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I'm not totally sure, since I installed it about two weeks ago when the Retroarch emulator didn't work. I believe I installed the stable version, however it did just have an update a few days ago. Looking at it right now, and I can tell what I installed. I do know that it is Dolpin 5.0-9888. I can always install the other version, and associate one game with the emulator and see if it makes a difference or not. I have not looked at, or even heard of, using Vulkun. I will have to look at that. I have really done most of the basic setup within LaunchBox, and haven't went through the options of BigBox as much as I know I should have by now. I will add that to my notes of "things to do", and give is a look see. Thanks.

I will do some investigating to see what I can come up with. I have ran PCSX2 ROMs with no issues either. It seems to be the only ones I can't get to run great all the time are Wii. I'm going to download a few of the applications from the other thread and look at things. It appears there may be some settings I can change to make things a little quicker or more pleasant in the menus, but I don't see anything that is directly associated with the playing of ROMs yet. I will continue to read though.

I did install the driver for the card, and the latest update is somewhat recent with a date of 01/30/2019. I did install the GPUTweakII as well, which is most likely the "Experience" you are talking about. I think I may try and uninstall all drivers/software for the video cards, and then go back and install just the drivers. I will also take a look at the link you provided and see what it has to say. I appreciate it.

It is a brand new load. I just installed Windows a few days ago, ran updates, and installed the software needed by LaunchBox, that is it. There is nothing on this PC, and it is currently running on a 250G SSD. I was running things from an external USB 3.0 drive, and thought that was my bottle neck so I moved a few ROMS to the SSD, and still had the same result. I have a friend with pretty much the exact same setup as the i7-880 and he has the same issue. I told him I would look into it and see what I found out, so I'm not sure that it is a Windows issue. I think he may be using Win 7 though. I just wasn't sure if there was something I was overlooking since I'm a little new to LaunchBox. Maybe it has something to do with the emulator, and I should try another? Although it seems to work if I launch outside of LaunchBox.

I have tried on two different i7 computers with the same result. One was on older i7-880, while the other was a newer i7-4790. Granted both processors aren't exactly "new", but I figured they would work, especially the 4th Gen i7-4790. I don't have any issues with Gamecube games at this point, using Retroarch. So far the only times I encounter anything abnormal is with Wii, using the Dolpinx64 emulator. Also, not sure why it seems to play better when I launch directly from the emulator outside of LaunchBox/BigBox.

I wanted to see what others are using for Big Box, as far as hardware. I can run all the common ROMs with no issues, but when I try something like Wii, the video and audio are a little glitchy. The audio will pop, and the intro to the video will get hung up. The ROM I have been using for a "benchmark" is Mario Kart. I am currently running Windows 10 Pro (X64) with 16GB RAM. I have an i7 processor and an 4G 1050ti Video card. I don't know what the issue is, but this happens every time it starts a new "race", and sometimes in between. I'm not sure where I am lacking. As a test, I also ran the game directly from the Dolphinx64 emulator, and not through BigBox, and it did play a bit better. There was still a small issue, but it wasn't as bad. I would appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction on this one. I'm not sure if it is a setting in BigBox, the emulator, if it is just the ROM, or if I am lacking in hardware. Thank you.

For some reason I took it back to my work pc, and it worked this time. I then took it back to the new i7, and it worked there was well. Some of the Wii ROMs are having trouble, but I'm sure that is due to the lack of video.

Is LaunchBox/BigBox portable? The reason I ask is that I have been setting up things on an external 3TB USB3.0 drive on a spare desktop at work. It is a Windows 7 Pro x64 box with minimal processing power. I was just using it to set things up, and make configuration changes. I finally got things the way I wanted them to be, and I took the drive home last night to show my son. We played a few games on my laptop, a Windows 10 Pro x64 box, and things worked fine. I brought the drive back to work today to make some final changes, and I felt I was done. I moved from there to a new Core i7 box I just build running Window 10 Pro x64 and everything just fell apart. I can't launch any ROMs from LaunchBox or BigBox, Retroarch will no longer update cores, my controller isn't working correctly, etc. It worked fine every other time I moved it, but today even the emulators outside of Retroarch had to all be configured again. They still aren't working after I reconfigured, but I'm at a loss. I don't know why things wouldn't work after moving computers. My account is a local admin on each pc, so I don't think it is a permissions issue. The weirdest one is Retroarch letting me, but when I push Enter to download a Core nothing happens. When I launch a ROM with Retroarch, Dolphin, ReDream, or anything else it just sits and does nothing. . . Black screen. I really don't want to have to start my entire configuration process over again, but if that is what I have to do I will. Thanks in advance for any thoughts or advice on this.

I appreciate the help. That is what was causing the issue. I had "Prioritize Game Theme Videos" enabled under the Videos option in BigBox.

Thank you!! I keep forgetting that the two are separate in many ways, and changes in one do not carry across to the other. I made a change in LaunchBox to have it go to the correct video in the Platform folder and it didn't translate over to BigBox, so I need to go there and make the change as well. I will look for the option now. Thanks for the help.

I am new to LaunchBox, and the emulation scene, but I'm picking things up pretty quick. I have ran into a problem here recently, and I don't understand why things are the way they are. Once I understand, I think I I will be able to resolve my issue. I have an EmuMovies account and have been getting all the game videos for the ROMs I have. When I was setting up BigBox for an arcade machine I want to build, I noticed that one of the videos for a ROM I had was playing the wrong video. The question I have is what is the difference between the videos stored in the Platform folders in the Video folder, compared to the Theme folder in the same location? I looked at my platform, and the video location is set to Videos\Nintendo Entertainment System, and the video for the ROM in question is in that folder. However when I go to the ROM, and look at the Video Path it is set to Videos\Nintendo Entertainment System\Theme\xxx.mp4. I looked in that folder and the video is not there, but it is up one directory. I don't know what the difference is between the two, and why one is "Platform"\Video while the others are in "Platform"\Video\Theme. I looked at a few different ROMs and they are sort of hit/miss, with some being in the root, and others in the Theme folder. I'm not sure why, but this causes some of the game videos to be wrong during the preview when I'm using BigBox. Any Ideas?