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Hello! I'm really happy with this Beta 5, which fixes a lot of the issues I was still experiencing: - Playlist organization is preserved in BB - No more issues returning to BB when pressing the B button while the startup screen is active - My issue with Alt-Tab when switching from another Windows window to LB has even been fixed! - ... However, a couple of minor issues have cropped up: - The general settings for the reader aren’t being saved. - In BB (see video), when “Play video audio with background music” is deselected, the video’s audio plays briefly when the video starts, before being replaced by the background music. It didn’t do this before. It’s a minor issue that can be worked around by setting the video volume to 0, but it’s still there. - For @faeran, in 3D-DIMENSIONS (see video), as well as in VisioN, the “Play” button is highlighted for the first selected game. However, it disappears afterward if, for example, you go back and select another game—or even the same one. It reappears for the first selected game after exiting a running game or for the first selected game after switching platforms or playlists. This problem does not occur in CriticalZoneV2, for example. - One last point—though impossible to demonstrate—is that the pause menu is very slow to appear (more than a second, during which the game remains active...), but only the first time it’s used in each game. On subsequent uses, there’s no issue, it becomes responsive. Overall, there have been a lot of very positive developments, even though I’ve noticed a few minor issues… but it’s all good! I can’t wait for the final version, and I hope these little issues will be fixed! Great work, anyway, and thank you! 13.28 beta5 BB.mp4

Thanks @JoeViking245 ! I'll keep using the double-click workaround until the problem is actually fixed. It's no big deal! 😉

Hello! From what I can tell so far, when using VLC, I no longer experience any crashes—whether random or not—with or without error messages. I don't encounter any issues at startup, whether with LB or BB. Startup is fast and crash-free. Occasionally—though much more rarely—there are processes that haven’t closed and need to be terminated via the Task Manager, even though the shutdown window indicates that everything has closed. My browsing is smooth in both BigBox and LaunchBox, with no particular issues. When this beta was released, I grumbled a bit because it didn't fix a number of issues that I—and others—had reported. Nevertheless, looking back, and even though I’m sad to hear that some users are still experiencing major issues (I’m keeping my fingers crossed that things will get back to normal for them soon as well), I have to admit that aside from those few issues—which should be fixed in the next beta—everything is working almost perfectly on my system now. Great job, guys! Thanks My setup: i5-14400F, RTX 5060 Ti (16 Go), 32Go DDR5 (6000mhz) & Windows 11 Home. LB/BB is installed on a 4 To Crucial X9 external SSD with just over 1 To of free space. My collection has a little over 10,000 games. I don't use storefronts. Automatic import of ROMs, media, or content from stores at startup is disabled.

Thank you @Drybonz! English isn't my native language, so I sometimes miss certain nuances. 😅😉

Hi @faeran! What do you mean by an “edge case scenario”? Is it something related to Microsoft Edge settings? Do you have any ideas I could test? Don’t worry, it’s no big deal, and if I can’t fix it, I’ll just deal with it. But since I’m at it, I’d prefer to understand where it might be coming from! Otherwise, I see that the other issues I was having should be fixed in the next beta! That’s great! Thanks for your reply and for all your hard work!

Still the exact same behavior ... Nothing has changed ... This workaround addressed the issue of returning to BB when the B button was double-pressed. The problem is still present, as is the workaround. Hello, All in all, I have to admit that I’m rather disappointed with this Beta 4, which—aside from the issue with displaying manuals in BB—doesn’t fix many problems I reported in Beta 3. So, the previous reports are still entirely relevant to me. Thanks for your work anyway. I’m well aware that not everything can be fixed all at once!

Hi, A few details about the issue with reading the manual from the pause menu. It also seems to be a focus issue. When I select “Read Manual,” it does open the manual in a separate window, but BB doesn't release the focus, and Alt+Tab doesn't change anything. If I press it again, BB opens a new one, and so on. Closing the pause menu, however, does allow me to access the manual window (see video). On the topic of focus, there’s another issue: in what seems to me to be a random manner (though it likely isn’t), when I launch LaunchBox from Windows (not BB), it often doesn’t take focus, and I have to find it in the taskbar or use Alt-Tab to bring it up (see video). However, I have absolutely no issues opening or closing LB or BB—everything is fast and runs smoothly. I have a library of about 10,000 games with a strong focus on collections (300+ playlists and about 40 platforms). However, I don’t use the automatic ROM import or the automatic game import from storefronts (which I don’t use at all). I have both of these options unchecked. I don’t know if that helps. I have a “good” PC, but it's not exactly a “powerhouse” either. I have an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-14400F (2.50 GHz), a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB), and 32 GB of DDR5. LB/BB is installed on a 4 GB Crucial X9 external SSD (with about 1 GB of free space). And I'm running Windows 11 Home. Finally, here’s a video illustrating the issue with playlists in BigBox that don’t follow the display rule (release date in this case) I’ve chosen—a rule that is applied in LB. Thanks for your work anyway! Collections.mp4 Reader.mp4 Opening.mp4

Hi, I have the same problem and used the same temporary "solution": disabling the startup screen.

Hello, I use a lot of playlists, especially for collections where games are sorted by release date. In LaunchBox, there's no problem. However, in BigBox, they are no longer sorted by release date but by alphabetical order... Thanks again for your work!

Great! That's right—no more problems with the background music, whether using VLC or WMP! Thank you so much!

Hi @crusadeRGP ! Same issue for me.

And here's the same thing using WMP, since it behaves differently (the background music never starts). Thanks @MysterNybble ! LOG WMP.mp4 Debug 2026-07-01 06-50-47 AM.log MediaEngine 2026-07-01 06-51-30 AM.worker.log MediaEngine Client 2026-07-01 06-51-30 AM.log

Thank you @MysterNybble, When using VLC, here are the logs and a video I recorded at the same time so you can see exactly what I did. I hope this helps resolve the issue! LOG.mp4 Debug 2026-07-01 06-27-50 AM.log MediaEngine 2026-07-01 06-28-32 AM.worker.log MediaEngine Client 2026-07-01 06-28-32 AM.log

One more thing: when minimized to the taskbar, LaunchBox resists "Alt-Tab" (it just makes a "DONG" sound). It doesn't do this when you use "Alt-Tab" from within LaunchBox without minimizing it. Returning to LaunchBox via the taskbar doesn’t work on the first click either. The first click triggers a “dong,” and the second click brings you back to LaunchBox. I don’t know if this is the intended behavior, but it’s definitely strange... This “issue” was already present in Beta 2, but I hadn’t found the time to report it. LB.mp4

Hello, I'm having a problem with the background music. With VLC, when “Play video audio with background music” is unchecked, I don't hear any sound from the video or any background music. If I check it, both start playing as soon as the video begins. With WMP or FFMPEG, I don’t get any background music at all. If “Play video audio with background music” is unchecked, nothing plays. If I check it, I only hear the video’s audio... These issues weren’t present in Beta 2. However, Beta 3 completely fixed the choppy video issues I was having in LaunchBox and the responsiveness issues (such as a VERY unstable frame rate) I was having in BigBox, which made navigating the menus very hit-or-miss. Finally, just testing FFMPEG for a few minutes for this post was enough to crash BigBox. VLC, on the other hand, seems stable. And I haven’t retested WPM enough to give you a reliable opinion. A big thank you for your work! VLC.mp4 WMP FFMPEG.mp4