jscoys 147 Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 Hi, On a brand new and clean install of Windows 8.1, I'm not able to launch games with a directdraw game emulator. When I launch à game i've got the message telling directdraw failed to initialize.... If i close mediabrowser theatre, all emulators work perfectly! I remember on the mediabrowser classic that we had an option like "minimize mediabrowser when launching". Maybe this option could resolve my problem but I'm not able to find it in MBT... Thanks for your help!
jscoys 147 Posted July 14, 2014 Author Posted July 14, 2014 Someone with the same problem? You guys using MBT to launch your games do not have the problem? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
jscoys 147 Posted July 15, 2014 Author Posted July 15, 2014 Last attempt... If no answer I get back to MBC...
Redshirt 1487 Posted July 16, 2014 Posted July 16, 2014 Media browser theater doesn't minimize so it's still holding it's directdraw/direct3d reference. Unless that behaviour gets changed there's nothing to be done.
Luke 42077 Posted July 16, 2014 Posted July 16, 2014 well i wouldn't say it's holding anything. we don't use any exclusive modes or take locks on anything. at this point the issue could be anything, it may or may not have anything to do with minimizing.
jscoys 147 Posted July 16, 2014 Author Posted July 16, 2014 Ok will write a little c# program that minimize current MBT instance and pass the {path} parameter to my exe emulators. I don't see other solutions and I can't live without MBT ;-)
jscoys 147 Posted July 28, 2014 Author Posted July 28, 2014 Ok! Resolved my problem... In the absolute link, I indicated path with UNC (\\myPC\...). With c:\... it's better. On MBC it works with both, UNC or unit letter. Thanks!
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