Mr. RetroLust

Thanks for thinking along much appreciated! I tested your theory of total aspect ratio by switching the 2560x1080 monitor to 1920x1080, it behaves in the same way: no activity in Bigbox on the monitor. I do think that it's all valid edid hand shaked as windows itself does work on the 4k and 2560 monitor, if it works in windows it should in Bigbox right? The DVI-HDMI cable is a DVI-D Dual Link, the gpu connector is the same. Specs for gtx 1050 gpu on: "Max Resolution: 7680x4320@60Hz (Digital)". Situation: 4K monitor is set to 200% dpi scaling, 2560 set to 100%, switching these does not change things. Combination working (not preferred): Bigbox shortcut Compatibility/DPI set to System or System (extended) gives bigbox 4k screen lower res (seems to be 1080 res) and marquees work on 2560 monitor. Combination not working: Bigbox shortcut Compatibility/DPI set to Application or turned off Dpi settings, it does give 4k resolution in bigbox but the marquee screen only shows the windows desktop, marquee window while set to screen 2 in settings is displayed beneath bigbox window on same primary monitor (4k) able to see while using alt-tab.

I'm having the same problem as well with my new pc, at first everything seemed fine, until I took a close look using the image viewer within big box, it wasn't 4K it was displaying but more like 1080p, I compared the high res images I was viewing with the originals. When I switch different dpi settings on the shortcut to bigbox I can get the primary monitor to display 4k but then the marquee screen will not work, going through marquee screen settings within bigbox does not show anything happening on the marquee monitor. When switched to one of the system dpi settings the monitor does work but primary is lower res again. Before this I also noted the monitor numbers where switched in bigbox, had primary on 2 and marquee on 1, I fixed this by turning the marquee screen off in nvidia settings and bigbox saw it as number 1 again, after that the marquee screen can be set on number 2 again. The marquee screen is 2560x1080 connected to dvi to hdmi cable. The 4k tv is connected to hdmi, both are connected to a nvidia gtx 1050 @Jason Carr Do you have any knowledge what could cause this problem? It's not something of utmost urgency but would like to see images in 4k glory in the future in bigbox working together with a marquee screen.

Let us know if it helped, so others with the same problem can be helped. Might also try a lower transition duration if that setting is available (not sure as i'm not in big box atm). Or switch video renderer between wmp or vlc.

Try to set all transitions to "none" in big box settings? Seems it goes black during a transition. It helped me to speed up loading videos in the past, not sure if it helps your problem but worth a try.

@Dan I haven't forgotten about the theme just so you know but was in a transition to a new and faster system, the theme works well now on this new system at least for smaller playlists, the 7000 arcade game list is still slow though lol, it needs a lot of downsizing still, so i'll work on it some more to release a somewhat decent and more finished theme, I can't promise a date though, have a lot going on in real life atm and some side projects but know it'll be released, at least this year!

@Jason Carr Damn, sorry bro but the issue returned, Arrange by is now in Dutch again. I really hate to keep bringing you this news on the matter, hope it won't take you too much work, for me this issue is no problem though. See the screenshot, edit, in case you where unaware, check out amount of games in the below bar, it's also in dutch.

@Jason Carr You did it man! I switched back and forth between .Next and Big Box and the game details where being kept completely in English, I also tried out something else with the "None, Exists" issue, this time I removed () for 'None' and 'Exists' and that seems to do the trick to let them be 'stuck' in English. At the start of the testing I saw that the "Arrange by" menu was in Dutch, I made a screenshot of this so I could show it to you but had some problems with this screenshot capture software (older software which required some windows dpi compatibility settings, it crashed a few times and I had to re-login before the dpi settings would really be set but I didn't as it could wait, I probably should have re-logged in) which was unrelated to .Next or Big Box, I then wanted to check if the arrange by menu issue would change by switching to Big Box I did so by using the Bigbox button in the main menu of .Next (normally I use direct shortcuts to the exe files in windows taskbar), when exiting out of Big Box my system crashed, I suspect it was because of the issues with the other software on the background. When force-quitting windows I started .Next and got a message that some element was corrupt, after an inspection of the xml files I found that settings.xml and bigboxsettings.xml had "null" all over the files in notepad++ luckily there where some auto backups made a minute before the crash and I could fix it easily. The funny thing is that the arrange by menu is in English now lol so everything seems to be fine & fixed! I'm sorry for the large description but I guessed the details could help you in case you want to re-construct an issue.

