LaunchBox 13.19 - Beta Thread

[Drybonz]

I'm noticing that when I launch a game through LaunchBox, the Windows status bar is partly obscured while this is happening.  Not a big deal in itself, but after I close the game and switch to pretty much any other Windows application that has a status bar at the bottom, the status bar is missing.  I can fix this by resetting the Explorer process with the task manager (status bars are visible again), but this repeats each time I launch a game with LB.  My Windows taskbar is not set to auto-hide if that makes any difference.  I'm not sure how recently this started.

[sundogak]

For some reason 13.19 betas breaks @superrob3000 plug-in whereas works find in 13.18:

 

[superrob3000]

2 minutes ago, sundogak said:

For some reason 13.19 betas breaks @superrob3000 plug-in whereas works find in 13.18:

 

It just needs to be updated to .NET 9. I've already done this for ThirdScreen and I'll get around to the others once 13.19 is released.

[Retrofrogg]

Previously the game controller icon would show in the top right of the game details pane. In the latest beta (13.19-beta-3) and maybe previous betas, this no longer shows. Would be great to have this fixed, thanks. Running on Windows 11.

[bundangdon]

@faeran @Jason Carr I've reported this error on bitbucket about a week ago, but with the latest beta, Launchbox is doing a lot of random crashing on me. I'm assuming it's an issue with the theme I'm using (LBPlex 2023), although I've never had any crashes like this before the recent betas were released. Also, there's a weird issue with the star ratings, as they're showing inaccurate/wrong stars on the screen - for example the game has a community rating of 4.3 but there are 2.5 stars there. My somewhat educated guess is that this custom theme was messed up by the recent changes in the latest beta? Hope you guys can help out somehow

[faeran]

On 1/26/2025 at 12:04 PM, Drybonz said:

I'm noticing that when I launch a game through LaunchBox, the Windows status bar is partly obscured while this is happening.  Not a big deal in itself, but after I close the game and switch to pretty much any other Windows application that has a status bar at the bottom, the status bar is missing.  I can fix this by resetting the Explorer process with the task manager (status bars are visible again), but this repeats each time I launch a game with LB.  My Windows taskbar is not set to auto-hide if that makes any difference.  I'm not sure how recently this started.

Did some testing, but not seeing this unfortunately. It could possibly be related to an additional app launching or a specific hardware configuration. Might be worth opening its own troubleshooting thread on it.

16 hours ago, Retrofrogg said:

Previously the game controller icon would show in the top right of the game details pane. In the latest beta (13.19-beta-3) and maybe previous betas, this no longer shows. Would be great to have this fixed, thanks. Running on Windows 11.

Thanks. This is a known issue with the beta and will be fixed before release.

14 hours ago, bundangdon said:

@faeran @Jason Carr I've reported this error on bitbucket about a week ago, but with the latest beta, Launchbox is doing a lot of random crashing on me. I'm assuming it's an issue with the theme I'm using (LBPlex 2023), although I've never had any crashes like this before the recent betas were released. Also, there's a weird issue with the star ratings, as they're showing inaccurate/wrong stars on the screen - for example the game has a community rating of 4.3 but there are 2.5 stars there. My somewhat educated guess is that this custom theme was messed up by the recent changes in the latest beta? Hope you guys can help out somehow

Star rating is a known issue with the beta and will be fixed before release.

It definitely could be an issue with your theme, although the entire crash report is being cut off. Do you have a special version of the theme that's not up on the forums?

[Drybonz]

4 hours ago, faeran said:

Did some testing, but not seeing this unfortunately. It could possibly be related to an additional app launching or a specific hardware configuration. Might be worth opening its own troubleshooting thread on it.

Thanks.  I did open a troubleshooting thread... but in my past experience this is where questions go to die.

[bundangdon]

12 hours ago, faeran said:

Did some testing, but not seeing this unfortunately. It could possibly be related to an additional app launching or a specific hardware configuration. Might be worth opening its own troubleshooting thread on it.

Thanks. This is a known issue with the beta and will be fixed before release.

Star rating is a known issue with the beta and will be fixed before release.

It definitely could be an issue with your theme, although the entire crash report is being cut off. Do you have a special version of the theme that's not up on the forums?

Thanks for the quick reply faeran. This theme is available in the forums and can be found here:

 

Edited 16 hours ago by bundangdon

[jezj]

Updated to 13.19 beta 3 from 13.18 and getting the below error when starting from another machine. Launching on the server works, but via network share fails. Reverting back to 13.18 fixes the problem. Did a clean install on a new network share and the same error appears. Any suggestions?