Steam

[retrogeek]

is anyone having any issues with steam 'start at startup' then bigbox not being focused. Therefor i have to 'alt-tab' to bigbox so THEN i can scroll thru my platform with the keyboard. if i dont 'alt-tab' then i can't scroll thru the platforms or anything as such. I can also 'mouse-click' bigbox then start scrolling thru the menu but if i leave it then no scrolling at all. I've tried a delayed startup for bigbox but that doesnt work either. Only happened when i updated to 7.10

anyone experience this?

[SentaiBrad]

I haven't seen anyone mention this recently unfortunately.

[ckp]

If it's a problem, you might try disabling Steam's start at startup option and just launch Steam and then Launchbox from a batch file that you put in your user startup folder to control the order that these applications startup. you might even have to put in a delay between launch of steam and LB using something like the timeout.exe command for the delay.

so the batch file you put in your startup folder could be something like:

start c:\steam\steam.exe

timeout 10  (this waits for 10 seconds before going to the next line. only use this line if you need to and adjust time to whatever works for your system)

start c:\launchbox\bigbox.exe

(fix paths to match where your steam and BB exe files are)

 

Edited June 13, 2017 by ckp

[retrogeek]

thanks brad! great input n appreciate the feedback. Works a charm doing something along these lines

[SentaiBrad]

I think that was ckp? I'll take a thank you, but thank ckp too!