Sweet! I'll try to check out the beta tomorrow and will let you know how it went @Jason Carr

Cheers bro

Everything in the transition to the new system worked out great! I've decided not to complicate things too much and as a test put all folders including the Launchbox software folder on the new drive instead of splitting the software to the ssd and the data to the 4TB drive and it's running like a dream! So I don't even need to move the software to the SSD, it was all a breeze to do so, Retroarch didn't need any change and in Mame I just had to change 2 paths. Finally I can play those Mame 3D games without any lag (they where running mostly at 1 frame per second or something, not playable and now i'm speeding down mountains in Real time in Alpine Racer for instance) and everything I wished for above like 4K res with overlays, shaders and the ultra wide screen marquee monitor in 2560x1080 all worked out as I hoped it would. Hell I am now even able to have Launchbox.next autoplay video's, it may sound weird but I'm so incredibly happy with all of this as before my crappy low end system couldn't do all those heavier things without lag or at all, now I can finally get back to working on my game library, making new marquees and working out the theme I was working on. Thanks so much for everything @DOS76 @Jason Carr @Kondorito! Couldn't have done it without your advice! Have a great day on your side of the planet.

Thanks bro!

My favorite channels for some time are Game Sack and the Game Chasers, great channels with a lot of humor as well.

I'm in the middle of the system transition now (happy happy, joy joy!!!) I bought a Toshiba 7200rpm 4TB with 128mb buffer, seems to be pretty fast with 190mb/s transfer speeds. Everything went well up to this point. Now I do want to do this right from the start as I'm a bit worried to screw anything up in the configuration. My plan is to put the Games, Images and Videos folders on this new drive (G:) and put the rest of the Launchbox installation on the (C:) drive, I can't find any xml settings where I can change these folder paths and am a bit afraid to start Launchbox in case it'll change things around automatically when not finding certain folders or anything similar. Anyone able to give me some advice on this matter?

That's a lot of MEGA POWER! (with echo sound fx)

I've spend more time testing out the issue to give you more details: I haven't changed the language settings (keeping it set on English), but did change the text from auto translated dutch to English manually in the general/side bar settings. I have narrowed it down (I hope): It isn't at system restart that it reverts to Dutch but when launching Bigbox and going back again to Launchbox.next (haven't tried regular Launchbox but am sure it has the same problem) now it does not revert "All" to Dutch again, that one stays in English, but it does revert "(None)" and "(Exists)" back to Dutch, maybe it's the () characters that cause the problem somewhere in the code? Edit: ps "Exists" isn't translated well, it says "Uitgangen" which is translated from "Exits", it should be "Bestaat", on a side note. The new Beta (8.4.6) fixed the right-click menu language and even the right column with game details was in English. Thanks man But while I was typing this I tried to do the same in the above step; Going to Bigbox and going back to Launchbox.next it reverts back to Dutch on some menu's: Right clicking games in the main list is now still in English (this one seems to be fixed completely!), the game details column to the right has reverted back to dutch (not all row titles are in dutch though, but as you said you are still working on this one), right clicking menu on the left category/platforms column is reverted back to Dutch as well. I've attached below screenshots in case it might assist you to get an overview: Thanks for all your hard work and have a great weekend as well!

Awesome bro thanks! Then i'll save some cash on the ssd and go for 8gb extra ram and go for a 4tb instead of 6tb as I will be throwing away games I don't like, might be hoarders-sacrilege, sorry for that In the end I can save up room for the video's and images as well and put these on the main ssd when minimized in size. I'll let you know in a few weeks from now how the transition went.

Thanks @DOS76 @Kondorito! Yeah it will be local i'm not going the NAS route, holy crap dude that is fast!. I searched for the new system specs, are these fast enough for this example of usage: I want to be able to run the main screen at 3840x2160p, 2nd screen at 2560x1080p (wide screen marquee) thousands of arcade games in a list with video and images in bigbox, running games in mame with bezel artwork (4K bezel artwork in the future) and a shader. All without lag! haha I would even be glad with 75% less lag as it is at the moment. These are the new specs: CPU: Intel Core i5 7400 (7th generation): 4x 3 GHz, Turbo 3.5 GHz RAM: 8 GB DDR4 2.400 MHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 - 2gb, clock: 1.354 MHz, memory: 1.752 MHz

I noticed some small issues still @Jason Carr I hope it helps you to tackle this language thing further: It seems the "All" "None" "Exists" side bar items are translated back to Dutch automatically after a system restart, even though I've translated these manually back to English in the General/Sidebar settings before. Not sure if this was already the case in Launchbox itself, but i'm pretty sure it was. The info field titles in the right column like: Rating, Series, Region etc. are also in dutch (but not every title). That's all left on the language issue as far as I can see, sorry I didn't notice them earlier on. Edit: If you need screenshots to get more details let me know.

