C-Beats

You referring to sound in LaunchBox/Big Box or sound in the game? What issue are you having? If the sound is cutting in and out it's almost always a framerate issue, either because your refresh rate isn't correct (check both Windows display settings as well as the emulators refresh rate/vsync settings) or because your PC is failing to drive the game at the correct framerate (typically 60fps). I've not even heard of sound issues in LB/BB so I don't have any boilerplate advice for you in that regard without more information.

Thanks for the reports. I've tracked down the cause of the issue which is that Microsoft changed a bunch of stuff in their web services and unfortunately broke quite a bit of stuff in doing so (including for them). They have a lot of reported outages/issues they are currently working through on their end and I'm seeing if I can find out if we need to change our logic or if it will get corrected in all the passes they are actively doing on the changes now. I have code changes in place internally that we are testing to at least ensure this process fails more silently and doesn't cause the chaos it is right now. It should be in the next beta release that we hope to drop very early next week.

Pretty sure it's downloading the DirectX runtime package that you can manually grab from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35. The installer will install/repair the runtime for DX 9,10, & 11 via the single file.

Sounds like your user account doesn't have the proper write permissions to the folder LaunchBox is in then. I will say running as admin can cause other problems related to relative pathing though down the line so I'd suggest moving your install to another location without the permission issues.

Sidebar should save what ever value it was in when you close LaunchBox. Sounds like you may have something either killing the LB process before the save function occurs, or locking the file making it impossible for us to save to disk.

I'd have to see your data files to confirm, but it sounds like you may have imported the ROMs to a custom named platform and either didn't set the scrape as of the platform correctly or it didn't save correctly and so the mass metadata scrape fails to function.

I was able to code changes in place that are currently being reviewed/tested that should correct the issue. I'll do my best to remember to ping ya when they make their way into a beta release so you can try it out and let me know for sure if it resolves the issue.

Nice, glad you were able to figure it out. Thanks for updating the thread and letting us know. Bonus points for it not being something I broke in the code.

@DemiseScythe Thanks again for the additional information. I WAS able to use it to replicate the issue and will see if I can get it resolved and in the next beta release.

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Sounds like you have some app pressing Escape or you have a stuck button on the keyboard. We've seen reports like this most often when running Steam and it's virtual controller logic causing issues. I'd see if Steam is open when you see this happening, and if so close it and see if the problem persists.

Thanks for this additional information. I'll sit down and try to replicate again using some of the new details you refer to and see if I can get it to happen.

@darthv8dr are you running a third party virus scanner? That error is saying one of the dependencies the installer puts in the folder is missing. It typically happens when an overzealous AV program quarantines the file. That file is for the chrome browser we use in app and has a tendency to trip those applications needlessly.

Yeah, so it looks like it's crashing before the step that makes the other folders. Can you open "Event Viewer" in Windows. When you do so on the left there are different categories. You want to select application and then in the list of errors/warnings you want to look for 2 error logs that will be next to each other and point to LaunchBox. Typically the top error has the useful information in it that should tell you what the error was that caused the crash.

What I meant was go to your root LaunchBox folder (wherever you installed it). In that folder there is a Data subfolder, and in that subfolder is a file named Settings.xml (will only be there if the app has progressed far enough to save a default one). It MAY not be in there, if it is you can open it and edit the tag.

Yeah, you'd have to theme in for that to be done per system. There is no option that allows you to be granular with that setting.

Can you try going to \\LaunchBox\Data\Settings.xml and look for a tag in that file called "EnableAutoImports" and set it to false and then try starting the app again.

Following requires a premium license but is how you would do it: Edit a single game, in the window that appears there is a "Custom Fields" tab. Click that. In that datagrid in the left column select the empty cell at the top and then type in "Theme" In the right cell put whatever value you want that game to have Press OK to save the change. Now you can continue to do this process with individual games OR you now have the ability to bulk edit that field and change the value on several games at once.

TV technology has more to do with potential color ranges, brightness, and refresh rates. You can use shaders within RetroArch to help emulate the CRT look of TVs of that era, but that can be done on any machine.

Not sure I completely follow. What text aren't you wanting displayed? Realistically if it's in a themed view a theme could be made to do so.

Bit confused. Your title says you're having issues with N64, but your post is referring to a GameCube/Wii emulator. What system are you attempting to play?

@JoeViking245 made a plugin that allows users to apply some one else's LaunchBox data to their own. It could be used to collaboratively add a custom field for "Theme" that could be shared amongst users to do something like this. That being said SOME ONE would have to manually add it to all the games as it isn't a field we have in the database at the moment.

Still not seeing how alt-tab or (if using Win11) swapping virtual desktop wouldn't already give you the ability to do what you want.

I just tried this and am not able to replicate at all. What theme are you using?

I'm not 100%. That installer is something that was automated LONG before I joined so I've never had to take it apart and look at it tbh. I'll see if I can find some time today to look into it and get you an answer.