mgunther32 Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 I know this has been discussed before, but I still haven't found a solution... I have no problems AT ALL with version 7.0, but when I update to anything newer than that, I run into the following issue: (Doesn't happen every time) But often, when I exit an emulator (using the built in automation... (select + start)) BigBox will completely hang.. It happens often enough that I created an AHK that closes and restarts BB. As I said, everything works fine on version 7.0, but I really like the playlist functionality (amongst other upgrades) Things I've tried: I have used both VLC and Media player for videos. I forced populated all game wheel images. I'm using the max RAM cache. Hide Taskbar (Checked & Unchecked) Show "Loading Game" (checked & unchecked) Some observations: I am running Windows 7, but I shelled with BigBox (replaced explorer.exe with BigBox.exe)... If I have explorer.exe loaded when the freeze occurs, I can see the taskbar (meaning BigBox lost focus). But clicking on BigBox to return focus doesn't solve the issue, I have to kill and restart regardless The videos and scrolling game info freeze as well It generally doesn't freeze after exiting the first game... only after the second or third exit Sometimes BB will lose focus after exiting an emulator, but the gamelist video will still be playing... if this is the case, then I can just "click" to give BB focus back, and all is well (if the video is frozen... then I have to close/restart BB) Specs: Windows 7 64bit Core2Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz 8GB RAM I will update this as I try new things... Please ask me if you need any other details Thank you all in advance for the help Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Unfortunately I don't have anything to suggest to solve your issues but I would suggest changing your forum name to not be your email address, unless you like getting spam from email address scrapers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 is this with all emulators or just a select few? because i had run into this only in the versions you mention as well, but only with Demul. also i hit this with retroarch, but a newer version of retroarch cleared that one. so basically i had found with Demul, i had to add a specific ahk script in the demul ahk tab with a specific way to close Demul. then my problems went away. but for many people, the usual ahk script worked for Demul. but i assume you already found that on the forum posts and tried it. i use the same buttons with controller automation as you. i use a xbox 360 as well as a xbox one controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgunther32 Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 I'm so glad that you asked this because I assumed it was happening with every emulator... but when I went back and tried to recreate the issue with each system, I realized that a few of them didn't have an issue! (although most did...)... I had NO issues when exiting the following: N64 (Project64 2.3), Playstation (ePSXe 205), PS2 (PCSX2 1.4), Dreamcast (Demul 582), GameCube (Dolphin 5.0) I constantly had the freezing issue when exiting the following: MAME (MAME139), Genesis/MasterSystem/CD/32x (Fusion 364-738), SNES (snes9x 1.53), NES (Nestopia136) I'm going to see if I can find a common link between these two groups Any ideas?! Thank you for the help/response -mg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 are you using stand alone emulators for those 4 that freeze? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveC Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I had this issue on exiting PPSSPP on version 7.10 i think? I found no reason or fix for it. Pressing Alt+Tab would unfreeze it. I just rolled back one version until 7.11 was released and that fixed the problem. Anyway, cool story, not much help to you though sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgunther32 Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 Yes, I am using standalone emulators.. they are listed in () to the right of the system name.. Alt+tab doesn't fix my issue.. It's completely locked up. The only thing that works is ctrl+alt+del Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 I had a long running issue with this when exiting from MAME to Big Box, everything would freeze and the only way out of it was to open Task Manager and kill Big Box. I use controller automation in Big Box and had set Select + Start to exit emulators. I had also made this same command my UI Cancel in MAME itself. I thought this weekend that maybe this was causing a conflict and changed the key combo in MAME to Select + X and, lo and behold, I have had no issues exiting MAME since. @Jason Carr, I remember troubleshooting this issue with you on a live stream and you could not replicate it. Maybe this could have been it all along, anyway, I thought I would post here in case any other users are experiencing the same issue and it may work for them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 I'd love to get this fixed but as @Charco stated I've never been able to replicate it and it doesn't seem to be a common issue. I remember in the past, the closest we got to fixing it was discovering issues with Microsoft's 360/Xbox One controller drivers; they really screwed them up for a while. I'm not certain if this is it, but do try and see if you can update your 360/Xbox One controller drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 I use iBuffalo SNES controllers anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgunther32 Posted December 29, 2017 Author Share Posted December 29, 2017 (edited) @Jason Carr - (You're The MAN, btw..). I am able to reproduce this issue at will.. If it would be helpful at all, I can install LB on a machine (that I don't care about) and give you permanent remote access to it so you can look into it... think of it as a "sandbox"... wouldn't matter to me if you nuked the thing to pieces haha! Let me know if that is something that you would find useful (and/or have time to do) and I'll set it up etc. Thank you for all of your hard work... I am "Team LaunchBox" through and through!! Cheers -Gunzaldinho Edited December 29, 2017 by mgunther32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nappyjim Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Dont know if this was ever resolved, but I just came across same issue, heres my scenario: -When computer thats running BB is connected to (2) computer monitors, the freezing NEVER happens - When computer thats running BB is connected to (1) computer monitor, the freezes HASNT HAPPENED YET. (Im usually connected to 2, I just unplugged one to see if I could make it happen) - When computer thats running BB is connected to a 65" TV, I've had it happen 3 times within 30 minutes. Once when exiting MAME, twice when exiting NESTOPIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 On 2/1/2020 at 7:48 PM, nappyjim said: Dont know if this was ever resolved, but I just came across same issue, heres my scenario: -When computer thats running BB is connected to (2) computer monitors, the freezing NEVER happens - When computer thats running BB is connected to (1) computer monitor, the freezes HASNT HAPPENED YET. (Im usually connected to 2, I just unplugged one to see if I could make it happen) - When computer thats running BB is connected to a 65" TV, I've had it happen 3 times within 30 minutes. Once when exiting MAME, twice when exiting NESTOPIA. Well that's certainly interesting. Unfortunately it sounds like a bad video driver, so the first step would be trying to update your video drivers. I would also make sure that you're all up to date on Windows updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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