CP Completely freezing during gameex use???

[aldub516]

Hey guys. First off as always, thank you. This forum is a godsend. I recently posted this problem at the gameex forums, but i cannot pinpoint if this is a gameex specific issue, or hardware or what, so i will copy and paste my post and updates from there. I appreciate any help coming my way.

1st post:
Recently, as i start up gameex, everything works fine. Im running an ultimate io ipac. All controls work, menus, no problem. BUT, it seems that after scrolling through my game menu for a few minutes, wheter continuous scroll, or one by one with the joystick, after a minute or 2, i lose responsiveness. No buttons, joysticks, or even my keyboard will work at all, although my trackball and spinner do work. I have to unplug my ipac and replug it in and it works again. With that being said, i have not encountered this problem during game play. ONLY when browsing lists do i eventually lose functionality. I cannot replicate this in regular mame, or anywhere else. Im led to believe perhaps its a sticky keys TYPE of situation going on within the settings of gameex or my pc, where repetitive use of the joystick is causing a weird reaction, but have no idea. I did not have this problem in the past and it recently started. Again please let me know if my logs and such are needed, but seeing as everything becomes responsive after un plugging and re plugging the ipac, it doesnt seem like gameex is crashing. Id blame it on the ipac, but it does not do this in regular mame, and i also never lose trackball/spinner use. Thank you in advance for the help.

Someone suggest i check my touchscreen settings to make sure they were disabled, which they were, so i continued on...

2nd post:
to add this, something else i realized just now.. if the controls dont completely freeze, then they get stuck on whatever button i was using. Example, just now i was holding the down joystick to see if i can pinpoint a certain time when the freeze would happen. After making it through most of the list, i began tapping down one by one to go down the list. Eventually the down just stuck and the list would just keep going down until it hits the end. I cannot interrupt this or stop it and afterwards, lose all responsiveness again. Id like to figure out if this is software or hardware related, but again, i cannot replicate this in mame or any other program

3rd post:
My touchscreen setting were already disabled, so i enabled and re-disabled just for the hell of it. Started gameex, and scrolled through my whole game list up and down multiple times, basically trying trying to freeze it, but it worked fine. I then tried to scroll with the trackball, and it completely froze everything. Where as before only the buttons and joysticks and keyboard would freeze, i now froze the trackball as well. As always unplugging and replugging the ipac fixes it all
 
Here is the big problem, there is no consistency. I restarted gameex, and the very first thing i did was scroll with the trackball which INSTANTLY froze everything, so i figured maybe its the trackball? But after restarting gameex yet again, i am scrolling with the trackball with no problem. infact minus this one time, the trackball has never froze.. There is no constant in this trouble shoot. Sometimes the joys and keys work for a few minutes before freezing, and now they worked fine until i touched the trackball.. then i tried only using a trackball which froze, and now im on my 5th try, and the trackball is working fine
 
One thing i noticed was that i was able to ctrl tab, and would see my mouse cursor for a moment, so im thinking maybe somethings happenening in the backround? As im typing this im currently hitting every button, key and track ball i can to "break" it, and now its working fine.. but clearly this inconsistency is unacceptable. Its just tough to trouble shoot as i cant tell if its the pc falling into a weird error with all the inputs, if its the ipac jamming up, or if its gameex itself.. Would it help if i uploaded the ini and logs every time something different affects it? Ie trackball, or buttons etc
 
edit:: it might be worth noting that i now recall i unplugged my spinner a few weeks ago because it was freezing everything, so my spinner is currently not connected.. but that is what initially started freezing for me.



Sorry for the epic long read, but this is a very weird problem and is ranging from everything freezing, to the "down" input getting stuck. Any questions or concerns, please ask. ill be up all night hating my life working on this..

thank you as always. I figured if its not gameex software problem, maybe someones aware of an ipac issue or something