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The beta version seems to have fixed the issue from what I can tell. I only ran it 3 1/2 hours but it didn’t freeze. It used to freeze after about an hour and a half.

So after 3 1/2 hours no freezing!!! Definitely seems better!!

Ok I’ve never downloaded a beta before but since I’m one the ones who machine keeps freezing after an hour or 2 I will test this out. Just downloaded it and Bigbox is running. I will update in a couple hours. Using refied theme.

I am not running the beta yet but did update the codecs mentioned in this thread to see if that would help but still freezing after a couple hours.

While Bigbox freezes a lot quicker using VLC it will still freeze after a while using WMP. My system never used to freeze. Also want to note I randomly get an error now about being out of memory when I am able to exit clean.

Hope they figure this out soon. I’ve tried both VLC and WMP but both freeze after a while. Never used to freeze at all. I also get random memory error when exiting. Like couldn’t save out of memory when exiting Bigbox

So we had a party tonight and the machine froze 4-5 times. Again this never use to happen at all. I will be using my old Hyperspin for parties until this issue is resolved.

Also wanted to note when I exit Bigbox I now get an error saying out of memory which I had never gotten before. Guessing it’s related.

I’m using unified refried theme and it’s set up to run looking like Hyperspin. Ran for a couple hours then went to check and it was stuck on the main menu wheel on Colecovision. I had one time earlier exiting Teknoparrot it was stuck but I could hit a mouse button and it regained focus and was ok but not this time. I used to let my machine run for hours wit no problems at all.

I had the same issue using VLC and windows media player everything would freeze after a couple minutes. I never had it freeze before but then realized I did two things. I updated to 13.19 but I also for the first time used the video scraper plugin which downloaded webm or web something video files. I moved all the web files to another folder and the freezing stopped for me.

Second time running it after the update and froze again after a little more than an hour. ***Update - I was using WMP and switched to VLC but same issue after about 20 minutes. I've attached the log. Debug 2025-02-15 09-12-02 PM.log

I just update to 13.9 and let Bigbox run and after a couple hours it froze. I tried clicking the mouse and a windows error popped up saying Bigbox is not responding so I closed it. Hope this isn’t a common issue. I’ve ran Bigbox for hours previously with no problems.

I've had this happen in Hyperspin where Retroarch was muted in windows sound settings. I think it was when I used Rocketlauncher and the pause menu. Haven't had this happen in Launchbox before.

Have you tried deleting both platforms and starting over with Mame/Arcade? That's what I do when a platform is causing me an issue.

I also have noticed this. Black screen on startup then back to windows desktop. It used to go to black screen but if I hit a button it would go to the wheel. Now it just crashes back to desktop but I have no task bar. Doesn’t happen all the time but definitely is frustrating.