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User0098 said:
Say, do you have an estimate for how far along the C rewrite is? I started to use Playnite recently, before I found this project but the extension stopped working for me. I'm trying to figure out if I should wait with my library sorting until the C rewrite comes along so that I can note down the version I have installed or try to fix playnite and continue using that.
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i have the database stuff and gui backend done, aswell as most third party libraries and data types figured out. now im starting to actually implement the gui. then there's the refreshing to do, a bunch of smaller details to sort out, and making it work on windows and mac. still months away. if in the end you want to use f95checker, i would switch to the python version now and either let the installed/played versions sort out over time by using the checkboxes or fix the ones that are incorrect by editing the db with sqlite3 db browser. that work would not be lost, the db is fully compatible with the c version, i am using my current one while developing the c rewrite.
 
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small progress update, turns out once theres a solid foundation the rewrite starts to go smoothly; still very far from ready, but it's starting to take shape. i have tabs fully working, currently implementing list view and all the widgets and sorting that go with it, as mentioned before database, data structures and gui backend are all done, havent yet thought about the web requests for refreshing and so on but i have libcurl and more libraries i'll need already setup. i'd say i'm maybe 1/3 of the way to a minimum viable product that can start testing.

sidenote, i switched to sdl3 + sdlgpu for gui backend, which means running will require either vulkan, metal or direct3d12. i remember some people were interested in software rendering, this should abstract away the software rendering to the driver level, so if one wanted they should be able to turn on software rendering using some parameters based on their os and backend (for example, on linux with VK_DRIVER_FILES env var you can force using the lavapipe renderer which runs in software without a gpu). also, this means no more opengl, and on windows there are actually 2 available renderers, vulkan and direct3d12, so should work better across more edge cases.
 
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Well, Willy's Tool is simply incredible.
It takes a while to discover all the ingenious features, but everything is very well thought out and runs absolutely flawlessly.
Absolutely indispensable for people with a large collection of games.
Great respect for your programming skills.

PS: To make the tool perfect for me personally, I would love to have a user interface in German....
However... since I'm a bit of a blockhead, I couldn't find these directories despite searching for them.
And unfortunately, my programming skills are those of an orangutan...:oops:

Thank you very much for this wonderful tool.(y)
 
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bapcules said:
Well, Willy's Tool is simply incredible.
It takes a while to discover all the ingenious features, but everything is very well thought out and runs absolutely flawlessly.
Absolutely indispensable for people with a large collection of games.
Great respect for your programming skills.

PS: To make the tool perfect for me personally, I would love to have a user interface in German....
However... since I'm a bit of a blockhead, I couldn't find these directories despite searching for them.
And unfortunately, my programming skills are those of an orangutan...:oops:

Thank you very much for this wonderful tool.(y)
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unfortunately the python version of the tool was not designed with locale options in mind, so changing language would mean editing all of the code. i'm rewriting the tool in C currently, and here too i did not design it with locales in mind, but there is not much text being displayed yet so its not too late to add locale. i'll consider available options for this and see if it's worth the effort.
 
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Is anyone having occasional Windows 11 crashes/bluescreens/reboots without warning after running F95 Checker for a few days or so?

I stopped running F95 Checker in my system tray about a week ago wondering if it might be the cause, and I haven't crashed since. It could be coincidental, though. Not sure. There was also a recent update to OBS (I'm using its Replay Buffer feature constantly in the background) that could've fixed this and F95 is completely innocent. Just curious if any other F95C users are having this issue as well.

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F95 Checker 11.0.3

P.S. This tool is awesome. Thank you for making it. I don't know why it's not a default forum feature, but this takes care of it.
 
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Vadginator said:
Is anyone having occasional Windows 11 crashes/bluescreens/reboots without warning after running F95 Checker for a few days or so?

I stopped running F95 Checker in my system tray about a week ago wondering if it might be the cause, and I haven't crashed since. It could be coincidental, though. Not sure. There was also a recent update to OBS (I'm using its Replay Buffer feature constantly in the background) that could've fixed this and F95 is completely innocent. Just curious if any other F95C users are having this issue as well.

