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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.

Wow! Long time Hyperspin user that finally had to switch to Bigbox because of all the updated features and controller support. My Bigbox looks just Hyperspin like most but the two things that really bother me about Bigbox is the wheels that sometimes take a bit to load and sometimes the start up videos just show black. If Hyperspin 2 is as smooth as the first one I would probably switch back. I’m sure it won’t be perfect either but there’s nothing worse than showing off your collection and the game wheels are blank.

I have it running fine. Whats the issue?

Got it to work. I tried having Launchbox reinstall the emulator and it still didn’t work. I then deleted PCSX2 and reinstalled it and then added it to the emulator list and everything works now???

I have my all of my PlayStation 2 games in gz format and they are launching fine in pcsx 2 no problem. When I launch them in Launchbox I get audio but just a black screen? Pcsx2 is selected as the emulator in Launchbox also.

I just updated to the latest version. Previously for PC games I would drag and drop them into my windows pc games folder and it would launch with no problems. Now when I try to to launch a new pc game added it says there is no associated emulator even though its an .exe? Edit** Figured out emulator is now automatically checked so I have to go in and now manually uncheck emulator. Defiantly easier to just drag and drop like before??

For me it was operator error. I had another emulator using a different dolphin version. I deleted the other dolphin emulator and configured all emulators to use the same version of Dolphin and the error went away. Totally forgot I had a separate Dolphin in a different folder.

Mine does that sometimes but if I exit out and restart it works. Just recently now I stay on my desktop screen, ledblinky loads and the taskbar disappears but nothing happens. I have to go into task manager and end the task. Seems to be getting worse with every update.

I can’t say for sure what update caused this since I’ve been keeping up with the updates but haven’t played my cab a lot. Ever since I started using Bigbox I would occasionally get a black screen on start up but as soon as I hit any button it would go to the wheel, no big deal and I think it’s a known issue. However now when I get the black screen at start up I hit a button and Big Box crashes. I go back to my windows desktop but the taskbar isn’t there. I have to go into task manager and close BigBox then restart it and it’s fine.

I dont think this is beta related. I posted about this last week in the trouble shooting section. I am not running beta and still get the error when checking for updates. I am using the correct version of the emulator and plugin and also deleted and reinstalled the emulator.

@C-Beats I see there’s another thread just started about Dolphin using Retroarch. I’m using standalone but could my issue be related you think?

I know that's been changed. Not sure where I got that from lol

This error is occurring as soon as I start download manager for emulators. I use to have two versions of dolphin installed but not any longer. I tried again deleting dolphin and reinstalling and repairing the plug in but still every time I run download manager for the emulators I get both of these errors. It will do both errors twice in a row also? I'm confused on what its checking that it doesn't like?

So I tried updating the plugins and am still getting the same error. I even tried reinstalling dolphin again. I’m confused what the “long version” of Dolphin would be? Is there a file that is storing the wrong version in Launchbox I could delete to start over for Dolphin? Thanks again for the help.

Thanks Joe. I will try this when I get back home.

I keep getting an error in Launchbox for Dolphin when I go to manage emulators. I’ve tried deleting Dolphin and reinstalling and tried letting Launchbox download it but nothing helps. Any ideas?

Well I thought this was fixed but it’s happened a couple times now. LED blinky still loads faster which is nice but the black screen on start up is still happening.