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Interesting concept but I'm not sure how that would affect things. I'll do some testing on my end and see if I can replicate. In the meantime would it be possible for you to zip your entire data folder and PM it to me so I can use it for testing and see if I can replicate the issue on my end?

Can you move them out of there and try again and let me know if you still have the issue? I've seen some issues when using the configurator next plugin before, but I don't believe it was that exact issue. Also didn't think it worked or was needed with the newest version of that emulator (but admit I haven't looked into it very deeply so could be mistaken)

Are you running any plugins?

I wonder if the data is saving but your side bar just isn't refreshing properly. Your one image shows there is a mismatch between the data shown in the side bar and in Game Details. If you change sidebar filters from developer to platform, then back again does the value remove itself properly?

As long as you don't have an overzealous antivirus program quarantining some of your LaunchBox files we use a 7z dll placed in the proper spot by the installer to unextract files. If your emulator supports reading of zip files (or whatever extensions yours are in) then you can go to Manage Emulators and just change your emulator to not extract archive on launch and probably avoid that process entirely.

Unfortunately you will run into a LOT of issues running LaunchBox as administrator because it messes with how we determine what path the app is ran from which can cause a LOT of downstream issues. You should be able to go to the exe in file explorer for the application you're trying to load and right click it and go to properties then tell Windows to run the executable as admin and have it work that way. Though I'd be wary of using ANYTHING that REQUIRES admin level access. If it needs that access to write files the app probably wasn't written correctly.

You have an picture or a copy/paste of the error you're seeing?

The only time I've seen reports of this is when a user has been using Skraper and it places backup files in your Data folder that don't belong. Please go to your \\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\ folder and make sure there is only one file per platform and no files with a "-backup" suffix.

You can probably turn down the startup screen delay and see if that helps, though I'm fairly certain they are setup to close once the start process is up and running. Been a minute since I've been in that part of the code base to say with 100% accuracy

Have you verified that a setting didn't get changed in your emulator and you just aren't showing the BIOS/Boot screen anymore?

As far as I know Steam imports work just fine. You can check the log and make sure there no messages about hitting an API limit. I know Steam has changed them some since the deck came out and are being bigger sticklers on API limits

Glad you're enjoying it

I'd look up ETA Prime on YouTube. He has a lot of build videos that show emulation benchmarks and can give you a pretty good idea of what is required.

Nice thought, but I believe that romset is far too old for that tool to work. In the ROM import there is a "Force MAME Metadata" checkbox. I'd make sure that's checked. You may run into some issues just because of how old your MAME install is though. I'd strongly recommend you upgrade your set.

Cool glad you were able to get it. Should run much better now too lol

You can change it in the Nvidia control panel as far as I know.

Then I'd ensure that you are actually using the GeForce to display the app. We've had people in the past with similar setups found out they are using the integrated GPU instead of the dedicated one and cause this issue.

This is almost always the cause of 1 or 2 things: You have a service called "nahimic" running on your computer and it needs shut off (if on the newest version of Big Box it will tell you if this is the case) or You are running an intel integrated graphics card and need to go the intel control panel for your device and turn Anti-aliasing either on or off (default "auto-detects"). Either way should work fine, but the auto-detect logic is bad and causes that issue in WPF apps like Big Box

No you can assign the primary at any time via the Edit Game window in the Additional Apps tab. Select the one you want as primary and at the bottom of the grid there is a "Make Primary Version" (or something similar) press that and you should be good to go.

The install flag should update on the game and the app on startup. The being said though the install flag on the main game checks if the primary app is installed and not if ANY app is installed. I'm pretty sure the install badge only checks the main game as well and not the apps, but I'd have to verify that.

Both List View and Audit tool can be used to sort games by LaunchBox Database ID. Use this to put all the unmatched games together and you can do what you need to from there.

All beta's for LaunchBox are released in a manner we think they should be ready for full release and are released as a sanity test to ensure something doesn't break on specific configurations. We also release them to get the community opinion on a new feature and make sure there isn't any support functionality required that we didn't think of. There are several factors that can contribute to a performance degradation in LaunchBox. The one that causes the most is if the app is caching images. If you're using default you can sometimes see a thin bar across the top of the window. When that's displayed images are being cached with uses a lot of CPU and Disk I/O and can cause slow downs. Another potential issue are custom themes. Not all themes are as performant as Default is and it's possible that some may be slower because of that. I'd check in options as well and see if you have deferred scrolling on or off. That feature of WPF does confuse a LOT of people and has caused issues for some. When deferred scrolling is on grid view doesn't update the grid content until AFTER you're done scrolling. To turn it off/on go to Tools > Options then navigate to the Visuals > Main Window Theme > Features and check out the first checkbox. You probably want that checked on if it isn't. If that checkbox is ON deferred scrolling is OFF.

I have gotten the app to the point I'm willing to distribute it. If you email support@datahoardsoftware.com and let me know you want a copy I'll get a copy sent your way.

Rounded corners is a property called "CornerRadius" (without quotes). Doesn't work on a lot of controls natively though as it's a Border property. Most of the time you will see it on Borders.

The GamesDB is entirely community driven. The file you get locally that is used for scraping is updated once a day. If you find a game that has the wrong date you can submit the change the DB yourself. Then some one will moderate the change (mark accept/delete) and once it gets enough accept votes the data is changed.