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  1. Added Alien Swarm and Team Fortress just to test, but they don’t appear in Big Box thru Steam API import. So I found you can add the game directly. Running Dragons Lair outside of Steam, as a direct Exe call seems to fix this. I can’t get those other Steam games to run but don’t care. TLDR: don’t run games thru Steam
  2. If I start BigBox and go to Windows and run Dragons Lair through Steam, it launches ok. If I start BigBox, run a Mame game and close or run SNES and close (or any emulator), when I go to run Steam - I press play and Steam (Dragons Lair specifically) launches in the background. BigBox is locked up and unresponsive, but has focus. I can hear Dragons Lair in the background and if I ALT-TAB, I can see it, but even selecting it, BigBox stays in focus and unresponsive. If I use the mouse to right-click-close, BigBox becomes responsive. Any suggestions on settings to play with? The other emulators close for sure and work great. And Steam works if it is the first/only app launches from BigBox. It returns focus on exit/etc but only when it’s the sole app. I have had to do some video card fiddling, so I’ll try somebody other Steam apps soon, just not had the chance .
  3. So AMD let’s you assign different profiles for each executable. I created a BigBox profile with FreeSync disabled. It solves the text scrolling jitters and menu lockups. It also made the transitions seem to work, but not completely. Launching emulators and quitting back to BigBox would lock up sometimes. It’s like the transitions get stuck, odd. At this point, I have all transitions disabled and a No FreeSync BigBox gaming profile setup in AMD. With 4 or 5 platforms and thousands of games, videos for all, it runs like a champ, my only trade off is no transitions and a lot of troubleshooting. So this is probably data worth having for the dev(s) and other troubleshooters in regards to AMD cards, transitions, and FreeSync. If you are getting locked up menus or failing to come back from a game after game over , disable FreeSync as a troubleshooting step. Disable transitions as well. Specifically, this is a RX 580 and Samsung UJ59 monitor.
  4. So the conspiracy deepens, but I have some answers - but I sorta hate them. I disabled FreeSync on my monitor (and it ripples thru the driver) and all Big Box problems are solved. I’ve turned on Unified Redux and all Random transitions and it handled it like a champ. It also resolved text stuttering in Big Box that I was ignoring as a “Bog Box performance issue”. Now the text streams seamlessly across the videos, whereas before it was choppy. I might blame Big Box, but Dragons Lair has this same problem. So there is something apparently funky about mixing video playback and FreeSync. I’ve started researching this, but the whole ordeal is cheesing me off since I spent an extra $500 bucks or so to get a FreeSync monitor and video card to enhance the Mame experience. In fairness, with Enhanced FreeSync, I have no stuttering or tearing. Excite bike, Turtles in Time intro, etc all play perfect. So, I’ll follow up on what I find, but it seems there are AMD issues with video and FreeSync performance.
  5. This feels like self-therapy. So I’ve disabled all transitions and the problem is gone. With this being a new system, I’m wondering if I should be checking DirectX or .Net or something. i did an AMD driver update. That didn’t do anything. I thought I already had the most recent.
  6. Some additional data. I reverted back to Default theme. Also, I have played around with transitions. Changing all transitions to random seems to completely break going to the big options menus. The screens flips or twists away, but the new menu never becomes visible. Going to turn off transitions, assuming this fixes it, but I imagine my machine has nite than enough horse power to handle this. Is there a component I might be missing to aid in this?
  7. Running a decent system - Ryzen 5 w/ RX 580 & 16 GB RAM and FreeSync monitor. Mame is running like a champ. Not sure if this could be some weird video configuration or a known issue in Big Box, but here's what happens: I'll go to the Settings menu to Search or Unlock or Exit, and the highlighted menu will sometimes lag out. I'll hear the audio "click" as if the menu is moving, and if I press buttons, it will sometimes seem to process it (say if I'm entering my unlock code), but it seems like the visual elements just get behind. I'm running the Unified Remix theme. I've experimented a bit with other themes a little, they seemed to do, but I'm going to do more research. Has anyone else seen this? This is a brand new computer, so there's very little on it. One random, weird note - I was living with it and installed Steam and Dragon's Lair. Dragon's Lair is very choppy on this box, but on my 5 year old 4th gen i7 w/ very low end AMD GPU, it runs Dragon's Lair super smooth. When I disabled some freesync/v-sync settings in AMD's drivers for Dragon's Lair, it dramatically helped with the choppiness (although it's still not as good on my much older computer). So, I'm not sure if there are some setting or configs I'm not looking at that I should.
  8. I haven’t really set up any automation so not sure. My best guess at this point is there was an Ipac shift happening. I’ve deleted all those mappings. Apparently, those came by default on ipac. We will see if it continues. I will go back through BB and LB automation to make sure there aren’t any weird defaults. For example, I had a button mapped to X that was causing BB to exit.
  9. This might belong in Noobs. I just finished a 4 player cabinet. I went with Big Box, and looks great with very little hackery. However, when playing Tecmo Bowl with the kids, the game would randomly drop to Big Box’s Game Over screen. The weird thing is that Tecmo Bowl sounds continued in the background. I would have to exit out a screen, reselect Tecmo Bowl, and it would work. There was a bit of key mashing, so I didn’t have luck reproducing. Although I did get it to do it if I held down P1 B1+B2 for a few seconds. Those are just default Mame maps, CTRL and ALT. Although, exiting BB and rebooting, I can’t get it to do it again. Just tonight, I had the same thing happen when 4 people were playing Sunset Riders. I quit out to default Mame no BB and it worked. Is there a hot key or automation I’m tripping on? Thanks for any ideas.
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