Jason Carr

The only thing that could be happening here is if both USA and Japanese artwork is downloaded and available, LaunchBox may be switching between them if the region on the artwork isn't set properly, etc. LaunchBox does not ever download any new metadata or images without the user knowing about it. That's an impossible situation.

Ah, that certainly could be the difference. Mine are connected up via the official MS wireless adapters. That said, I believe people were still seeing the issue with wired controllers, so that can't be the whole picture. I'll try to do some testing with BlueTooth though. I might need to pick up an adapter.

Can you explain what's broken and where? Yes, the spacing options are still on the list to be implemented.

Yeah, I'm aware of the usability issues of the control. I plan to make the mouse control easier to use, as well as add some accessibility options. Visually, the control will stay the same, but I plan to improve the usability of it.

Beta 8 is out now with the following: New Premium Feature: Platform, playlist, and platform category-specific background music is now available in Big Box! Enable it in the Big Box Sound options and place your music in the LaunchBox\Music\Background\Platforms\[Platform Name], LaunchBox\Music\Background\Playlists\[Playlist Name], and LaunchBox\Music\Background\Platform Categories\[Platform Category Name] folders. Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now obeys the "Colorize Game Dividers" option Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now obeys the "Colorize Scrollbars" option Improvement: New option in LaunchBox.Next for centering the text Improvement: New option in LaunchBox.Next for showing or hiding the subline Fixed: Rare Big Box threading null reference errors Fixed: Rare splash screen threading error Fixed: Rare image format error in Big Box Coverflow Fixed: French translation error on deleting games from a playlist Fixed: Greek translation error in Add/Edit dialog Fixed: LaunchBox.Next align boxes setting was set incorrectly when clicking the Reset button Fixed: Bug with LaunchBox.Next list view selections (was causing Select Random Game to fail and possibly other issues) Fixed: LaunchBox.Next Chrome initialization error Fixed (hopefully): Arrange by translation bug Fixed: LaunchBox.Next incorrect counts in the status bar

Cid is taking a much-needed break from theme development for the moment. There wouldn't be much sense in making Unified exactly like Unified Redux, since they're both available anyways. What features/changes did you want? I assume it's because you want to cherry-pick from the changes?

As best I can tell, the latest drivers are from April 10, 2018:

Hey all, I will try to dive into this to see if we can get it figured out. It's odd because I have never been able to replicate it, even with Use All Controllers checked. That said, I generally only test with Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers. It is worth noting that Microsoft has really screwed the pooch several times in the last couple of years with their controller drivers for Windows. There were several versions that were released that caused many issues, including lockups, so the driver version that you are using is important. If you can, please go to Control Panel > Device Manager and let me know the Driver Date and Driver Version for the drivers that you are using for your controllers (just double-click on the controller in Device Manager and select the Driver tab). Also, let me know what model of controller you are using, especially if it is not a Microsoft controller. Further, please let me know your hardware specifications (CPU, RAM, video card, and type of hard drive) if possible, as well as what version of Windows you're using. Also, please be sure that you're 100% up to date on Windows Updates. I'm hoping that all this information will help us to pinpoint the issue.

Thanks all; I will look into this stuff again soon. It's a rather difficult problem to solve, considering that it seems to be only happening with certain video cards and driver combinations, and with different DPI settings, etc. But hopefully I can make headway soon.

Hmm, probably not easily but I'll add it to my list. Thanks for detailing it out here. I'll take a look soon.

No, it shouldn't be. However there are many other things that do provoke re-populating the cache, such as simply changing the box size slider or changing the image type (if it hasn't been previously cached). Windows DPI changes can also cause it. It really doesn't make much sense for it to be happening on every update, but I could be missing something. My testing isn't showing this. This is on my list to look into. I generally check official updates against all popular anti-virus programs, but I can't do the same for each and every beta. Unfortunately these days anti-virus programs are often over-zealous (and useless for that matter). My recommendation has always been to use the built-in Windows Defender anti-virus stuff to avoid unnecessary issues. Thank you; I'll take a look. I'll take a look.

