Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

  

Author Topic: All controls stop responding!!!  (Read 1008 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

crashwg

  • Trade Count: (+10)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3076
  • Last login:May 24, 2019, 11:01:05 am
All controls stop responding!!!
« on: July 01, 2004, 03:08:31 pm »
I'm hoping someone can explain why, when I'm playing mame, that all controls become unresponsive for a few seconds.

I'm using MAME32 0.83 on winxp.  Just about every game I've played has done it once or twice.  I've used a Playstation controler attached through a radioshack converter, real controls attached through an Mini-Pac and just a keyboard and it has happened with all methods.

It seems as though the computer takes the button(s) I'm pressing at the time and just continues to send that command to mame for, I'd say 2 or 3 secconds.  

For instance, if I'm walking in one direction and shooting, I decide to turn arround and throw a grenade, but nothing happens.  I start mashing buttons and cursing because I'm about to die!!! but still nothing happens and then at the last second before my life is completly gone controll is returned and I save myself.

I can't say for sure that it has happened more than once in a game and it doesn't happen all the time either.

Anyone experience something simmilar?  How do I fix it?
If there's bees in the trap I'm catching em
By the thorax and abdomen
And sanding the stingers down to a rough quill
Then I dip em in ink, and I scribble a bit
But if it they wriggle then I tickle em until they hold still
Lemme say it again
In my land of pretend
I use bees as a mf'n pen

Santoro

  • Purveyor of Shiny Arcade Goodness
  • Santoro
  • Trade Count: (+32)
  • Full Member
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3055
  • Last login:July 14, 2025, 03:43:29 pm
  • Boycott Quarters!!!
    • ArcadeReplay!
Re:All controls stop responding!!!
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2004, 04:00:09 pm »
I have no idea for sure, but maybe tinker with the keyboard repeat (typematic) rate in XP control panel or in the BIOS?

Just a thought.

zaphod

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 582
  • Last login:September 04, 2012, 11:11:38 am
    • ArcadeCab.com
Re:All controls stop responding!!!
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2004, 04:06:11 pm »
Is this an arcade-only machine or do you also surf on it, etc?  I would guess you have some resident processes that occasionally are sapping resources.  How much memory do you have?  Could it be paging on you?

crashwg

  • Trade Count: (+10)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3076
  • Last login:May 24, 2019, 11:01:05 am
Re:All controls stop responding!!!
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2004, 05:42:11 pm »
I'm going to assume Zaphod is correct on this one.

This is on the main computer of the house.  Used for just about everything, it probably just doesn't have the resources.
If there's bees in the trap I'm catching em
By the thorax and abdomen
And sanding the stingers down to a rough quill
Then I dip em in ink, and I scribble a bit
But if it they wriggle then I tickle em until they hold still
Lemme say it again
In my land of pretend
I use bees as a mf'n pen

J_K_M_A_N

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 983
  • Last login:July 08, 2025, 08:22:37 am
Re:All controls stop responding!!!
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2004, 06:14:53 pm »
I would also check to see if any of the Accessibility Options are checked. Just go into the control panel and click on Accessibility Options and unckeck them all. You may also have to go into the settings on each and uncheck all the options and unckeck the use shortcut box. Good luck.

J_K_M_A_N

fredster

  • Grand Prophet of Arcadeology
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2267
  • Last login:February 16, 2019, 04:28:53 pm
  • It's all good!
Re:All controls stop responding!!!
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2004, 12:46:52 am »
I think it's the XP. It's polling something. It's looking for an answer from some piece of hardware.

Where are our XP experts?
King of the Flying Monkeys from the Dark Side

maraxle

  • Guest
  • Trade Count: (0)
Re:All controls stop responding!!!
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2004, 09:42:02 am »
Turn off indexing on your drives.