Jass_167 Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 my pause screen works for all emulators but pcsx2 and duckstation. it will pause if i use my keyboard but not if i use controller. does any know whats going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 18 hours ago, Jass_167 said: my pause screen works for all emulators but pcsx2 and duckstation. it will pause if i use my keyboard but not if i use controller. does any know whats going on? I can share they work OK in my setup. If you're not already, try using "Forceful Pause Screen Activation (enable this if the pause screen is not showing)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 19, 2023 Author Share Posted July 19, 2023 i have these checked and still nothing. im not sure what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 does it pause the game still, but just doesn't display the Pause Screen? or is it like you did absolutely nothing when you try to activate the Pause Screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 19, 2023 Author Share Posted July 19, 2023 so if i use my keyboard it does pause the game and show pause screen menu but i cannot access the same function with my controller. The same controller can access the pause screen menu on other emulators. Just not pcsx2 or duckstation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 sorry but that doesn't answer my question. to clarify, when using the controller to activate the pause screen, does it pause the game or does it act like you didn't even push any buttons and the game keeps running? there is a difference between the Pause Screen not displaying and it not working as in not pausing the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 19, 2023 Author Share Posted July 19, 2023 it acts like i didnt even push any buttons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 1 minute ago, Jass_167 said: it acts like i didnt even push any buttons bummer! I was hoping it was the other half since I know how to resolve that. but if it doesn't work at all for them I'm not sure. If it were me I would try making a separate install of one of the emulators and a separate instance of it in your emulator list with everything default other than enabling the Pause Screen checkboxes, then see what happens. We are ruling out the emulator since it would be using default settings. If that doesn't work, ok....it's likely not the emulator's settings fault this is occurring. Maybe some setting in LB. So make a separate install of LB import a game to test and setup the EXISTING (original) emulator in your emulator list and see what happens. If it works then it would have been a LB/BB setting. If it doesn't work, try the 2nd install of the emulator being used for troubleshooting. If still doesn't work.....🤷♂️ Could be any number of things. Maybe what fullscreen mode is being used. Maybe try selecting different options there like between exclusive fullscreen and borderless and windowed etc. I'm not sure if duplicate hotkeys across the frontend and emulator can get things confused. Such as if the button(s) used to activate the Pause Screen also do some hotkey function within the emulator and the emulator's hotkey is take precedence over the frontend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 19, 2023 Author Share Posted July 19, 2023 i will try this. do you have any command lines for pcsx2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 22 hours ago, Jass_167 said: i will try this. do you have any command lines for pcsx2? I do, note this is PCSX2 1.7.X syntax meaning just a single hyphen before each parameter -fullscreen -nogui if you are on 1.6.X then it still uses two like this --fullscreen --nogui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 20, 2023 Author Share Posted July 20, 2023 I will try it and see if it helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 okay so nothing worked in terms of changing command lines but i did notice that when i went from using 1.7 to 1.6 it worked. could me updating my emulators break the pause menu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 10 hours ago, Jass_167 said: okay so nothing worked in terms of changing command lines but i did notice that when i went from using 1.7 to 1.6 it worked. could me updating my emulators break the pause menu? Yes, sometimes emulator devs update things and LB features no longer work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 Is there a way I can go back to a older version of launchbox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 10 hours ago, Jass_167 said: okay so nothing worked in terms of changing command lines but i did notice that when i went from using 1.7 to 1.6 it worked. could me updating my emulators break the pause menu? could happen as Retro808 pointed out, but for what it's worth, Pause Screens work OK for me whether using 1.7.X (one of the recent nightly builds in the last say two months is what I use) or the 1.6 stable version. in my case it is possible to use Pause Screens with both Duckstation and PCSX2 and even on different versions. I have both in my setup due to I got a single game that requires v1.6 to run properly and the rest use 1.7.X so I'd still like to think you got something funny going on, but I'm not sure where to go next if you have problems even with fresh setups of stuff. you could perhaps create a button combo or use an unused button on the controller that sends the keyboard key to activate the Pause Screen? you would need to use some 3rd party remapper to do that. doesn't solve the root issue, but would accomplish the goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 are you on the latest update of launchbox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Jass_167 said: Is there a way I can go back to a older version of launchbox? You can just look in your Launchbox \Updates folder. Older versions you have installed are there. You can run any installer over your existing build. However, go to an older version of LB would have no affect as Pause features have not been worked in in quite a while. So an older version of LB, as it relates to Pause themes, is the same coding as the latest versions. Like skizzosjt I have no issue on latest versions of either emulator. Just updated both those and tested and Pause works fine. This is with current LB build and beta. Again this would not really matter since Pause features have not been changed in many versions. Have you tried different controller? Is your issue in LB, BB, or both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 both, redream, citra, duckstation, xemu and pcsx2 1.7 are not loading up pause screen with my controller but loads it up with keyboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 What controller are you using? If it is a model that allows to be used xinput or dinput what mode are you using? Also is the issue in LB, BB, or both? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jass_167 Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 okay after switching from the 8bitdo pro 2 controller to the xbox one s controller i realize its the controller. i dont understand why it would be the controller it was working before 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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