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chrismaltby / gb-studio

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system
https://www.gbstudio.dev
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GB Studio Doesn't Work On Windows 11 #803

Open CutePuppyPAW opened 2 years ago

CutePuppyPAW commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug Taskbar Icons Disappear, and Windows Button Doesn't Work

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Get Windows 11 (Windows Insider Program)
  2. Download newest version of GB Studio (Top one)
  3. Sometimes* when you restart your PC the taskbar will have no icons and the windows button will not work.
  4. And now you just gotta delete GB Studio & Hope that it will fix itself

Screenshots didn't work for me when this happened. But I recreated it! yes look

Platform (please complete the following information): -Newest Version of Windows 11

RichardULZ commented 2 years ago

Are you sure this isn't an issue with windows 11? A randomly disappearing taskbar doesn't seem like an app fault, may be other users with this outside of gbstudio.

Gbstudio is built on electron, which is built on chromium. Depending on the version being used (1.2.1, 1.2.2, 2.0b4, 2.0b5, 3.0alpha from source) will include a different version of electron/chrome, with os specific updates. We need the gbstudio version in the bug report.

In this case, your pc components like, how much ram you have, disc/ free disc space remaining, or whether your cpu is fully supported by win11, might point towards an answer.

My general idea would be storage or ram are at their limit when gbstudio is open/installed, or how windows 11 handles taskbar previews.

The taskbar used to be a function of explorer.exe, so you should be able to open task manager (ctrl+alt+del, or ctrl+shift+esc) kill explorer.exe process, and then use run (win + r, or from task manager) to type explorer.exe and fix it.

amenefus commented 2 years ago

Seems like this is not related to GBStudio. there are lots of complains about it, see thread on reddit as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/comments/opxu05/windows_11_taskbar_not_working/

pblca commented 2 years ago

Confirmed issue was with Windows 11 developer preview, unrelated to GB studio Recommend closing @chrismaltby