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General / Re: Attract Mode sometimes is frozen when I exit a game, until I mouseclick

« on: January 16, 2017, 06:36:41 PM »

I'm continuing to see the problem with Attract Mode being frozen when I exit from Mame. It's rare, and I can never reproduce it when I try, but occasionally it still happens.

When it is frozen like this, Alt-Tab also unfreezes it. (And the only two items on the Alt-Tab menu are Attract Mode and the cmd window it has open behind it.)

I'm not on 2.2.1 yet; I'll upgrade to that.

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General / Re: Attract Mode sometimes is frozen when I exit a game, until I mouseclick

« on: January 03, 2017, 06:43:23 PM »

Nothing's installed on this PC except Windows 10, mame64, and attract. I'm attaching a copy of mame.cfg.

The problem is very difficult to reproduce - I can go into a game and exit back to AM repeatedly without AM getting stuck, but then later it will randomly happen. I'm wondering whether some Windows background task is interfering, running some other task that gets focus instead of AM after Mame quits. I should look for a guide to which Windows 10 services I can stop on a dedicated gaming PC like this.

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General / Attract Mode sometimes is frozen when I exit a game, until I mouseclick

« on: December 30, 2016, 11:43:57 AM »

I have Attract Mode set up on a Windows 10 PC in a vertical arcade cabinet to run MAME. I'm using Attract Mode's animated Pac-Man menu interface.

It can launch games just fine, but sometimes when I exit a game and return to Attract Mode, AM is stuck - it's not animating, and the joystick/buttons have no effect.

If I click the mouse, it comes back to life. Problem is, I'm not going to always leave a mouse connected to my arcade cabinet.

How can I prevent this from happening?