Drybonz

Yes... that's exactly what I was looking for... I didn't think to look there, was looking in the update options, but thanks for pointing it out.

I've just updated to the latest beta, but I'm not seeing this one in the manage themes section. Is there anything else I need to do?

Would it be possible to add an "update now" button in the update options. This would be useful if you have updates turned off but might want to update to the new beta. This would prevent having to turn on beta updates, close launchbox, and restart launchbox... you could just click "update now" to start the process. This is something a lot of programs have for people that just want to update once but not accept every update and I think it would be a useful tool for beta people.

I'm sure this isn't a surprise to hear, but I can confirm the 30 minute game progress timer is working correctly now. Thanks for that.

On beta 4, if I reduce the timer for marking a game as "in progress", it repeatedly sets it back to 30 minutes.

With the new progress system, are the badges in the Images>Badges obsolete? Can I delete that folder and just use the media packs folder?

Ok, sounds good.

Ok, thanks for explaining... so the new badges still show under the box art in LB?

I'm confused about this part. Weren't the badges the point of the play progress feature?

Ok, that's good info... thank you. I don't think I have many in 7z, but I probably have some. *edit* Ok, I see my Dreamcast disc images are 7zipped. That was probably adding a lot of time to that process.

That retro achievements scan is a pretty lengthy process. Is that because of RA and nothing can be done for it, or is there something that could be done to speed it up? I started it, went and had lunch and came back, the progress bar had barely moved.

How does the automatic game progress work? How does it know the stage you are at in the game?

Is this a big box only thing?

If I want to look at the hybrid mode, how do I get there?

I think it's natural for a person, when they are only having a problem like this with one program out of all the programs on their computer, such as LB, to blame it on that one program instead of the system that isn't affecting any other program. I would like to offer more information to help pin the problem down, but I don't really know what to look for.

This one has been around for the last couple betas, at least.

The changes to Star Rating sorting in this beta were great, and I would like to suggest a very similar change... the "release date year" sorting is less than useful because it uses the day of release for sub-sorting... what would be more useful is alphabetical sub-sorting... so what you could have is grouped by year, but then easy to find a specific game in that year because of the alpha sub-sorting.

That's a nice improvement. I was just looking at this a couple days ago and thinking it didn't make much sense as it was... so thanks for fixing that.

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It's probably unpacking the disc into memory. The emulators that unpack whole discs of info before launching take longer. Sometimes there is an option not to pre-load it, but it is better to let it.

I know a lot of the talk about the freezing is related to the video players, but I wanted to mention that there have also been some reports, including myself (I added it on the "report a bug" page) that it was happening with LB, with no video player and included not closing properly. I'm only mentioning this again in case it was overlooked and is somehow related and would help solve the problem. It seems to have started at about the same time. I understand it may not be related, but I figured I would give it a chance and bring it up again.

Yeah, I've been getting that too, as well as freezing on close with LB.

My comments above weren't related to Big Box... I never use it... so maybe two separate issues?

Yeah, this is real. I reported it back in the 13.19 beta thread.

Looks like there is a problem when LB has been open for a while, elements of the games details panel, like clear logo, media, etc... stop refreshing. The clear logo can get stuck on one game even when selecting other games, and the media stays empty. This is with the default theme. *edit* I also noticed when I close LB at that point it doesn't close and has to be task killed and seems to be using a large amount of memory in task manager.