Launching Games via Dynamic Menu in SageMC

[Mahoney]

Hi, I'm having issues using Nielm's dynamic menu as included in SageMC. I'm trying to use it to launch a game, configured to sleep Sage before launch and restore Sage after exit. It successfully goes to sleep, launches the game - and then the game immediately exits and Sage awakes from sleep. It's as if "Alt+F4" gets sent very rapidly after launch.

Anyone experienced anything similar? I have done a search, but didn't bring anything up.

[Mahoney]

Just a brief bump...

[nyplayer]

Mahoney,

You need to state what game you are trying to launch and maybe even copy and paste on here the menuitem. I run all my emulator games with Dynamic menus and have no problems.

[Mahoney]

I've tried to launch two - X-Wing 95, which I expected to be hard as it's an ancient game, and EA Sports Rugb 06 which is rather more modern.
XML looks like this:

<actionMenuItem title="Rugby 06">
  <actionList>
    <sageCommand command="Power Off"/>
      <extCommand arguments="" command="C:\Program Files\Games\EA SPORTS Rugby 06\Rugby06.exe" waitforexit="1" window="normal"/>
    <sageCommand command="Power On"/>
  </actionList>
</actionMenuItem>

I'm not using FSE at the moment. As I say, Sage minimises, and the game starts to launch for a couple of seconds; then suddenly the game quits and Sage reappears again.

Thanks for any help.

[nyplayer]

That looks like it should work. I use the exact command to run Tiger woods 06. I use overlay and no 3d in Sage.... Maybe you can try that. I also have Sage set to No Screensaver on sleep.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN" "http://www.sage-community.org/~nielm/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <actionMenuItem title="Tiger Woods">
        <actionList>
            <sageCommand command="Power Off"/>
            <extCommand arguments="" command="C:\Program Files\EA SPORTS\Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06\bin\TW2006.exe" waitforexit="1" window="normal"/>
            <sageCommand command="Power On"/>
        </actionList>
    </actionMenuItem>
</sageMenu>