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Guys, looking for ideas here as I am about to lose my mind! I picked up a new micro PC, as recommended by ETA Prime on his YouTube channel. I grabbed myself the Lenovo ThinkCenter M75Q Gen 2. Spec wise, we are looking at: Ryzen 5 Pro 4650GE APU (the rest of the components are upgrades by me with harvested parts) WD Black 1TB OS drive Samsung 2TB storage drive 32GB 3200mhz RAM (HyperX) So I installed everything, moved all my stuff over, updated all my drivers, etc. On my work monitor, I was trying to kill two birds with one stone. Tested everything, all launched with no issue. Great, right? Moved the machine into my bedroom, connected it to my LG OLED in there, and NOTHING but issues. It is ONLY happening when LaunchBox is involved, and booting a RetroArch core, which is the majority of my collection. The only things not using it are MAME, FBA, GameCube, Dreamcast, NAOMI, PS2. If I launch RetroArch alone, and a game - it boots fine, fully usable and stable. If I launch through LaunchBox, the game loads and will freeze and crash less than 3 or 4 seconds into the game. This is ONLY happening when connected to the LG. Connect to my work monitor (Asus) = fine. Connect to my living room TV = fine. Connect to my home theatre = fine. Connect back to my LG = crash city. Drivers are up to date, rebuilt OS, reimaged OS, redownloaded LaunchBox and RetroArch, tried previous two versions, forced lower resolution and capped refresh rate at 60htz max, no weird command line options on boot. What else could I look at? This is driving me nuts. What info can I gather to help troubleshoot this? I just turned logs on to capture. Windows event viewer was useless, just says it couldnt communicate with Windows. Thoughts my retro friends?

So I have had this issue all weekend and it was driving me nuts. I bought a new HTPC for my bedroom to replace a micro gaming PC I had in there for the longest time. I went with a Lenovo M75Q Gen 2 (as recommended by ETA Prime on his youtube channel). I have had NO issue in the past duplicating my main gaming PC's LaunchBox setup for my secondary machine. I am running 11.9 on my main machine, and was on the PC I was replacing as well. RetroArch 1.9.0 as well on both. Post Duplication Instantly have the issues that everyone here was describing. However, I had one additional problem.... After the freeze in LaunchBox, I could no longer open in regular RetroArch either (without it freezing like it did when I launched with LaunchBox). Fix - Delete RetroArch.cfg and I could at least launch in RetroArch solo again. What worked for me I tried all of the fixes above, but it still came back. I was about to scrap the whole project and go back to using a Pi4 in the bedroom. One last ditch effort worked for me. Keep in mind, I was desperate to find the answer or scrap it because my retro game count is ~20,000 games. I did NOT want to re scrape all those titles and re download the art, etc. Anyways, here is what worked... 1) Under manage emulators, selected RetroArch. Went to associated platorms and deleted ALL platforms I was using with RetroArch. Side note: I initially tried troubleshooting and tried this fix with JUST PS1, and it did not work. I had to remove all associated platforms for this fix to work. 2) Removed (deleted) RetroArch from LaunchBox 3) Re added RetroArch 4) Added each platform back with my preferred cores 5) Went to each group of games/platform, pressed CTRL +A to highlight them all, right click, Edit, bulk edit Emulator, select RetroArch 6) Repeat for each platform I was using with RetroArch This, was the ONLY way I got it to go back to normal. If I did not complete step 5/6, the same issue came up. Hope this helps those who were still having an issue.

Had zero luck finding a clear logo for big box mode, so I whipped one up quickly. Well used an existing one (Sega CD) and added the 32X logo. Just wanted to share it for those who have it as a separate platform in Big Box mode.

Reviving this to see if anyone has found another work around. I am dying to play me some 7th Guest.

Ahh yes, I did have to hunt down a newer neogeo bios with the SP1-U4.bin file. If I could find a good working 206 set I would be happy.

Ahh gotcha, I appreciate the tips please don't get me wrong I do not believe so, the only thing I can think of is this... I have a GTX 2080 in the machine I am using with the nVidia control panel. For some reason, when the full screen resolution changes, it kicks the display mode in the nVidia control panel to 30htz. I was mucking around trying to get the X68000 stuff working right, and somehow it forced my resolution on my machine back to 720p and 30htz refresh rate. I DID correct this at the same time that I re imported the roms, so maybe that had something to do with it. Thats the only other variable change I can think of.

I have never had an issue in several years having a newer app version than the romset, so I highly doubt that would have anything to do with this issue. I am fairly confident I read in release notes long long ago that as long as MAME was a version = /= your romset version, you were fine, especially if you were NOT using split roms. Night 1 = all games were working (Ghouls and Ghosts for example) Night 1 = every single game crashes at load in MAME until the romset was re-imported

Okay, here is the full issue... -Running the latest LaunchBox version -Running MAME.206 64bit -ROMSET is a .201 complete merged set -Was working fine, loading games through Launchbox and Bigbox with no issue -Came back the next day, and tried to launch a game, goes to initializing and then crashes -Rebooted machine, same issue -Tried just opening MAME and it worked fine -Launchbox again, same issue happened -Made copies of all my ini and cfg files for MAME and had MAME generate new ones, same issue -Got frustrated so I chose to delete 'Arcade', and re imported full set into LaunchBox again -I just tried it and now its working If there is a log or config file I can grab, let me know. Thanks, Josh

Having the same issue, would like to know why.