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CPWizard v2.63 Released
raungst:
I love CPWizard but I'm having a ton of issues with it playing nice with MaLa. Because of this, I'm searching for solutions to use the abilities of CPWizard (mainly the export image feature) to try work around my troubles. Are there any AHK scripts or anything that can display the images with a keypress in or out of MAME? Or is the intention to use them as bezels and access them with tab? I saw that there used to be a bezel diff that would display the images during a pause, but it seems it wasn't updated as MAME progressed. Any ideas?
My issue with MaLa and CPWizard is that it takes CPWizard (or MaLa, I'm not sure) 10 seconds to bring up the control panel after launching a game if I have MaLa as the shell in windows XP. If I run it outside with explorer running, it takes 2 seconds (which still seems a little long). I'm searching for a solution that's somewhat more instant. Even if I can't get it show after launching a game, it would be nice to get it inside MAME with out having to access the tab menu (I don't have Tab on my control panel).
I know that's a lot of questions... I appreciate any input.
Thanks!
headkaze:
Have you got the "Dynamic Data Loading" option enabled by any chance? That means all data is loaded as needed rather than at first launch.
Also are you launching CPWizard each time or leaving it launched from startup? If you launch it from startup and leave it launched then send it the command line options it should be quicker.
There is also the bezel option which displays your layout inside MAME without the need for CPWizard running.
If these things don't solve your problem you can try exporting images and looking at Marquee Magician.
raungst:
With MaLa shelled it's difficult to know if it's launching it standalone each time. I've tried having it run it with -minimized first when MaLa loads, but it doesn't change anything. I've tried it with both dynamic and not dynamic. I didn't see a huge difference. Now that I write all this down, it makes me think it's opening new cpwizards each time. I'm not sure how to fix that.
It looks like the bezel patch works in 0137, though on a different line. I'm having issues recompiling it (see mame compiler thread), but if I can get it working I believe my speed issue will be addressed.
Thanks for the quick reply.
headkaze:
For older machines I recommend the bezel patch method.
raungst:
It's a core2duo. Not new, but not old per se. I think the bezel patch is the right way for me too, given the issues I seem to be having. I'll keep trying to recompile. Can you take a look at your stickied mame compiler 64 thread. I get an error when I try to recompile version 0.137. Thanks so much for your help.