gameex startup error

[minus4]

hi there,

just installed new version of gameex 5.11 or is it 12

well i get this error on startup, i am running windows.net or windows 2003 depending what you wish to call it.

i have just set up in the config to use mame32fxpp,

i am not sure what to do, so i went to mame config and just changed the mame exe to the fxpp one.

i started mame and got the following dump:

09:42:29.1 23/09/2005: GameEx: Version 5.11: Starting Log

09:42:29.8 23/09/2005: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

09:42:29.8 23/09/2005: Operating System Name: Windows .NET

09:42:29.8 23/09/2005: Operating System Version: 5.2.3790

09:42:29.9 23/09/2005: Checking Registration

09:42:31.0 23/09/2005: Running Randomize()

09:42:31.1 23/09/2005: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

09:42:34.4 23/09/2005: Unable to load DLL (PlayVideoBak.dll).

09:42:35.2 23/09/2005: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING

thanks

[samhain]

It may be the fact that Windows.net/2003 isn't designed for anything outside of a standard server role.

Even though it is similar to Windows XP, the core configurations are not designed for multimedia or games. The memory handler itself is completely different from the home/pro versions of windows and that can cause issues.

Even the .net framework can be different on a WIndows 2003 server as it's designed more for providing server side application services vs client services.

Personally, I would only run software on a windows server that was designed for a windows server and leave it at that. Any server system that comes with the sound disabled as default should point that out.

[minus4]

nope, i know what it is for...... i have it installed to do my exams

but it allready runs gamex, until latest upgrade.

i dont play on this machine, it is just networked to the arcade machine i have, and i use this for testing first,,,,, and if all is okay it then goes onto the win2k arcade machine.

but thanks for the lesson on windows.net

[samhain]

Not a problem... I run a few racks of servers and I'm always being asked to install programs that were not designed for 2003 on them.

Hope everything works out though.

Good luck on the exams... watch out for the AD design if you take it (I'm assuming your going for an MCSE) as it's a tough one.

[minus4]

yes mcse, just got all the software and everything on dvd

I hope to start in web hosting services, for real tho not re-seller stuff

[thefunkygibbon]

i get the same error.

posted a thread about it here

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=635

let us know if any of the solutions help. i have had to use the old dll's from version 4.x for it to work

[djrobx]

GameEx runs fine on my 2003 server. What we inconclusively determined in the above mentioned thread is that this issue can be caused by a certain .Net Framework 2.0 beta version. Installing the latest version of .NET framework may help but it may also be being caused by something else which we haven't determined yet.

[minus4]

okay i will try a newer version of .net framework.

however it is strange tho that it suddenly needs a new .net install

maybe something is happening when the new patches over the old,

but only when you have used a certain setting on the old version of gameex.

see i turned off play video files in gameex config....... this is the only new thing i have done.

i have then upgraded and got the error, so maybe that is something to look at??? maybe

ta

[thefunkygibbon]

GameEx runs fine on my 2003 server.  What we inconclusively determined in the above mentioned thread is that this issue can be caused by a certain .Net Framework 2.0 beta version.  Installing the latest version of .NET framework may help but it may also be being caused by something else which we haven't determined yet.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

not really, no. i installed latest .net beta and still didnt work, also uninstalled it and it still didnt work even though it should work without new .net.

[thefunkygibbon]

okay i  will try a newer version of .net framework.

however it is strange tho that it suddenly needs a new .net install

maybe something is happening when the new patches over the old,

but only when you have used a certain setting on the old version of gameex.

see i turned off play video files in gameex config....... this is the only new thing i have done.

i have then upgraded and got the error, so maybe that is something to look at??? maybe

ta

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

also dont think so since i have reinstalled it from fresh (it keeps settings in file not registry) so unless its a setting that is now a default setting while it wasnt before i doubt its a setting related issue.