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I've recently placed my previous gaming laptop into my tv cabinet and am using it for gaming now. It's great for emulation and some Windows games. It is an MSI Dragon (core-i7, SSD drives, GTX980M, 32GB RAM). I have a usb cooling pad underneath it, but I would really like to be able to monitor the load (and temps) when playing more intensive games like Skyrim, Witcher, etc. Does anyone know of a tool that will allow to monitor things remotely? Mostly interested in CPU util and temp, GPU util and temp, Memory util and Network. I have looked around and can't seem to find anything that fits the bill. Way back when I used to use a product called Spotlight on Windows that had a great gui and a ton of monitors ( no temps though). But alas, it has since long been discontinued and although I can get it work locally, I cannot get it to make a successful WMI remote connection.

Looks good now. Thanks for the help!

Thank you. Now I have 11 ESO entries I'll prune those down to one and see if I can get some metadata going too.

I deleted the unknown platform xml and restarted. My other platforms are back to normal now. I tried adding ESO manually again and it still did not show, but there was no unknown platform.xml created this time. Debug 2021-07-08 10-38-32 AM.log

Ok, so this is going from mildly annoying to bad. I looked at the unknown platform xml and noticed it was mentioning Netfllix. Once upon a time I had created a custom platform called TV where I had shortcuts to KODI, Netflix, etc. So I did a search for Netflix in ALL and found an entry and deleted it. Now for some reason, all of my platforms are completely empty.

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I did as you mentioned, but it still does not show after adding.

Sure, here are the two log files. I added the game, then closed LB and re-launched it. Debug 2021-07-08 09-26-13 AM.log Debug 2021-07-08 10-19-23 AM.log

Hi, I did a search for "scrolls" in the All games platform and it only returned Oblivion and Skyrim. I can't find ESO anywhere. I looked in the platform folder and there was an unknown platform.xml I deleted that and then added the game manually. Same thing, it does not appear, but the unknown platform.xml did re-appear in the platforms folder.

It is direct from Bethesda where I purchased it. I will try dragging and dropping. I added the launcher as that is the target of the shortcut the game puts on the desktop post install. I can also try using a different exe. Thanks EDIT: I looked, but there really is no exe other than the launcher to use. Dragging and dropping the launcher does not work either. It results in an empty entry at the end of the wizard, so I just cancelled it. EDIT: I found an eso64.exe in a client subfolder in the game install root folder. I added that using drag and drop and it appears (with no metadata) in my Windows platform. It goes straight to launching the game and does present me with my login screen. So perhaps this will work. I wonder about patching and stuff, which is kind of the point of the launcher. It will check to make sure you have the most current game client before launching it. Well, I went back to the entry for ESO and edited it to The Elder Scrolls Online for the game title (it was just eso64), then scraped the metadata and saved. Now it has again disappeared.

I thought maybe it had something to do with my Steam games importing as Windows (which I wanted). So I renamed the Windows platform to Steam Games and created a new Windows platform and tried to manually add ESO again. It goes through the wizard fine, but just doesn't show up. Neither did the new "Windows" platform either.

I am trying to import ESO. I tried the import Windows games wizard, but it found nothing. I then added it manually, made sure the platform was Windows, pointed to the launcher, scraped the metadata, hit OK. But it never shows up in my Windows platform. I've imported lots of games in the past, albeit all are either GOG or Steam. This is my first attempt at manually adding a Windows game. I don't think I did anything wrong, but perhaps? Thank you.

I've never tried to do this before, so maybe it shouldn't work. I was having a heck of a time getting one of my 2 DS4 controllers to work in Win10. It would pair, but just appear as Wireless Controller and not actually useable. I have an Nvidia Shield TV gamepad currently working fine, but wanted to setup some 2 player fun for me and my wife. Eventually I went to Bestbuy and bought an Xbox One Wireless Controller and paired. Works great. But now the Nvidia gamepad does not work in games. I can browse Launchbox/Bigbox but nothing beyond up/down works on the nvidia controller. We played a few games with player 2 using a keyboard. Turns out that 16 bit retro gaming is not something that my wife finds as entertaining as I do--go figure. So this may not be that important anyway. I am glad to have purchased the Xbox One controller as now I can couch play Arkham City and whatnot. I re-purpsed a gaming rig (core-i7, all SSD drives, 32 GB RAM, GTX 980) , so would be kind of a waste to only do some 16 bit gaming on it. It can handle Skyrim generation games very well. Now I can also return the Nvidia controller to the Shield and use it for Gamestream and maybe some other stuff. Still, would have been nice to have two wireless controllers at the same time.

In your case, though, you are not proposing running Launchbox remotely, just the roms. I think?

In this thread, one person mentions that using cloud drives caused some corruption in rom files. Something to bear in mind for your proposed setup as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/launchbox/comments/he7m1l/portable_setup/

Right, that makes sense. When I say Launchbox, in my head I mean whatever is involved in the whole process without separating things between front end and emulator. But yes, it would be whatever emulator in use that pulls the rom.

