quakemarine20

Here is the log fileDebug 2026-09-19 06-14-42 PM.log

The log folder appears to be entirely empty

Atari 2600.xml

It hangs for literally ever! If anything is within that platform folder it does the same thing the application just hangs and does not appear to be hitting the CPU much at that point.

I went all the way back to 1 month, nothing I did with the backups was able to restore. If any of the platforms are inside the folder launchbox will not load at all, emulators included I can't have a single game. Launchbox does immediately close from details once the exiting software prompt is completed. I let it import the 1300ish games, closed and verified it was closed in details and still the same behavior. I again tried with a single 2600 game, same behaviors. It's as I suspected if anything is inside that platform folder at all then launchbox can't populate games.

About 1285 in Windows and another 7 in Ms-Dos (All GOG games) Almost all Windows are Steam Games, a few GOG. All GOG Games in the MsDos platform. Deleting just MS-Dos does not help, deleting both does help. Disabling Auto Imports does resolve the issue, however I also have no games in LaunchBox.

Yes, I have rebooted several times playing with my PBO Curve a bit. I have tried both closing Launchbox via the X and letting the shutdown process playout, and via taskmanager. I get the same behavior both ways, I'm primarily closing with task manager when it's stuck unable to open, I have tested to see if just ending the task allowed LaunchBox to reopen It did not. I do see the closing window when closing the application via the X Yes, All drives have been local. At First I just added a 2 onto the LaunchBox folder, then moved it to another NVME and both times the same behavior. I can start and run Launchbox but once it's closed the data folder must be deleted. For 100% sure, there's 8 items and 2 folders. It does have 2 additional xml's inside the platform folder. MS-Dos and Windows (xml), Deleting just these 2 fixes the issue but both need to be deleted before it loads. This is new, I'd previously tried deleting the platforms 1 by 1 and could not get LB to load with anything in there. Windows is up to date, drivers up to date, The only thing not 100% up to date is my Mobo Bios and that's 1 back but it's an x570 chipset AM4 so not a lot went on in the last several BIOS updates.

That's correct, it just populates the folders and files but will not relaunch until those are deleted.

I only have Windows Defender and have added an exclusion to the LaunchBox install path. I've also tried with Defender off entirely, and reinstalled with it off... Same behavior, it will start and populate games but if the program is closed it will no longer reopen until the data folder is cleared entirely... I do mean entirely, not a single file can remain within the data folder or LaunchBox will not load.

I recently upgraded my CPU, was forced to reset my Windows Pin after the first bootup but did not appear to lose anything at all after the Pin reset. I mention this because it's the only thing I can think of responsible for this behavior. I was able to open LaunchBox after my CPU upgrade, I did not have any problem. Fast forward a day and it will not open, restoring backups was not helping nor reinstalling. I was able to identify that if any file was present inside the Data Folder then Launchbox will refuse to populate games. It's worse than just all my backups are corrupted, Launchbox will only work 1 time! Once I close LaunchBox there are files inside the Data folder so it will not open again until those are removed.... I've tried installing to different folders, different drives, I can not seem to make launchbox re-open without something in the data folder going corrupt.

Sorry to revive a dead thread..... I'm having the same exact issue with several games on Epic Games, more specifically anything from Ubisoft. I can mark them as installed in LaunchBox but if I close and reopen the program it marks nearly everything from ubisoft as uninstalled again. Clicking install launches the game rather than installs it.

So I've noticed the game details window doesn't close when I launch a game, nor does it close when I minimize Launchbox or close it to the corner. Is there anyway to make the Game details window tied to the main program window?

I'm having trouble with importing from steam, specifically the images and videos. It's got all my games imported fine, most have the basic box art. When Update Media and MetaData for selected games under the tools download menu and select all my games and try to download screenshots and trailer. I will see it process each game, but after several it speeds way way up, it's suddenly skipping or not able to reach steam for metadata. I can confirm this by editing a game and doing a video or image search and it won't pull anything from steam. I have to wait several minutes again before I am even able to get anything steam related to show, even items I've previous downloaded the videos and images for can't find those images/videos again on steam. It act's like steam's cutting me off after so many connections just guessing because if I stick to like 2-3 games at a time I seem to be able to download what I'm after more consistently. I'm attaching 2 files, the first SS is when I ran a full game update (updating not replacing the metadata). It like I mentioned speed up and stopped connecting to steam around the F's. I screen shooted BL3 during this time. After a few minutes I retried and was again able to pull steam content.