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Big Box - Crashing while in attract mode
MrSco replied to jonathanmarcoux's topic in Troubleshooting
I believe I tried images only years ago. Probably in the thread above somewhere. It’s almost definitely related to the videos playing. That’s the only reason I run attract mode is for the videos. I even tried deleting all the media and having launchbox redownload it all fresh. I even setup a webcam to watch the screen so I could capture when it was dying but it was always a different video/game. It shouldn’t be a mystery to get a bunch of videos to play continuously in shuffle. Wtf -
Big Box - Crashing while in attract mode
MrSco replied to jonathanmarcoux's topic in Troubleshooting
Yep. It’s super lame that bigbox can even run attract mode for a day. It’s just playing videos. I even upgraded the entire computer to an amd 7840hs with 32gb of ram and an nvme 4TB ssd. Computer is a beast but bigbox dies trying to do attract mode for an extended period of time. It’s been like this for years. 6 years or more. @Jason Carr doesn’t seem interested in fixing it. -
Audio stops when attract mode switches from first game.
MrSco replied to Scarecrow_Jack's topic in Troubleshooting
Thanks. That must be a new setting. Me likey. -
Audio stops when attract mode switches from first game.
MrSco replied to Scarecrow_Jack's topic in Troubleshooting
I’m having this issue now with the newest version of launchbox. All audio settings are correct and all audio works until after the first game gets switched away from. Then no more sound until I hit a button to stop attract mode and then sound from videos play again. -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
i spoke too soon... just got a crash... at least there's an error message now? also when it crashed RAM usage was around 12gb out of 16gb and after it was around 4gb used out of the 16gb total. so it looks like a memory leak. I recently upgraded the nuc to have 16gb of ram (instead of 8gb)... Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'obj') App: Big Box Version: 11.11 Type: System.ArgumentNullException Site: Int32 GetGeneration(System.Object) Source: System.Private.CoreLib at System.GC.GetGeneration(Object obj) at Meta.Vlc.Wpf.VideoDisplayContext.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at Meta.Vlc.Wpf.VlcPlayer.<>c__DisplayClass123_0.<VideoFormatCallback>b__0() at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler) at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl() at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.CallbackWrapper(Object obj) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.Run(CulturePreservingExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke() at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue() at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler) at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(DispatcherPriority priority, TimeSpan timeout, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs) at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(MSG& msg) at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(DispatcherFrame frame) at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.Run() at Meta.Vlc.Wpf.ThreadSeparatedImage.<>c.<get_CommonDispatcher>b__8_0() at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() Recent Log: 8:48:44 AM Exception -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
Same here. No crashes in 48 hours. Could be .11 or removing the .flv files. well done sir on identifying the flv! I’ve been dealing with this for 2 years! I was able to remove the relaunch loop from my startup script! thanks to everyone on this thread for their ideas and help and especially to @JohnnyK for figuring it out and @Jason Carr for making the most epic front end software evar! -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
i went back to check what video file types i have for Ninento Satellaview when i got this crash recorded happening in real-time, but they are all .mp4 ... so i'm not sure its it... but maybe its queuing them up in the background? -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
quite... i have about 142 .flv video files out of 18,000+ total videos... so that indeed would be random AF if .flv causes the crashes -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
@JohnnyK here ya go... #SingleInstance ignore SetWorkingDir, H:\Arcade\LaunchBox\ ;get the exe we should run. launchbox or bigbox target := A_Args[1] if (target = "") { target = LaunchBox } targetExe := ".\" . target . ".exe" targetName := target . ".exe" Launcher: ;launch the frontend and wait til it closes to continue RunWait, %targetExe% Process, WaitClose, %targetName% if (target = "BigBox") { Gui, Font, s18 Gui, Add, Text, x10, Relaunching BigBox in... Gui, Font, s32 Gui, Add, Text, vCountdown_text x160, 5 Gui, Font, s14 Gui, Add, Progress, vMyProgress x10 w300 Range0-5 Gui, Font, s24 Gui, Add, Button, w300 h75 Center, Cancel Gui, Show, w320 h240, Relaunching BigBox while (A_Index <= 10) { GuiControl,, MyProgress, %A_Index% GuiControl,, Countdown_text, % 11-A_Index Sleep 1000 } Gui, Destroy Relaunch: ;launch the frontend and wait til it closes to continue goto Launcher } GuiClose: ButtonCancel: if (target = "BigBox") { Gui, Destroy } RunWait, %comspec% /c taskkill /F /IM autohotkey.exe, , Hide ExitApp -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
If you look in the earlier posts in this thread I posted an older version of my script. I’ll try and post my updated script when I get back home later. most likely you’ll need to customize it for the startup apps you are launching but the relaunch feature is in there and you can rip out the rest -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
