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Thanks for the update, really appreciate the clarity.

Yah I'm still getting it as well. Continued to try and increase virtual ram, but it does not solve the issue.

Have the same if I sleep from within Big Box, and then wake. However if I sleep without using Big Box, it wakes to a memory crash.

Sorry, this is a confusing issue to follow. There was a post saying it was fixed in 13.21 beta-1, and then someone else said it WASN'T fixed until next proper release. Still getting out of memory error with Sleep and then Wake, then Big Box crashing out. I tried the trick to increase virtual memory to a ridiculous number, but it doesn't do anything. Is there any update on this issue or just waiting for next release?

Apologies! I thought it had been addressed according to this post:

Just installed beta-3 to address the out of memory issues when waking from sleep and things are more broken than ever. If I "Sleep" via a method outside of Big Box, then wake, the out of memory crash occurs as before. If I use the Big Box menu to "Sleep", then wake, it doesn't crash, but all the artwork is lost (grey boxes), and the main area of the game info does not refresh. I can still scroll and launch games, but everything about the interface is frozen and most elements are just gone.

Just updated to 13.21 beta-3 and this issue is NOT fixed. EDIT: In fact this is even worse, even if you can manage to get Big Box to come back, all art work is lost and nothing refreshes when scrolling games.

Sadly, no go again. Tried with both options toggled as well, nothing still. Frustrating that this same exact setup works on another PC... Both are near completely vanilla Win11, fully patched, and basically only have a few utlities (Notepad++, 7-zip, etc) and then just LaunchBox and MAME. 😕

Just gave it a shot, no go.

I have a VERY basic setup here. Running LB 13.8 (got my reasons) and just MAME (0.237), almost everything is default. Just using Esc to exit MAME. I have this EXACT same setup on another machine, and everything works fine. For whatever reason, exiting a MAME game on this machine sends me back to Big Box, but I can't do anything because the focus is lost. I have tried looking in task manager, alt+tabbing to see if there's anything else there, there's nothing. No other apps are running, nothing minimized, nothing in the background. I do have a controller that has a mouse click type button on it, and if I push that button, it DOES regain focus. So I do have a work-around, but I'd love to just have it working normally. I have read a bunch of other threads on the issue, but none seem to be the same. Big Box will launch fine, MAME will launch fine, can play the game without any problems, and closing MAME works fine, but Big Box just doesn't get its focus back. Even though I have this exact same setup (same LB version, same BB setup, same MAME version, same Windows 11 version) on another PC and it works fine. I even used to have this controller plugged into the other machine that still works fine, so the controller doesn't seem to be the issue either. Any ideas on what I can possibly look at to try and troubleshoot?