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I'll take a look at my magic driver version and post it. Everything works.

If you see the process get really big again and it looks like a leak, you can right click the process in task manager in the Details tab and choose to create a memory dump. If @Jason Carr knows how to read those, it could be useful for him. Since you say it grew to >4GB even with a 512MB cache settings, it sure sounds like a memory leak unless it's almost 4GB already within a couple minutes after starting BB. If BB takes >4GB fairly quickly after starting BB, it would sound more like a bad memory allocation as opposed to a leak.

When I tried setting 2GB one time as a test, my LB process would use up about 1 to 1.2GB. Set to 512MB it uses around 550-650MB. I never looked at the BB process though. @Strwrsteve, keep an eye on your BB process in task manager, maybe take a screenshot of it after it's been running a half hour or so. Then keep checking it every 30 or 60 minutes to see it the commit column is steadily growing, and maybe exhibiting a growth pattern, like xxMB every hour. If it keeps growing endlessly, it's a memory leak. But I would recommend doing this with it set to no more than 2GB Edit: I know @lordmonkus said the setting isn't "supposed" to affect Bigbox, but just in case that's a bug and it does, I would rather you catch the leak before your system becomes unstable.

I think you need to reduce the LB size you allocated because it's too much for your system. Try 2GB. Edit: I would even try 1GB if I were you. I run mine at 512MB default and it's fine.

Hi @Strwrsteve, how do you know if LB is "leaking"? Are you watching task manager memory working set and memory commit columns for launch box.exe and seeing it grow endlessly? Maybe something else on your system is leaking (maybe not)? How much memory do you have allocated for LB in Launchbox;s Options settings for memory? And how much commit memory do you see in task manager for launch box.exe? Are you using a Beta build or a released version? Are you perhaps using a 32bit Windows operating system which cannot use more than 3.5GB ram total, and not more than 2GB per application?

Yeah I have something very similar already, which also runs some other things too like a "loading'" splash screen for LB game unzipping, but my preference is to just run these things from LB and not at any other time. But your suggestion is a good alternative.

Hey @Jason Carr, it's not a lost cause! Everything is working for me with xbox one and xbox 360 controllers with LB, controller automation, ahk, and emulators with Win 10. Woohoo!

Woohoo! This is no longer an issue for me. I finally figured out why this was not working. There was a combo key set to alt-f4 in my Xpadder profile and it was set using the same buttons that I have set in LB controller automation to escape out of the game/emulator! After removing that, since it's not needed with controller automation, my ahk to kill Xpadder on exit works just fine now!

I am a VERY long way off. Problem is that my settings probably aren't what a lot of people would use for their mappings. I don't even know if I'm mapping everything that is needed for each game.

Thanks @neil9000, but what I'm looking for is a way to switch between two profile sets at any time using a controller combo or long button press.

I'm assuming what I want to setup with Xpadder is easy, but I just don't know how to do it. I want to be able to use my xbox 360/one controller to toggle between 2 sets in my profile. One set will have my emulator game mappings and the second set will have no mappings at all so I can leave Xpadder running when I want to play games that don't need Xpadder so they can use my controller natively. So in my profile now I have my mappings in set 1 and a blank set 2. How can I switch between them? I don't want to set a single button to switch because I use all my buttons. So, I would like to have set 2 become active when I do something like press and hold a button for like 3 seconds OR maybe just toggle if I press and hold one button and then press a second button. Does anyone know how to do this?

oh boy, the Wii controller stuff is beating me up, having to set specific settings for so many games with my xbox controllers. but my kids like Wii games, so this is a torture i will have to endure

Got it all figured out with your help. Thanks a bunch! In the course of this I also found that Dolphin was saving these settings among many others to my Windows user profile folder. I found out how to change that in the registry so you can move it all to the same folder where you have dolphin installed so it's more "portable".

Thanks @madpossum, so you do have to add the games to the Dolphin UI then. I saw the game ini files in the Sys\Gamesettings folder even without any games in my Dolphin UI, so I'm assuming/hoping that means the Dolphin devs have already set known good game specific settings (which would be great). My ini files have shorter letter/number based names making it hard to know which one is for which game, so I guess I'll have to check the Dolphin UI to match them up once I add them to the UI. I'll add the games to my Dolphin UI and try this out. Mostly I want to set emulated classic controller or emulated nunchuck depending on which one the games work with. I want to use my xbox one wireless controller for all the Wii (GC is not a problem) games i can use it for without manually flipping the nunchuck/classic setting. Can you give me a specific example of how the setting would look inside the game's ini file? It's not clear to me by the link you noted. Thanks for the help!

For Dolphin games launched by LB, how do you use per game settings (wii and GC) and controller type (wii)? Do you just have to add all your games to the Dolphin emulator gui and set them in there and when they are launched by LB, those settings will just get used?

I would try a fresh ePSXe in a new folder.

Hope you saw this @Jason Carr :

I feel that Windows probably marked them blocked as potentially dangerous downloads from the internet, so if you unblocked them before trying to run, that may have also solved it (idea for the next time). Glad you got it sorted!

What happens when you double click launchbox.exe? Nothing at all as though you didn't do anything? Try right clicking it and choose Properties. See if there is an Unblock button in there.

Hi @InfinityFox , when i run into that, during the import options i just tell it to import EVERYTHING no matter what, including duplicates, and that works. I uncheck all the stuff to exclude so nothing is excluded.

Here is an autohotkey script to do it. Save the file with .ahk extension and you need to have autohotkey installed. I'll probably use this if I hit your issue. The vbscript is pretty ugly. Note, you could also run your BEFORE app command as the first line of this script if you just want to add one BEFORE app in the game's additional apps tab. Sleep 5000 ; dont start checking for 5 seconds Loop { Process,Exist, castle.exe ; find if the process exists If ( ErrorLevel = 0 ) ; If ErrorLevel is equal to 0 here, this means the process did not exist { Run, C:\Program Files (x86)\VJoy\VJoy.exe -exit Break } Else ; if the process existed when we first checked, restart the loop and check again Sleep 1000 ; you need this so autohotkey does not use up cpu Continue } Edit: You "might" need to wrap the launch of vjoy in quotes like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\VJoy\VJoy.exe"

Can you try this real quick? Paste the code into notepad and save it as a vbscript file, so like aftercastle.vbs You shouldn't need to install anything for this script. Add this script as your AFTER app. Still keep your existing BEFORE app. I haven't been able to test it, but I think it should work. Let me know. Const strProcessName = "castle.exe" ' line below is set to wait 5 seconds before start checking for process WScript.Sleep 5000 Set oWMISvc = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2") boolRunning = True ' Loop while the process is running Do While boolRunning Set colProc = oWMISvc.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name='" & strProcessName & "'") boolRunning = False For Each oProc In colProc boolRunning = True Next Set colProc = Nothing WScript.Sleep 500 Loop Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") objShell.Run """C:\Program Files (x86)\VJoy\VJoy.exe""" & "-exit", 1, True Set objShell = Nothing Edit: I meant to say add this vbscript as another BEFORE app (although it would also probably work for your game as an after script too. You might need to add a couple seconds if it doesn't work.

ok, let me play with it friday or saturday and i'll give you a copy to test out.

ok, good that this is 100% confirmed the problem. i figured it had to be. that means LB isn't broken

tell me the exact full before and after commands to use because they are chopped in the screenshots.