atomicknight Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 I have, and had, Launchbox 10.1, updated since 7.0 and registered. It worked fine in the first installed OS of Windows 7. Since Microsoft will be eliminating Win7 in 2020, I thought I'd upgrade to 8.1. After upgrade, and reinstalling Launchbox, (since apps in 7 would not automatically upgrade to the 8.1 environment), the "Launchbox is initializing..." errors out after a few minutes. It gives no error details other than it has stopped working and it will close. After searching the forums and trying all the suggestions, it still will not initialize and simply errors out. (things tried) -uninstall Launchbox, delete any remaining remnants, reinstalling 10.1 from fresh downloaded file -fresh installing previous (9.10) version - Allowing install of launchbox in the default locations recommended by installation. - Deleting CefSharp Folder -fresh installs from microsoft downloads of Net Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.7 -fresh installs from microsoft downloads of Visual C++ 2015. Also uninstalled and tried again. -Turned off all UAC -No instance of Riva Tuner or MSI Afterburner running or installed. - No virus scanners or acceleration software running -All drivers updated. Windows, Nvidia, etc. -all emulators working outside of Launchbox (not that I can even start Launchbox to configure anything right now...) -Reinstalling windows 8.1 -Tried compatibility modes and Admin permissions -Tried box regular Launchbox and BigBox start up (BigBox doesn't even initialize, or even error out. It just doesn't activate anything) - 16 GB ram and dual core proccessor with over 290GB storage free. ...Is there anything else i'm missing and that could be suggested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicknight Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 Current situation: Same issues even after version 10.5 Has anyone else had this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 I think LB now uses .net 4.8 I didn't see that mentioned in what you installed for .Net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 LaunchBox does use .NET 4.8, so that could be the issue here. You'll definitely need to make sure that 4.8 is installed properly in order to use the latest versions. That said, version 9.10 still uses .NET 4.7.2, so if 9.10 doesn't work, then that's probably not the issue. It could be that somehow Windows got corrupted during the update. I would make sure that all Windows updates are installed. It might be worth trying to install a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 (or better yet Windows 10), if that is a possibility. I honestly have not done any testing on 8.1 in a very long time, as very few people are running it, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicknight Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 I'll give installing .NET 4.8 a go, and if I've any success, I'll report back here, in case anyone else has this specific issue. Thanks for the input Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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