Bugs/Weirdness

[Sliver X]

I've been using GameEx for about 15 months now, and have run into several things that have not gone away after the numerous releases done in that time frame: Things I can't get around one way or another like a few of the other problems I've encountered. Is the the best place to mention them? I don't know, but I figured it couldn't hurt.

Video Previews: I love this function, but don't use it anymore due to some kind of conflict it has with the Jukebox function. If I'm playing music, GameEx will load approximately 15 or so video previews and then start displaying nothing. Not only that, but video playback itself just drops to a black screen from this point forward until GameEx is killed and restarted (Using GameEx's built in player, of course).

It happens using any codec pack I've tried (Including the recommended FFDShow package on GameEx's site) under Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Windows 7 Ultimate x86 and Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Some kind of memory leak in bass.dll? It is a mystery.

Themes: I edit my own themes. A lot. I've hit a snag that's quite annoying, however: I can't seem to get *any* custom WAV files to play. They're just silent. I've tried every bit rate/sampling rate I can think of to no avail.

[Draco1962]

I've been using GameEx for about 15 months now, and have run into several things that have not gone away after the numerous releases done in that time frame: Things I can't get around one way or another like a few of the other problems I've encountered. Is the the best place to mention them? I don't know, but I figured it couldn't hurt.

Video Previews: I love this function, but don't use it anymore due to some kind of conflict it has with the Jukebox function. If I'm playing music, GameEx will load approximately 15 or so video previews and then start displaying nothing. Not only that, but video playback itself just drops to a black screen from this point forward until GameEx is killed and restarted (Using GameEx's built in player, of course).

It happens using any codec pack I've tried (Including the recommended FFDShow package on GameEx's site) under Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Windows 7 Ultimate x86 and Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Some kind of memory leak in bass.dll? It is a mystery.

Themes: I edit my own themes. A lot. I've hit a snag that's quite annoying, however: I can't seem to get *any* custom WAV files to play. They're just silent. I've tried every bit rate/sampling rate I can think of to no avail.

I am running GameEx on a Windows 7 64-bit PC with the Shark Codec Pack and x64 Components Pack. I have had few problems if any with these where as I experienced a few issues with FFDShow (not sure if it is still supported or not). When you say custom WAV files do you mean you are using custom files to replace the IntroSound, exitscreensaver, Launch, Select, etc? Or are you attempting to use with custom emu backgrounds? If the former, I have been able to replace the default wav files with those of my own with no issues.

[Sliver X]

I am running GameEx on a Windows 7 64-bit PC with the Shark Codec Pack and x64 Components Pack. I have had few problems if any with these where as I experienced a few issues with FFDShow (not sure if it is still supported or not). When you say custom WAV files do you mean you are using custom files to replace the IntroSound, exitscreensaver, Launch, Select, etc? Or are you attempting to use with custom emu backgrounds? If the former, I have been able to replace the default wav files with those of my own with no issues.

It turns out GameEx is just picky about WAV files... Anything I edited in Sound Forge was just silent, but using Audacity allowed the ones I made to work. And thank you for the link to that codec pack: I installed the Vista version (Since my MPC runs XP Pro x86) and I've been running the Jukebox + going through video files loading previews for over an hour now without a crash. This is something The Combined Community Codec Pack, KazaaLite Codec Pack and FFDShow failed to do!

*edit* The last theme I did. Now with ripped SFX from American McGee's Alice.

[Draco1962]

It turns out GameEx is just picky about WAV files... Anything I edited in Sound Forge was just silent, but using Audacity allowed the ones I made to work. And thank you for the link to that codec pack: I installed the Vista version (Since my MPC runs XP Pro x86) and I've been running the Jukebox + going through video files loading previews for over an hour now without a crash. This is something The Combined Community Codec Pack, KazaaLite Codec Pack and FFDShow failed to do!

*edit* The last theme I did. Now with ripped SFX from American McGee's Alice.

Hey - glad the codec pack worked for you! Would you mind uploading your theme to share with us at http://www.gameex.net through the Themes link? The peek you gave looks nice!

[Sliver X]

Hey - glad the codec pack worked for you! Would you mind uploading your theme to share with us at http://www.gameex.net through the Themes link? The peek you gave looks nice!

Not really sure how usable my themes are to other people, as I utilize them in a very specific way (Resolution agnostic v3 themes, no custom emulator backgrounds, no graphics for the toolbar, etc), but here's what I've done lately that I consider usable:

http://sliverx.arc-nova.org/files/Thematic.7z (21MB)

There's five themes: You need to run "Doppler.bat" in the MEDIA subfolders to generate the BG images for things like the Jukebox and such; this is for the sake of a smaller file size.