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Amazing work on the new LaunchBox details panel. LaunchBox feels much more useful now.

Hey @faeran This might be my favorite theme for BigBox! Would it be possible to have multiple genre tags displayed? One tag is just sadly not enough these days...

I use them in place of Clear Logos so I can't use Box - Front. Any other ideas? Also where can I suggest new features like this?

For the image group "Steam Banners", where can I set the media image priorities? Is it missing an option or did I miss it somewhere else?

There is an issue with lesser known games being added as a wrong game. This happens quite often, but here are a few examples: https://store.steampowered.com/app/659560/VITATIO/ gets registered as "Rockett's Secret Invitation" from 1998 https://store.steampowered.com/app/551110/Wayout/ gets registered as "A Way Out".

That's interesting because one (launching on the correct screen) of the two bugs got fixed in Beta 2. BigBox still returns to the original screen if it is moved to another screen when it becomes active (from alt-tab). This was introduced in Beta 1. It never did this before, I guarantee. My computer stayed on 24/7 and no monitor setups were changed between Beta 1 and 2. I downloaded Beta 2 last night and I noticed it now launches on the proper screen, though the issue mentioned is still here. I posted here because the bugs were introduced in Beta 1. The suggestion was just an extension of what can be done better regarding the screen options. I'll create a ticket for it. Thanks.

I always had problem with BigBox launching on a monitor based on screen index because the number (Screen 1, Screen 2, Screen 3...) can change if u turn on the monitors in different order, or use smart plug turns on monitors at the same time. The workaround was to move the BigBox window with a hotkey via DisplayFusion, but now it's not even launching on the correct screen. It's set to Screen 1 at this time, but it keeps launching it on Screen 2 (bug #1). If I use the hotkey to move it, the Windows taskbar shows on top of BigBox. If I click on the BigBox icon on the taskbar, it moves back go Screen 1 (bug #2). Besides from fixing these two new bugs, could you make it so LaunchBox/BigBox launches on a screen where mouse cursor is? A lot of games or programs already do this and I think it would be amazing.

It looks like 11.9 beta 2 fixed the startup performance quite nicely. It's definitely faster than beta 1. Not sure if it's same as before, but it sure feels like it.

Yeah, I've been using LaunchBox quite frequently recently, and this one definitely has noticeably slower launching time. Otherwise, other improvements are fantastic.

This was added only in the recent years to combat fake games so that "developers" don't sell empty games and profit from Steam Trading Cards, Emotes or Steam Achievement icons. All games usually release in this status ("Steam is learning about this game"), then either becomes "Profile Features Limited (not enough sales and community activity)", or a regular game where it now counts towards the number that displays how many games you own, and feature their Steam Achievements on Steam Profile Achievement Showcases. Examples: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241700/There_Is_No_Game_Jam_Edition_2015/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/922250/Heavy_Burger/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/752430/Arcade_Love/

Hey @Jason Carr, I noticed LaunchBox Steam Importer does not detect Profile Features Limited games. This isn't your fault as Valve implemented such limitation to combat fake games in the past. The good news now is that recently Valve updated their endpoint API to also include these games, given a proper parameter is set. https://steamapi.xpaw.me/#IPlayerService/GetOwnedGames Set "skip_unvetted_apps" to "0". When this parameter is set to 0, it will return all games owned by user, including Profile Features Limited games. When omitted, this parameter is defaulted to 1.

What is the purpose of "alternate names"? What are they used for?

Right-click context menu on games seems to be opening much faster. Was there any effort put specifically for this, or just a nice benefit we got from .NET Core?

I have more than 3K games on Steam and this happens quite often, especially with episodic adventure games (Telltale being the biggest offender), fighting games, and games that have multiple entries (Call of Duty Singleplayer/Multiplayer). I wouldn't say it's frequent, but definitely not a rare case. Most of my videos are personally edited videos that are 30 ~ 60 seconds long. They are mostly 720p/1080p. Everything associated with Launchbox (besides game installations) is installed on an SSD and these videos rack up storage space pretty fast. I'd rather not **copy and paste the same video for hundreds of my games I think the easiest solution is to add a optional, separate text entry used for media file reference (like Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1/2/3/4/5 entries would have video reference title of "Tales of Monkey Island").

