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The hard part was that the settings had no one-to-one mapping. They are called something brand new now.

I looked in my 6.12 backup file and before the upgrade it was set with <PlatformsListView> = "PlatformWheelImageDetailsThumbs" And before upgrade i also had Gameslistview=Vertical ClearLogoWheel both of those changed and i had to choose something else to get what appears to be the same

Ok, I figured out the BB view settings the upgrade messed up. For everyone who will hit this, I had to change to these setting values to get my normal view back. Doing this also got my platform videos back there. Options/Views: "Games List View" => CoverFlow with Details "Platforms list view" = Platform Wheel 1 I "think" that got me all squared away. I wish it did not get changed though. My BB Theme was just "Default" and still is. FYI @Jason Carr Edit: Actually, I ended up having to set this to get back to normal: "Games List View" => Vertical Wheel 1 "Platforms list view" = Platform Wheel 1

it changed my Options/View settings. I don't know what to set too get my wheel back to the way it was (text only now) and my videos. I'm trying to go through all the settings for "Games List View" and "Platforms list view". I think the upgrade messed that up royally as well as took away my platform video settings set to nyny's videos.

just got back to this. i'm not sure what the upgrade is messing up but my BB view is all wrong. my platform wheel isn't there anymore and all my platform videos are not there! ah man! i felt this kind of thing would happen.

looks good except my BB came up without my normal view and is using plain text platform names! gotta go find how to put it back.

ok, good call. i copied the configs and unins000.exe and unins000.dat here goes....!!

I was actually wondering about which of the application files would be needed to roll back without using the installer. If it's only those two EXE files and the data folder, that makes it very easy. Thanks for letting me know that! Edit: and if it's that simple. then I see no reason not to upgrade shortly! woot!

This is something I really want! Can't wait.

i doubt i'll be able to wait until the end of the day to upgrade, because it's killing me to see the performance improvements, haha i'll just backup my data folder and maybe my platform videos folder first.

Thanks for posting this! Really looking forward to seeing the performance improvements after I wait a bit to see if people are having any upgrade issues! Thanks a bunch to the LB team! Can't wait to see what is cooking up next for a nice xmas present!

I skipped the 7.0 beta versions because I didn't think I would use the new video/theme stuff and auto rom scanning. Before I think about upgrading my 6.12 LB, I would really appreciate if someone could post a list of the new stuff AND a list of general bug fixes and improvements. I'm hoping after I upgrade that my LB and BB remain exactly as they are now, but with more bug fixes and improvements, and no change to my current look and feel. It would also be good to know if there are any new known issues. Thanks!

yeah. and i would use autohotkey instead since there would be no command shell window popup and it's cleaner and nice. you could even get fancy and check something before exiting, like if some process or window name exists, rather than rely on a sleep timer.

you could probably do this if you use a batch file or script as your additional app, so that the batch file or script will launch your actual app (like if it's batch, use: start <your app path and file name> ), sleep xx seconds, then exit. batch file might look something like (replace 10 if you want to wait different number of seconds): @echo off start c:\folder\yourapp\app.exe timeout 10

I just read about the autohotkey situation. Autohotkey is super valuable for me with LB. The main reason I use it is because LB doesn't provide a more global way to use before and after additional apps, like for Platform and Emulator level, as it is only there at the individual game level. If that was there, we could easily add our own autohotkey (or any other scripts and programs) scripts to do all stuff we need. If you added that, I "think" the only thing I would be worried about is the controller automation for closing the emulator or startup app. I need that for some emulators or I can't exit them with my controller. Please keep us updated on this topic and what we need to do to keep our existing <=6.12 LB installs working after an upgrade. I never took the plunge on the 7.0 betas because the changes are too big for me to want to risk my currently working setup and it's holiday time, so I am depending on things to work well and stable for guests that will come over. But when I upgrade I want to be confident I am not going to be lacking something I needed that was there before. Thanks! Edit: Note, even if @Jason Carr figures out a good way to restore the ahk tab in a way that is legal and doesn't require anyone to have to redo anything, I still want the before/after additional apps functionality at emulator and platform level . Please add that capability if it's possible.

I'd also like to know what is available, if anything, like {{{StartupEXE}}} . Maybe only @Jason Carr knows.

I don't think that feature has been added yet. I'd like to have it also. I think the only way to do it currently is to name your platform so it comes first in the alphabetical order, but doing that may cause scraper issues to work around.

Good job @jaythompson , now we're all wiser!

Did it work for you @Jason Carr?

I would LOVE to switch to VLC, BUT LB crashes every time I launch a Dreamcast/Demul game (in full screen) ONLY if I have VLC set. In BB it's not an issue, but it always crashes in regular LB.

Windows 7 still has several years left until Microsoft end of life's it. We use a LOT of Windows APIs in our desktop agent on all Windows OS versions at work and we don't have anything specific to win 7 vs win 10 that causes memory leaks only on win 7. Win 7 is still used by a whole LOT of people and will be for a while. @Strwrsteve, i hope the latest Beta indeed fixes this for you. It's a tough thing to debug since @Jason Carr can't reproduce the issue on a Windows 7 x86 system of his own. I wonder if anyone else has watched their task mgr when running BB on Win 7 x64? I use Win 10 myself and mine stays < 600MB in BB attract mode. This looks like an interesting tool that I've been wanting to get around to looking at which may help to find the problem if it's a memory leak: http://www.drmemory.org/ Jason, do you think it's worth a shot if the latest Beta doesn't help for him? Maybe you can give it a whirl @Strwrsteve ?

If you do that and use "%platform%" in LB command parameter, how is RL going to know which emulator to open the rom with? I "think" the LB platform needs to match the platform in RL, unless you don't use "%platform%" in the LB command parameter and specify a specific platform name for every single platform you want to use with RL?

Is Rocketlauncher launching your MAME games properly without Launchbox? If not, your first step is getting that to work.

Or in the Launchbox command line parameters you might use "MAME" instead of "%platform%". I think that might work also, if you don't want to move your LB games to a platform named "MAME".

Just put your MAME games in a Launchbox platform named MAME, rather than Arcade.