Gameex will not work for some odd reason

[LucasBarton]

Ok, out of the blue Gameex stopped working and I have no idea why. I didn't delete anything, rename anything, move anything, it just stopped working. I decided to update to the latest version and it didn't fix the problem. Here's what it keeps saying:

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: GameEx: Version 10.15: Starting L

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: Operating System Name: Windows XP

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: .net Framework 1.1 Installed

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: .net Framework 2.0 Installed

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: Intel® Celeron® CPU 2.80GHz, 1023MB

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: 2.8Ghz

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: Running Randomize()

15:40:04.2 6/24/2009: Loading PlugIns

15:40:04.6 6/24/2009: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

15:40:04.7 6/24/2009: Running Misc startup tasks

15:40:04.7 6/24/2009: Setting Menu types

15:40:04.7 6/24/2009: Opening Configuration File

15:40:04.7 6/24/2009: Getting Configuration Values

15:40:04.7 6/24/2009: Using Theme: Default - Future Retro

15:40:04.7 6/24/2009: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Future Retro

15:40:04.8 6/24/2009: Launching HideOS.exe

15:40:04.8 6/24/2009: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

15:40:05.0 6/24/2009: GameEx will check for media insertion (may affect performance)

15:40:05.0 6/24/2009: Hiding Taskbar

15:40:05.0 6/24/2009: Is Media Center running?

15:40:05.0 6/24/2009: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values

15:40:05.1 6/24/2009: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

15:40:05.1 6/24/2009: Media Center Mode 2

15:40:05.3 6/24/2009: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems

15:40:05.4 6/24/2009: Custom Game Device Input enabled: Getting custom codes

15:40:05.5 6/24/2009: Snap Delay set to: 2

15:40:05.5 6/24/2009: Get other settings

15:40:05.7 6/24/2009: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black

15:40:05.7 6/24/2009: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis

15:40:05.7 6/24/2009: Start work for Form

15:40:05.7 6/24/2009: Getting Original Screen Size

15:40:05.7 6/24/2009: Opening Database Connection

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: --**--

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: Error: Unrecognized database format 'C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\data.mdb'.

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection)

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject)

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnect

ion owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup)

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection)

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at t.a(Boolean A_0, String A_1, Boolean A_2)

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: at t..ctor()

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: Disposing Plugins

15:40:05.8 6/24/2009: GameEx is exiting with errors

15:40:07.5 6/24/2009: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING

Also, before all this happened, my gameex registration key stopped working. Tom told me to launch the file, but how do you launch a .gxkey file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bkenobi]

That's a registry file, so you should be able to just double click on it. If that doesn't work, you might try renaming it to ".reg". Alternately, you can open regedit and import the file.

GameEx appears to be puking on the main database. I don't know why it would be a problem though.

[LucasBarton]

That's a registry file, so you should be able to just double click on it. If that doesn't work, you might try renaming it to ".reg". Alternately, you can open regedit and import the file.

GameEx appears to be puking on the main database. I don't know why it would be a problem though.

Thanks, for some reason it worked now. I didn't have to rename it or anything. Very odd. As for the database problem, I had to copy and paste a new database file from an older Gameex to get it to work. Strange, one minute Gameex was working fine, the next it wasn't. Computers are such a pain in the arse sometimes.

[bkenobi]

Agreed