Launchbox Retroarch and EmuMovies issue

[Friedi1987]

Hi,

 

I'm running Launbox 13.26 on a Win 11 System. Hardware is MSI Claw Model A1M. 

I set up the system with 13.25 I think and a few month ago and I was able to set up most of the stuff until I run into an issue with MegaBezel shader's pack. I checked on my main pc if I made faults but there it worked.

This led me to trying to update shaders in Retroarch with the result of "unable to extract shaders.zip" error, or same error for any online updater stuff from RA.

So I checked for permission issues, but even that seemed to be ok. Always installed LB in c:/launchbox.

Reinstalling Retroarch into a new directroy also didn't help.  In that case c:/launchbox2.

 

Last resort, clean new Win 11 install. Said and done new OS installed and everything else up to date and set up. Installed LB again -> New Problem cannot download Retroarch.......

Next idea install RA from homepage worked, and I got it running. And hell yeah even online updater services worked. 

Buuuut Launchbox won't recognize the manual installation and also won't start associated games.

 

Kind of desperate right now because never experienced any of such behaviour on any of my other systems. (Which mostly had been Win 10 x64 systems)

So not quite sure what to test next...

 

Any ideas? 

 

Thanks in advance

Friedi

[Friedi1987]

Ohhhh and almost forgot. 

EmuMovies Login also not working from within LB

Login on site is perfectly fine.

[Friedi1987]

I think I finally found a solution.

One problem was that the device was connected via WLAN. Don't know if it was a response time issue or something else. At least now the update fuctions from RA work as intended.

Which probably was the problem with LB didn't start games. Because Retroarch was not able to download the appropriate core when importing roms.

Another problem that popped up after this was that most mega bezel shaders didn't work on that device although working on my other pc.

-> Soltion here was on that specific hardware the shaders only work with d3d11 or glcore NOT vulkan... which was my goto video driver. Now going with glcore because d3d11 had some frame glitches.

Emu Movies issue was also fixed by conntecting with LAN directly instead of WLAN.

 

What's still persisting is that LB still can't download RA in this setup, but installing it manually worked because not pointing to the install directory wasn't the problem but the failing of downloading cores as mentioned above.

 

So hope thiss helps if someone encounters same problems.