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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.

All licensing is handled via support@unbrokensoftware.com. The people manning that inbox are the only ones that have the ability to look into your purchase for security reasons.

The feature benefits some systems more than others. I use it mostly for Wii and Windows. Wii I can quickly navigate games that don't require motion controls or games that don't require the motion plus (which I don't have). Windows I use it to sort the level of controller support (full/partial) so I can determine ahead of time what controller scheme the game uses.

Think your confusion and the issue you're running into is you don't want perfect scans. You want scans with rips, tears, grime, and other defects. Most groups that do scans like this look for the highest quality they can get (aka DOESN'T have these things) and we follow that line of thinking pretty heavily here. Newer systems have their box images released publicly as part of their PR release packages as well (or for their digital storefront) and so you can get source image with DOES qualify but CAN'T have physical defect because it was never physical to begin with.

We have 3 or 4 vertical themes, but not near as many as landscape since most people don't play vertically. I believe all of them are in the download section only though. I'm not sure they in the Big Box themes manager.

You turn on beta updates inside the app and it'll download it for you. There is no download link.

If you're looking just to make gameplay videos that can be done with LaunchBox OBS integration pretty easily. If your looking to make Theme videos like what you are showing THAT would take extra software. Most people on the forums that I know make them do so with PowerPoint actually.

No, bout the closest thing I think Big Box has is the ability to manually start attract mode when then randomly spins the game/platform wheels. Could manually start it and then stop it after the first or second game it lands on.

Games are added to playlists not apps/versions. There is no way to add just a single app/version of a game to a playlist instead of the entire game.

I've not seen that before. My suggestion would be run the import but don't check any media and see if it works then. If it does, run the Download Metadata and Media wizard on the games after the fact. Right now looks like there is some communication issue between the two processes.

The security risk would be with the runtime not the program, and it's ability to interact negatively with an open security hole in the OS which IS still supported and would patched to correct. Security definitions would also be added to Windows Defender to combat the issue. The real world risk by not upgrading is almost non-existent. Should a real threat reveal itself we would of course increase the time table, but at this time that simply isn't true. There are several real world issues with us not upgrading that we can replicate now that are far more detrimental and a realistic outcome than a introduced security vulnerability. We have every intention of upgrading the version some point in the near future, but want to ensure it is done correctly, not only to maintain feature parity, but to ensure that we are doing things correctly in the new .NET version to help mitigate future issues (like your security concerns) we would be dealing with on that version.