jw15851

Thanks for checking and testing. MAME is installed, standalone within the launch box folder structure. Launch has updated several times since then but the issue still persists. I pretty much gave up on leaving MAME running and attempted to just let it run in the attract mode instead, however there is a problem with that as well. On a similar timeline as MAME being orphaned, (could be hours, could be days) the attract mode in big box will lock up. But not entirely… You walk up and instead of cycling through the games, it’s frozen on one selection. If you interact with it (move joystick hit some buttons) it will remain frozen for another 5 to 8 seconds, then unfreeze and behave normally once again. (windows is running fine in the background, windows key works immediately, etc) It’s almost like there’s some sort of sleep function for the attract mode. I have all power saving features in windows turned off. No hard drive power down, no monitor off, no screensaver, USB selective power turned off, etc. no antivirus apart from the built-in windows defender. i’m really at a loss for whats screwing with it

Sometimes it takes literally several days. Sometimes it will do it within maybe 2 hours. Can’t see a pattern. To be clear, this is specifically with MAME, i don’t have other emulators setup to test. Just one monitor Windows 11 MAME .265 Launchbox 13.12

Did it happen for you?

Started out without attract mode off. Later turned it on to see if it made a difference, and now from time to time I’ll come in and see it running in attract mode, while I hear Mame running in the background. (Made no difference, exact same overall behavior)

So I like to leave one particular MAME game running, it's the game the cabinet is themed for. All good... the game runs sometimes for a day or two, sometimes for a few hours... but eventually, on it's own, the Big Box interface ends up visible again full screen, but, MAME continues in the background. (I can still hear the game's attract mode running, and can alt-tab back to it). If I select and run the game again from Big Box when this happens, it does not return to the previous MAME session, but instead launches another new instance of MAME, and then runs the the game twice simultaneously. I'm not seeing any windows notifications, that might cause this (I've turned off notifications, turned on focus, and turned off consumer experience, tips, etc. in GPedit), I've also made sure that there are no sleep options turned on, no screen savers, no other active applications running apart from BB... just at some point MAME and BigBox trade focus positions. Kind of annoying. Any ideas out there? Anyone else experiencing this?