Jason Carr

Yup, in the premium version you can customize the "aspect ratio." An aspect ratio of 1.45 seems to work pretty well; you can specify it in Options under Spacing.

Hippyshake said @CliveBarker: That's [expletive deleted] pretty. Indeed it is. Beautiful.

Ha, neat. Yeah, that group has done some really cool stuff. They were the pioneers of all of it too, I think.

You know what, though, you should follow this thread: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/launchbox-beta-testing That's probably the closest thing we have to a changelog for the betas. I did just put out a new beta with that prefer Steam banners premium option. :)

Nope, not really. It would just take too much time to document all of that, unfortunately. So the changelog is only for things that make it in the final release, and only things that are different than the previous official release.

The real question is...were you ever?

Thanks guys. I think I have the artifacts on closing issue fixed. I just hide the window before I start shutting everything down, so it appears to just magically close right away. ;) The slowness issue was extreme. I actually played with it via screen sharing and it was absurdly slow, and *everything* was slow, from opening up the menu to adding a game, everything. And this was with 0 games, on a fast machine, so there was obviously something wrong. But I couldn't identify what it was. But we're talking like 5 seconds to do the most minuscule operations. The double keypress issue supposedly only happens when LaunchBox is running. So yeah...that makes zero sense. Thanks again...should have a new beta out in a short while. This one should be feature complete for the release. I added a premium option to prefer Steam banners for box art, and allow downloading Steam banners from Add/Edit.

Nice. Screw the layout...it's fine. WE NEED CONTENT. :P Just kidding. If my Dad saw that I'd be in trouble.

The other puzzling things to me right now, are these: - I've had a couple users complain about LaunchBox being really slow. It seems to be extremely rare, and apparently only affects certain systems. I'm guessing that the systems have something wrong with them, but it makes LaunchBox impossible to use and I have no idea what is causing it. - Somebody is reporting another odd situation: when LaunchBox is open, keys are pressed twice for every key press on his keyboard. Wut wut? I haven't figured that one out yet. - Apparently in Windows 7 with Aero LaunchBox looks really ugly when closing with the latest versions. I haven't taken the time to install Windows 7 on a physical machine, so I haven't troubleshooted this yet. - Finally, apparently when you have your Start bar docked on the left on a multi-monitor setup, LaunchBox maximizes improperly (doesn't fill the screen right). So those are the things that are currently on my WTF list. Anything anybody can figure out with any of those would be tremendously helpful as well. :) No pressure, John. ;)

Sure, one thing that I feel like needs more testing is the Download Images and Metadata Wizard. I just fixed a bunch of bugs that I didn't know were there, so I'm hoping I caught them all. That would be a huge help if you wanna tackle it. Just do everything you can to break it. :)

I've trained them to respond for me. ;)

If you do, all three of my children will cry for days. Please don't put me through that.

Very cool, will do. Be sure to update us here on the forums whenever you post a new article. :)

Nice! Always good to find new ways to fill in the holes in our collections. :)

Hi NoOtaku, a couple things to try. Try disabling all game controller input in the options, to see if by chance it's related. Also, seems silly, but try disabling the RAM Cache as well. Finally, try hiding both the side bar and the game details, just in case they are related to the issue. None of this really makes sense, but I'm admittedly grasping at straws. Make the changes one at a time, so if the issue does go away, we know what might be causing the issue. The other thing to try is to make sure that the latest betas haven't magically fixed the issue. You can enable the beta downloads in the Options as well. I'd suggest trying this first. Thanks! Let me know how it goes.

Hi Fluffo, yup; right now that's the only way to do it. I'm hoping to add an option to "prefer Steam banners" before the official release. I think it might be a premium feature though.

Thanks Clive! :)

Awesome, John, thanks. The TGDB errors are unfortunately just because of TGDB instability, from what I can tell. It is unfortunate though. I'd have to look to see if I could build in some kind of retry method if it fails the first time. That would probably increase import times though. Yeah, the Steam banners do look nice. :)

Indeed, that is a good idea. Wouldn't be much work, either, since we already have the Steam IDs. Added to my list. :)

Hey, you're 16-bit now John. ;)

Hi NoOtaku, welcome. That's an odd one; I can't explain why LaunchBox would ever do that. The only potential thing I would think could ever cause that would be the included AutoHotkey, but that's typically only used for the Premium version. It might help to post your LaunchBox.xml file so I could look at your settings. Still, since I've never seen this one before, I'm unfortunately doubtful that LaunchBox is causing the problem. It's possible that there's something else on your system that is causing issues or improperly conflicting, etc. I assume the problem only happens while LaunchBox is running? Have you tried rebooting? Hopefully we can get this resolved for you.

@CliveBarker, here are the release notes for version 4.8: More premium font options for the side bars New Import Windows Games Wizard for importing Windows games (including Origin and GOG) New Import Games from Steam Wizard imports Steam games that aren't installed Steam banner downloads on imports Can you translate these for the release? :)

I would absolutely love that. I'll be sure to link to you one way or another. :)

Thank you sir. :)

Awesome; great to hear. :)