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13.10 breaks Windows 7 support?


Aeravon

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Long time user and forever license holder.

I run a Windows 7 machine for my arcade and have for a few years. 13.9 was working fine, and the 13.10 update for launchbox came out. Updated like usual and now I'm perpetually getting crashes attempting to launch with the following:
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(Inner Exception)

A procedure imported by 'D:\LaunchBox\ThirdParty\Chromium\CefSharp.Core.Runtime.dll' could not be loaded.

App:     
Version: 13.10
Theme:   NOT SET
Type:    System.IO.FileLoadException
Site:    Void LoadFromPath(IntPtr, System.String, System.String, System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ObjectHandleOnStack)
Source:  System.Private.CoreLib

   at System.Runtime.Loader.AssemblyLoadContext.LoadFromPath(IntPtr ptrNativeAssemblyLoadContext, String ilPath, String niPath, ObjectHandleOnStack retAssembly)
   at System.Runtime.Loader.AssemblyLoadContext.LoadFromAssemblyPath(String assemblyPath)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(String path)
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.Program.<>c.LoginSessionObject(Object )
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.Program.<>c.ManageInvalidReader(Object sender, ResolveEventArgs e)
   at System.Runtime.Loader.AssemblyLoadContext.InvokeResolveEvent(ResolveEventHandler eventHandler, RuntimeAssembly assembly, String name)
   at System.Runtime.Loader.AssemblyLoadContext.OnAssemblyResolve(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String assemblyFullName)


(Outer Exception)

A procedure imported by 'CefSharp.Core.Runtime, Version=117.2.40.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=40c4b6fc221f4138' could not be loaded.

App:     
Version: 13.10
Theme:   NOT SET
Type:    System.IO.FileLoadException
Site:    Void .ctor()
Source:  CefSharp.Core

   at CefSharp.CefSettingsBase..ctor()
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.App..ctor()
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.Program.Main(String[] args)

Recent Log:

   4:37:55 PM Exception
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I had a restore point to 13.5 which I did, and launchbox ran fine again and other than losing any changes I made since then, was okay. But then I tried to update to 13.10 again and returned to same error on launch and can no longer use the product. The machine isn't Windows 11 capable, and I don't have a spare license of 10 to use so please don't tell me to update my OS. Either the product works on the OS or it doesn't now; so what internal component of Launchbox is trying to leverage aspects of chromium that don't exist in Windows 7 and disqualify it? Is this a bug? Is this a graduation of the product to no longer support Windows 7 and 8? But that we didn't get warned? Installing Chrome as a separate product doesn't help.

TL:DR
Windows 7, 13.9 and all previous versions ran great, 13.10 broke it.

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I found the other thread about this just now.... I really, really hate that 13.10 made no OS check or warning about it no longer supporting Win7 or 8 and blasted a bunch of people. This is a pretty big mistake in communication.

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  • 1 month later...
29 minutes ago, Oscar18T said:

Hello everyone.

 

This issue have a fix????

 

 

Fix for what exactly? That error is due to the fact LB is no longer supported Win 7 or 8. Last workable version of LB on those two older OS is 13.9. If you are using Win 7 or 8 you need to reinstall 13.9 or older or update Windows to be able to use more current versions of LB. 

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Always makes me laugh, seems to be absolutely essential that the user be on the latest version of Launchbox, but at the same time is using a OS that came out 15 years ago and is completely unsupported at this point, why one standard for one bit of software and a different standard for the other? Nobody should be using these old operating systems at this point, they are a security issue as they are end of life and no longer updated to stop current day threats.

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On January 14, 2020, Windows 7 support ended with Microsoft no longer providing security updates or fixes after that date, except for subscribers of the Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU), who were able to receive Windows 7 security updates through January 10, 2023.

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Mainstream support for the Embedded Standard edition of Windows 8 ended on July 10, 2018, and extended support ended on July 11, 2023.

 

Edited by neil9000
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I am having the same error after it auto updated last night. I tried to install an older version of LB but still getting that error. I hope I can recover by possibly performing windows recovery from one of the stable working state.

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On 3/10/2024 at 10:17 AM, neil9000 said:

why one standard for one bit of software and a different standard for the other?

 

Windows 10 runs terribly on old hardware. Meanwhile, Launchbox and DOSBox run great in Win7 on the same hardware.

I myself have a laptop from 2004 that has no performance issues under Windows 7. If I try to put 10 on it, the CPU usage is at a near-constant 100%. Why would I want to upgrade the entire operating system for a software update?

Newer versions of software don't necessarily take up more resources. Newer versions of an OS absolutely do.

And why would security updates matter on a machine dedicated entirely to running emulated games?

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I know this is an old thread, but I directly asked LaunchBox support on how to resolve the issue:

Windows 7 users should (re)install LaunchBox 13.8 (last WORKING version on Win 7...as it seems). It worked for me!

Here's a link to LB 13.8 if you ever need it:

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