Never ending update

[Cpieczonka]

I have gameex purchase thru dreamauthentics...the software seems to work fine, but i would like to update to a more recent version. My log file looks like i have 11.25, but every time the software starts it asks to download a new version. Apparently it does this and looks like it is intalling correctly, but then goes back to gameex and asks to download a new version. This keeps going and going, and never stops.

If i hit the backspace button to get out i van use gameex normally.

I have posted my most recent log below, but dont know if this is reflective of the current problems or not as it is not really crashing gameex, It looks like the log is from several weeks ago, but i dont know how to post an updated log or have gameex generate a new one.

I would love to update to the newer version with youtube supprt but dont know aht to do next. Thanks in advance.

Cpieczonka

23:12:18.7 23/09/2010: GameEx: Version 11.25: Starting Log

23:12:18.7 23/09/2010: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

23:12:18.7 23/09/2010: Operating System Name: Windows 7

23:12:18.7 23/09/2010: Operating System Version: 6.1.7600

23:12:18.7 23/09/2010: Aero running

23:12:18.7 23/09/2010: Initializing Vista/Windows 7 volume control

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: .net Framework 2.0 Installed

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: .net Framework 3.0 Installed

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: .net Framework 3.5 Installed

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Intel® Core i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz, 6142MB

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: 3.15Ghz - 4 Cores or CPU's

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Running Randomize()

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Loading PlugIns

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Running Misc startup tasks

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Setting Menu types

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Opening Configuration File

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Getting Configuration Values

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Using Theme: Default - Media Center

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Media Center

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Using Images from theme: Default - Media Center V1\MEDIA\

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: GameEx will check for media insertion (may affect performance)

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Is Media Center running?

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Media Center Mode 2

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Snap Delay set to: 2

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Get other settings

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Start work for Form

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Getting Original Screen Size

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Opening Database Connection

23:12:18.8 23/09/2010: Initializing Component

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Retrieving resolution setting

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: MAME Path is: G:\Mame32

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Client/Server MAME Path is: G:\Mame32

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Client/Server MAME EXE file is: vmame.exe

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Use Client/Server MAME On. vmame.exe will launch NetPlay games

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: MAME EXE file is: vmame.exe

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Cannot find the ROM path: C:\Emulators\Mame32\roms

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: ROM Paths are: G:\-DATA-\-MAME ROMS-

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Catver.ini is located at: G:\-DATA-\-MY PROJECTS-\GameEx - VB.net\bin\DATA\catver.ini

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: controls.ini is located at: G:\-DATA-\-MY PROJECTS-\GameEx - VB.net\bin\data\controls.ini

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: History.dat is located at: G:\-DATA-\-MY PROJECTS-\GameEx - VB.net\bin\DATA\history.dat

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: nplayers.ini is located at: G:\-DATA-\-MY PROJECTS-\GameEx - VB.net\bin\DATA\nplayers.ini

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: command.dat is located at: G:\-DATA-\-MY PROJECTS-\GameEx - VB.net\bin\DATA\command.dat

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: G:\-DATA-\-MY PROJECTS-\GameEx - VB.net\bin\DATA\mameinfo.dat

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Loading Controls.ini map file

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Snap Path is: G:\Mame32\snap

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: AVI Snap Path is: G:\Mame32\EMUMOVIES SQ

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Flyer Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Cabinet Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Cabinet 3D Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Title Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: PCB Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Artwork Preview Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Panel Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Manual Path: Not Found

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Icon Path is: G:\Mame32\icons

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Marquee Path is: G:\Mame32\marquees

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Loading Custom Emulators

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo 64 Games

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Loading Emulator 2: Nintendo SNES games

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Loading Emulator 4: Nintendo NES Gamest

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Loading Emulator 5: Atari 2600 Games

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Using Version 3 Themes Animations

