Jason Carr

I have heard of this before, but I've never seen it or been able to replicate it. It's been sporadically reported by various other people on rare occasions, and with older versions as well. So I doubt that it has anything to do with the new version. I'm guessing that it somehow has to do with another app interfering or maybe it's OS or driver related. I'd really like to pinpoint it, but haven't been able to as of yet. I would first try rebooting, and then maybe try closing all background apps to see if you can figure out what's causing it.

It does sound like maybe VLC's GPU acceleration isn't working for some reason. I guess that would be my best guess as to what's going on.

Hi @whazzzzzup17, I don't believe that's ever been requested before, and there's probably no easy way to do it currently outside of just doing it manually.

Good to know. It still doesn't quite make sense that VLC would be causing that major of issues, but we are looking to upgrade it anyways.

Indeed. Any my kids will actually play it with me too.

Hmm, that's certainly odd, and nothing I've seen before (CPU getting maxed out like that over time). I noticed that you're running the 2016 Windows 10 release, so my first thought is that maybe there's a glitch in the .NET framework with that older version of Windows 10 that was fixed with the later releases. We've actually seen that happen several times where minor bugs will disappear in LaunchBox and Big Box after an OS update, though I don't believe I've ever seen this particular issue before. There are a couple of things you can try. First try switching video playback engines to see if that makes any difference. From there, try disabling game controllers in the settings to see if it has anything to do with that. Beyond that, I would see if there are any updates for the .NET Framework that you can install on that version of Windows. And beyond that, though I know it'd be a pain and there's probably a reason you're running the original release of Windows 10, you might consider upgrading to the latest release.

My favorite has to be Deathsmiles.

It does make sense in very specific cases, but it's not exactly cut and dry. The wizard allows you to move the ROMs to whatever the existing folder is during the import, so that's one reason. We'd also likely only want to change it on the first import. So it is on the list, but the priority of it isn't very high because it would only happen in specific circumstances.

Yes it *will* work with any folder you choose, but you have to manually change it under Tools > Manage Platforms.

This is what the Startup Load Delay setting is for on the emulator. Just decrease the value.

Beta 2 is out with a bunch of random crap™: - Improvement: New option to "Hide Auto-Generated Playlists from Playlist View" under the Big Box View settings. This new setting is on by default and will hide all the auto-generated nested playlists from the playlists view. - Improvement: New options to "Hide Mouse Cursor on Startup Screens" are available in the Game Startup settings of both LaunchBox and Big Box. These routines were causing issues on some rare systems, so they can now be disabled. - Improvement: A shortcut key combination is now available for "Select Random Game" in LaunchBox: Ctrl+Alt+Q - Improvement: New key and controller button mappings are available in Big Box for Lock/Unlock. This will allow you to lock or unlock Big Box without having to go all the way out to the System menu. - Improvement: Games can now be marked as completed or incomplete in Big Box via the game details menu. This new game details menu item can also be hidden in the Game Menu options. - Improvement: Big Box now has options to allow doing a bunch more things while locked: setting star ratings, opening game folders, opening game image folders, opening emulators, favoriting games, hiding games, marking games as broken, and marking games as completed. All options are available in the Security section of the Big Box options. - Fixed: In the LaunchBox list view, pressing a letter key to jump to a game in the list did not put keyboard focus on the newly selected item, so using the arrow keys afterwards would jump back to the previous location

Yes, that's a good idea. Go ahead and add those to the games database if you want. Just make sure that no two of them are the same.

Generally, you should check the boxes for the regions you live in (or primarily want images for). If you have no boxes checked, LaunchBox will just randomly pick a region to download, which is not ideal. North America and United States should be checked (in that order) for folks who want ESRB rating images.

Yes, that might help, though honestly people don't read things anyways. I had already put that in the changelog and in the first post of this topic.

The Clean Up Media tool will remove them, yes. It did in previous versions as well. The main issue is that downloading media was downloading region files that your collection wasn't using, which would then be deleted by Clean Up Media, so it was a never-ending cycle. The priorities are used when there is no region listed on the game.

I have seen that before, but I haven't been able to track it down. It seems to happen randomly, rarely in my case. I might be able to just mute the videos to solve it maybe. Probably won't be easy though.

9.4-beta-1 is out:

Hey folks, the first 9.4 beta is released with the following: - Improvement: LaunchBox will no longer download images for inapplicable regions during batch imports and media download processes. This will help to save disk space and speed up the download processes. Please be sure your region priority preferences are correct in LaunchBox under Tools > Options > General > Region Priorities, as this will define what types of images are downloaded for games that have no region specified. - Improvement: Debug logging has been improved for media downloads and cleaning up media, now reporting the downloaded and deleted files. - Improvement: Debug logging can now be turned on or off under Tools > Options > Debugging in LaunchBox. Debug logs were previously available, but had to be manually turned on via the Settings.xml file. I have several other things in progress, but I wanted to release this now for testing. Enjoy.

I will admit that that has caught up some users in the past as well. The "default for this platform" option only applies for new games that are added. Each game has its own emulator setting, which is set on import.

@Dane If I had to guess, I'd say that there are two different sets of 3D boxes there that are slightly different, or different sizes. Do the file sizes and image sizes match between the two sets? Unfortunately in that case, LaunchBox doesn't really have a good way of identifying that the images are similar, which is basically what I was referring to earlier.

I never had one either. I think generally both the games database and EmuMovies are fairly well populated images-wise, which is probably one reason why there's so many duplicates. EmuMovies tends to have curated full sets, while the LaunchBox Games Database typically does things game-by-game, but has different images for various regions, and tends to have more choices as a result, and most often much larger images.

Are you sure that the games are set to use the MAME emulator? That could be the issue, considering that the games launch correctly using Launch With.

I'm completely lost then lol. MAME is working perfectly fine for practically everyone here, so there has to be just something we're missing.

What exactly happens when you launch the game from LaunchBox? Does MAME load up at all? The first thing I would try is disabling the startup screen, as that can interfere with the startup process if your MAME settings happen to not be compatible. Hmm, actually, looks like your settings are different from mine: I have "don't use quotes" checked, and that should also be automatically checked when you first create the MAME emulator. So I would guess that's the issue here.

Per the other folks in this thread other than the OP, it's important to note that LaunchBox isn't magical, and can't magically identify when two images look similar. If they are the exact same image with the same file size and the same checksum (exactly the same bytes), then it should be able to identify them as duplicates. But I get the impression that some folks are hoping for magic unicorn duplicate detection, which doesn't really exist. Google tries to do it and does a decent job, but it's not perfect, and we're not Google.