Yep. It’s definitely the videos for me too. Something with how launchbox handles loading and unloading video files. It eventually just can’t keep up. Doesn’t matter how much computer hardware you throw at it. It’s software. to work around the issue my bigbox launcher runs an ahk script that just keeps relaunching bigbox when it’s closed (or crashes) with a cancel button to keep it closed if that’s what you meant. I can share the script if you want to try it. I just gave up trying to have non-crashing software. At least bigbox is infinitely easier to setup then hyperspin ... it just is a super performance hog unfortunately -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
It seems to only happens when videos are used (maybe just fullscreen video) and it doesn't matter what theme is used (unless the theme view has fullscreen video?) -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
Nice, I plan on adding a 2TB m.2 ssd one day. It should help with the bigbox wheel responsiveness hopefully. I'm running off a usb 3.0 external 2tb and loading new wheel images can sometimes lag blank for a few seconds. My 6th gen NUC actually can handle KI also, but I have to crank the resolution down to 720p and then some particle effects can cause a stutter. But still amazing for such a dated lil machine! -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
Ah ya! Sinden! i can't wait! I ordered 2 recoil guns. Super stoked! Ya, your NUC is a beast with the radeon graphics! bigbox should be child's play running off m.2 ssd drives. -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
I have a feeling BigBox doesn’t like onboard graphics like the intel iris the NUC has. jason, do you ever test with low end gpu? These retro emulators, even up to PlayStation 2, run pretty well on these intel gpus, so they should have plenty of horsepower to run bigbox. megashub, you running bigbox from external drive? Or on those m.2 ssd? your NUC is 2gens newer then mine so should be more then capable of playing even some of the latest AAA games -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
Unfortunately it’s still crashing Just the same. About four times since I updated in the span of 24 hours. -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
I tested with latest beta starting last night around 9pm and got a crash this morning at 630am -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
another crash this time on 11.6 on the NUC (last crash after removing 'bogus' images was on my 8700 i7/1080ti rig)... Faulting application name: BigBox.exe, version: 11.6.0.0, time stamp: 0x5ee99cfc Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.18362.1049, time stamp: 0xb5beef21 Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000f9229 Faulting process id: 0x2ac0 Faulting application start time: 0x01d68e967776e434 Faulting application path: H:\Arcade\LaunchBox\Core\BigBox.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: 2d7a28a5-9bc9-4653-bfa9-97617a9974dc Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: there was a fault bucket error in the log just after. i attached it as well Report.wer -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
spoke too soon... just had a crash even with all those (attached list of 300 or so out of 14000+ good images) bogus images removed... Faulting application name: BigBox.exe, version: 11.4.0.0, time stamp: 0x5ee99cfc Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.488, time stamp: 0x70e69bad Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000fed79 Faulting process id: 0x5998 Faulting application start time: 0x01d68e44f565ae94 Faulting application path: H:\Arcade\LaunchBox\Core\BigBox.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: 9307b472-7433-4e33-b94d-9d215103f00a Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: badpeggy_list.txt -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
Yea I’ve already deleted the bogus images and have been running attract mode for about 12 hours without a crash yet. We shall see... the scary thing is, all these images were downloaded using launchbox’s database search either from wiki or emumovies. So doing another missing media search would potentially bring all the bogus images right back. -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
@Jason Carr could it be corrupt images causing the crashes? i found this Bad Peggy (https://superuser.com/a/1083216) program to scan all the image files and its only about halfway done but already found lots of errors ... the clear logo one in particular peaked my interest... -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
welp, i ran the ffmpeg script to test all the .mp4 files for corruption and they all checked out... no errors found. I did notice that some of the 30 video files are like 30MB... could bigbox be choking on too many videos at a larger size? i may have asked this before but, When you run your tests are you running attract mode with videos for each game that the video plays fullscreen as the entire background? i guess i can check the image files next to rule them out... anyone know a test for image corruption? -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
I'm running a script against all my video files with ffmpeg to see if it finds any corrupted videos. that should help rule out the media... https://superuser.com/a/1241089 -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
nice, thats not a bad idea. I did another workaround a while back (these crashes have been happening since v10 for about a year or more now)... https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/52601-bigbox-crash-while-sitting-idle-doing-attract-mode/?do=findComment&comment=357277 attached to this post is a more recent version of the startup script I use that has an automatic relaunch of bigbox with a countdown to cancel when bigbox is closed/crashes. Also, In case any one is wondering, yes, i tested bigbox.exe running directly and not through autohotkey startup scripts and it still crashes the same way. launchbox_scripts.zip -
BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode
MrSco replied to MrSco's topic in Troubleshooting
Still crashes the same way after deleting the settings xml files