Unified Redux View File Unified Redux is a very slight re-imagining of @CriticalCid's amazing Unified theme, focusing on minor tweaks to improve the experience based on the LaunchBox developer's personal preferences. Changes from the original theme are listed below: Rounder wheels Much faster-spinning discs Wheel shadows Videos maintain their aspect ratios Smoother transitions in a few spots Top bar modified to prevent triangle corner overlap issues Version 1.8 - Released March 26, 2019 (REQUIRES LAUNCHBOX\BIG BOX 9.6): Fixed several potential issues due to accidentally using the Unified folder instead of the Unified Redux folder Version 1.7 - Released March 25, 2019 (REQUIRES LAUNCHBOX\BIG BOX 9.6): Removed several unnecessary plugins for functionality now built-in to LaunchBox\Big Box Modified XAML to better support Big Box 9.5/9.6 (solves several minor visual issues, primarily with text lists) Version 1.6 - Released December 3, 2018 (REQUIRES LAUNCHBOX\BIG BOX 9.1): Added a new PrioritizedPathSelector plugin, which helps to ensure that proper images are shown for complicated playlist scenarios (multiple fallback priorities, etc.) Version 1.5 - Released November 26, 2018 (REQUIRES LAUNCHBOX\BIG BOX 9.1): Fixed issue with Arcade/MAME playlists not using proper media Version 1.4 - Released November 15, 2018 (REQUIRES LAUNCHBOX\BIG BOX 9.0): Pointer images will now change when entering into nested platforms and categories Year and manufacturer text will no longer show up on platform views when those values don't exist Publisher listed in the game details has been changed to developer, which is more important information to display Developer, genre, and play mode text will no longer show up on game views when those values don't exist Ratings displayed in the game views now show your personal rating instead of the community rating, if you've previously rated the game Version 1.3 - Released November 12, 2018 (REQUIRES LAUNCHBOX\BIG BOX 9.0): Added much better support for the new nested categories and playlists in LaunchBox\Big Box 9.0 (no more black screens) Version 1.2 - Released August 31, 2018: Removed Grila's weather plugin. As awesome as it is, it was causing 1-2 second delays loading up every view. Version 1.1 - Released August 30, 2018: Background images revamped (and in some cases removed) for common platforms in order to increase readability of the wheels and remove JPEG artifacts (many of the Classics playlists had backgrounds with horrible artifacts from Hyperspin). Thanks to @RetroHumanoid for many of the new backgrounds. Removed the default Big Box logo for platforms or playlists with no logos. Even we're not that in love with the Big Box logo. Added background fanart images for some playlists that will show up if there are no videos for that playlist; previously the theme was showing a black screen in this case. Reduced the size of the theme by over 350 MB by converting the background images from PNGs to maximum-quality JPGs. There is no perceived quality loss and now the theme is less than half the size. Modified/removed some of the video borders with characters in order to better support the new arcade playlists (some of them were irrelevant to arcade games) and make room for arcade flyer images, which used to half-overlap the characters. Highly recommended: Modify your "Images" > "3D Box Priorities" settings in LaunchBox to include "Box - Front" and "Advertisement Flyer - Front" images in order to display regular box or arcade flyer images if no 3D box image exists. Please note: You will need to completely delete the previous version of the theme before putting in the new version in order to get all the updates (such as removing the Big Box logo and the space-saving JPG files). Demo Video: Examples of changes/additions to the 1.1 version of the theme: Please see @CriticalCid's original Unified theme for installation and troubleshooting instructions. Requires LaunchBox Big Box 8.0 or greater. Huge thanks goes out to @CriticalCid for the original theme, as well as the many different Hyperspin contributors who donated their time and talent to build an awesome, cohesive experience: Gibbawho @Styphelus Unknown50862 @Klopjero Neonrage @knewlife @Creloce Ghostlost https://www.youtube.com/user/GhostlostGames @ninja2bceen @THK adamg Rkh Rondar @scooter1974 Zinger19 Aloner187 @guyverjay MetalThrix SophT Ledgerewskie hoscarconh https://www.youtube.com/user/hoscarconh @viking @RetroHumanoid http://retrohumanoid.weebly.com/ Submitter Jason Carr Submitted 07/06/2018 Category Big Box Custom Themes

Not that I can see. Are you testing the WPF control or the Windows Forms control?

I've done some preliminary testing and haven't been able to reproduce anything. Do you guys have "Use All Controllers" checked? What controllers do you have connected and how many?

@RULLUR Neil reported in another thread that that error was happening when going to Tools > Options. Is that what you were doing as well when you got that error?

Ah, yes. I think that only happens with the "No Game Selected" stuff. Meant to fix that but forgot; I'll get it done. By the way, I love the way you've themed yours. I'll take a look at Arrange By.

I will look into adding those options, yes. Were you guys experiencing any of these issues before the latest beta?

It's so theme-specific that I don't really think that would be a good idea, though we could add it to the theme settings XML at some point.

Hmm, good sleuthing guys; I don't believe I've ever looked into controllers causing performance issues like this in Big Box. Then again, I use controllers on a regular basis myself and I've never seen an issue. I'll take a look. What are you guys' hardware configurations?

I remember there are a number of relatively serious quirks/bugs with CefSharp in WPF, so yes, we are fiddling with the settings out of necessity. We use "disable-gpu-compositing" and "enable-begin-frame-scheduling", one of which is probably causing the issue. Unfortunately those are necessary because of the quirks and bugs. I can look into upgrading here at some point to see if those issues are fixed though, but it might be a while yet before I can get to it.

Any new artwork will be downloaded, but nothing will get deleted. It shouldn't result in duplicates though.

If you trust the games database, you can just do an update and tell it to overwrite everything.

Yeah, unfortunately I'd still have a huge number of people up in arms if we ended support for Windows 7.