LaunchBox 13.28 Beta Thread

[christhed]

Like a lot of people have already pointed out, Launchbox is acting pretty weird for me with this beta.

The most frustrating issue I have is that my box images take forever to load in, and disappear as soon as I scroll by. I started the screen recording about 5 minutes after starting up launchbox and as you can see, images are not all showing.

• Windows 11
• AMD Ryzen 7700x
• AMD 7800XT
• 32gb ram
• Launchbox and all media is on a SSD

 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by christhed

[crusadeRGP]

When I open a game manual from the pause screen it stays hidden and does not show in the foreground.

 

Using PauseShift game pause screen

[Retrofrogg]

On 6/15/2026 at 10:10 AM, Retrofrogg said:

I find that the current beta often gets stuck on "loading interface" and won't open Launchbox. This happens intermittenly, maybe one out of 4 times. 

This seems to happen more when you do something else on your PC whilst Launchbox is loading. If you don't do anything else, the problem is less likely to happen. And sometimes it just seems to take a lot longer than usual before starting. 

[JoeViking245]

7 hours ago, crusadeRGP said:

When I open a game manual from the pause screen it stays hidden and does not show in the foreground.

I'm seeing the same thing with the Default Pause Theme.

 

My findings:
The LaunchBox Reader is opening, but the pause screen forces focus back onto itself (with the Reader sitting at the bottom Z).  You can Alt+Tab to the Reader to have it be the 'active' window, but the Pause Menu is still forced on top (top Z order).

With the Reader as the active window, you can Win+Shift+Left (or Right) and move the Reader to a second monitor and use it as normal.

With the Reader being left open (whether sitting on the bottom Z, or just not 'Escaped' to close it), when exiting the game, it stays open when exiting the game.  Maybe that's a "feature".  

[JoeViking245]

On 6/15/2026 at 2:10 AM, Retrofrogg said:

I find that the current beta often gets stuck on "loading interface" and won't open Launchbox. This happens intermittenly, maybe one out of 4 times. 

Though possibly not the same thing, another user had a similar issue.

• Start LaunchBox. No issues
• Exit/restart LaunchBox
  • it gets stuck on Loading Interface
• Restart the PC
• Start LaunchBox. No issues
• Exit/restart LaunchBox
  • it gets stuck on Loading Interface
• wash/rinse/repeat

Turns out (in this situation) their C-drive was near maxed out. Full. In-the-red. Note, their LaunchBox install was on their E-drive.

Freeing up space on the C-drive completely resolved the issue.