Jason Carr

Hi Toast, interesting article. It's funny because I've noticed much of that logic over the years and thought, hmm, that's nice. Yes, I certainly do plan to add options for "The" sorts and similar, when I implement the custom sorting options. Thanks, Jason

Thank you xwing, glad to hear you found a temporary solution. I'll still see if I can make playlists a priority.

Ha, well thank you!

Ha, wow, good find. I'll fix it for the next release.

Yeah, that's tricky, but it has something to do with wanting "Thief 2" to come after "Thief: The Dark Project", or similar. Granted, yes, the sorting needs more customization options and perhaps some tweaking. In the mean time, you can use the Sort Title field to override the default sort.

You're very right, Toast. I'll look into it. Thanks for all the great feedback.

Thank you Param! Glad it's working well for you. Per the banners, you should be able to set another front if you remove the existing one first. I'm not sure if a Steam banner download is feasible, but I'll look to see. Per the spacing, I'll see if I can close that gap. Good idea on the tags; I have some ideas planned for custom fields as well for the premium version. I've added the other items to my list of to dos as well.

I see, good use cases that I didn't realize...thanks. Minimize before launch should be easy to implement so hopefully I can add that soon. The notification icon does take a little more effort, though, so that might not come so quickly.

Hi Toast, I've added this to my list.

Hmm, I have a feeling this might be because of certain games changing the screen resolution. I'll do some more testing and see if I can figure out how to fix it.

Ah, I see. I didn't realize we were talking about RAM amounts that small. Sorry for the long and drawn out conversation. I'll send you version 3.6 via email.

Hi xwing, thanks for the purchase! I'm sorry you're disappointed on a few things. Per the title bar, that's the only form of copy protection that I've added; I've chosen to do that instead of crippling the application with DRM, so unfortunately, that has to stay. I would understand if you wanted a refund because of this; I would certainly oblige. Per the filters, it sounds like you're looking for a "playlist" of sorts? That has been discussed and I do have it on my list to implement. I'll look into it and see if I can bump up the priority. Again, thanks for the purchase, and I hope the title bar thing isn't a deal breaker for you. Jason

Hi Duck, just added you to the Trusted Members group, which gives you permission to edit your own posts forever.

Hmm, I'd be curious to know what changed. Did you upgrade LaunchBox or Stella? I'm glad it's working though.

Hey guys, this is on my list, but unfortunately it's not super high up there (have more pressing things like batch updating and collection management stuff that needs done). I'll do my best to work it in within the next couple of months, but unfortunately I can't make that a promise.

Hey Toast, I'm more concerned about making sure that the current version of LaunchBox doesn't use too many resources than restricting old versions. Still, I'm confused because my testing shows only ~120 MB of RAM tops. How much RAM are you seeing? I understand that not distributing old versions is an oddity. I just want to make sure that you're not running into a bug with the latest version that I can fix. I'm weirded out because rarely has anything gotten slower during LaunchBox development.

Hi Arcade, I do have plans to add screenshots to the game details sidebar. How's that?

Wonderful; thank you gotcha.

Hello everyone; I just put out the official 4.3 release to resolve a number of minor bugs in 4.2. But also, we were getting lots of false positives by various anti-virus tools. I did some testing and it turns out that LaunchBox itself comes up clean, but my WinRAR setups were tripping the scanners. I realized that I had updated to the latest version of WinRAR before I put out 4.2, which stupidly was causing the problems. So I downgraded my WinRAR back to what it was. Those of you who run anti-virus tools like Avast, Avira, AVG, etc., can you test the update process and make sure you don't run into any issues? Thanks, Jason

Just put out the official release. Thanks, arcade.

Alright, 4.3 official is out. Gotcha, can you test the update process to make sure it isn't tripped by Avast?

This is pretty crazy. I'm testing for virus false positives; the issue has nothing to do with any changes we've made in LaunchBox. It has everything to do with the fact that I updated my version of WinRAR, which builds the setups. For some crazy reason, the latest version of WinRAR builds setups that trip that false positive. So, easy solution, downgrade WinRAR. I'm putting out a new version today that should hopefully no longer have that issue.

Hi Arcade, I found the issue. Thanks for helping me work through it; sorry for the trouble. I just put out a new beta version to fix it; if you would, enable beta downloads under Tools > Options > General > Updates and check the box to update to beta versions. Then you should be able to test this. I'm hoping to put out an official release later today to fix it. The issue was when you edited the games. So any game that you didn't edit shouldn't be affected, but unfortunately you'll need to fix any games you edited.

Great; thanks martini. I'll look to improve performance of it more yet.

Hi Toast, in general, I am trying to avoid distribution of old versions, because LaunchBox has been developed so quickly and there have been plenty of versions out that have had so many issues. Really, though, the latest versions of LaunchBox should actually be faster and use less RAM if configured properly. Have you tried using the latest and turning off the RAM cache under Tools > Options > RAM Cache? Also, using default Windows styles might help some too. Per the "not officially supported" thing, I believe the only stuff that doesn't work on XP are the wizards, as they use Vista+ controls. So I would still very much recommend using the latest release, and just turning off the RAM cache. If you still have performance issues and feel like it was faster and used less RAM with the 2.x releases, then something isn't right. The 2.x releases were pretty wasteful with resources, especially RAM.