This usually works if the games have the same title, but a lot of games I have issues with this is due to having different names. The workaround you suggested is unfortunately not an option. The problematic cases include games that are mostly an identical game with just a few contents added and/or tiny little balance changes (fighting games), or games that have different subtitles (modern point and click adventure games) or different episodes (like the 5th Monkey Island game having "Episode 1/2/3/4/5" suffix).

Games still cannot share the same video. Each just rename the videos and the previous game that was using it loses the association.

Games still cannot share the same video. Each just rename the videos and the previous game that was using it loses the association.

You were right. This started happening after the Windows 10 2004 update and I managed to track down the cause. It seems the update enabled a few manually-disabled HID drivers. I no longer have this problem after disabling these drivers again, but if you wish to know what was causing it here it is. The controllers work perfectly fine in nearly all games, but these drivers by simply being enabled can cause issues like this. It makes the Windows game controller dialog periodically freeze as well, just as LaunchBox's Option dialog did (when it's opened or closed). BigBox seems to also have an issue with a different symptom: it just never launched while running in the background. AVGN Adventure 1 (Steam) game has this issue as well with respawns freezing the game for a few good seconds with troublesome drivers. I heard Corsair keyboard RGB program can trigger this, though I can't confirm it. I don't know how the rest of C# apps and games do it, but they don't have this issue in anywhere in their program. Maybe it just depends how the controller is pooled through their own implementation. I don't think it's something you should worry about, but if you ever get a report like this, you could direct them to find and disable the troublesome driver (often unsafe) or find an alternative to fixing that driver somehow. EDIT: I meant a few HID drivers I no longer use. All of the drivers I had to disable were ones I no longer use such as an USB DAC (obviously not a game controller).

I figured you would say that. I still voiced my opinion since I do manage games all the time. Hopefully, you'll consider making UI efficient next time if you plan on overhauling or making a new dialog. Thanks for looking into video issues.

I also realized it disassociated tons of videos that were already associated with the games. I think I know why. Before a game named "Game: The Gaming" would automatically link any videos with "Game The Gaming" by stripping all symbols. This seems to be no longer the case unless I enter the Edit window and press OK on every single game I have with such naming scheme. The patch note said some multiselection dropdown menu fixed an issue with this new Edit window. As a person that buys and adds about 5 ~ 10 Steam games a week that manually adds covers, personally-edited videos, genres, and images, I have never had an issue with the old Edit window. I don't entirely know why the old menu had to be changed, but if you're going to keep this new WIP Edit window, please take this feedback seriously and stop putting things in all these different tabs and pages. Sometimes, it's just may be one click too many for it to start becoming inconvenient. Convenience is sometimes what drew people into LaunchBox in the first place. I know this is beta and building a better foundation for future updates requires an overhaul that may have temporary setbacks. I just hope all these changes and feedback are actually taken care of, for game management in LaunchBox to be as efficient as before.

I have games with separate app ids on Steam that share the same videos. Ever since the change on videos forced renaming, they can no longer share it. They keep changing to their own names, invalidating the rest. Is there a fix to this? With new edit window requiring more clicks to do my daily organization jobs and being slower, I'm starting to really hate this whole change.

My BigBox won't launch. Not sure when this started happening. When I launch it directly or from LaunchBox, there is no visible windows or loading bars. Task Manager says there's BigBox.exe using about 170MB.

Hello, I noticed the edit dialog has been changed. This just adds additional clicks and a few annoyance (not being able to look at its meta data while editing other fields and media files) to how I frequently add images to new games I add, with no benefits to me. I loved the old one so much more than the new one. Is there any way to use just the legacy one?

Yes, this happens every time. I tried rebooting. I have disabled pretty much all apps except for Discord just to test this and I did not see any improvements. Of course I disabled and terminated any background programs and services I could as well. I also added an exclusion folder for Luanchbox to my Windows Defender since someone said they fixed it by disabling it. I traced its hanging point and Launchbox seems to have trouble getting information from controllers by the looks it, but I have no controllers or any type of dongles connected to or was connected in that session (since boot). Turning them on or connecting them before/after launching Launchbox did not fix it. The only peripherals connected to are a microphone, and mouse & keyboard with no manufacture software running.

On LaunchBox, when I click on Options, the app freezes and the context menu stays up even if I alt+tab on my screen for 20 ~ 30 seconds, then the option window pops up. 8700K. LaunchBox is installed on an SSD.