Strange screensaver behavior (13.24)

[JaredN]

The screensaver systematically skips one game before displaying the next. Always just one game. This behavior is consistent regardless of the selected theme or video format. This is illustrated at the beginning of the attached video and at approximately 30 seconds.

Edited September 30 by JaredN

[AstroBob]

Hi there, 

Thanks for catching this and sharing the video! Looks like this one slipped through with 13.24, but we’ve logged a bug report for the issue and are already working on a fix.

You can follow progress and get updates here:

🔗 Screensaver skips a game during transitions.

Thanks for the report

[JaredN]

23 hours ago, AstroBob said:

Hi there, 

Thanks for catching this and sharing the video! Looks like this one slipped through with 13.24, but we’ve logged a bug report for the issue and are already working on a fix.

You can follow progress and get updates here:

🔗 Screensaver skips a game during transitions.

Thanks for the report

Thanks ! 👍😉

[JaredN]

On 9/30/2025 at 2:28 PM, AstroBob said:

Hi there, 

Thanks for catching this and sharing the video! Looks like this one slipped through with 13.24, but we’ve logged a bug report for the issue and are already working on a fix.

You can follow progress and get updates here:

🔗 Screensaver skips a game during transitions.

Thanks for the report

Hi @AstroBob

Here's another problem I'm having with the screensaver that I didn't notice right away.

It only happens with WMP. (As mentioned in another post, I'm still having random crashes with FFmpeg. The application, BB or LB, closes without any error message.)

I use a playlist as background music (LaunchBox\Music\Background) and I have configured BigBox to give it priority over the sound from videos.

The problem is that when I launch the screensaver, the music stops, BUT the video sound does not take over.

When I exit the screensaver, a new song from my playlist starts playing.

So the screensaver stops the music, but the video sound remains muted.

When I disable the option to prioritize the soundtrack over the video sound, or when I use FFmpeg, the video sound plays normally.

Personally, I would prefer my background music to continue playing, taking priority over the video sound, as I have chosen (I think this was the case in version 13.23), but the worst thing is to have neither music nor video sound...

Thank you again for your answers and all the work you have done!

LaunchBox/BigBox is incredible!

[AstroBob]

Hi there, 

Thanks for the update report there. To close out the screensaver transition bug, this just got released today in 13.25 beta-1.

Regarding the new issue you reported, we're already aware of this and actively working on changing how that works. It's not avaliable just yet, but I'l take not of this post to let you know when there's something you can test.

Thanks so much for reporting these things though! Definately keep them coming if you notice anything else