Thanks so much @DOS76 and @Jason Carr This will help out a lot, I do have a smaller SSD with OS and other software on the new system it's around 128 gb sadly lol but enough to put the launchbox software on. You think putting the images and video's on a 4 or 6 TB drive would perhaps introduce some lag as well when on the same drive as the games? In that case would it help to split this data to separate mechanical drives or would that introduce extra work/time for the pc? Or is a much faster CPU, GPU and ram enough to lift most of that lag in comparison with the current low end system? There are these Seagate drives (I hope you guys have experience with these) which caught my attention which have 8gb of flash/ssd as a cache, it's sort of a hybrid drive which they call a SSHD (drawback I can only find them in 2tb versions here), it can cache the first 8gb on it's ssd which should give faster results than regular HDD's by not having to reload data, would this extra flashcache help Bigbox browsing in combination with 8 to 16 gb of ram and the image cache that Bigbox builds itself? As you can see I hope I don't have to buy a larger SSD as that stuff is pretty expensive. But since I do need a mechanical drive either way I could test out if there would be any lag and decide later on if the SSD is necessary. Sorry for the many questions, I'm trying to figure out a bit how it all works beforehand and plan out the strategy to tackle this, I promise I won't keep question-bombing you

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@Robin55 I see another error at the moment, I hope to clarify to you why some titles get rejections, could be I'm quite a few days behind from the point you uploaded these but there is a batch where you (or someone else?) upload naomi clear logos as new games instead of adding the logos to the already uploaded titles. If I would accept these you'll get double game title entries which could cause even more time to fix afterwards.

I'm looking for a new hdd next week thats fast for loading a whole lot of data for Bigbox, I'm working on a low end pc for a while which has problems loading video's smoothly (especially bad video lag when the videos are stretched out larger in some themes and when the platform lists are long, default theme is doable with small video's but still slow loading times), it has a slower hdd and the gpu is onboard so those problems don't surprise me at all with such a cheap and old system so no problem there. I'm going to move to a 7th gen I5 with a nvidia 1080gt or something, don't have the exact specs at the moment but it's fast and new lol. Now it does need a large HDD (or Seagate's SSHD?) and I want to buy a good one for price/quality but I hope I won't need an expensive high end hdd, 4TB would be future proof. Now I would like to ask help to make the right choice, what do I have to look for to minimize/destroy any hdd lag for large video's in large lists? Is it read/seek time? and which speeds would be ideal? Flash cache or another sort of cache/buffer I should look for? I see a lot of 4tb hdd's which have 5400 rpm, would that do or do I need 7200 rpm? I would really appreciate any advice, tips or experience you could share. I'm not sure whom to ask from the team or the community so excuse me if I tagged the wrong person @DOS76 @Jason Carr @Retro808 @Lordmonkus @Kondorito

Yeah I know, it does take a lot of time but then again so does moderation as well, the plugin seems to upload new content faster than rejecting or accepting the new content, especially new games take forever to load the next in queu. I think it would be handy if we had a way to leave constructive feedback for the uploader so if a mistake is made we could leave a reason why and the uploader would know exactly what to change. As it is now we can leave a reason but the uploader won't see the message as far as I can tell. The plugin is very handy in uploading mass content but with that mass errors/mistakes/etc as well when not being able to review securely. With the Neo Geo marquees I uploaded (which where quite a lot as well) I opened up several tabs like 10 tabs or something in my browser instead of going through each upload on one single page and it worked quite quickly, while one tab was loading a link/menu I started loading the next step in the other tab and so on, I hope that could help you do it quicker as well if you choose to take the manual route. Also I did it in batches, spread over a few days to keep it from being a boring/repetitive task that would take a lot of time in one sitting and it should stay something that is a bit of fun to do.

Noticed some names have: gamename1 / gamename2 as a title, that can be one reason for rejection as the alternate name field can be used for a second name. I rejected one of the uploads which was Power Slam 2 I believe, as it had Virtua Tennis 2 on all the images and the wikipedia info. A lot of naomi uploads have duplicate images as well, might be better to upload them manually (would be a lot of work indeed but could be error free time spend) as someone uploaded a ton of DS games not too long ago by use of the plugin with 3 to 4 duplicate images per title, while they where legit titles they got rejections as someone has to manually remove hundreds if not thousands of duplicate images after that when the uploader is unaware, seems people that use the plugin don't get the option to see all the images they upload beforehand or something. Maybe something broke with the last update of the plugin, not sure as I don't use it myself.

"Defaulting to system language in some cases/places" is fixed for the settings and tools/menu's, thanks so much! The only thing I still see in my native language (dutch) is the right click menu (on every occasion so it seems to be something stable) in .Next, that's not a big issue for me though but I still mention it in case you want to tackle this if this is an unwanted issue (not sure if it is generated by non-English windows 10 or launchbox.next itself)