emulators not working :(

[Fullasoul]

Hello,

I'm having a problem getting a few emulators working correctly from within Game EX. The 2 emulators I'm trying to get working at this point are ZSNES and FCE Ultra...and both of them are working perfectly on their own (ie OUTSIDE of Game EX).

First off, for some reason, I can't get ANY of the emulators I'm testing to run fullscreen on this new PC I'm using (except MAME which seems to work perfectly in fullscreen). When running the emus alone outside of Game EX and trying to go fullscreen, FCE Ultra told me something about not being able to draw a second surface (a DirectX error message I believe), and ZSNES just fails. So, I managed to put both of them into a windowed mode that takes up the screen space well anyways...actually ZXNES will allow you to use a windowed mode with the option of "filling" the screen anyways, thus it becomes fullscreen after all. I got FCE Ultra into a windowed mode that worked well for me, then began trying to get them both running inside GameEX. The results were not good

When I go to run FCE Ultra from inside GameEX, I get an error message saying "cannot load "U".zip"....or "cannot load "E".zip".....whatever the last letter of the rom name is, that's what it apparently is trying to load. I've actually tried changing the command line around a few different ways....in fact one without including ROMPATH at all since I've defined it in the emu's config, and no matter what I try, it still does the same thing....it gets to the ROM dir and tries to open what I point to, but only recognizes the last few characters of the ROM name as what is meant to be opened

Then with ZSNES.....it opens the rom properly and apparently begins the emulation...but I don't see it, only hear it. The sound of the game begins, and if I push "start" the game indeed begins....yet there is NO video....just a black screen. Again, when I run this emulator OUTSIDE of Game EX, everything works perfectly

So, does anyone have any idea what could be happening in these scenarios? Any help would be much appreciated....

Fullasoul

[njay]

Hmm the directx error is not good, did you update to the latest directx?

also what video card do you have? update the drivers but for nvidia got 66.91 they are older but faster with gameex

also post your gameex.ini

[djrobx]

In the gameex config, there's an option for "Show Desktop". Set it to true. The feature's purpose is to hide the desktop while the game loads. But, it only works for DirectX games that are full-screen. If the emulator isn't full screen, it becomes part of the desktop which gets blacked out.

What video card are you using?

My command line for fceu is:

fceu.exe "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

and it works fine.

[oxbow]

When I go to run FCE Ultra from inside GameEX, I get an error message saying "cannot load "U".zip"....or "cannot load "E".zip".....whatever the last letter of the rom name is, that's what it apparently is trying to load.

I think you forgot the brackets around the variable. like "[ROMPATH]" in stead of ROMPATH