Gameex + CPWizard problem

[DaveS]

Hi All,

I recently lost my old system and have upgraded to a newer system running Vista64. I have everything working fine except for using CPWizard inside Gameex. I have the latest version of CPWizard installed with all of the paths set correctly. I have set the advanced MAME options inside Gameex to use CPWizard. I can use the "preview" feature inside CPWizard fine, but when I try to launch a game or view the controls inside Gameex I simply get a black screen followed by a return to the game list. After a few tries, I get booted from Gameex with the following in the log file:

Launching CPWizard: "C:\Program Files (x86)\CPWizard\CPWizard.exe" -emu mame -game 10yard -show

17:50:20.2 6/22/2010: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured

17:50:20.2 6/22/2010: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

17:50:20.2 6/22/2010: at af.o(Boolean A_0)

at af.ad()

17:50:20.2 6/22/2010: Trying reinitialising the display after sleeping for 4 seconds

17:50:20.2 6/22/2010: Exception count will be dropped to 15

17:50:26.8 6/22/2010: Launching CPWizard: "C:\Program Files (x86)\CPWizard\CPWizard.exe" -emu mame -game 10yard -show

17:50:26.9 6/22/2010: --**--

17:50:26.9 6/22/2010: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting

17:50:26.9 6/22/2010: Closing database connection

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: First Exception:

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: File not found.

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.Shell(String PathName, AppWinStyle Style, Boolean Wait, Int32 Timeout)

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: at af.bp()

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: at af.ad()

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: Last Exception:

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: at af.o(Boolean A_0)

17:50:27.0 6/22/2010: at af.ad()

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

[Tom Speirs]

GameEx thinks the path is wrong, and can't find the file to launch. Although it does look right to me.

[DaveS]

Thanks Tom, that got me on the right path (no pun intended). The executable path was correct, but I went ahead and copied the CPWizard files to another directory and now it works fine. I was wondering if it was a rights issues of some sort.

[keropi]

I *think* it is because the path has the parenthesis ( ) symbols.

I had some PSX isos that had names like: "(PSX) GAME.ISO" , and they did not appear on the game list... after renaming and removing the "(PSX)" part the games became available