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Title: MameWah help
Post by: _Iz- on December 06, 2004, 02:58:35 pm

Has anyone else had problems with their desktop being corrupted after exiting mamewah? I'm using ver 1.5.2 and the most common problem I get is my taskbar is missing after exiting. Sometimes my desktop icons are corrupt, once all my quicklaunch icons were blank. If I start and exit mamewah a few times then my taksbar eventually re-appears but the other problems require a reboot to fix.

Title: Re: MameWah help
Post by: jcrouse on December 06, 2004, 03:24:47 pm

It (just the task bar problem) only happens to me with an abnormal shutdown of MameWAH, like if I have to kill the process because of testing or use the CTRL-Alt-Del method. Re-launching it and then shutting it down gracefully has always fixed the video corruption/resolution issues for me.

John

Title: Re: MameWah help
Post by: _Iz- on December 06, 2004, 03:41:07 pm

I have no problems with it crashing. I get these issues with proper shutdown (hitting esc to exit or choosing exit to windows from the menu). I have noticed that the problems are more likely to happen if I actually play a mame game from mamewah as opposed to just opening mamewah, poking around and exiting (without launching a mame game).

Title: Re: MameWah help
Post by: Minwah on December 07, 2004, 04:50:38 am

Not sure about this...what OS are you running Iz?

I have seen a possibly related issue on my desktop.  Very occasionally MAMEWAH will not exit properly and whatever is 'behind' MW does not get refreshed properly (display-wise).  When I go into Task Manager it seems MW is still running although not visible, and not responding.  End Task and all is ok again...

As I say this is very occasional for me, so I haven't been able to trace a problem.  Also not sure if it is relevant but I have always had Explorer running when this has happened.  This has only ever happened since I moved sound/input etc. to DirectX, so it could be an issue with that.

Title: Re: MameWah help
Post by: _Iz- on December 07, 2004, 12:56:23 pm

I'm running WinXP Pro. I also have windows explorer open at all times - I've just started using MameWah 2 days ago and I was launching it by double-clicking the .exe from windows explorer. Next time I exit and the taskbar is missing I'll check the process list to see if mamewah is still running...

Title: Re: MameWah help
Post by: Minwah on December 07, 2004, 01:15:41 pm

Quote from: _Iz- on December 07, 2004, 12:56:23 pm

I'm running WinXP Pro. I also have windows explorer open at all times - I've just started using MameWah 2 days ago and I was launching it by double-clicking the .exe from windows explorer. Next time I exit and the taskbar is missing I'll check the process list to see if mamewah is still running...

Try just not running Explorer at the same time.  I don't on my cab and I have never seen the problem.

Title: Re: MameWah help
Post by: _Iz- on December 08, 2004, 12:36:22 pm

I tried last night launching mamewah from a shortcut and leaving windows explorer (and all other programs) closed. No problems. Very strange bug?

Thanks for the tip...  :)

Title: Re: MameWah help
Post by: Minwah on December 08, 2004, 01:24:39 pm

Quote from: _Iz- on December 08, 2004, 12:36:22 pm

I tried last night launching mamewah from a shortcut and leaving windows explorer (and all other programs) closed. No problems. Very strange bug?

Yeah maybe...it doesn't happen often enough for me to even begin to try and find it :(

But then again MW does assume to some extent that no other programs are running, and I do recommend that so that is my get out clause  ;)