Entering Power Saver after 2 games

[grunger106]

Hi

Just when I thought everything was perfect........

Got a nice windows 7 MC build running well,

Installed GameEx, mame etc.

I can play 2 (mame tested only) so far through the GameEx interface and when I quit the 2nd game to go back to the interface my screen says entering power save and I have to hard reboot to get control of the machine back. The mouse and Kb have no effect.

This also happens with the gameex screensaver, it shows 2 games and then - power saver.

EDIT: If i manually launch the games directly from Mame32 it is OK, its only when quitting a game and going back into GameEx when this happens

I haven't tested any other emulators yet.

Machine is a shuttle SD32

C2D 6300

3Gb DDR2

Geforce 8400GS

DVI hookup to LG 227WD

It only does this within GameEx, I can use Windows Media Centre all day fine.

Any Ideas?

[bkenobi]

I don't think Tom has done extensive testing on Windows 7 at this point. There have been a few reports of problems and I believe he's been checking them out. However, since Windows is still just in RC state, I don't think Tom wanted to work too hard on it yet. I heard release will be in October under the current plan, so it's got to be pretty close at this point.

[grunger106]

I don't think Tom has done extensive testing on Windows 7 at this point. There have been a few reports of problems and I believe he's been checking them out. However, since Windows is still just in RC state, I don't think Tom wanted to work too hard on it yet. I heard release will be in October under the current plan, so it's got to be pretty close at this point.

Yes, Oct 22nd for RTW and probably mid july as a finalised RTM,

I'll continue with GameEx on 7 and see if I can find any work arounds etc and post what I find

[grunger106]

On further investigation it seems to be the Nvidia drivers crashing.

This does not happen if GameEx is windowed when you start the game

It does not happen on emulators other than MAME (I've tried mameui 129 and mame 131 both do the same) but Project64 etc are fine

Edited September 25, 2012 by Draco1962
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