LaunchBox 13.28 Beta Thread

[JaredN]

30 minutes ago, Drybonz said:

I think he means it's a problem most people aren't having.

Thank you @Drybonz!
English isn't my native language, so I sometimes miss certain nuances. 😅😉

[izzishor]

I'm blown away by this level of support and new features pumping out 🙏🏻

Still have the B button bug where game loses focus, with SJ@X controller boards made into XBOX360 controllers via XOUTPUT, but goes away if we turn off STARTUP SCREENS for games in BigBox.

Otherwise it's the smoothest is ever been, I'm running 3 monitors all 3 play videos, and videos are very smooth, and loading fast, same as clear logo wheel, new cache system made it snappier.

Edited yesterday at 05:47 PM by izzishor

[Jabb3rJaw]

Still same as previous beta for videos not showing. Start up video works fine but nothing else. Using intel i7-12700k, 32 gb of ram, and GeForce 3080. 

 

 

Debug 2026-07-09 08-44-14 PM.log

[Jabb3rJaw]

If I try to roll back to 13.27 I get an error courier to load LaunchboxReader\av_libglesv2.dll. Bad IL format.  

[JoeViking245]

10 minutes ago, Jabb3rJaw said:

If I try to roll back to 13.27 I get an error courier to load LaunchboxReader\av_libglesv2.dll. Bad IL format.  

If rolling back to v13.27, with LaunchBox not running, delete the \LaunchBox\Plugins\LaunchBox Reader\ folder. Start LaunchBox.

[skizzosjt]

  All these issues previously highlighted still exist in beta 4. Only one so far acknowledged and being addressed I have seen is the B button getting pressed twice wrongly returns focus to Big Box. So, really would appreciate a response from someone from dev team on when/if the rest of the issues are going to be addressed

-LaunchBox does not open in a regular fashion. This is wholly unacceptable, requires me to force close and retry opening it on avg half a dozen times to get the program to even load. This isn't even beta related, it has been going on for many prior versions. It's getting exponentially worse in these betas though!

-Big Box animations get triggered when exiting games when they should not be

On 7/2/2026 at 6:41 PM, skizzosjt said:

gave another quick bit of testing tonight to see if I could create the returning to Big Box focus issue when using a controller using same triggers that others mentioned. so it is very close for me but not exactly the same as mentioned by izzishor and rlad. I can simply press B twice and it occurs on the 2nd press! 

I am using Startup/Shutdown screens and I am using VLC media engine.....let's see if same thing happens with the other two....yup....doesn't matter what media engine the user selects. Big Box is stealing focus from the game window which makes the Startup Screen window close at the same time. Note I don't actually ever get to see the Shutdown window when this issue occurs

"ONLY" took four attempts to get LB to launch and NOT get stuck on "Loading interface" tonight....that's still three too many! But at least I could do some testing without spending 30+ mins just trying to launch the frontend. However when I tried to get back to LB for a 2nd time tonight it took 5 attempts to get it to load. this is total facepalm kinda territory, the program is really unusable like this! needing to force close it and try again so often is not a good experience. 

So with that said I can confirm there are still animations that are getting triggered that should not be when exiting a game and returning to Big Box in a normal fashion. ie exiting the game as intended and having the Shutdown Screen come up and return to Big Box. I have stuff like box images, cart images, disc images and the short animate (change position) that should only happen upon entering the view, but now they occur again. yet several other animations do not trigger

Please note the extra animations that are occurring. The obvious ones are the box and cart image are doing their animation when they should not be.....but there is one harder to see. For games that have a 5 star rating I have given some elements animations where they change color. My idea here was I wanted 5 star games to have the stars "flash" so they are supposed to turn white before fading back to gold/yellow. That animation is wrongly happening when returning to Big Box as well!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 7/5/2026 at 5:34 PM, skizzosjt said:

On 7/2/2026 at 9:38 AM, skizzosjt said:

So I farted around with LB a bit and the scrolling does seem smoother. But then there is a worse part, badges are taking longer to load. The box images are loading fine. But all badge images "pop in" after the fact, especially when scrolling quickly. 

I realized now that badge images are not disappearing when scrolling if you use the mouse scroll wheel. the badges images only disappear when scrolling if I use the scroll bar and then they pop back in momentarily after you stop scrolling. 

Is this issue going to be addressed at all?

 

 

 

[faeran]

2 hours ago, skizzosjt said:

Is this issue going to be addressed at all?

This one is actually by design. The new fast grid prioritizes scrolling, and badges are a huge cause of the performance issues when scrolling, so to prioritize a smoother experience, badges temporarily clear while grabbing the scrollbar and dragging past a specific threshold, then they instantly appear when you stop scrolling. it does not happen when scrolling with a mouse wheel. This will only happen when a theme uses the new fast image grid, which the default theme is currently the only one that utilizes it.

2 hours ago, skizzosjt said:

-Big Box animations get triggered when exiting games when they should not be

Which themes is this happening with? Animations can be triggered in many ways in a custom theme, so it's not as simple as "turn off all animations when returning to Big Box", and it's more "make that theme's animation triggers more robust so it doesn't trigger an animation when returning to Big Box". Basically not all animation triggers in all themes are made equally, and you may notice if you look closely that all animations are not being triggered when exiting a game, only ones that use a specific trigger, or have a particular storyboard/workflow. I may look at shoring up some of that so it's less likely that theme devs can make a mistake there, but it may have unintended side-effects, so I'll tread lightly there and see what I can come up with.

2 hours ago, skizzosjt said:

-LaunchBox does not open in a regular fashion. This is wholly unacceptable, requires me to force close and retry opening it on avg half a dozen times to get the program to even load. This isn't even beta related, it has been going on for many prior versions. It's getting exponentially worse in these betas though!

This one sounds like a build specific issue more than a global specific issue, in that for the most part this is not happening for users and is more of an edge case. When this does happen to you, provide logs that get generated, LaunchBox logs and windows event logs, and we'll see if there's anything more we can do.