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General / v2.6.1 games list background image?

« on: February 08, 2020, 07:56:38 AM »

Hi,

I am running Attract-mode (attract-man theme) on a 32-bit Windows 7 machine and I just upgraded to v2.6.1.  Now there is a background image behind the games list that wasn't there before and I can't figure out where the images are located or how to change or disable this feature.

It seems to have 4 images that display for awhile, then dissolve to the next image; see examples here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B822stuEKo-ENUZieE1ZRElvb1k

Can someone please tell me how to change or disable those images?

Thanks!

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General / Re: Problem: TWO instances of AM running!

« on: December 08, 2016, 10:11:32 PM »

As I'm sure everyone suspected, I'm an idiot. 

There was an old scheduled task to launch AM at every boot.  That instance was running in the background and not visible, which is why I'd forgotten about the experiment with the scheduled task.

Sorry to have wasted your time.

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General / Re: Problem: TWO instances of AM running!

« on: December 08, 2016, 09:32:27 PM »

That is the mystery - it does this whether I manually run it or if I use instantsheller to run it.  Also, it only happens the first time AM is run after a clean boot.  Subsequent launches behave normally, i.e., no second instance appearing. 

This one really has me going in circles!

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General / Problem: TWO instances of AM running!

« on: December 08, 2016, 05:45:25 PM »

System: Windows XP running on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 16GB memory and SSD

Hi, I noticed my MAME games skipping and stuttering after being launched from AM and traced it to the fact that TWO instances of attract-mode are running!   One of these instances is using a lot of processor so I ended it with the Task Manager and that fixes the problem.  Upon quitting the current game, AM comes back up and operates normally after that.

Has anyone seen this issue?

Thanks,
-Zee