Big Box - Crashing while in attract mode

[vrocco]

Any progress on this issue. I found this thread as I am new to BigBox and have noticed after being in attract mode, the videos first start to lag behind (I.e. The video won’t match the game selected or the graphics on the screen) and then eventually just freezes altogether. I must then restart BigBox.
 

Running the latest version with the CoinOps Redux theme. Tried all suggestions (no flv videos, using VLC, image quality medium, no transitions) to make it run better but nothing seems to help. 

I love the ease of the program. After transitioning from HyperSpin, I was set up and running in no time. Bought the lifetime subscription to support development. I really hope I don’t need to find a new front end again. Thanks in advance. 

[arcademode]

On 11/15/2024 at 7:49 PM, vrocco said:

Any progress on this issue. I found this thread as I am new to BigBox and have noticed after being in attract mode, the videos first start to lag behind (I.e. The video won’t match the game selected or the graphics on the screen) and then eventually just freezes altogether. I must then restart BigBox.
 

Running the latest version with the CoinOps Redux theme. Tried all suggestions (no flv videos, using VLC, image quality medium, no transitions) to make it run better but nothing seems to help. 

I love the ease of the program. After transitioning from HyperSpin, I was set up and running in no time. Bought the lifetime subscription to support development. I really hope I don’t need to find a new front end again. Thanks in advance. 

Just emailed back and forth a bit with Brian again, my crash has returned - kind of?  I updated to the newest version, then experienced the Attract crash, then reverted to my last stable install but the crash remains. The weird thing is I have an older PC upstairs and when I put my BB drive in there it will still run for days.  So there's some hardware conflict of some kind happening somewhere.  For now I'm just leaving attract off when I want to run it for long periods.  Sucks that you don't get the attract mode but it's much better than having no front end active when you want to walk up and play. 

[QuincyR]

Hi Everyone, I recently purchased the lifetime Big Box license and started migrating my library over from CoinOps & Hyper spin. I started with by only downloading videos from Emu movies and I've also run into the attract mode crash a number of times. Sometimes it takes hours, sometimes it takes minutes. I'm using the latest version of Launchbox/BigBox and there are no FLV videos, only Mp4 in my collection. I'm partly thinking it might be audio related and not a video specific problem, probably switching between 5.1 and 2.1 stereo videos is causing a problem.

I'm hoping to try this out a bit more and see if there is a connection, but it would be great to find this issue so I can use the shell feature.

[QuincyR]

I have another thought, could this be caused by the resuming of videos during Attract mode? I just noticed that the videos don't start from the beginning each time the same game comes up ( which i actually like btw). However, I'm willing to bet the crash occurs when the video has played though fully, and needs to start over, or on the second attempt to start the video from the beginning.

Edited April 7 by QuincyR

[QuincyR]

This is getting frustrating. for whatever reason, its crashing more frequently after importing about 8000 games. Big box has crashed 7 times today. I don't think its been running for more than 1.5 hours, The fastest was 15 minutes after I started it while exiting a menu category. So I don't think the issue is possibly connected to attract mode, it may be something else as it has occurred when I was simply navigating myself/ I'm really disappointed, I can't import my game library with this stability issue. 

Edited April 7 by QuincyR