5thWolf

PROGRESS REPORT 13.23 BETA #3 I noticed starting LB now is extremely slow. About 10x or more slower then normal. And this morning when I launched it, it took a seriously long time to execute and then just hung. Ended the LB task in Task Manager and relaunched LB, it didn't take as long, about 5x the norm, and it launch with windows size very small and I had to stretch it back to my normal window size. But seems to be working after the second launch. Not sure if rebooting affected initial launch of dependencies versus consecutive launches of LB. Once LB is fully loaded, I do not notice any performance issues or any other problems so far other than the file pathing as stated above.

PROGRESS REPORT 13.23 BETA #2 Tried adding 4 games, all pathed as "E:\emulation\system\game.rom". So far huge plus not getting the net drive path.

PROGRESS REPORT 13.23 BETA After the installer ran, it seemed to try to launch but it just showed up in task manager but nothing could be seen or brought up. I ended the LaunchBox task and relaunched LB and it launched! Quit LB and launched LB again with no issues! Tried adding a game and it inputted the path as "E:\emulation\nintendo\game.rom" instead of the preferred "..\nintendo\game.rom". This does launch games but is not friendly to other PCs on the network that doesn't have the mapped drive as E: So far I haven't seen the "\\game-nas\emualtion\nintendo\game.rom", which doesn't work at all, but I am not sure how random it might be. Once I get a few more games I can test this further

Ah ok Gotcha! Will update through to it now.

Where do I find download link on site?

I saw an option in LB to do beta, after activating it, LB didn't pull 13.23 beta. It began installing 13.22.

I will try it, just want to know if running 13.21 again after, if there is issues trying a beta version, will be safe? Never tried a beta version with LB before. Also where do I grab the beta?

If I can help in anyway let me know.

Before 13.19 when selecting a game file when adding a game, it would always place it as "..\sega\genesis\game.rom" After 13.19 it randomly made it as either "E:\emulator\sega\genesis\game.rom" or "\\gaming-nas\emulation\emulator\genesis\game.rom" and this is random. I can add several a games one by one manually in the same planform and it shows up either way random every time. Here is screen of the game I just added and this will never launch. If it labels the E: drive like the first example it works unless you open it on another computer on the network that doesn't use E: as the letter for that network drive. Which defeats the purpose of the entire project being portable.. And the the second one, which is what this pic above shows never works at all. I have to manually change every game I add to be as I showed above before 13.19 like this: "..\Sony\PS2\Games\Legaia 2 - Duel Saga (USA).iso" then it works perfectly across all PCs on the network regardless of what drive letter is used.

Oh thank goodness! Love to hear that! Also please if possible put back relative file location ( ..\folder\game.rom ) instead of what it is now or UNC.

Ran the installer for 13.21, and like @DZuroff mentioned earlier, fired right up. So as far as I can tell definitely an issue with 13.22 for mapped network drives!

Well... Installed Windows, ran the installer, It even installed .net 3.1 something x64 during installation and same exact thing! Doesn't launch at, doesn't generate an event on viewer. Nothing happens at all.

Well I uninstalled .net and tried to reinstall however with all .net removed from windows, .net would not allow me to reinstall using a fresh downloaded installer because it kept telling me it was still installed "current or newer version" even though I just uninstalled it and even rebooted PC. Soooo..... I am attempting and full Windows fresh reinstall incase its a debacle with .net or Win updates or errors or whenever else it could possibly be. Will report after all done to see if anything happened.

I want to try total wipe of .net but I had a few versions due to certain emulators. What version is required for 13.22? is it .net 4 or 6 or 8? or will using the latest which is 9 work?

Figured I mention this incase it leads to ideas..... but went to play on may arcade machine which is also Win 11 and running the same files on my net drive, which is what I have been doing for years, since LB wasn't updated 13.22 and is still on 13.21, would at least play arcade games. Well same exact thing happened when I launched it, this is without installing any LB update, Makes me wonder if maybe Windows updates may be involved with issues as well?

After watching it install on C:\ and it running LB right after successfully I would guess it installed properly on the net drive. It installed and went away with no install confirmation or anything just went straight to LB. Same as when installing to net drive except that the exe failed. So bet install is good using net drive.

Well it installed just fine on C:\ and ran just fine. Moving over the EXEs did nothing. Whatever changes in this version has completely killed the app from functioning on a mapped drive. I hope this gets looked at for I been using LB on my mapped drive since I began using LB many many years ago. Never had an issue. I even spent hundreds upgrading my network to be 10g specifically to run everything faster and it has been wonderful! Please devs, look into this. I think the change from XML to SQLite may have something to do with this and as @Zarach mentioned about UNC vs Relative pathing. This is a problem since update 13.19!

I remember in the past sometimes the exe would install corrupt. I am going to try to install it on C: then just copy over the 2 exe. and see what happens! Just hope all others files installed properly.

Yeah. Its pretty annoying having to change the path after selecting a rom. @Zarach I guess I know now how to explain the pathing "UNC" vs "Relative"! So I take it your update to 13.22 was fine then? Also after you ran the installer, when it was done did it just disappear or was there a confirmation/OK button to hit when it completed? Mine just disappeared after the green bar hit 100% and seemed like it just didn't install properly.

That sucks. Seems like a lot of coding changing causing issues for networked drive users like us. Like adding roms, use to add the destination as ..\folder. Now it randomly does E:\folder\folder and randomly something else that doesn't work at all! I have to manually change it to ..\folder like it use to do from day one! So I think not that you said your a net drive like me that they are coding causing issues with mapped drives.

Not using any AV other than Windows Security and nothing is blocked. LB has never been blocked in many years I have used it across every version. Also tried running as admin, no changes.

It doesn't seem to come up on the event viewer at all. I just tried launching it 3 times, also making sure nothing was lingering in task manager, and nothing. Not even an event. I did try yesterday deleting the EXE and letting the installer put down another one during installation and nothing changed. Was running pervious versions just fine till now so skeptical it's .net. But I can reinstall it if you think it would help. Would just need to know which version to try.

No splash screen. Nothing happens when launching it. Will look for the logs.

So I let LB update to 13.22 from 13.21 and nothing happens after the installation process disappears. It seems to just end without install confirmation. I then tried to ran the installer from the update folder manually, which in the past helped often, and same thing the installer bar seems to finish then instantly disappears with out any confirmation of install. Running LB exe does nothing! Any ideas?

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