soloredis420 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 (edited) Can anyone help me figure out why my launchbox won't update? I own licensed copy. I understand that it updates for some people and telling me it works for you without offering advice does not help. Also Rockstar games break launchbox, and do not work with controller commands. - What happens, launchbox asks me if I would like to update, it closes its self out and nothing happens. Rockstar just interrupts Fullscreen sessions and have to physically close it out each time. Edited June 28, 2022 by soloredis420 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Define "won't update". Do you get an error while the installer is running? Is the installer running then opening to the wrong version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Also how do you have updates set to run? Do you have the option for "Automatically Download Updates in the Background" on? I have seen that option on some of my cabinets be quirky. So I turned it off and never had update issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soloredis420 Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) On 6/27/2022 at 8:20 PM, Retro808 said: Also how do you have updates set to run? Do you have the option for "Automatically Download Updates in the Background" on? I have seen that option on some of my cabinets be quirky. So I turned it off and never had update issues. I have the option set "Automatically download updates in the background" basically what happens is when I launch launchbox it tells me a new update is available. Then asks me if I would like to install, if I click yes it closes out of launchbox and does nothing. I will turn the auto update off and see how it goes manually on the next update. - PS I do not get any errors just nothing happens when I click install. - Thank you for your advice Edited June 30, 2022 by soloredis420 Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soloredis420 Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 On 6/27/2022 at 8:12 PM, C-Beats said: Define "won't update". Do you get an error while the installer is running? Is the installer running then opening to the wrong version? I launch launchbox, it tells me a new update is available and asks me if I would like to install, then if I click yes it closes out of launchbox, and nothing happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 30 minutes ago, soloredis420 said: I have the option set "Automatically download updates in the background" basically what happens is when I launch launchbox it tells me a new update is available. Then asks me if I would like to install, if I click yes it closes out of launchbox and does nothing. I will turn the auto update off and see how it goes manually on the next update. - PS I do not get any errors just nothing happens when I click install. - Thank you for your advice Just uncheck the box for background updates and see how it goes from there. Like I mentioned I have had mixed issues with that on. Since turning it off I have never had an update issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Close LaunchBox. Then navigate to your \\LaunchBox\Updates folder and find the installer in there. Then manually run the installer over your install (make sure you don't create a \\LaunchBox\LaunchBox directory when doing so) and you should be good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soloredis420 Posted July 1, 2022 Author Share Posted July 1, 2022 14 hours ago, C-Beats said: Close LaunchBox. Then navigate to your \\LaunchBox\Updates folder and find the installer in there. Then manually run the installer over your install (make sure you don't create a \\LaunchBox\LaunchBox directory when doing so) and you should be good to go. I've tried this before, tried running it out of the update folder as administrator and nothing happens. I do have windows 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 Never run an app as administrator that doesn't specifically tell you it needs it (and really wouldn't bother with apps that do). It will break things for many apps. In LaunchBox it breaks all relative pathing logic which is used heavily to load emulators and games. Also ensure when running the installer you are pointing to your \\LaunchBox folder and not \\LaunchBox\LaunchBox. When running the installer it should open the app up after. You can check the version in the about page. I find it pretty hard to imagine after running the installer that the app opens as a different version than the installer is for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiler1500 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 I think the latest update is broken, my LB no longer works since the latest update . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 The update itself is not broken but obviously there is an issue for you. If the update was broken we would have a lot of complaints about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiler1500 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) I just tried a fresh install and that loaded fine, but yeah it just simply doesnt even load in my current collection, something has gone wrong with the update and its stoping at least 3 users in the forum from using LB. Not sure what it is though as it doesnt even crash or load at all. Even just copied the exe files from the an installation from the other directory and it doesnt work. I do have a very very big collection though, 180k games. So Im guessing its something to do with the databases and XML files. Edited July 4, 2022 by kiler1500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiler1500 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 I fixed mine by grabbing an old version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 6 hours ago, kiler1500 said: something has gone wrong with the update and its stoping at least 3 users in the forum from using LB. Like I said, something is going on with your setup and a couple of other people, I am not disputing that. But making a blanket statement such as "the update is broken" or similar is just incorrect. The update works perfectly for countless people so the issue is most likely a users system configuration causing some weird issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Regardless, let's see if we can figure out the issue @kiler1500. Do you happen to have any logs available in your LaunchBox\Logs folder (that will depend on whether you had debug logs turned on). Since a fresh install works properly, most likely it's a data issue. Can you zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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