Big Box just showing Black Screen

[laodaron]

Thanks for the help guys.  For some reason, Big Box loaded up correctly, I tried to load FutureState, and now, I've even removed FutureState, and this is what i get.  I can't figure out what else to do.

[laodaron]

I was able to reset BB to default by deleting BigBoxSettings.xml or whatever.  But it doesn't matter waht I do, every theme change results in the black screen.  Am I doing something wrong?

[Rincewind]

Was it working fine before you added the themes?

[laodaron]

Yes.  But now I'm having an issue where the entire thing lags out.  I'm on an i7 2700k OC to 4.5GHz, 16 GB RAM, and if it matters, a GTX 670.  I also only have MAME on there, but I have nearly a full Romset.  I feel like this is almost as convoluted as HyperSpin at this point.  Oh well, I'll hope that I'm just making a mistake here.

[MydknyteStyrm]

Was this ever resolved? I just downloaded BigBox and whenever I change a theme setting, I get the same black screen with my platform. I only have six roms on the NES (testing it out) and I have to CtrlAltDel to get out of it. 

[Jason Carr]

I think I might have an idea what's happening here guys, sorry for the late reply @laodaron. I'm doing some testing and it seems to happen only when you only have a single platform and can't move up and down in the list. I'll get a fix into a beta soon but in the mean time you should be able to get around it just by adding another platform in LaunchBox.

[mysteryman3rd]

This is happening to me too... with 8 platforms... startup.mp4 from the download section of the forums. . black screen.

 

Okay, so I kind of narrowed it down. When I get the black intro screen, I can closed out Big Box mode and go to videos directory and double-click and play startup.mp4 with VLC. I close that and the next time I run Big Box Mode, the video plays correctly (no black screen), but when I close Big Box and try to open Big Box again, black screen intro. Reopening the video temp fixes it for one startup. Maybe this can help you pinpoint this issue with a patch/fix? Hope this helps.

Edited February 25, 2018 by mysteryman3rd

[Jason Carr]

Thanks @mysteryman3rd, though that's a different issue than the issue in this thread. Somehow it's a loading order issue with VLC that I haven't been able to get figured out. It's on my list.