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Initialising Direct3D

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

23:12:18.9 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces

23:12:19.0 23/09/2010: Creating Primary Surface - Windowed Mode

23:12:19.0 23/09/2010: Creating Back Buffer

23:12:19.0 23/09/2010: Loading graphic Surfaces

23:12:19.0 23/09/2010: Display is running at: 1280x720 32bit color, 60hz

23:12:19.0 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Flags

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Volume

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Arrows

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surface Unselected

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Snaps

23:12:19.1 23/09/2010: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars

23:12:19.3 23/09/2010: Creating Fonts

23:12:19.3 23/09/2010: Creating Game Font

23:12:19.3 23/09/2010: Creating Game Font Faded

23:12:19.4 23/09/2010: Creating Title Font

23:12:19.4 23/09/2010: Restoring Title Font From Cache

23:12:19.4 23/09/2010: Creating Font Black

23:12:19.5 23/09/2010: Creating Font Black Small

23:12:19.5 23/09/2010: Fonts Created Succesfully

23:12:19.5 23/09/2010: Initialising Bass Audio Library

23:12:19.5 23/09/2010: Creating instance of global keyboard hook

23:12:19.8 23/09/2010: Playing Startup Video On Thread

23:12:19.8 23/09/2010: Attempting to load game list

23:12:19.9 23/09/2010: Applying Language/Text

23:12:19.9 23/09/2010: Text/Language: English

23:12:19.9 23/09/2010: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo

23:12:19.9 23/09/2010: Loading last used Game List

23:12:19.9 23/09/2010: Creating DirectSound Device

23:12:19.9 23/09/2010: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

23:12:19.9 23/09/2010: Loading Sound Files

23:12:20.0 23/09/2010: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

23:12:20.0 23/09/2010: Creating ICONS

23:12:20.0 23/09/2010: Restoring Cached ICONS from File

23:12:20.1 23/09/2010: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support

23:12:20.1 23/09/2010: Unable to create a joystick device

23:12:20.1 23/09/2010: Initializing MCE Remote

23:12:31.1 23/09/2010: Playing intro sound file

23:12:31.1 23/09/2010: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

23:12:31.1 23/09/2010: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

23:12:31.2 23/09/2010: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Custom Background: C:\Users\tspeirs\Desktop\Download Service\Nintendo_SNES\Video_AVI

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Snap Path: C:\Users\tspeirs\Desktop\Download Service\Nintendo_SNES\Video_AVI

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Snap Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Custom Art Path 1: C:\eBooks

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Custom Art Path 1 Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Custom Art Path 2:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Custom Art Path 2 Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Custom Art Path 3:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Custom Art Path 3 Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Control Panel Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Control Panel Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Instructions Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Instructions Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Database: [Console] Nintendo SNES

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Title Snap Path: C:\Users\tspeirs\Desktop\Download Service\Nintendo_SNES\Title

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Title Snap Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Box Art Path: C:\Users\tspeirs\Desktop\Download Service\Nintendo_SNES\Box

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Box Art Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Cart Art Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Cart Art Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Music Path: C:\Users\tspeirs\Desktop\Test Game Music

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: TV Ad Path: C:\Users\tspeirs\Desktop\Test TV ADS

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: TV Ad Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_2: Manual Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_2: Manual Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Custom Background:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Custom Background Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Snap Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Snap Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Custom Art Path 1:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Custom Art Path 1 Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Custom Art Path 2: C:\Documents and Settings\TSpeirs\Desktop\2D_atari

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Custom Art Path 2 Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Custom Art Path 3:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Custom Art Path 3 Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Control Panel Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Control Panel Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Instructions Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Instructions Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Database: [Console] Nintendo NES

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Title Snap Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Title Snap Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Box Art Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Box Art Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Cart Art Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Cart Art Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Music Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Music Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: TV Ad Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: TV Ad Path Does not exist

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Validating: Emulator_4: Manual Path:

23:13:02.2 23/09/2010: Warning: Emulator_4: Manual Path Does not exist

23:13:44.7 23/09/2010: Exiting GameEx!

