huzz456 Wrote:Unfortunately that hasn't helped, still doing the same thing?

I notice though that although it instantly relaunches xbmc into the rom collection browser if I then exit the browser it relaunches xbmc again to go back to main menu, not sure if that info is usefull?

pgjensen Wrote:If sleep settings are enabled in XBMC, it will put the computer to sleep while RCB has an emulator launched. Is there a way to fix the service to disable that while an emulator is launched?

skippy39us Wrote:Alright...I gave it a try - and its still not working.

Here's whats happening:

I edit the rom collection, and I select solo mode.
(I chmod +x the applaunch.sh) script

I go to launch the game.

XBMC goes away, and then seems to come back almost immediately, but this time, there's a black rectangle on portion of the the screen.

I thought that this rectangle was the emulator misbehaving. But i was wrong.

turns out that the black rectangle is ANOTHER instance of XBMC. A ps -ef yields another XBMC running. I kill that process, and I'm returned to the xbmc that was running originally.

Essentially, the first XBMC isn't exiting at all. Is this a common problem?

Why does this happen?

Is there more to running in solo mode than what I've described?

n1md4 Wrote:malte, if I could take a snippet of your time? Can you browse over to this thread of mine:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=153458

and comment if this is possible.

(2013-01-29, 16:20)huzz456 Wrote:

huzz456 Wrote:Im running windows 8 with Frodo RC3 and when I try and launch a game in solo mode it quits xbmc launches the game but also restarts xbmc straight away rather than waiting for the games to be closed. I cant seem to find any mention of anyone else having this problem. I put a timeout 3 in at the top and added "explorer" on the bottom line to fix the Capplication error which worked. I have the rom collection browser service running.

My applaunch.bat looks like this:

Try it with this one:

Code:

timeout 3
REM Is XBMC running?
taskkill /f /IM XBMC.exe
REM sleep
REM Launch app
%*
REM sleep 1
REM Done?
REM Restart XBMC
EXPLORER "%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\XBMC\XBMC.exe"

Unfortunately that hasn't helped, still doing the same thing?

I notice though that although it instantly relaunches xbmc into the rom collection browser if I then exit the browser it relaunches xbmc again to go back to main menu, not sure if that info is usefull?

(2013-01-30, 14:42)malte Wrote:

huzz456 Wrote:Unfortunately that hasn't helped, still doing the same thing?

I notice though that although it instantly relaunches xbmc into the rom collection browser if I then exit the browser it relaunches xbmc again to go back to main menu, not sure if that info is usefull?

Never heard of this. Not sure if there has something changed with executing batch scripts on Windows 8. I have no Windows 8 system here to test this. Maybe if you don't find another solution an autoit script could help to get around this issue. Although I don't know if autoit works on Windows 8.

pgjensen Wrote:If sleep settings are enabled in XBMC, it will put the computer to sleep while RCB has an emulator launched. Is there a way to fix the service to disable that while an emulator is launched?

No idea. Would have to check this. But I guess this won't be a prio 1 issue to look after, sorry.

skippy39us Wrote:Alright...I gave it a try - and its still not working.

Here's whats happening:

I edit the rom collection, and I select solo mode.
(I chmod +x the applaunch.sh) script

I go to launch the game.

XBMC goes away, and then seems to come back almost immediately, but this time, there's a black rectangle on portion of the the screen.

I thought that this rectangle was the emulator misbehaving. But i was wrong.

turns out that the black rectangle is ANOTHER instance of XBMC. A ps -ef yields another XBMC running. I kill that process, and I'm returned to the xbmc that was running originally.

Essentially, the first XBMC isn't exiting at all. Is this a common problem?

Why does this happen?

Is there more to running in solo mode than what I've described?

Strange. I never heard of this and the steps you made for solo mode seem to be complete. Can you try to launch XBMC from a command window and test this again? Maybe you see some error messages writeen to the command window while trying.

n1md4 Wrote:malte, if I could take a snippet of your time? Can you browse over to this thread of mine:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=153458

and comment if this is possible.

It will be possible with future releases of RCB. Atm RCB does not store these information in its database, so I can't provide them with the widget. But this will be done with a "major" database redesign, so it won't happen too soon.

wagnumpi Wrote:Hi, im having exactly the same problem but actually running on Windows 7. I just replaced the code in the applaunch.bat file (users/rob/appdata/roaming/XBMC/addons/script.games.rom.collection.browser) with the above and hasnt helped either unfortunately. Really want to use Rom collection browser but having to revert back to advanced launcher due to this issue which is a real shame. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

skippy39us Wrote:However, I have another issue. The problem has to do with performance of the emulators in question - ONLY WHEN RUN IN SOLO MODE. It turns out that If I run mess (in this example) and I feed it a sega genesis rom (for example), performance starts out ok, but then degrades after a few minutes. Sure enough mess is using 100% of the CPU by this point. Once I kill it, xbmc starts back up again, and CPU performance goes down to normal.

The problem is, this ONLY happens when I've launched the emulator, FROM SOLO MODE, from within RCB. Lets say that I kill xbmc. So now the only thing running, really, is the window manager (fluxbox.) If I launch the emulator the SAME WAY that RCB runs it, but _without_ RCB/XBMC in the way, performance is fantastic on the emulator.

So I know its not that my machine can't run the emulator. It only happens when I launch it with RCB in SOLO mode.

What could the difference be?

st graveyard Wrote:Let's talk libretro and RCB.

What is currently possible?

st graveyard Wrote:What are you interested in?

st graveyard Wrote:Is it possible to release a version of RCB that won't need emulators (like in your youtube movie)?

MachoRico Wrote:it looks like i have the same problem as skippy39us, huzz and some others. When i launch a game the game starts and after a few seconds the game disappear and the xbmc pompt up. I tried to install the rcb on the laptop and there it works fine. Could it be somethinf with drivers?? because i did the same installation on my laptop as on my q900 media center.

(2013-01-31, 19:06)malte Wrote: [quote=wagnumpi]
Hi, im having exactly the same problem but actually running on Windows 7. I just replaced the code in the applaunch.bat file (users/rob/appdata/roaming/XBMC/addons/script.games.rom.collection.browser) with the above and hasnt helped either unfortunately. Really want to use Rom collection browser but having to revert back to advanced launcher due to this issue which is a real shame. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated