys - ive no realised Snes9x has a -hidemenu command so ive stopped using sendkeys there, may have helped, or maybe just a freak computer screwup crashing gameex.

2) is not new, but i wonder why sometimes i see desktop and sometimes dont. also you sometimes see all sorts of title bars growing and shrinking (Esp with MAME) whats that all about?

3) i had another idea, how about moving the pointer off screen or to the bottom right corner, this is what some apps do? presumable with a sendkeys type command

4) was supposed to be the getting minimised problem. also i'd like to know how other people handle system standby and resume, but this is probably a topic in itself

5) yeah ill check that sorry

1) Keep me posted on that.

2/4) Thats because GameEx minimizes before launching games to free up memory used by the application. Windows animates window changes by default. You can actually disable the window change effects in Windows XP under Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance. Does that help?

3) I already have a function that does that in GameEx. Good idea, Ill look at it.

[Smiff]

oh yeah! i forgot about turning off window animation. f**king good point!

[Smiff]

call this a bug report, i dont know where to post it sorry:

if you start playing a game in attract mode, for me at least, gameex still quits MAME automatically!

[izike]

Hi!

Is there confirmation that this version works with Mame32 .100? I upgraded Mame to .100 a few days ago, and GameEx to 5.09 today. I'm unable to play Mame games now, screen goes black then returns to GameEx. When I play them through Mame it works fine. I updated the game list inside GameEx prior to playing.

Was curious if anyone else had problems before I start troubleshooting on this end. Haven't played in about a week, but no problems prior to upgrading Mame and GameEx. Checked the config, Mame was still setup properly.

izike

[Smiff]

yes it works, you need to remove some obselete command line options..

this works:

MameOptions=-skip_gameinfo -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy -skip_validitychecks

check what else you have on there

[izike]

You the man Smiff, perfect. I had a skip disclaimer command on there that might have done it. I'll have to take a look at the new command line option set, thank you very much for your help.

izike