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I'm trying to create an auto-populate playlist in Launchbox for all my shmups. Most of the Arcade ones I can grab via the 'Shooter / Flying Vertical" Genre tag, but there are a lot of horizontal genres and it doesn't appear to be an option in Launchbox genres. Games like Darius and Thunderforce are just tagged as 'Shooter', which is too broad. Maybe a separate 'Shoot 'Em Up' genre should exist? I feel people know what a shmup is when they see it and it would be nice to be able to auto-populate a playlist with them. Cheers!

Thanks, So I do use a program to sync files, it's called 'goodsync'. I don't want to give that up as I rely on it to keep my launchbox installs in sync across machines.

Any ideas? Should I just delete the theme and re-install? I installed this theme from the in-app theme browser, so I'd assume those should be stable..

Here are some concise debug logs from a session with the error. Looks like there's an error, Could not find file 'C:\emulation\LaunchBox\Themes\Unified\Images\Theme\Background\_Default.png'. Debug 2021-08-04 04-09-35 PM.log

Here are some concise debug logs from a session with the error. Looks like there's an error, Could not find file 'C:\emulation\LaunchBox\Themes\Unified\Images\Theme\Background\_Default.png'. Debug 2021-08-04 04-09-35 PM.log

enabling debug logs.. more details to follow!

So, it's still happening here w/ Unified theme (have seen it with most others too). Attached screenshots of core folder before (when error occurred), and after (after launchbox shutdown) and a screen showing the error within launchbox. Please let me know if I can supply any other details.

So, looks like shutting it down and restarting a couple times did the trick! I will take a screenshot of that folder and share next time the issue happens. I do notice it changes a lot at run-time with short-cuts being created and deleted afterwards.

Any further suggestions? Just downloaded unified theme from within bigbox on 11.15 and getting all sorts of those errors.

It's NTFS, thanks for the quick reply!

I just tried downloading the cityhunter 2 theme from within bigbox. While navigating through I frequently see the attached exception. If looked for the file and it does exist (also attached). I'm on the latest launchbox as of the time of this posting (11.4). ListBoxItemStyle.xaml

Thanks for the help so far! I do have a g-sync monitor, and tried disabling that. It does seem a bit smoother, but still not quite as smooth as when I'm on my other machine running the 60hz TV.. The PC w/ the issues is no slouch.. Modern CPU, lots of memory, 2070super, nvme drive. It's a two monitor machine, 1st is the gsync, ultra-wide at 3440x1440, and the 2nd is a 4k 3840x2160. Knowing what I know now about the rendering approach, I decided to just try cranking it up to 200hz (even though I don't have a 200hz monitor), and it's buttery smooth now. I re-enabled gsync, kept it at 200hz, and it's still quite good. So, I guess that's a workable solution, just crank it as high as it can go. That said, is there an open issue for the gsync bug? Feels like that would be good to address regardless. And I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one who's been thrown for a loop on this.. I get you don't want to tax the CPU on older machines, but I've been using Launchbox/BigBox for years now and didn't know that this was a way to 'fix' the performance... I figured the refresh rate was supposed to try and match your monitor, and the 60hz=optimal setting was also a bit confusing. Not sure what the right solution is.. you probably wouldn't want to default to 200hz for everyone, but it is such an improvement in my experience having tried it I bet others could benefit. Thanks for the suggestions!

Hi there, I've noticed that on my 110hz, ultra-wide monitor, big-box seems fairly jerky. Animations look like they're running more like 20 FPS at times. When I run the same install off my 60hz TV, it's very smooth. It seems odd to be to have to manually set the FPS to match the display.. Couldn't it just have traditional options, like target-FPS, or maximum FPS.. or I wonder if it really needs an option at all. Just run smoothly please! Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems odd...

Thanks, I've up-voted the issue!

Hi there, Is there a way to choose which version of an image is used when multiple exist? For instance, many games have multiple 3D Box images, and often they are of 2 distinct designs. I would like to ensure when viewing 3D boxes that I see the same designs for each game. At present, I can't see how to choose which 3D box should be used for each game though, so it ends up being a mix of both in the display. Cheers,

Hey all! So, I know this isn't a 'launchbox' specific problem, but thought someone in the community might have a good answer... I'm using google drive's desktop app to sync my retro setup (emulators plus launchbox and roms) to google drive. It performs quite poorly with many small files, so w/ launchbox having sometimes hundreds of pieces of media per game it's not ideal. I was going to experiment with different services to see what's best, but maybe someone could recommend a service that excels at syncing many thousands of small files? Cheers

Hi everyone! I splurged and got the premium lifetime emumovies subscription. Given that, when importing should I even bother w/ the Launchbox DB media? I've noticed that a lot of media is downloaded when I select everything for both launchboxdb and emuovies. What would people consider an 'ideal' config, if I don't want everything, just the 'good' stuff to make most themes work well. Cheers!

Are all of these being compiled anywhere? Would be great to get all this content in one go.. Or is everyone just searching through this thread and grabbing what they like?

Hello again! I've noticed that Bannerbox doesn't seem to respect image priority as set in Launchbox. I'm using the text list w/ details view for my games, and a lot of games don't have box-art (for instance a lot of Amiga games). I've setup priority to fall-back to 3D boxes, but it seems to not pick that up and so there's a lot of blanks. Any idea if it's possible to respect priorities in the theme, or does it have to be hardcoded to a box-cover or nothing?

I wasn't though.. I mean I did that once in an attempt to help future performance, but the program was 'idle' during the cpu spikes.

attaching debug log from latest run. everything was running fine (little cpu usage) until about 7:15 at which point cpu went full throttle and wouldn't let up. quit bigbox and cpu went back to normal. There is some stuff in the logs around 7:15 so hopefully that helps. Debug 2021-05-03 07-09-53 PM.log

some more data; this is me at the options menu in bigbox, nothing happening. bigbox running is somehow eating up 16 threads near 100%. would be great to get some debugging tools built into bigbox; maybe a way to start-stop a profile or something that we can share as I'm not sure how to go about investigating this or how to get the devs to help.

Hey love the theme, but is there a way to exclude platforms that don't have banners? Looks a bit janky when that happens; screenshots attached.

I'm also seeing huge CPU usage whenever I turn VLC on as the video engine in bigbox. System is no slouch and handles everything else I throw at it. System details attached.

Thanks, but I have a library of 1000s of games, and would like to find a solution that doesn't require any manual editing of individual titles. I'm tempted to simply re-import everything from scratch and see if this was maybe a bug of a prior version of launchbox.