A good question would be if Launchbox pulls the whole rom from the location for use when playing it, or does it continuously access it during play. If it pulls the whole rom before playing, then you may see a short delay while launching a game, but then fine after that. Bear in mind this would be minimal for 8bit or 16 bit games, but if you try to pull an entire PS2 iso or something, that could take some time. Can't really say, as I don't know exactly how Launchbox accesses the rom file during play. There may be others here who play directly from cloud type services such as Good Drive, OneDrive, etc. Your experience should be pretty similar to something like that. This Reddit thread seems to discuss using Launchbox with cloud drives. There may be useful information in it that's applicable to your intentions: Hmmm, actually after skimming through that thread a bit it seems to mostly focus on the legality, policy considerations when using commercial cloud drives, less on any latency concerns. With your vpn based solution where you host the roms on your own server in your home, then those policy concerns are moot.

This should work if your X drive mapping is present. Adding a VPN to the mix will produce some latency, however. Whether or not it will be too much, I cannot say. I've never tried Launchbox with anything but locally stored ROMS. But, yes, in theory, this should work fine.

Thank you for the response. I'll look into that, but might just go back to snes9x or something if I can't get it to work.

I got Mesen to exit with esc, but still can't get it to run full screen.

Well, I feel stupid. It's been a while since I used the K400+ with Launchbox. I had forgotten that F8 is actually the secondary function for the F8 key. The primary is projector, so I have to hold down FN+F8..doh! I'm still not sure if I am doing things correctly input wise, but it seems to work for me. It would be nice to have fancy save/load keys on my controller, but I get anxious and impatient when trying to set that stuff up, so maybe I'll just use the keyboard for save/load/exit for now. Still having some issues with Mesen-X emus. Won't launch in full screen and esc doesn't exit.

I recently re-installed Launchbox on a machine after a fresh install of Windows 10. It was going fine for most of the day, but now things are weird. And I think it's all controller/input related. It had been a while since I have installed and setup Launchbox. I use it on my main laptop and everything is fine. I recently re-installed Windows on my previous gaming laptop that is now my dedicated emulation box sitting inside my TV cabinet and connected via HDMI. I'm uncertain what the proper way to handle input is. Right now I am using a combination of Logitech K400+ and an Nvidia Shield TV gamepad connected via Bluetooth. I was doing some reading and I am confused. Some websites mentioned that I should install Input Mapper...just because. I also installed Controller Companion to map keys for ESC and Load/Save. Do I really need any of that? It always seems to complicate things, so I decided that I am fine with using a keyboard to escape out of a game since I always have the K400+ handy. So I uninstalled Input Mapper, Controller Companion and rebooted. The Nvidia Shield I have mapped as an Xbox 360 in Fusion and it seems to work fine. My problem now is the K400+ It is acting weird all of a sudden. For example, if I hit F8 to load a save state, it brings up the projector overlay instead (the secondary function for that key) and this borks Fusion and I cannot escape the game or Bigbox and everything just kind of hangs. It's supremely annoying. But without a keyboard, how am I supposed to exit the emu? I should note this works fine if I rdp into the machine to test things. I can exit a game by hitting escape just fine (games won't run fullscreen in rdp it seems, but who cares?) Has anyone had similar issues with a K400+ ? It's a pretty popular HTPC keyboard, so I'm maybe some people here use one and can offer some advice, or even just some tips around input in general. This always seems to be the area where I stumble the most and get aggravated after a few days and just give up on Bigbox on my TV completely. I'd rather not do that this time, but sometimes I get too frustrated and just walk away. Thanks

I have launchbox running on two different PC's. One one of them today, when I launch a game in Bigbox, it no longer launches in fullscreen. Nothing has changed in the settings. I have compared the settings to the other machine and they are identical, but for some reason on one, they no longer will launch full screen. Not really sure where to start looking to troubleshoot this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. EDIT: I just tried again and it seems to be better. At least with Fusion it is now. Haven't tried others. I was, and still am, having odd issues with something else that was maybe related. I'll start a different thread for that.

I'll focus next on figuring out how to use Nvidia Gamestream (or possibly Steam Link as well) to push Bigbox to my TV vs directly connected via HDMI. If I can easily figure that out and it's simple enough to just do that using my current, new laptop, then I'll just do that for the infrequent times that I get an opportunity to Bigbox on the big screen. If so, then I have no real use for my previous gaming laptop and will have to find some other purpose for it. Perhaps a Plex server. I've ran Plex on it in the past, but it had a tendency to crash when transcoding. Maybe I will give that another whirl at some point. Right now my current Plex server is a vm running on ESX on a headless Dell R710. So no gpu to speak of for transcoding. Not a huge deal, as I only use Plex if I am away from home and software transcoding is fine enough for a single stream.