23:13:44.7 23/09/2010: Saving Settings

23:13:44.7 23/09/2010: Disposing Plugins

23:13:44.7 23/09/2010: Closing database connection

23:13:44.8 23/09/2010: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit

23:13:44.8 23/09/2010: Media Center was not open when starting GameEx, so not launching

[Brian Hoffman]

Download the setup from the Gameex.net homepage and install. That should put you at ver 11.33

[Cpieczonka]

  On 11/7/2010 at 4:07 AM, Brian Hoffman said:

Download the setup from the Gameex.net homepage and install. That should put you at ver 11.33

will this alter my dreamauthentics version and emulator settings?

[Brian Hoffman]

  On 11/7/2010 at 4:55 AM, Cpieczonka said:

will this alter my dreamauthentics version and emulator settings?

DA version is still Gameex with some logos.. Update are designed to not overwrite settings. Feel free to backup your Gameex.ini if you feel nervous.

[Cpieczonka]

Ok I downloaded and installed 11.33 (I think). It went thru the install menu and looked like it was installing. Yet when I enter into

Gameex again it is asking to update still

How do i determine if it went to version 11.33. Is there an "about" feature that will tell me?

Additionally I would post another log file but it appears to be the same as before so I am not sure that my problem is solved

I can hit the backspace button to trick gameex into not asking for updating "hit back to cancel", but it keeps thinking something needs to be done. Thanks.

[Draco1962]

Brian/All - Sounds to me like he may not be updating the old DA version, possibly due to the default path of that install. Feel free to correct me if I am worng.

Cpieczonka - Can you confirm for us what the install path is for your DA version of GameEx is? By default, GameEx (for non-DA users) installs in C:\GameEx when downloaded and ran.

[Brian Hoffman]

  On 11/7/2010 at 1:16 PM, Draco1962 said:

Brian/All - Sounds to me like he may not be updating the old DA version, possibly due to the default path of that install. Feel free to correct me if I am worng.

Cpieczonka - Can you confirm for us what the install path is for your DA version of GameEx is? By default, GameEx (for non-DA users) installs in C:\GameEx when downloaded and ran.

Well, older versions of GX do install to the Program Files folder. However you could be right and it would make since. Cpieczonka can always see where is Gameex shortcut is pointing to and manually install to that directory.

[Cpieczonka]

  On 11/7/2010 at 3:41 PM, Brian Hoffman said:

Well, older versions of GX do install to the Program Files folder. However you could be right and it would make since. Cpieczonka can always see where is Gameex shortcut is pointing to and manually install to that directory.

In my case the gameex is installed in the main c root directory. It is not installed in the program . The software seems to work fine except I must hit backspace without hitting anything else or it will try to update over and over.

Thanks in advance.

[Draco1962]

This process has worked for some and may work for you - in the GameEx>Data directory, delete all files with cache in the file name. Reboot, then try to reinstall through the update process. If this doesn't resolve the issue, delete the cache files in the GameEx>Data directory again, then install from download. As always, you may want to backup your GameEx directory prior to attempting.

[Cpieczonka]

ok you guys are really gonna think i am dumb (wouldnt be the first time someone accused me of this, but i digress)

i in fact have two copies of gameex running...when i quickly check before i do hae a perfectly good gameex version 11.33 with youtube support etc in my c:/gameex folder

i also have one in the program files/gameex subdirectory...this one is in fact where the shortcut goes to...i was somewhat obtuse on this as the DA version automatically loads

anyways

now i am unsure what to do as i would like to use the 11.33 version without having to reconfigure everthing

what would you suggest i do going forward from here...perhaps i should use the uninstall feature of the 11.33 and then reinstall in the c:/program files/gameex directroy...

if i do this though will this kill the never ending update

thanks so much time for the attention and answers

[Adultery]

Hmm... that's odd that it did that on you. Maybe you should back up before you remove just in case something gets fouled up somewhere...

If it's not the install on the root of C: you're using delete that directory and update again. My worry for you is that uninstalling it will make your reg key not function. I think all the reg entries are stored in the same place but not 100% on that.

[Tom Speirs]

You just need to do a manual install but tell it which location you want to install it to.

Edited August 10, 2012 by Draco1962
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