BezelLauncher

[Headrush69]

8 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

In the emulator settings (in LaunchBox) under Startup Screen, can you check the box Hide Mouse Cursor During Game and have that do anything?  

OMG, can't believe I forgot to double check that. 🤦‍♂️ Working now.

8 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Seems odd that nomousy is not keeping it hidden. 

Yes it is. I double checked and yes using nomousy, the cursor appears when you aim over the bezels.

All good though as working OK with LB's hide mouse. Thanks for the reminder.

[ninjalo]

Hello. Long time lurker, don't post much as I generally find the answers to my questions by searching the forums, shocking, I know lol. But I do have one question. Your plugin is a godsend. I've been trying to get out from under RocketLauncher for a while now, but have been stuck with it due to needing/wanting bezels for certain systems. Every system I've tested with your plugin works great. Anyhow, my question is this, is there anyway to add support for pcsx2-qtx64-avx2.exe? I use that executable specifically because I'm running a Ryzen 7 5700X3D and I get better performance with it on the few games I run in software mode than with the standard pcsx2-qt.exe. When I set pcsx2-qtx64-avx2.exe as the default emulator, I can set up the bezel. but it doesn't show up, it works only if I use the standard pcsx2-qt.exe. I know it's kind of a niche/one off thing, as I'm sure most people are fine with the standard executable. If not, thank you for your plugin anyway, as I'm just a couple of systems away from being able to do away with RocketLauncher altogether.

[JoeViking245]

46 minutes ago, ninjalo said:

don't post much as I generally find the answers to my questions by searching the forums

Refreshing to hear.   Thank you!

46 minutes ago, ninjalo said:

is there anyway to add support for pcsx2-qtx64-avx2.exe?

It should work fine.  Admittedly though, I've never the avx2 variant.  My shoot-from-the-hip guess is that it's running Exclusive fullscreen.  vs. just fullscreen or borderless fullscreen.

 

46 minutes ago, ninjalo said:

thank you for your plugin anyway, as I'm just a couple of systems away from being able to do away with RocketLauncher altogether.

You're quite welcome.  Glad it's helping you work towards your goal. 

[ninjalo]

30 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

It should work fine.  Admittedly though, I've never the avx2 variant.  My shoot-from-the-hip guess is that it's running Exclusive fullscreen.  vs. just fullscreen or borderless fullscreen.

 

 

Definitely not in Exclusive fullscreen, just borderless fullscreen, although for some reason I can't seem to change that. I'm attaching a couple of  screenshots so that you can see what I mean. The first is when using the AVX2 executable, it's like the bezel is there, but not showing, hence the black bars on the sides. But, in the second screen shot you can see that when I use the standard executable, the bezel shows perfectly. I'm using the commandline arguments -batch -nogui so that it doesn't show the toolbar at the top. Sorry for the large images, but they are screencaps of my 1080p screen. I'm wondering if part of it is how Launchbox is handling launching the game. When I use the AVX2 executable, I have to login to RetroAchievements, but when using the standard executable, I'm signed in just fine. Thanks for looking.

Edited Thursday at 09:27 PM by ninjalo

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, ninjalo said:

Definitely not in Exclusive fullscreen, just borderless fullscreen, although for some reason I can't seem to change that.

You can't change that because you have the Graphics API set to Auto.     And that's fine. 

So I turned BezelLauncher back on to test this and was experiencing the exact same thing as you (but with plain QT).  I tried a bunch of different settings and things in the Graphics settings menu (in PCSX2) and couldn't fix it.

I then looked in the Interface menu section and un-checked Game Display - Start Fullscreen.  After finding that it now works, I reverted all the changes I made under Graphics, and it still worked. 😊  One other thing I also noticed was it could get rid of (hide) the top menu bar.  So what I did was, in BezelLauncher Setup - Test, set the Top of the emulator window to y=-20 (20 pixels above the top of the screen).  Then stretched the bottom to the bottom of the screen.

 

 

tldr:  Verify you don't have anything telling it to go fullscreen.  Either in the command line parameters or in the emulator itself.

[ninjalo]

Thank you for your reply. Sorry for the late response, I get up at 3am for work, so I had to go to bed. I've double and triple checked, I don't have anything fullscreen checked, and no fullscreen commandline arguments. The only commandline arguments I use are -nogui -batch. Also, I'm using the Vulkan API since I run a RX6650 XT, I've noticed a lot of the games I play for PS2 run better on Vulkan, probably because I'm using an AMD card. I tried your suggestions and it still isn't working for me. But it's fine, I'm guessing there must have been some decent updates to the regular executable lately, as the games I ran in software mode are running just fine with it now, so I guess I don't really need the AVX2 executable. Just to put this to bed, I'll attach a couple of images of my settings so you can see for yourself. Also, thank you again for this plugin, I've officially, completely migrated away from RocketLauncher now. I put so much work into it I can't bring myself to delete the folder just yet lol. Maybe I'll back it up somewhere, just incase.

[JoeViking245]

15 minutes ago, ninjalo said:

Sorry for the late response

No worries at all.  It's just a hobby and we get to play when we get to play.  

16 minutes ago, ninjalo said:

[...] so I guess I don't really need the AVX2 executable

Sweet!  Now I don't have to download it and test.    And apologies for the assumptions and accusations.  Settings I have are not necessarily settings you have. 😊 (thought it seemed too easy. lol)

 

17 minutes ago, ninjalo said:

Also, thank you again for this plugin, I've officially, completely migrated away from RocketLauncher now.

You're welcome and CONGRATULATIONS!!!  🎉