Jason Carr

@throwingmuse Please test some different themes to see if the issue is theme-specific. It is a known issue that WMP will not always play all videos (due to missing codecs, etc. which are really out of our control), but I am not aware of any issues with videos not showing up in VLC.

@Chris Kant It's really just a matter of creating the right structure to achieve what you're looking for there. I do plan to add some automation options to make this easier here soon. @Typhon Okay, good to know. We'll see if it's requested elsewhere and I can add it in if it's a popular request.

It will change as you change the Arrange By drop down.

That's a good idea. They could certainly be uploaded to the forums download section. Does it work if you go to Tools > Create Missing MAME/Arcade playlists?

You can nest things however you want, but there's absolutely no reason to nest platforms. You can use Platform Categories (and/or playlists depending on your goals) to achieve the exact same results. The reason we added the warning is exactly because people tend be confused with this. The interface does restrict you from nesting a platform inside of a platform. Ah, I didn't intend for those playlists to be restricted, but I'm still finding places where I need to remove the restriction. I'll do that for the next release.

Apparently this is being caused by "Uninstalled" used as the Sort Title for at least a good chunk of the games. The way the sorting works is that it sorts by sort title if it's specified, and so they're being sorted randomly because they're all being sorted by the same value. I'd suggest using a different field to track whether they're installed or not and removing it from the Sort Title field.

I'm releasing this official release this morning, and then there won't be any betas out for at least a couple of days, so that should work well. Another option would be to simply just temporarily disable the updates, or just temporarily turn off your Internet connection. But it shouldn't be an issue anyways.

I have these updates in for the official 8.9 release, which should be out shortly.

If we can determine if it's really the update notifications that are causing the issue, that'd be awesome, as I have some ideas that would probably fix it. I'd say go ahead and update to the latest and we can check to see if it still happens (I am putting out an official release here shortly though). If it really is the update notifications, that should be all I need to know to get it fixed, hopefully.

@TiberiusNero I've never seen anything like this either. If you can zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder, I'll see if I can replicate and get it fixed.

Sure, I think it would be helpful to try and replicate using an Xbone controller, because I think that should rule out whether the issue is related to controllers or not. I do think the popup might be a lead. Do you know what popup it is? I'm not really seeing any that would make sense in that scenario (I don't know of any popups that would show up on exiting a game and returning to Big Box). By chance, do you have any plugins installed?

Beta 2 is out now with some translation updates and a hopeful fix for @deliyuerek85's issue above. I'm not aware of any other serious issues since yesterday's beta, so hopefully that's accurate. The plan is still to put out the 8.9 bugfix release tomorrow.

Okay, thanks @Agent47. I assume this means that it wouldn't be as simple as just sending over the playlist name instead of the platform name if a playlist was loaded. Would it work just to add a new variable that sends the playlist name if the user is in a playlist (as well as the platform)? For Sega Classics, for example, this means that the Arcade platform name would be sent along with the Sega Classics playlist name.

Good to know. I probably won't get this in for the 8.9 bugfix release, but I'll add it to my list.

That's interesting. That popup is certainly not being displayed correctly, but it's not a separate window or anything; it's just an overlay in the XAML, so I'm not sure how the popup would be causing issues (focus would still be on the main Big Box window). This does make me wonder if it's a video driver issue or something of that nature though, since at least the above issue is a rendering issue of some sort. I'm not really sure where to go next, other than to continue testing to see if it can be relatively consistently replicated in a simple environment. Did you have only one controller connected?

No problem Claudio; I have it updated for the next beta.

It shouldn't be. If you'd be willing, please create a separate topic for it with more details and we can help you troubleshoot. You can mention me to make sure that I see it @Jason Carr.

Hmm, good to know. I guess that makes sense. I didn't realize that extra images could be cause for performance issues, but that is good to know.

Can't you add whatever systems you want to RL?

Thanks for the reminder. I *think* this is a culture issue and I think I have it fixed for the next beta. I can't replicate it on my end though, so you'll have to let me know once the beta comes out, probably tomorrow.

The first 8.9 beta is out now:

The first 8.9 beta is out now with the following: - Improvement: Empty playlists will now show up in the LaunchBox sidebar when viewing platform categories; this should reduce confusion when adding a new playlist and leaving it empty - Improvement: When manually adding a new platform via right-click in the platform categories list, LaunchBox will now warn you that it's not recommended to manually add platforms and to use the import processes instead. It also warns the user that categories and playlists should be used instead of platforms for nesting purposes. - Fixed: Add to Playlist functionality was accidentally still restricted to premium - Fixed: Editing a playlist that had no parents was putting it back into the root by default - Translation updates The current plan is to put out a bugfix release on Wednesday, assuming these betas go well. These updates/fixes aren't major issues, but they have caused enough confusion to warrant a bugfix release. Let me know how this beta fairs.

Have you tried a reboot? Is it running in Task Manager?

Yes, that should be fine.