C-Beats

While I understand the frustration caused by stuff not working, no one here is a mind reader and will need FAR more information to be able to help you at all. Please create a new thread explaining things like, what games you are experiencing this problem with (andd what platform they belong to), what core you are attempting to start, and the file you are attempting to load and users can try and help you resolve your issue.

Badges don't use the same XAML pathing as some themes (like the one you're having issues with) does. The fact that you can't change a directory's attributes via Windows though is a bit concerning though. At this time though I'm not real sure what would cause that or how to correct it.

Windows would stop our application from deleting the file. We'd get an exception or error that would appear in the logs or show in the error popup window of LaunchBox.

Does the checkbox stick? I know you were saying before unchecking that box wasn't. If that box doesn't stick or files are missing despite that being checked you may have something system side going on because that shouldn't be possible. We'd receive a IOException trying to delete anything in that folder marked read-only.

Just so we are clear when I say "Set to readonly" that checkbox needs to be a check, not a square. A square means that some files in the folder are set to readonly but not all, a check would mean ALL are readonly so deleting the contents of that folder wouldn't even be possible if the flag was set the way I was referring to.

Can you try something else for me. Can you close LaunchBox/Big Box and then remove the LBThemes folder/symlink from \\LaunchBox\Core\ (if it exists) and then copy the LBThemes folder from \\LaunchBox\ TO \\LaunchBox\Core\ and then manually set the folder to readonly and start Launchbox and tell me if you still get the error.

Removed your top image, no need to dox yourself for the cause.

Yeah, other than the fact your directories permissions are changing after you manually set them I haven't seen anything in your reports that makes it sound like it's related to another software. When you have your LaunchBox open can you navigate to \\LaunchBox\Core\LBThemes\Neon Deluxe Arcade LB\Images\ via the symlink and make sure you can navigate to that folder inside of File Explorer and see the background images that are supposed to be in that folder.

If you don't want others adding to playlists I'd suggest you just lock Big Box, then if you want to change something in GameDetails you can unlock it, change it, then lock it again and no one else can mess with your playlists

Hey @SPARTAN-117B01 can you give me the full path to theme folder of the theme in question. Your path looks pretty long in that screenshot and I'm curious if you aren't running into an issue where the file path length is too long.

Not sure that is true anymore. You can even find posters for NES games on SteamGridDB (though not all)

Cool, glad to hear you got it all sorted out.

I'd check and make sure you don't have a service called "Nahimic" running. I've seen that service cause issues like that. We have threads on the forums that give more details related to it.

Yeah, was a bit of a shot in the dark. Only even thought of it because I have some apps (Vpin stuff) that REALLY don't like it when they have to do negative position values which happens when you set up your monitors like that.

W00t! Yeah. I've seen that cause issues with some frameworks and back ends. They all assume that monitors go left to right from 1-N. I didn't think any of our dependencies did that but was worth trying. I left myself a note to look into the possible cause of that. Thanks for bearing with me and testing everything. Helps a lot.

I sincerely doubt it will, but does moving the 2nd monitor to the right of the first make any difference at all? I suspect right now the text view is the main thing causing your issues right now though.

Would depend on the theme in question for an exact response but if the themes use our built in scrolling text control there are properties you would have to manually change to adjust it to your liking.

Also out of curiousity could you send me a pic of your Windows Display Settings like shown below. Curious how you have things set up in there and if that is playing a part in this at all.

@Benjc Could you try a non text view and let me know if that corrects your issue? I don't believe the way the marquee view is written right now that it will work properly in text views. We have made some changes to that system internally but they aren't in any public release yet unfortunately. That being said it should appear blank (forcing a black screen) when set up properly, and it doesn't even appear you are seeing that. Will you test the non-text views for me and see if see any changes, and also PM me your BigBoxSettings.xml (located in \\LaunchBox\Data])? I'd like to take a look and make sure there aren't any settings that may be negatively impacting your ability to see the marquee.

@Benjc also useful information would be. Are you seeing the black screen on all views? Are you using a wheel view when you see the black screen, or a text view? Is the screen black during both platform AND games views?

Set by the theme and platform you are using. What theme are you running on Big Box?

Are you using default marquee view @Benjc or a different one? I won't be able to test exactly with that resolution as I have nothing even CLOSE to it, but want to make sure I'm looking at the same file you're trying to use.

That bottom thing is the metadata/information for the "Consoles" Platform Category. It is auto-created for console systems and then the imported system is assigns it as it's parent. If you use the "Platform Category" side bar filter instead of "Platform" you would see it (and could edit it as well).