I bought an AimTrak light gun to use with GroovyMAME (MAME 0.200) on my 15khz CRT. I'm running Windows 10, all up to date, on a pretty much brand new mini-ATX computer build. I've been using every bit of spare time for over two months now!!! to get this to work and no matter what, I can't get it to work for longer than 5 minutes, maybe 15 minutes max, then the crosshairs disappear on screen so I can't aim, although I can still press the trigger and it'll fire. Sometimes if I exit from GroovyMAME and unplug and re-plug the gun in it'll work again.
I've been working with arcadeusa127 on eBay who I bought this from, and then he introduced me to Andy at AimTrak (both REALLY excellent, helpful, and super nice guys), and neither can figure it out. I've tried all the regular things like making sure I use USB 2.0 ports (and tried the 6x or so 3.0 ports as well) to compensate for the longer cord length. They even sent me a brand new cable + chip for the gun which I installed - same thing happens on that as well. Think when I first got it I tried a powered USB hub as well. Only thing we haven't replaced is the IR bar (which shows as being lit when I look at it through my camera, and I use for Wii all the time just fine for hours).
I've had no problem on this computer with USB ports, and they have run every keyboard, mouse, personal cooling fans, LED lights, external hard drives, CD/DVD burners, USB fightsticks, etc. etc. etc. from any of the USB ports, so I really don't think the ports are bad (it's an ASRock H270M-ITX/ac Mini ITX Motherboard if that matters - no USB MB drivers needed for this from what I can tell fyi).
Andy says there's approximately 1000+ people using these on Windows 10 so I really don't know what else to look into...and to my knowledge there's NO other light gun I can even attempt to use with GroovyMAME on a Windows 10 PC, right? So it's not like there's any other options so I really, really, REALLY don't want to give up on this project as that means I'll never be able to play light gun games (without a crappy regular mouse) unless I start my own home arcade with original cabinets (which isn't an option, sadly
For some more background I used to think this was a USB driver problem, even though the AimTrak uses Windows 10 standard/default mouse drivers. I was on occasion hearing the chime Windows 10 plays to tell you a new driver was loaded, or a USB device was unplugged - I can't confirm this as I always turn on the 4x wireless Xbox 360 fightsticks before I start MAME, and it could very well have been those timing out and turning off (they have a battery save mode or whatnot)...but I do know that many times, right after hearing that chime, the light gun would stop working (other times it still worked, or I didn't hear that chime so I really have no clue...just mentioning it just in case it helps diagnose).
Does anybody have any suggestions? I don't have another PC to test unless I boot one of my Mac's into Bootcamp mode and do a new installation on those (which would be on a LCD/Flatscreen).