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  1. Soulchip
    No, sorry no options for anything above 640x480i, 640x480p is a 31khz resolution, 800x600 and 1024x768 are also 31khz resolutions. I cannot scale too. not an option on crtemudrivers.
  2. Soulchip
    No i don't have other computer and i other monitor. You are not helping and not giving any useful tip. Thanks anyway, The only thing you are doing is making me realise I was right... you do hate CRT users... i'm not been unrealistic...unrealistic is thinking that you cannot fix a frontend issue on a programs pop ups that have huge blank spaces with nothing inside.
  3. Soulchip
    This is not true since there are themes for this resolution and aspect ratio and Big Box is fully compatible with that resolution and even lower. Production support for CRT has always been active and new hardware is been made every day to get real arcade/console resolutions on 15khz screens... transcoders, RGB mods etc. Launchbox works perfectly well on that resolution too until you open a menu pop up, so...you are telling me that you cannot fix a HUGE pop up with dead space?... have you seen the screenshots? really? There are no workarounds. BTW, you can even set that "low resolution" on windows 10 with almost any current card... you don't actually need a CRT to test this.
  4. Soulchip
    OK I can test whatever you may need, I can make the time to test everything and report it. I just want launchbox to be crt friendly again, this was not an issue in the past and Big Box does not have this problem... (well actually it does, but only in vertical monitors) PS: I edited my posts a little to tone down the anger heh
  5. Soulchip
    I work as a business analyst with frontend devs all the time, I know this can be fixed without any trade off for people using high resolutions. Using a VNC is not an option... why do that if I can just turn on the arcade and work everything very pleasantly? ... Bios, windows, dos, big box... everything works fine... launchbox is a complete disaster. Come on man... almost 75% of these windows have just dead space with nothing inside... is it really necessary to make them so big? why can't they just fit inside a 640x480 resolution... i'm not asking for the devs to make it compatible with 320x240... 640x480 is very reasonable... any windows application works fine on that resolution, why can't launchbox be friendly with crt users?
  6. Soulchip
    Also... this happens in ALL my 5 arcade machines ... in the vertical monitor one it's even WORST.
  7. Soulchip
    all windows options are at 100% (you can't go less than that), high dpi disabled does nothing at all, I checked launchbox for any options... oh wait, I forgot... i can't Good look with that I guess....
  8. Soulchip
    Just look at this... why is this SO big? there is no necessity to be this big... you can't even resize it or move it... I don't even need to take pictures of the rest because ALL windows are like this... adding a new emulator? clearing your media? adding videos or images? all the same...big windows with a lot of dead space and imposible to see what you are doing... this was not broken on old versions... they started to break it in newer ones... Please stop breaking the experience for us. This is an Arcade front end...it should be compatible with arcade resolutions / tv monitors / 15khz screens... j
  9. Soulchip
    Big bot works pretty well... no issues there, the problem is launchbox, windows and pop ups are huge and most of them cannot be resized or moved around on 640x480i... you simple can't see what you are doing...even in the most important and basic options like... importing your roms, setting up emulators or downloading videos/images/themes.
  10. Soulchip
    No it's not a pain, you can simply use an old video card with TV out and use 640x480i, it works right away with no issues and it takes 1 minute to set up... so no, it's not a pain at all... even if it were...there is no excuse to keep breaking the experience for crt users more and more. If big box supports 4:3 screens and low resolutions...why do they keep breaking the menues and windows on launchbox?.
  11. Soulchip
    I have been backing up this project for years, payed 4 full licences... and after all these years I had to deal with the fact that Launchbox / BigBox has been forgetting about it's roots and is not CRT friendly anymore (big box is, but launchbox is not)... each "update" is a testament that this is true... on each new version something that was working on low resolutions does not work anymore and it gets impossible to work with a CRT monitor/TV. Everytime I have to download new themes, videos, images, clean cache, or manage my big collection in anyway...even installing new versions or anything is a BIG NIGHTMARE... Launchbox menues look great and they fit perfectly on a 640x480i resolution... but god forbid you to click on any kind of menu...it will open up a window SO big and imposible to resize or even to try to move it...that it will render whatever you were trying to do futile. You end up pressing tab, enter and hoping that you "guess" what you are doing... Please tell me WHY the best arcade front end has forsaken CRT users with 15khz resolutions? WHY? PS: Sorry about my bad english. Martin.
  12. Soulchip
    Thank you, most common resolution for windows on CRT monitors is 640x480 interlaced. If you use a video card with TV output sometimes it let's you use 800x600 or 1024x768, but those resolutions are a lie because the TV output in all video cards from that era will force 640x480i and scale inside those resolutions others bigger...resulting in a very horrible and difficult to read desktop, so the majority of people with CRT TV or arcade CRT will stick to 640x480 on desktop / launchbox / big box. Btw...that television is not tiny, it is a 33" crt XD it's a monster.
  13. Soulchip
    When I'm managing my collection I use launchbox instead of bigbox, the problem is that some menus, like the options for each platform are so big that they cannot enter on the screen resolution rendering them imposible to use. Is it a way to implement scrolling bars to these menus? Launchbox should try to at least fit them inside the resolution and give scroll bars to navigate them. This is a very big problem for everyone with arcade machines using crt.
  14. Soulchip
    Oh! nice, that should be on a sticky, it is a very nice trick to install a working version when you cannot get inside launchbox/bigbox! Thank you!
  15. Soulchip
    OK, I think I fixed it, please someone tell me if I did right and if I should copy another thing... I downloaded the last stable version from the website. I installed it in another directory. I made a copy of my current non working launchbox directory, everything but the images and videos folders...I dont have space to back up that. I copied the new launchbox stable release over the non working launchbox directory. I started launchbox and it seems to be working...I see all roms, images and videos but all emulators are not working. I copied the data folder from my backup and overwrited the new launchbox copy. I started launchbox and everything seems to be working. I think it is fixed, i-m now in an older version, 11.15...it just asked me if i wanted to update to lastest beta, i said no. Do I need to copy anything else? Am I missing something?
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