GameEx 5.21 - Released

[Tom Speirs]

25th November 2005
- GameEx 5.21

• Should really fix exception
  on exit now. This was caused by some unmanaged
  threads still running when GameEx closed.
• Background Ambience now
  resumes after launching a game. It also now
  restarts when its reached the end.
• The showdesktop setting no
  longer shows the desktop it just tells the HideOS
  app that runs in the background not to be above
  all windows. So for all your emulators and apps
  that need showdesktop you should just see a black
  screen when transitioning to and from GameEx as
  when not using show desktop. If this makea some of
  your apps/emus just have a black screen please
  report on the forum, I've tested with Visual
  Pinball and Mad Dog Mcree. Although it may need
  some timing tweaking.
• Awesome news for Visual
  Pinball
  

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[headkaze]

I'll give it a try... and don't forget http://www.futurepinball.com/ if you like pinball!

[headkaze]

Hmm, dosn't work for me, I get a blank screen then "Powered by VisualPinMame" logo, the LCD display comes up, but I have to alt-tab to get the actual table to show.

EDIT: BTW isn't jukebox supposed to return to the last song and play position when you exit back to the front end? It seems to play a different song for me.

[Smiff]

just updated from 5.18 to 5.22

good: transition into and out of ZoomPlayer and PJ64 seems good, no desktop, quick, and no more sound stutter, woohoo!

bad: flickery CursorXP cursor again. still not 100% sure this gameex fault, can i roll back to find out (is it safe to install 5.18 over 5.22 for example?)

not fully tested yet

not installed .net 2.0 yet (is it safe?!)

update: had gameex 5.22 silently crash (left snes9x running for several hours, when exiting game, gameex was not there, nor its thread either). never seen that before. ideas? :/ (btw in case it helps, gameex could not have exited voluntarily because i have a script which gameex runs to shut down the system when gameex exits gracefully).

tried a few more times with snes9x runnig for short periods of time and can't recreate.

[bobross]

Hmm, dosn't work for me, I get a blank screen then "Powered by VisualPinMame" logo, the LCD display comes up, but I have to alt-tab to get the actual table to show.

Same here. I still only get the LCD dispalay, I'm using 5.22.