tjwoosta Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 (edited) Ive been using bigbox for a couple years without issues, but yesterday I got the 8.0 update and bigbox no longer starts. It plays my startup video and then just hangs on an infinite black screen. Task manager says not responding and I have to force kill the process. Launchbox seems to work fine, just not bigbox mode. I thought there might be a log file somewhere that could help but the Logs folder in my launchbox directory is empty. Edited February 16, 2018 by tjwoosta Quote
Lordmonkus Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Try reinstalling and does Launchbox mode work without errors ? Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Similar to my issue really already reported a new install works but thats no help and if i try to run launchbox after bigbox has crashed like this launchbox then takes very long to load up Quote
Lordmonkus Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 But if you reinstall over top does that fix it or no ? Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 nope, the bug of launching launchbox after closing bigbox taking absolutely ages is still there and i only have 100 games (like 2 minutes) Quote
Lordmonkus Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 I've forwarded this to Jason, hopefully he has an answer for you. 1 Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Having nothing but issues so far and its frustrating, Only 100 games over 3 platforms while I master it all, I bought premium too this week as I do love it and wanna support you guys. Hope I get it figured out. Quote
Lordmonkus Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Yeah i'm not sure what would cause that issue at all, myself and many others have done the upgrade without issue so it's something weird. Quote
DOS76 Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 can you try copying your settings.xml to another folder and try running BB with default settings. What theme are you using? Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Yep its also causing retroarch to take about 1 minute and a half to load once i used bigbox . My pc runs perfectly fine but once i ran bigbox thats it all other apps have issues running, its not like CPU and memory being used either mem at 37% with all running and CPU 7% Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 On 2/16/2018 at 7:46 PM, DOS76 said: can you try copying your settings.xml to another folder and try running BB with default settings. What theme are you using? Expand tried with default theme but just installed bigcouch now after i assumed all was working fine Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 (edited) On 2/16/2018 at 7:48 PM, neil9000 said: Have you ruled out a HDD going bad? Expand Switched it to my other drive when i reinstalled it. I have 4 (1 SSD 3 HDD) Edited February 16, 2018 by Vhero Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 When I look at it, its using 0% cpu to fix this issue I have to restart my computer then all apps work fine I can use my computer and all apps perfectly fine all day. I run bigbox and finish using then all apps boot with low cpu usage it kills cpu usage.. Quote
Jason Carr Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 @Vhero Check Task Manager to see if there are any instances of LaunchBox or Big Box running in that case. If there's nothing wrong, then there's really no way that LaunchBox or Big Box could be killing CPU usage, unless there's some kind of insane Windows or .NET Framework bug. Also I'd recommend making sure your 100% up to date on all Windows updates. Are you running Windows 7 or Windows 10? It also might be worth reinstalling the .NET Framework, as that has fixed some strange oddities for some other people as well. This kind of stuff is typically not related to the LaunchBox code, and is more likely due to some kind of corrupted install or corrupted driver (often the .NET Framework). Big Box often pushes systems to their limits, so it's no surprise that weird stuff will come out through Big Box. @tjwoosta What version did you upgrade from? Were you on 7.16 before upgrading to 8.0? You can enable logging by changing the DebugLog line of the Settings.xml file, which may or may not help figure this out. Quote
DOS76 Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Also make sure your video drivers are updated. 1 Quote
Vhero Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 On 2/16/2018 at 8:08 PM, Jason Carr said: @Vhero Check Task Manager to see if there are any instances of LaunchBox or Big Box running in that case. If there's nothing wrong, then there's really no way that LaunchBox or Big Box could be killing CPU usage, unless there's some kind of insane Windows or .NET Framework bug. Also I'd recommend making sure your 100% up to date on all Windows updates. Are you running Windows 7 or Windows 10? It also might be worth reinstalling the .NET Framework, as that has fixed some strange oddities for some other people as well. This kind of stuff is typically not related to the LaunchBox code, and is more likely due to some kind of corrupted install or corrupted driver (often the .NET Framework). Big Box often pushes systems to their limits, so it's no surprise that weird stuff will come out through Big Box. @tjwoosta What version did you upgrade from? Were you on 7.16 before upgrading to 8.0? You can enable logging by changing the DebugLog line of the Settings.xml file, which may or may not help figure this out. Expand I do believe this is a .NET framework issue however running windows 10 which comes with the framework installed means I cannot re-install them. Its also preventing me from even booting epsxe entirely. Having to use retroarch for ps1 games. My computer thoguh is no slouch being a 4400k and a 980ti with 16gb DDR4. Quote
Jason Carr Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 On 2/16/2018 at 8:21 PM, Vhero said: I do believe this is a .NET framework issue however running windows 10 which comes with the framework installed means I cannot re-install them. Its also preventing me from even booting epsxe entirely. Having to use retroarch for ps1 games. My computer thoguh is no slouch being a 4400k and a 980ti with 16gb DDR4. Expand The latest version of the .NET Framework (4.7.1) does not actually come with the base version of Windows 10, though I believe the updated frameworks do come with the updates to Windows 10, yes. It's messy because at previous times in the past it was or was not (back and forth I think) possible to actually install the latest framework on top of Windows 10 (dumb I know). It's at least worth a shot seeing if you can uninstall/reinstall, or even just trying installing the latest from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56116 Quote
DOS76 Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 I believe there still is a way to reinstall or at least repair .net framework try this tool https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30135 Quote
maycon andrade Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 i'm having the same issue guys... launchbox open just fine but bigbox doesn't... it appears in task manager but with no cpu usage just ram i tryed removing the themes didn't work. Quote
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