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I don't personally use the system or have a need for the artwork, but really cool to see all the before/after shots. Keep up the good work!

@wallmachine I was able to find the cause of this and should be fixed in the 11.17 release.

Also so I am clear, are you seeing one item PERIOD in the view, or are you seeing one game repeated over and over? When this happens can you still press left and right like you were navigating to the next game? If so what happens?

I looked in the log and didn't see any issues that would point to what you are seeing. Only errors you have in it are binding errors from the theme you were using, which CAN cause issues but I wouldn't think it'd cause the one you were seeing. Is it possible for you to throw your data folder in a zip file and PM it to me so I can take a look and see if we can figure out what's going on.

I assume you are referring to within Big Box? What version are you running? We've had some performance improvement stuff put into 11.17 beta that may help if not on that already.

Categories tab lets you filter based on rating, can use that to help thin out titles.

11.17 beta 1 the loading logic has been altered a bit and your bad characters shouldn't stop the load process. Let me know if you still have issues starting up LaunchBox in that version (preferably in the 11.17 beta testing thread).

@JaysArcade @lexx Thanks for the reports I have found the cause to both and have code changes in place. Will reach out once we have a public release with the fixes in so you two can confirm on your end.

No we have attract mode that will hover over a game for a few seconds then move to another. This allows you to view video snaps and details of the game (if the theme presents it), but doesn't actually launch the game. Can also be used as a screensaver.

@xevidroid Could you PM me the file that had that character? Want to take a look at it if I could to try and get this corrected.

Think you are grossly overstating the complexity and time required for the task at hand. The following steps can be used for a large majority of your use cases and takes very little time: 1) Select the correct platform in LaunchBox (all if there are several involved) 2) In the search box type the name of what you would want in the "Contains" field of the Auto-populate playlist 3) Select the first game in the result set and then press "Ctrl-A" to select them all 4) Quickly make sure you don't have any that don't belong and deselect them by holding Ctrl and clicking on the item 5) Press "Ctrl-E" to bring up the bulk edit 6) Select the "Series" field 7) Add the series you are wanting to tag the items with 8) Create an auto-populated playlist using Series - Is Equal To - (Series you added in step 7)

We use relative pathing so if the roms/emulators are on the same external drive as the LaunchBox install it should all work fine. Relative pathing should effectively tell the computer something like, "Go back 3 folders, then look for this folder path from that spot". It shouldn't be using drive letter at all if the two items are on the same drive.

Can you open LaunchBox and make sure that you have debugging turned on, then send me the log generated from Big Box when you see this behavior? I've not been able to replicate it at all but you aren't the first person to report it. Would love to see if we can find the cause.

You can select multiple games, then press edit, and add the series value to them en masse. When trying to create series playlist I typically just set the series to the correct value and then build an auto-populated playlist where series is equal to that value.

Cool, thanks for confirming.

Do the following to get your custom url that you need for this: Open Steam Go to your profile page in Steam (click your username, then profile from the drop down) On the right hand side of your profile page click the "Edit Profile" button On the page that button opens to there is a textbox labeled "Custom URL" Enter that text into the steam import

Thanks all for the reports regarding the Old Default based themes. Believe I have a solution and will get a beta out to correct soon. @sundogak Many of the items listed as fixed came from your reports, could you confirm the issues you reported were fixed in this beta release? @RULLUR Anyway I can get a status report on your FlowControl issue in this beta? Still have some changes we want to make but I'd like to think this beta should help you some (assuming the original issue wasn't caused by corrupt images like you were beginning to think)

I sincerely doubt that lack of space is causing as significant of a performance hit as you are seeing, but you are well over the recommended max usage of your SSD if you are looking to gain peak performance from it. Generally you want to keep it under 80% utilization if you want max read/write speeds. Do you have debug logging on? If not could you turn it on (in LaunchBox) and then load Big Box and just let it open, run it a minute or so and then close it and send me the log it generates. May get some more pertinent information that way.

@Blaster2001 much appreciated. Let me know how it goes with the cab, I've not seen a design like that before, looks really interesting. Have to let me know how it does.

If clearing your temp files helped speed up your load time it would typically indicate that your drive is getting full which is affecting the ability of the OS to index the drive or you could be on a SSD in which case they just read slower when full. I would run a checkdisk scan to ensure you don't have any bad sectors on the drive as well. On start up we do a lot of file loading to help cache information to help Big Box run better, wondering if we are running into any issues with that read process taking longer than usual because of a faulty or failing drive (though I have my doubts it would be the cause for all of you at the same time)

Anyway you can copy and paste the entire error here so I can read it ?

@Blaster2001 I'd check out my FauxVert theme here on the forums then for your playfield monitor. A theme I built specifically for the type of use case you are asking. Just need to make sure you use rotated images/videos for the background to play nice with the theme (most of the time the media you can find online for VPin are already rotated this way). FauxVert download:

@Blaster2001 I assume you are referring to the bottom pinball playfield screen? Is that screen going to be set to portrait or landscape orientation via Windows?

While efficiency is a great goal that one should always work towards unfortunately in the real world there are times it has to take a back seat to overall progress. You could spend a serious amount of time making one sub process extremely efficient, but in the end the net gain just isn't enough to justify the amount of time it takes to gain that efficiency. We do our best to make the software as efficient as we can but we also have to measure the efficiency of our time, effort, and monetary spend as well. We are for-profit business and need to make sure we are maximizing returns so we can continue to work on the products we all know and love. I'm sure you understand, though I'm as equally sure it can be irritating at times as a both an end user and fellow developer. Hope you do, always fun to see what tools the community puts together to fill each others needs. You run into any issues building a particular plugin, don't be afraid to reach out. Will do my best to answer any questions you have.