spacegoathlz Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Ok, after my CPU crapped out and I replaced the Mobo & CPU I now have a new, interesting, and frustrating problem. My LB refuses to launch Big Box. Desktop version works fine. When I go to switch (or try to launch BB direct) I get the splash logo, and hear the "initializing Big Box" and then.......nothing. It shows in my task manager as running at what looks like the right range of resources used if it was running, but that's it. I have to kill it from task manager to be able to re-launch the desktop version. I downloaded a clean install, and it worked for a couple of launches with just 1-2 platforms/games in it, so it shouldn't be a dependency issue. Now that I am back up to 4k games, it won't launch. <---is that it? I've waited as long as 20 mins with nothing, thinking maybe it was just taking forever to load that 1st timr since no cache images etc. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacegoathlz Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 Also, I did a clean DL on it again, imported one game, and it will load, but every other time, it will lock up when I select the platform. (I dummied 3-4 in, and it's the same on Windows, PS2, and Wii as the platform I try to choose). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 So it never pops up on the taskbar and you can't alt tab to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacegoathlz Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 1 hour ago, DOS76 said: So it never pops up on the taskbar and you can't alt tab to it? That is correct. Just in task manager, where I have to go to kill it. (It shows using disk, memory, etc.......resources in values you would expect if it was running normally. I cannot "switch to" through the task manager either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 (edited) I think @Jason Carrwill probably have to give you a hand with this one as I don't have a clue as to where to start troubleshooting it. Edited October 19, 2016 by DOS76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Odd. Try playing with the BigBoxSettings.xml file to see if anything helps, like switching out the video playback engine or similar. Try disabling game controllers, etc. That would help to try and isolate the issue. You can also delete the BigBoxSettings.xml and Settings.xml files to go back to the default settings which might help too. But this issue is pretty odd; it's the first I'm hearing of it. Are you on Windows 10? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacegoathlz Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 Hey Jason. I don't know how deep you want to dig in with this. My LB/BB I use for actual gaming works just fine. The one I am having trouble with, I combine with Chromecast to use for my media server. Kodi is not exactly user friendly, and Plex goes to the other extreme with almost no customization, so I had been using BB. The ease+customization more than makes up for not being able to scrape metadata that I like to put in manually anyway. I use MPC-HC as my emulator, and the movie takes the place of the game. I have tried deleting the settings, with no luck. A fresh install however, will allow for BB to a point, then quits. I'll have more time to check it out later, hopefully I'll have some more details then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Kind of sounds like BB is opening on a different screen, but maybe it's not connected now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 On 10/18/2016 at 11:55 PM, spacegoathlz said: Ok, after my CPU crapped out and I replaced the Mobo & CPU I now have a new, interesting, and frustrating problem. My LB refuses to launch Big Box. Desktop version works fine. When I go to switch (or try to launch BB direct) I get the splash logo, and hear the "initializing Big Box" and then.......nothing. It shows in my task manager as running at what looks like the right range of resources used if it was running, but that's it. I have to kill it from task manager to be able to re-launch the desktop version. I downloaded a clean install, and it worked for a couple of launches with just 1-2 platforms/games in it, so it shouldn't be a dependency issue. Now that I am back up to 4k games, it won't launch. <---is that it? I've waited as long as 20 mins with nothing, thinking maybe it was just taking forever to load that 1st timr since no cache images etc. Any ideas? put the actual big box aplication back in the luanch box folder...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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