Jason Carr

11.7-beta-1 is out now, details are here: I'm hoping this at least helps this issue. I added a forced timeout after 60 seconds of inactivity. Let me know how it fares for you guys. You can download the beta by going to Tools > Options > General > Updates in LaunchBox and checking the box to update to beta releases. Then you can check for the update by going to Help > Check for Updates.

Doesn't look like it made the poll, no. We've had quite a few requests for it, but we've hesitated to implement it because it's not possible to do accurately. For example, we don't 100% know if "Game A" for one platform is actually the same game for another platform, or if it's just a duplicate title. Our best idea though is to use developer, publisher, and release date information to try and line them up. It wouldn't be perfect this way but it will probably end up as an option on the next poll.

The first 11.7 beta is out now. Details here:

Interesting, I haven't seen this elsewhere. It's certainly odd that a manual install worked, while an automatic install did not. Did you happen to reboot in between attempts?

Hey all, the first 11.7 beta is out now with the following: Improvement: The multi-threaded downloader has been updated to force a timeout after 60 seconds of inactivity to help prevent "stuck" download situations due to Internet connection hiccups Improvement: The Last Played detail line for platforms and filters in Big Box was changed to a localized short date format Improvement: The Manage Emulators window has been overhauled Improvement: The Bulk Edit window has been overhauled, and now allows you to easily add and remove items from multi-select fields Fixed: Rare "Value cannot be null" VLC error Fixed: Error on Big Box exit with the "Allow Sleep" option on Fixed: Rare LEDBlinky error when calling FrontEndQuit Fixed: Welcome screen now saves your ignore setting regardless of how you close it

I'm not exactly sure, but I will be looking into it. Unfortunately Microsoft's web downloading libraries have a history of taking forever to time out in some cases. It's also possible that a bug was introduced in the new versions that use .NET Core. I'll be reviewing.

Thanks, we're fixing this for the next beta.

Yeah, we've done some testing, and we have yet to confirm that any corrupted video files have been cause for a Big Box crash. It's still possible that a video file could be corrupted in a very specific way and then cause VLC or WMP to crash Big Box, but as of yet we have not been able to replicate or find any of those files.

Glad to hear that we've got this solved for at least most of you guys. Huge thanks to @C-Beats for finding the solution on the web, and thanks for bearing with us. This is unfortunate, but no, we cannot "patch" or fix this issue for future updates, as it's not our issue. Please see here: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2493 Keep in mind that even Microsoft Office is affected by this issue, from what I've read. It's an issue with Sonic Studio being poorly developed and improperly interfering with .NET Core. Microsoft's "solution", per the link above is to reach out to these companies and report their issues to them, apparently.

Yes, we've considered this. We actually looked into building pinball into LaunchBox and Big Box properly, but found that it's unfortunately a whole lot more messy than dealing with games, so we felt like we couldn't build a good solution without reinventing the wheel, or without a year of research. It's not off the table for the future, but man, it's a mess out there.

Most likely this is just some kind of connection issue. I confirmed that nothing is wrong with the server, and everything shows up just fine on my end. However, the high scores won't show up in LaunchBox if it can't connect to the server. Please read the first post of this topic for instructions on how to debug issues. We'll need the log file in order to be able to help.

I'm almost 100% positive that there aren't any broken links on the LaunchBox Games Database. That said, if you let me know what image is being reported as broken, I can make sure that's not the case. I looked at @Jason6300's logs and I can confirm that the LaunchBox Games Database link is not broken. However, it does look like the EmuMovies one is. It would be good to report that one to @circo if you can using the support on the EmuMovies site.

Hi guys, unfortunately I think these are primarily just Internet hiccup/connection stability issues. We could use improvements on how we handle these errors, however. In my previous experience, it takes a long time to come back after a timeout occurs, but it does eventually come back. How long have you waited for the process to continue before stopping it?

Wow. That is certainly possible. Might be worth at least temporarily removing those images to see if it makes any difference.

Yes, this could possibly be the reason. Though, it doesn't do anything extra on exit, if a bunch of stuff was triggered while it was running, it will wait for it to catch up.

Okay, well that rules that out. Still puzzled, and still haven't seen a legitimate crash. I did some testing recently to see if a corrupted video file would crash Big Box, and I could not get it to crash (but who knows, maybe a video file has to be corrupted in a certain way for it to crash). We have had a couple reports recently that corrupted video files can crash Big Box, so I wanted to do some testing there. Media is really the only thing we have left here though as a possibility, considering that it's happening on multiple machines, either that or we're missing something. It's a pain, but the only thing I can recommend at this point would be to try and temporarily remove media folders to see what folder might be causing the issue.

Doesn't matter. The newest version of LaunchBox requires newer versions of various Windows features, such as .NET Core. If those are corrupted, they will cause issues.

Okay, unfortunately it looks like something is corrupted on your machine. I still need to know what version of Windows 10 you're running. You can type "winver" into the Start menu to find out. The first thing I would do is try a reboot to make sure that it doesn't fix the issue. After that, make sure you're 100% up to date on Windows updates.

Hi kaine, I have a number of questions for you in order to help troubleshoot this: What were you doing when you received that error message? What version of Windows are you running? If it's Windows 10, run winver and let us know what version of Windows 10. Do you have any plugins installed? Looks like the errors are in LaunchBox, correct (not Big Box)? Are you using a custom theme? If so, what theme?

I'm not aware of any good reason to do that. Generally it's a poor idea to delete alternate names, even if you think they're irrelevant, because usually they're there for a reason, and they rarely hurt anything. I'd be curious to know why users think that's a good idea though.

Here's 11.2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cg7fteljnwf0s9r/LaunchBox-11.2-Setup.exe?dl=0

Yup, "puritanical nonsense". We've seen it all now. I've given several good reasons, they just all seem to be getting ignored or excused. Apparently this is quite a touchy subject, but we're done discussing it. Anyone who argues it any further will get the ham banner.

Nice! So sounds like it's as easy as just stopping and disabling the Nahimic service? Well that's easy enough at least. Thanks for figuring that out.

Sure, sorry to have you screwing with all of this. Wish I had a system that used it so that I could figure it out.

Okay, sorry to hear. Hopefully this poorly-developed software will be fixed here at some point. Apparently it even causes issues with Microsoft Office. You probably don't actually need it; I believe it's some kind of visual overlay in games that they put in that causes the issue, not the actual drivers.