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Remarkably enough, I think that cured the whole thing. Everything seems to be running smooth now. Not sure how I turned that thing on but I'm glad it's off now. Thanks for the help.

Just in case anyone is still following this thread. It appears as though the above solve is no longer valid. Does anyone know what to do in Launchbox 13.14 to achieve this?

Hello All, A few weeks ago I upgraded Launchbox to version 13.14 based on the recent video which I thought said the latest version was 13.13. Since the upgrade, my PC (Win 11, Intel Core i9, 32 GB DDR4) gets completely bogged down when running Launchbox. Browser windows stop responding, the mouse becomes unresponsive sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes for a few mins, and other programs just stop working altogether. If I close Launchbox down, everything goes back to normal and my PC is happy again. I'm wondering if something went wrong in the upgrade or if maybe I have something set incorrectly somewhere. Has anyone else experienced this with 13.14 or is it just me? I currently only have 2 emulators installed (RetroArch and MAME 0.251) which covers my Arcade, Atari, Intellivision, Nintendo, and Sega systems, none which go beyond Sega Genesis. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I'd love to get back to playing games again without worrying if it will crash my PC or not.

Never mind, it looks like I needed to have all the games selected and then hit the refresh button.

I am having one problem. I have set my priorities in the Marquees Image group to include the Image type "Arcade - Cabinets" as its number one priority. However, games that do have Arcade - Cabinet image types are displaying the Arcade - Marquee image instead. Any thoughts?

Yeah, that's what I'm learning. Is there an up-to-date tutorial on this topic? Seems like it would be great subject matter.

OK, yeah, I see the point you're making. For me, I would like to be able to choose an "Image Type" in a simpler fashion but I may need to get used to this first. I'm not 100% sold on the "Cabinets" image type either as many of the games I have simply don't have one or image is of poor quality. I'm guessing I need to download individual files and manipulate them for each game but that is a daunting task considering the shear volume of games. I think i've seen something about there are currated image packs available but given how old a lot of the YouTube tutorials are, I'm not sure where to look. Anyway, thanks for all the help in understanding the system.

I mean an option on the "Image Group" menu to list more than just following items: It would be nice if it listed all the Image Group possibilities (like Cabinets).

So essentially I would just move Cabinets to the top of one of those groups and use it where I wanted? OK, just out of curiosity, are there any plans to give all the image groups there own menu item spot or at least let us decide which ones we want listed in our "Image Group" menu?

I don't seem to have an "Image Group Priorities" choice. I do have the following options though:

I really want to use the "Arcade Cabinet" images for my arcade games in Launch Box but the "Image Group" menu doesn't have that as a choice. I've looked around and I can't figure out how to either as that as a choice or set a game to that image manually. Please help a newbie, every time you do, an old person gets to play a game.

I'm trying to run Big Box on my Windows 11 PC that has dual monitors and I'm just curious why Big Box (or even MAME launched from Launch Box) only seems to want to run on my secondary monitor instead of my primary monitor. Is there a setting somewhere that I can change or is this just normal behavior? Using version 13.1

I'm kinda a fan of the clones. Our YT channel loves to take a look at the crazy history of popular games so playing the clones is a big part of that. So if I want to see those games does that mean I should relaunch the wizard from "Tools/Import/MAME Arcade Full set"? Will running this wizard twice give me any problems I should know about now?

1) I honestly just followed the wizard. 2) Yes, they are MAME roms. 3) I did use the MAME Full Set option. So given that I used the MAME Full Set option. What should I do to see my entire list at this point? Should I do a re-import or something?

This has probably been asked hundreds of times in this forum but I'm a bit of a newb with LaunchBox so please be patient. I'm using LaunchBox 12.9 and I went through the wizard for adding MAME to LaunchBox. I have a little over 10K games, nothing hidden, and at first LaunchBox saw all 10K games. However, after grabbing all the metadata I noticed my list is now under 3K. I'm sure I've done something wrong or there is a simple setting I need to tweak but, I could really use some help figuring it out. Thanks in advance for any support you can offer.