WinUAE Paused

Hello,

I have been using WinUAE for many years, it's a fantasic program. SInce the last couple of updates i am having a problem. When run in Windowed mode, it appears to go into a 'pause' mode. Once the focus has been taken off the window the screen updates, and then stops again, take the focus off the window and the screen updates again. Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

[Toni Wilen]

Check settings in priority panel. Another possibility is weird display driver combined with RGB overlays, try ticking "Don't use RGB overlays" in misc panel.

Thanks Toni, it was the RGB Overlays.

Cheers

[Umpal]

When I run Oracle's VirtualBox (with Windows 7 running), my WinUAE (v4.4.0 64-bit on Windows 10 64-bit) instance pauses and I can't unpause it (I've tried the priority thing but it doesn't help). It used to work before without a problem. It might work for a while (I mean switching between Windows and back to WinUAE) but recently it became a nightmare — the only thing I can do is to quit from WinUAE (the F12 menu usually works but sometimes all is unresponsive and I have to kill the task).
Any idea what is going on?

Update: A fresh discovery. If I switch a couple of times clicking once on the emulated Windows 7 under VirtualBox and on WinUAE it eventually gets unpaused. Then again if I click outside WinUAE it pauses and can't be unpaused. Repeating the process by clicking a couple of times between the VirtualBox screen and back on WinUAE unpauses it again. Really strange behavior.


One more thing. None of my priority scenario has "Pause emulation" enabled.


Update 2: Tried also on WinUAE 4.2.1 — same behavior.

[Toni Wilen]

Try with -log command line parameter. When it pauses, does anything appear in the log window?

[Umpal]

Logs attached.
Today I discovered another anomaly. When I start WinUAE (it can be even just plain kick 1.3 screen with the basic configuration), minimize it on the taskbar, and then click on the icon in the systray, it becomes unresponsive and icons on menus of different Windows programs start blinking like crazy (and the system acts strangely until I kill the WinUAE process).



Log files
1 - this is taken with the VirtualBox in the background and mentioned pauses.
2 & 3 - Issue with the systray click (2 - advanced configuration, 3 - kick 1.3)
WinUAE_logs.zip

[Umpal]

OK, those logs above were taken from the file WinUAE creates automatically.
This is with the -log parameter:



And it keeps scrolling until I kill the WinUAE task.

[Umpal]

Bump. This serious problem still exists in the recent 5.1.0 version. Could you please address it, Toni?
Because of this issue, I'm stuck with version 3.5.0 - this is the last one that's not affected by it.
How does it happen:
1) WinUAE is in the windowed mode AND minimized.
2) I LMB click on the WinUAE icon in the systray.
3) Then happens what you can see on the screenshots attached, affecting also other Windows programs (e.g., Total Commander or Notepad++ menu starts to flicker like crazy).
The only way of closing WinUAE is by killing it with the task manager.

I'm not the only one experiencing it - the same happens to my brother on a freshly installed Windows 11 with a different graphics card (I also tried Windows version 8.1 (I'm on 10), but the same thing happened).

[Toni Wilen]

Sorry, I must have missed your previous post. (and it wasn't anything weird that only happens in some specific conditions)

Fixed in next beta.

[Umpal]

No problem. Fantastic news! Thank you a lot.