[BigBox no sound]

8 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Bigbox uses the default device being used by Windows, and there is no way to change that. There are various volume settings in Bigbox for different things, master volume, video volume, movement volume etc. Make sure none of those are turned to zero.

yes, thanks, I found that for some reason windows 10 had bigbox muted in the sound mixer settings and this caused the internal videos and menu no to have any sound, after unmuting it works fine again.

[BigBox no sound]

if is there any place where you can check setting in launchbox?, I have the issue that videos play, but there is no sound, this only happens inside bigbox, if i play any video separate from windows 10 then the video and audio plays, regarless of the theme used bigbox plays the videos but not the audio, does not play the sounds from the menu either, whe starting an emulator it plays the audio fine, so there must be something inside the configuration telling to send the audio to x output that is not correct

[Big Box isn't regaining Window Focus after game exit]

On 7/9/2020 at 8:32 PM, DrGrizzPHD said:

I know this is an old thread, but I had the same issue with the Microsoft Store version of Killer Instinct.  I happen to own Minecraft for Windows 10 as well and it has the same problem on my setup.  I have spent a few days searching around the forums and none of the previous solutions worked.  The "regainfocus" plugin from jayjay seemed promising, but it didn't work either for some reason.  Possibly the dll file in the plugin isn't detecting when the UWP app is closed.

The workaround I came up with is to create an ahk script that captures the ID of the active window and then waits for it to close.  Once the game/window is closed, it will run the ahk commands from jayjay's plugin to Activate Launchbox/BigBox.  Below is the script that I cobbled together:

Sleep, 3000 ; Wait three seconds for the game to launch
MouseMove, 1920, 500 ; move the mouse to the middle of the screen instead of the corner to prevent the title/start bar from appearing
Sleep, 10000 ; wait 10 seconds for good measure to make sure the game is loaded and is the active window, this could probably be reduced
WinGet, active_id, ID, A ; get the ID of the active window
WinWaitClose, ahk_id %active_id% ; wait for the active window to close
Sleep, 500 ; wait half a second, this might not be needed either
if WinExist("LaunchBox Game Startup")
{
	WinActivate
	WinWaitClose, LaunchBox Game Startup
}

if WinExist("LaunchBox")
{
	WinActivate
}

if WinExist("LaunchBox Big Box")
{
	WinActivate
}

ExitApp

So below are the full steps that I took to fix my focus issue with Killer Instinct and Minecraft for Windows 10:

1. Download and install the full version of AutoHotkey, which has the functionality to compile an ahk script into an exe

2. Save the above script commands as a new ".ahk" file

3. Right-click on the file and select Compile Script, which will output a ".exe" file with the same filename

4. In Launchbox, edit the Windows Store/UWP game that has this issue and navigate to "Additional Apps"

5. Select "New Application", give it a name and browse to the ".exe" file created in step 3.

6. Check the "Automatically Run Before Main Application" box and hit OK

 

Since it took me a couple days to find a fix, I wanted to post this just in case it helps someone in the future.

This worked, thank you !!!