[SteamLauncher]

6 hours ago, Lahma said:

Its gotta be something with your setup @Razor112 because yours is the 1st report I've gotten of this issue. There are many other people having absolutely no issue with the new update. If you msg me on Steam, I would be happy to help you troubleshoot the issue.

FWIW I am encountering the same, on Windows 10, but it only started happening after I wiped SteamLauncher's config.xml. Before that it crashed for me upon opening SL's settings, but not on startup.

 

EDIT:

Confirmed - I sourced a premade config.xml and LB now boots. However, it crashes on opening SteamLauncher settings and the callstack hints at the same issue, but with a vtables.xml file:

debug.log gets created properly (although empty), so it definitely is not an issue of LaunchBox's directory ACLs.

[Playtime not updating reliably]

3 hours ago, C-Beats said:

Currently the play tracker stops the playtime timer when LaunchBox or Big Box regain focus which may be causing the issue you are seeing. We are looking into ways to improve this functionality to be a bit more resilient.

 

I can confirm that this is my issue - I launched DuckStation and then minimized it without bringing LB to focus, waited a bit, then switched to LaunchBox. My playtime reflected the time I had spent idling in the game and stopped updating after I checked it in LB once.

[12.5 Play time tracking....]

Bit of a shameless plug - I created a script to migrate Playtime Tracker times to the native LaunchBox field: 

Playtime Tracker shows playtime in a "Playtime" Custom Field, but it's not reliable, especially with a Free version. The source of truth for the plugin is in its own data files - located in per-game Plugins\Playtime Tracker\[gameid].txt files.

[Playtime not updating reliably]

Hey,

after upgrading to 12.5 and migrating my playtimes from a Playtime Tracker plugin to the inbuilt feature I noticed my current playtimes on PS1 (using DuckStation) don't quite match up. From what I can see when troubleshooting, LaunchBox stops counting playtime as soon as I minimize DuckStation, and it doesn't resume counting when I maximize it again.

I thought this could be related to a Game Startup/Game Pause feature, but both are disabled.

I enabled logging to see if there's anything I can spot, but I couldn't notice anything of value. Attaching the debug log nonetheless, in case it has something I missed.

EDIT:
It's worth noting that while this log was created with a Steam Launcher plugin, I reproduced the same issue with this plugin disabled.

Debug 2021-12-12 11-00-47 PM.log

[Playtime Tracker Migration]

Playtime Tracker Migration

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This Python script migrates playtime data from the Playtime Tracker plugin to a native LaunchBox playtime entry introduced in 12.5.

Python 3 is required.

To use, either launch the script from LaunchBox directory
OR
pass path to LaunchBox as the first argument, for example:

python migrate_launchbox_playtime.py "C:\Programs\LaunchBox"

WARNING: This script OVERWRITES playtime already specified in LaunchBox with playtime from Playtime Tracker (if present),
so playtime counted by LaunchBox but not Playtime Tracker will be overwritten!
However, games without a Playtime Tracker entry present at all will remain untouched.
 

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• Submitter
  CookiePLMonster
• Submitted
  12/11/2021
• Category
  Third-party Apps and Plugins