Gameex and Bioshock

[kenclops]

Hi everyone,

Haven't been around in a long time. Hope everything's going good.

So, I've been adding pc games to my gameex setup and only one of them, Bioshock, seems to have issues with Gameex. Maybe it's because it's a digital copy straight from direct2drive? But here's what happens.

I click on Bioshock to launch it from within Gameex, gameex minimizes and bioshock launches, but before it ever comes up on the screen, Gameex remaximizes, returns to my game selection screen, but then after 5 seconds or so, Bioshock takes over and Gameex disappears. Now I play Bioshock, then I exit Bioshock, and it returns me to my desktop. Gameex is minimized on the taskbar and I move my mouse to the tab, click on gameex, and it returns to full screen.

Is there a reason Bioshock does all of this. I looked to see if it was a launcher. But I can't find anything besides the bioshock.exe. I've also added the -dx9 -nointro to Bioshock command line shortcut to see if that fixes it. But alas, it doesn't.

Anyone have any idea?

Thanks,

Kenclops

[kenclops]

I've also installed the game update to v1.1.

Btw, hi Tom!

[kenclops]

Does this happen to anyone else with Bioshock? Does anyone have Bioshock?

[fRequEnCy]

Does this happen to anyone else with Bioshock? Does anyone have Bioshock?

Sorry kenclops! Don't have Bioshock so hard to tell what's going on exactly. Seems like Bioshock takes focus and then gives back focus to GameEx and then takes it back again. So GameEx doesn't know how to handle the exit of it. Might need an advanced config to handle it or even a wrapper to handle it.

[Tempest]

Sorry kenclops! Don't have Bioshock so hard to tell what's going on exactly. Seems like Bioshock takes focus and then gives back focus to GameEx and then takes it back again. So GameEx doesn't know how to handle the exit of it. Might need an advanced config to handle it or even a wrapper to handle it.

This is what I've been thinking, I've just been waiting for someone else to say it. I don't have Bioshock either, but when fequency says to use a wrapper, it might be as simple as:

Runwait, Bioshock.exe, C:\Emulators\Bioshock

Make sure the Bioshock.exe is the name of your .exe, and C:\Emulators\Bioshock is the path to Bioshock.exe

Enter the text into notepad, and save it as BioshockWrapper.ahk

Right-click on BioshockWrapper.ahk, and choose "compile" (You have to have AutoHotKey installed to do this.)

This creates a file called "BioshockWrapper.exe", put that file into the same folder as BioShock.exe

Point GameEx at BioshockWrapper.exe instead of Bioshock.exe

If you are passing parameters to BioShock.exe, it's a little more complicated, Let us know if you need more help, or if that works for you.

[fRequEnCy]

I'm hoping it might be that easy. But I'm not so sure cuz for some reason the PID is not being recognized correctly or why else would GameEx take back focus? So the script might have to be a little more complicated than that. Also he is passing parameters in the command-line so it will need some tweaking. All we can do is point things out and help you with the script but again it's hard to know exactly what's wrong with it since we don't have it installed in our setup. So we'll take it a step at a time and see what we can come up with.