Jason Carr

Everything you download from the LaunchBox Games Database is optional. If you want to download a bunch of torrents, all you have to do is place the media in the proper folders, and LaunchBox and Big Box will pick them up. We may add more media options in the future, but this is not planned for the immediate time being.

@CaptainJ It could be caused by incorrect time zone settings; does your Windows time zone match correctly with what it should be? Other than that, I'm guessing maybe it's a firewall issue or something of that nature.

Very cool @Padou; the Big Box custom theme tutorials on YouTube are a good place to start. There's also the LaunchBox\Themes\Documentation.pdf document which should help. I'm sorry about the language barrier though; I don't really have a solution for that for the moment.

Hi bbneo, please email us at support@unbrokensoftware.com and we'll get you squared away.

Beta 3 is out now as well with a fix for the playlists showing up in the platforms view of Big Box; I missed that with the last beta.

Ah, yes. Just noticed that. I'll fix that soon.

What you can do though is right-click on the playlist in the sidebar and edit it. Then you can manually remove games from that list, and it will automatically convert it into a manual playlist. You will lose the auto-populate functionality though.

Ah, I see. Good to know. So apparently the upgrade process is bugged from versions that are that old.

Did you delete the entire Data folder? It's possible that LB was still running in the background when you did it. Make sure that it's not in Task Manager still saving everything when you delete it.

Oh, I misread, one sec.

Ah, I see. Good to know.

@NLS I don't think this is common, but I believe we might have an occasional issue when deleting the very last platform, or deleting all the games in your collection. Sorry for that; it should only come up in that specific situation, and it's on my list of things to address. It should be easy enough to just delete your LaunchBox\Data folder entirely if you want to start over.

@alec100_94 I just put out a new beta with the two latest requests. I'm hoping to put out an official release here soon because of some fixes; let me know if things seem to be good to go for you for now.

Beta 2 is out now with the following: - Improvement: Added a new SelectionChanged SystemEventType for plugins - Fixed: Playlists were showing in the Platforms lists; this was never intended but somehow got changed by mistake a while ago. Playlist should now only show up in the Platform Categories list when marked as such. - Fixed: The PluginHelper.StateManager.GetAllSelectedGames() plugin method was not working properly in LaunchBox - Fixed: When LaunchBox was closed while minimized, the window would be very small on the next startup Assuming this beta goes well, we'll probably put out a new release to fix these few issues in a day or two.

How is it a custom version? I don't know why you wouldn't be able to merge collections by just copying the XML files and such.

So apparently .Next is showing playlists that are included in platform categories in with the platforms list. I don't know how I missed that, but I will get that fixed.

The initializing speech does admittedly hiccup every once in a while for me on my machines as well. That kind of thing is really hard to get right unless I wait until everything is loaded before I play the sound (I don't want to delay loading Big Box just to play the startup sound). I still don't understand why you're seeing performance issues with the controller, but I'm out of ideas, unfortunately.

I honestly don't have any idea why you'd be experiencing hiccups. I don't remember your system specs (I'm sure you shared them at some point), but if it's hitching when videos are loading it could be a hard drive speed issue, or if they're on a network path that could be the issue. I will say that it's not normal to experience hiccups when videos load on a high-performance machine.

Sure, I can look to see if I can fix that selected game thing here soon.

Glad to hear that it's much improved over the last release. Often times it is a priority issue that causes this kind of stuff. More often than not, when I fix performance issues in Big Box, it's just all about figuring out how to code in the priorities and the timing correctly. Big Box is vastly multi-threaded in order to keep performance smooth, which can make stuff like that complicated for sure.

It may work with some trial and error on 2 gigs of RAM, but that's not something we can support at this point.

Yeah, at some point, in order to get the best performance for users with typical machines, the bare minimum requirements are just going to have to increase.

Okay, yeah, 2 gigs of RAM just isn't going to cut it. I'm surprised it's working at all, to be honest. I hope you can get it working, but I'm doubtful with that amount of RAM.

I went back to test on my slower machines, and as best I can tell, any remaining stutters in the controller navigation are just due to performance issues in general with the hardware not being able to keep up. So that's not to say that there's not improvements that we can make, but I think the controller implementation specifically is probably as good as it's going to get.

Anyone who still wants a download for the old version can email us at support@unbrokensoftware.com and we'll get it for you. Otherwise, most likely it's already available in your LaunchBox\Updates folder. The performance issues don't make a lot of sense to me, as like others have stated, performance is exponentially higher in .Next than it was in OG LB, pretty much across the board. So if performance is worse, then most likely there's something odd going on with the machine. One thing to check is any anti-virus or anti-malware programs as we've routinely seen some crappy ones cause issues (most notably as of late Malwarebytes). As always, we highly recommend sticking with Microsoft's Windows Defender as it does a plenty good enough job without being ridiculously intrusive. There's also significantly less RAM usage, because the entire RAM Cache is no longer needed. For those running out of memory, please let us know how much RAM you have in your system, and if you can open Task Manager to figure out how much RAM LaunchBox is using, that would be great. LaunchBox.Next has been battle-tested very well at this point. Of the last 5 users that I've helped troubleshoot stability or performance issues with it, all 5 of their issues were due to things like corrupted Windows installations and conflicting/intrusive anti-virus applications, so I suspect something like that is probably going on here as well. I will also note that the previous official version of LaunchBox did state, in the opening window of all things, that the next version would be completely getting rid of the OG interface. So really there should not have been any confusion, even if you don't follow us very closely. I will look into these issues: Thanks all.