Jason Carr

@ninja2bceen, I messaged you but I'll respond here as well. Agreed that it would be pretty cool, we just would need the community to maintain the data. We should put that on the next poll. @dovella Collection syncing via Dropbox, etc. is already possible just by putting the LaunchBox folder inside of the Dropbox folder. @Lmagnus87 I will be providing some demo plugins myself, but we'll be mostly relying on the community to build plugins going forward (I'll just keep developing stuff into LaunchBox and Big Box directly). @spektor56 That should be possible for someone to build soon enough.

Thank you my friend; it's great to hear that it hasn't been a nightmare to dive into. It's been a long time since I've been anywhere near burnout, but I did take a week vacation a month ago and I was aching to get back into development, so I'm still loving it.

Great to hear, @Grila. I can't wait to see what you'll come up with next. FYI, I changed the URL to the plugin API documentation just now.

Sorry for the lack of new betas, guys; I'm slaving away over here but the plugin engine makes it difficult to release new betas mid-development. Speaking of the plugin engine, development is going very well. I'm hoping to have a beta out by end of day tomorrow with plugin support. For the development-inclined, here's a teaser: http://pluginapi.launchbox-app.com That's MSDN-style documentation for the future plugin system. It's not complete yet (I have a lot more to add to it), but you can get an idea of how everything will work. @Grila @Nielk1

Thanks Cheeze, good to know. I wasn't aware of that.

Region priorities should basically handle this already, but there are currently no fine-grained controls to skip images from certain regions (though they can be easily deleted by just removing the folder).

Welcome @Sub-Zero! I love your work and I'm so glad you're here. Let me know if you run into any road blocks and I can help (I'm the developer).

LOL.

@deliyuerek85 I believe I have that bug fixed for the next beta, which should be out later today. @Kriven Of course I can't seem to replicate that, but I have added something that I hope will help. We'll have to see when the beta comes out later today. @Maddoc1007 Okay, I'll be working on the theme video placement issues shortly.

@Pacman56 Might it have something to do with using network paths? I haven't been able to replicate any issues as of yet. @cammelspit I've added some debug code to help troubleshoot that error if it happens again, because I can't pinpoint it just yet. But thanks. @The_Keeper86 Thanks; I believe I have that fixed for the next beta.

Thanks @Pacman56; does that image get deleted when running the Clean Up Images process?

Yes, it was on the poll, and it didn't get a ton of votes, but it got enough that we will be covering it. Just not as a top priority.

Unfortunately it's not that simple. There are a million different DirectX DLLs, and you have to check for each individual one. I'm also not aware of an official MS way of doing it outside of running the installer (other than a hack).

That is odd; it's possible that there's something unique about your collection that is affected by the changes we made. If you can, reboot your machine to see if there isn't something else weird that's going on. If you're still seeing the same results, PM me your Data folder if you can and I can test.

Thanks @JamesBond@ge, yes, that is by design and is not a bug, but I understand how it can be confusing. I believe there is some overlap between the LaunchBox and Big Box caches, which is partially why it behaves like it does. The other thing is, if you change images for a game in LaunchBox, naturally, it will need to recache the images for both.

Beta 3 is out now guys with some serious performance improvements from the live stream this morning: - Improvement: Massive startup performance increases for both LaunchBox and Big Box; in some cases it is now well over twice as fast; used multi-threading and other strategies - Improvement: Significant performance increases when selecting platform categories in Big Box Hopefully that helps quite a bit.

This is still on my plate. Alternative titles have not yet been integrated into LaunchBox.

No bugs were fixed, per se, but I'm convinced this was never a bug, but rather a confusing design decision on our part. Previously, if you didn't replace images, no new images were downloaded for categories that already had images. That, in particular, is no longer the case. Any new images will be downloaded now.

That is indeed on my list.

Okay, I'll take a look.

I would like to see this as well, so we should add it to the next poll.

Good point about the marquees; I'll add that to my list.

Think I answered you in the live stream, @AFaustini.

This has come up before. As much as I'd love to not install DirectX for every update, we will inevitably get a bunch of reported errors if we don't. Previously we skipped out on DirectX for updates, but unfortunately users ran into too many missing DLL issues so we had to add it back in. As far as I know there's no way to install DirectX without elevated privileges.

I'm loving that view, @Maddoc1007. I trust you got this solved since I saw the video of it. Right now the placement of the videos is a serious pain point with the themes, so that is pretty high up on my list for the theme improvement stuff. I should have a better solution for that soon.