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  1. Jason Carr
    Hi Dave, those recent games with the LaunchBox logo are actually just games that don't have an image attached to them. Are you sure that they're actually launching another copy of Big Box? That part doesn't make sense, unless you've manually added BigBox.exe as a game in your collection.
  2. Jason Carr
    I see, okay. If you're all the way up to date on video drivers, you might try going to Nvidia's site and looking for beta drivers, or even possibly looking for an older version, if by chance the newest version is bugged. I can't say 100% for sure that it's video driver related, but that would be my guess. Other than that, I would also try exiting all background apps to see if they might have anything to do with it.
  3. Jason Carr
    I see. For some reason, it sounds like you're seeing WPF video corruption, which we do see from time to time, but it's always either related to background apps or faulty video drivers. I do apologize for the trouble. What video card do you have?
  4. Jason Carr
    The good news is that it is easy to fix incorrect paths in LaunchBox. Just go platform by platform, press Ctrl+A to select all games, and then go to Tools > Change ROMs Folder Path for Selected Games. Should be an easy fix.
  5. Jason Carr
    I'll look into this further, but I get the same crash when I use that theme, so I suspect that it's somehow related to the theme.
  6. Jason Carr
    It might be worth trying to turn off startup screens to see if it makes any difference. I'm betting it's still a one-off issue with certain video drivers or some other application conflict. Do check to see if you have the Nahimic service running under Windows services, as that is known to be a problematic service that causes similar issues across a bunch of apps.
  7. Jason Carr
    @TOMIEuk Thanks for pointing this out. Yes, this was added to the games database a while ago, so you now have a means of resetting your collection.
  8. Jason Carr
    @MrSco We fixed a number of things for the 11.7 release that I'm betting will likely fix your issue, but it's hard to say for certain.
  9. Jason Carr
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    @liquidoblivion @Freddo @digital observer @theelf FYI guys, I'm currently working on version 3.0, which I'm writing entirely in 8086 assembly language instead of using VB for DOS 1.0 (which the previous versions were built with). Once I have the release ready, I do plan to release the source code for it in assembly language. The new version will work even on the original IBM 5150 PC (the very first PC), with CGA graphics. Naturally, though, it is taking quite a while to develop, partially because I'm only developing it in my free time, and also because I'm writing it in assembly language, which is as low level and as close to the hardware as you can get. It's currently usable if you take your LAUNCHBX.TXT file from the previous version, but the editing features are not built yet. It'll probably be at least 6 months before it's ready for a release (or longer).
  10. Jason Carr
    I'm not seeing the issue with the "Alt Views" version either, so I'm at a loss. What version did you use before that did not have the issue? Can you test to see if it's changed now?
  11. Jason Carr
    @FR0NZ It's best to make sure that you're not changing resolutions when starting and exiting games; that could be part of the issue (though it still shouldn't be causing what's happening for you). Do you have startup screens turned on?
  12. Jason Carr
    Newer versions of those themes use newer versions of those plugins, iirc. I know some of the themes that use eatkinola's plugins work fine (all of the ones that are available in the Themes Manager do). I think it may be though that the themes that use the video playback features of eatkinola's plugins are broken. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot we can do to fix that without eatkinola's code.
  13. Jason Carr
    That is pretty strange. I just tested the theme and all seems to work fine for me. I do have the gap on the right on my machine. I don't know how this release would have tweaked anything that would have changed that, so I'm guessing it must somehow be unrelated. Have you changed resolutions or anything like that recently? Have you rebooted to check if it's still the same?
  14. Jason Carr
    We are getting this squared away. Somehow or other, the license got spread around online, so we had to disable it because we stumbled on it elsewhere.
  15. Jason Carr
    Also, make sure you don't have something called the Nahimic service running in your Windows services. That's a piece of software that's known to cause issues like that with a bunch of apps.
  16. Jason Carr
    Okay, good to know, thanks. Unfortunately I think this probably caused by outdated or flawed video drivers; can you try updating your video drivers and running all Windows updates? The other thing that it could possibly be is a conflict with a background application, but the first thing to try is to update everything.
  17. Jason Carr
    Can you try reverting to 11.6 to confirm if you still get the issue or not? We haven't changed anything for the game details for this release, so I suspect that it's not related to the betas. Also, what specific beta are you testing with?
  18. Jason Carr
    No worries; I have this into beta 14, which I just put out. The plan is to finally release the official version tomorrow morning.
  19. Jason Carr
    Alright, hopefully this will be the final beta. I found and fixed a memory leak that was introduced in a later beta. Beta 14 is out with that and some translation spacing fixes. Hoping to put out the official tomorrow (finally).
  20. Jason Carr
    Okay, most likely your keyboard is somehow behaving as a game controller as well, or something of that nature. We've seen something similar once before. What brand and model of keyboard are you using? Do you have any game controllers attached?
  21. Jason Carr
    Thank you again guys; I have the packages updated for beta 13, which I just put out. I'm hoping to put the official release out tomorrow. @Cauptain Thanks for detailing that out for us. @C-Beats is going to do his best to fix that stuff up tomorrow morning before we release.
  22. Jason Carr
    Beta 13 is out now with a fix for the freezes I was seeing only on my dev machine. As it turns out, it had to do with the option for certain themes to force 16x9, so it was only happening on machines that did not use a 16x9 monitor. Assuming nothing else major comes up, I'm planning to release 11.7 tomorrow. Any extra testing you guys can do would be appreciated. Oh, also, @C-Beats put this fix in as well: Fixed: When changing a game's title via the Edit Game window, region-specific images weren't being correctly saved to their appropriate region folder
  23. Jason Carr
    Thanks; I'll have to look into this after the release.
  24. Jason Carr
    So I figured out what's going on with the lockups on my dev machine. Unfortunately in beta 8 (with the new theme-specific settings features), I introduced a bug which is locking up Big Box on occasion. I'm working on a fix, but of course we'll have to delay the release until I get it figured out.
  25. Jason Carr
    Not that I'm aware of. Just did a quick test and everything seems to be smooth and quick. Is it still slower than usual?
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