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F95 Checker 11.0.3

P.S. This tool is awesome. Thank you for making it. I don't know why it's not a default forum feature, but this takes care of it.
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Not really, I run it constantly without issue.
 
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Vadginator said:
Is anyone having occasional Windows 11 crashes/bluescreens/reboots without warning after running F95 Checker for a few days or so?

I stopped running F95 Checker in my system tray about a week ago wondering if it might be the cause, and I haven't crashed since. It could be coincidental, though. Not sure. There was also a recent update to OBS (I'm using its Replay Buffer feature constantly in the background) that could've fixed this and F95 is completely innocent. Just curious if any other F95C users are having this issue as well.

Windows 11 LTSC
F95 Checker 11.0.3

P.S. This tool is awesome. Thank you for making it. I don't know why it's not a default forum feature, but this takes care of it.
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This tool IS awesome. And I am not experiencing any issues.

If you are experiencing crashes, you should check the event viewer. It should be recording why the system is crashing.

You can also run System File Checker: "sfc /scannow".
There are many other things you can do, but the two options I mentioned are the most common.
 
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silly observation but I noticed on the "game updated" screen the picture load from from bottom order to top.
As a yes or not question, was this intended and, priority list aside, is it possible to load the pictures from top to bottom?
 
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Where is the actual data saved at? Could not find that anywhere since it was stuck with download 1 image I was going to clear the download cache and possibly the database where data is saved than try to re-add..after more than 2 dozen attempts it finally updated and cleared.
 
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silly observation but I noticed on the "game updated" screen the picture load from from bottom order to top.
As a yes or not question, was this intended and, priority list aside, is it possible to load the pictures from top to bottom?
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This was indeed intended. The idea behind it was that it would preload the images that were currently not on screen, so that when you scroll down, it would already have the images loaded. That means without editing the code and running from source, it currently isn't possible to change this. You might try enabling the preload nearby images option in the images section(sidebar). It would still load them from bottom to top order but might show the ones you need/want to see faster.

However, since we now also have the option to unload images currently not showing, this behavior may now be counterproductive (WillyJL ?). Meaning, this behavior may change in the C rewrite version or perhaps change behavior depending on whether or not the unload off-screen images is checked or not.
 
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malaac2025 said:
Where is the actual data saved at? Could not find that anywhere since it was stuck with download 1 image I was going to clear the download cache and possibly the database where data is saved than try to re-add..after more than 2 dozen attempts it finally updated and cleared.
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Just an FYI (since you seem to have fixed your problem) - the database, images, etc is at %APPDATA%\f95checker (for Windows of course).
 
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OK something messed up and it flagged my f95checker as a system files so it was hidden as a system file. Had to enable showing of system files and searching for it. Not sure what messed up that setting of the folder but I can see it now. Now it does have some weird font error which I never had on any other SQL databases.

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malaac2025 said:
OK something messed up and it flagged my f95checker as a system files so it was hidden as a system file. Had to enable showing of system files and searching for it. Not sure what messed up that setting of the folder but I can see it now. Now it does have some weird font error which I never had on any other SQL databases.

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Not sure why, over the years I have edited mine a couple of times and not seen that. My guess though is that is a DB Browser error, not related to F95Checker. Most likely it is here in your Edit->Preferences under the Data Browser tab Font setting:
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EDIT: There is also a font setting in the SQL tab that could cause the error.
EDIT2: I think the cache folder there is probably for the built-in browser that I don't use.
EDIT3: Cause why not - this may be a known bug, see
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WillyJL said:
sadly no proper f95zone api yet, youll have to scrape and parse the threads manually for the most part, but i have all my code opensource so feel free to take inspiration!
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hey good job on app, im already using your app on pc could you possibly make same app on android ? it would be great cuz F95zone really deserves a mobile app or at least something that we could check updates on it or add games on it , same grid view style would be awesome.
thank you
 
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