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good idea, I forgot those were in a separate forum! thanks

First, I dont mean to take anything away from your solution couslev as its brilliant in its own right. Had I read this post before making this I probably would have just done what you did and look for gameoverlayui.exe. But anyway, I finished my steam game loader. It should work with any steam game or regular pc game including ones that have their own launcher. The principal is similar to couslev's solution except it attempts to use the proper running process instead of steams gameoverlayui.exe. It also is able to click through launchers and stuff like that. Heres the download: http://www.mediafire...8v7dgjm7hvz4cvp Basic instructions are included in the zip file or go to http://wp.me/p10EGr-S. but basically you set it up as if the program was an an emulator and then your game links were roms. That way when you get a new game all you have to do is drop the shortcut steam makes into your rom folder and your good to go. Just use: ugl.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]" command line. It will accept lnk, url and exe files. If your using games with a launcher, it will automatically click the start buttons for you with minimal configuration. Use the included mouse position tool to get the info needed and then just enter it in the ini file. I also included a tool that will close the Steam Offline popup if you are like me and use steam in offline mode on your htpc. Just put in your startup folder and it will wait 60 seconds for the window to appear and close it if it does. Otherwise it will just close itself after the times up. I mostly use gamebrowser for my PC games and Gameex for roms, so it has a few other features which gameex has built in already. But everything is configurable from the ini file. Anyways, if you use it, let me know how it works out for you.

Ok, I finished my steam game loader. Its should work with any steam game or regular pc game including ones that have their own launcher. The principal is similar to couslev's solution but it attempts to use the proper running process instead of steams gameoverlayui.exe as well as being able to click through launchers and stuff like that. Heres the download: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v7dgjm7hvz4cvp Basic instructions are included in the zip file or go to http://wp.me/p10EGr-S. but basically you set it up as if the program was an an emulator and then your game links were roms. That way when you get a new game all you have to do is drop the shortcut steam makes into your rom folder and your good to go. Just use: ugl.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]" command line. It will accept lnk, url and exe files. If your using games with a launcher, it will automatically click the start buttons for you with minimal configuration. Use the included mouse position tool to get the info needed and then just enter it in the ini file. I also included a tool that will close the Steam Offline popup if you are like me and use steam in offline mode on your htpc. Just put in your startup folder and it will wait 60 seconds for the window to appear and close it if it does. Otherwise it will just close itself after the times up. I mostly use gamebrowser for my PC games and Gameex for roms, so it has a few other features which gameex has built in already. But everything is configurable from the ini file. Anyways, if you use it, let me know how it works out for you.

The SPDIF interface is only capable of playing 2 channel sound in PCM format which is what most games output. Movies and a select few games output in Dolby Digital or DTS which is encoded in surround sound and passable through the SPDIF connection. The only way to get surround sound in your games is to buy a motherboard or sound card that supports Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect encoding. Basically what that will do is take the PCM multichannel sound that your game is outputting and encode it on the fly to a Dolby digital or DTS stream which can be passed over SPDIF and decoded at your receiver. If you dont want to buy any new equipment you have the option of passing the 2 channels and having the receiver upconvert it with Dolby Pro Logic or whatever technology it supports (better than nothing). Or use the miniplugs if your receiver supports it. If you use the mini plugs you have the disadvantage of lots of cables and all decoding (meaning movies) will have to be done at the PC instead of the receiver. Your sound quality will also now be dependent on the computer instead of the receiver.

Ben's right, the TV out should be able to clone the other monitor with no problem. If not, you could always just enable it while you are playing mame (disable second monitor) and switch it back when done, but I don't think you will have to.

Hi Tom, I just downloaded the latest version of gameex and the very first thing I saw was the "change view" button on the start page. I noticed if you keep clicking it the screen keeps getting wider and wider. Dont know if its been reported yet, but something to check out.

Is it alot of games or only one or two here and there? If there is alot then you probably dont have the roms named correctly.

I cant wait! Good job!

I thought it was added with the current releases... oh well. Like they said just share what you finish! I know I never got around to that one. It was just too large and not many people seemed to care when I started a similar thread. Hopefully some more people will request games and get it all put together. In my opinion, the best naming convention is exactly what the game installs by default. if Call of Duty 4 had a C.O.D. 4 labled Icon, then that is what I would put in the "rom name" section of the database. Then Call of Duty 4 in the "Game name" section. But that is my personal opinion and I think thats how I did it with the few games I manually added.

The way I do it for PC games, although I admittedly don't have many on gameex, is to make each game its own emulator and then group them. Then use a .lnk that will open and close xpadder in the launch before and launch after section of the advanced config. You would need a seperate link to open xpadder for each game that uses a different profile but only one close link.

I tried media portal and didn't like it personally....

If you really want to use showtime, try setting it up as an external application. I dont believe there is a way to shange the default media player as of yet though, so you wont be able to select the normal "Play DVD" button and have it run showtime. Make sure FFDSHOW is disabled for mpeg2 playback.

As always, thanks for the hard work! Looks great!

Generally corruption that looks like that is from the videocard memory. The GPU would cause geometry problems usually.

Thats basically what pressing delete does at the moment. He wants it to actually remove the game from the disk.