portachking Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Hey Jason, New poster, but a happy pro-user. I seem to running into a brick wall when I try to import non-Steam/Windows games. It never finds any. Running Windows 8.1. Here's a screen, so call me out if I'm doing something idiotic: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 portachking said Hey Jason, New poster, but a happy pro-user. I seem to running into a brick wall when I try to import non-Steam/Windows games. It never finds any. Running Windows 8.1. Here's a screen, so call me out if I'm doing something idiotic: Well how and what are you importing exactly? Edit: Well, I see Windows games, but GOG games, Origin games, generally installed games? That sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portachking Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Precisely that. About 20 Origin games, a few GOGs, UPlay etc. Most, if not probably all, are in the start menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 portachking said Precisely that. About 20 Origin games, a few GOGs, UPlay etc. Most, if not probably all, are in the start menu. I think something is broken. I get the same grey. I have tons of GOG games it should see just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portachking Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Well, I guess it's not just me then. I enabled beta testing and tried that but it didn't make any difference. I'm going to disable it again now. I'd rather support something by giving ten dollars over beta testing these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 portachking said Well, I guess it's not just me then. I enabled beta testing and tried that but it didn't make any difference. I'm going to disable it again now. I'd rather support something by giving ten dollars over beta testing these days. Well it doens't hurt to get both. It's very rare that, so far what seems to be a bug, gets in to a final build. All that toggle does is when there is a beta update, you'll download that. There is no beta right now, but when Jason fixes this he might put it out as a beta or an official update. Just depends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveBarker Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 I am having the same issue when trying to import GOG Fallout. The game is installed and it appears on my start menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Hmm, okay, thanks guys. And welcome portachking. :) Keep in mind that it won't show duplicates in the list, unless you check the force duplicates box. So if you already have a game in your collection, it simply won't show up in the list. Could that be the issue? Otherwise, I'll have to dive in and keep asking questions until we can figure out the problem. It will never be 100% perfect, so a game here or there that it doesn't find we may just have to deal with. But if it's not finding any games at all, obviously there's a problem I need to fix. Try checking that "force import duplicates" box and let me know if you get any listed that way. Thanks guys. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveBarker Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 I just checked the "force import duplicates" box and still can't import it, hmm well the thing is that I only have one GOG game installed right now, and it is Fallout, maybe I can install more to see what happens, also, I wonder what paths are LaunchBox scanning when looking for GOG games? My GOG game paths are: http://i.imgur.com/y5ZDque.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portachking Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Hi Jason, I tried that, it made no difference I'm afraid. Just throwing an idea into the dark here, but I have two hardrives. All of my games are installed on my E drive, while Windows is installed on a smaller SSD C drive. I wonder if others have the same setup and if that has something to do with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 portachking said Hi Jason, I tried that, it made no difference I'm afraid. Just throwing an idea into the dark here, but I have two hardrives. All of my games are installed on my E drive, while Windows is installed on a smaller SSD C drive. I wonder if others have the same setup and if that has something to do with it? I dont think it should. Regardless of where a game gets installed, most of the time it writes to your registry and makes links with shortcusts in your start menu; which is a folder you can navigate to. LB is looking for those links then using. In the case of GOG, some games require that the game be launched via this route. Jason, all of my GOG games are not duplicates. If I had it on Steam, I wouldn't need it on GOG ;) So duplicates shouldn't be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippyshake Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 SentaiBrad said portachking said Hi Jason, I tried that, it made no difference I'm afraid. Just throwing an idea into the dark here, but I have two hardrives. All of my games are installed on my E drive, while Windows is installed on a smaller SSD C drive. I wonder if others have the same setup and if that has something to do with it? I dont think it should. Regardless of where a game gets installed, most of the time it writes to your registry and makes links with shortcusts in your start menu; which is a folder you can navigate to. LB is looking for those links then using. In the case of GOG, some games require that the game be launched via this route. Jason, all of my GOG games are not duplicates. If I had it on Steam, I wouldn't need it on GOG ;) So duplicates shouldn't be an issue. I had a similar issue though, in that I had three copies of Grimrock installed, and it only caught the one on drive C:. Not sure if it's related, but the only way to know for sure is to do similar installs on dual drives, and do clean scans to see what LB picks up. Unfortunately, I think may have cracked my radiator tonight 20 miles outside of town, so I'm going to be busy tomorrow. Soon as I can though, I'll check this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippyshake Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 This morning, I'm downloading several GOG (Windows specific) games via the Galaxy client, which installs to an external drive (no OS). I'll also download the same games via their old installer, which places them on the C:\ (with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS). Then I'll try scanning each with a fresh LaunchBox install and see what happens. The betting pool is now open. :) EDIT @ 9:38am: Or, possibly not, as GOG seems to be having massive server side problems at the moment. It also appears that, effective today, GOG's older client is no more, as clicking on games from your library (via the website, not Galaxy) starts a direct download of the executable. Bummer. EDIT to my edit: Yep...with today's update, on a clean LB install, I'm no longer getting any games via the Windows import (even the MS-DOS ones I used to get ;) ). Posting this to the Beta Report thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Let's try and work through this one guys, try and figure it out. I'm still getting plenty of results on my machines, so I don't understand what the problem is. If anyone is open to using join.me to have a screen sharing session so I can try and see what's going on, that'd be great. Let me know. Just to clear some things up, LaunchBox checks two different spots for games. It looks in your Start menu for games, basically by comparing all of your Start menu shortcuts against the LocalDB to try and find games. Then it looks in what is called the Windows Games Explorer using the registry; and just assumes that everything found in there is an actual game. It also checks to make sure files exist and such, of course. We could be running into permissions issues, I suppose, but I would have expected that to error out instead of just not return anything. I think I'll probably put out a debug version that spits out a bunch of debug messages to help troubleshoot this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippyshake Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Sorry I haven't been around. Why would this version miss all the games the previous versions caught, though? I get nothing from the Windows scan, and I've added games to my system, but not removed them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 That's exactly what I don't understand. And why would it work fine for me, but not for you guys? That's why I need your help troubleshooting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveBarker Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 What do you need me to do to help you troubleshoot this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portachking Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I'd also like to help. I'm in Ireland so I don't think a join.me session would work for either of us due to timezone differences, but I'm happy to share any logs I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippyshake Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Jason Carr said That's exactly what I don't understand. And why would it work fine for me, but not for you guys? That's why I need your help troubleshooting it. If you still want help tomorrow, I'll do whatever you need. Yesterday I had the car towed (that broke down 20 miles from home - $160 tow charge - ouch), and ended up trading it in for a 2011 Ford Fusion. Great car, but now I'm trying to find the title for the old car and get it cleaned out and this put behind me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Ugh, that sucks, John. Congrats on your Fusion though. I'm gonna work on a debug version here in a few minutes that I'll upload here and everyone can try. It should be up in less than an hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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