attract mode help!

[Herbiman44]

hi there guys, i am a great fan of gameex and supporter orf the work tom and guys have done. thisis my first post (mainly due to not having any problems!) so please go easy on me! I have Gameex on all of my 3 (soon to be 4) mame cabinets, however i seem to be having just one problem with the attract mode on two of my machines.

the attract mode works great if you reboot and then go into gameex without playing any games (or launching mame) but if you play a game then exit it back to the menu and leave the machine to go into attract mode it just flickers to a black screen for a second and goes back to the gameex menu and does this on a continious loop for however long i have set the attract mode for (which is currently every 5 mins)

im pretty sure it didnt start off doing this on these machines so it must be something i have done in error (i hope)

please can someone help?

both are identical

amd 4gig 64s

with gigabyte 3d1 graphics and motherboard, 1gb ram

windows xp

newist drivers for everything

x_arcade controller

with thanks

Danny

[Tom Speirs]

hi there guys, i am a great fan of gameex and supporter orf the work tom and guys have done. thisis  my first post (mainly due to not having any problems!) so please go easy on me! I have Gameex on all of my 3 (soon to be 4) mame cabinets, however i seem to be having just one problem with the attract mode on two of my machines.

the attract mode works great if you reboot and then go into gameex without playing any games (or launching mame) but if you play a game then exit it back to the menu and leave the machine to go into attract mode it just flickers to a black screen for a second and goes back to the gameex menu and does this on a continious loop for however long i have set the attract mode for (which is currently every 5 mins)

im pretty sure it didnt start off doing this on these machines so it must be something i have done in error (i hope)

please can someone help?

both are identical

amd 4gig 64s

with gigabyte 3d1 graphics and motherboard, 1gb ram

windows xp

newist drivers for everything

x_arcade controller

with thanks

Danny

Not too sure off hand without a little more digging. Can you please provide the gameex log for a machine that is doing this, along with the version and build of MAME you are using. It may be its just a bug with whatever MAME build your using. Dont know for sure, but it would be worth playing with different versions etc.

[Herbiman44]

HI there tom, i have tried using differnt versions of mame (.98,.99, and 100) and it still seems to happen, as you can see from my log it works fine if you leave gameex from launch to go into attract mode, however if you play a game for a bit then exit that game and leave gameex to go into attract mode it just goes to launch it bu then dies and returns to the gameex main start screen

anyways here is my log (attached) i am currently using mame version .100

thaanks for your help

danny