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Awf, this is my favorite theme, however I have issues with it lagging on my arcade... Most themes are fine, but this one is really slowing up the scrolling, hanging...

I press that as well, I ommited to write that. I do press it, however it starts 'loading' and then after 10-15 minutes the progress bar disappears and it doesn't seem it's caching anymore (because my CPU fans and it SSD activity becomes idle) then I turn on the script and start the scrolling :))) ty for the answers.

Should I move this chat in private? Or it's ok to talk here? I don't want to steal this post, but I do want to share my experience and perhaps get a bit of help. And to answer: No sir, I run nothing else than BigBox, it's database and roms from a fastish 2TB SSD I run W11 with modified services on a different SSD and I have 2 more HDD's just for PC Games Everything I don't need is turned off, I just have Fan Control, Xbox360ce and the SindenLightgun (in sleep mode) on startup, everything else (other than default win services) are off or manual. Everything is up to date and all auto-updates are off, for everything. I tried running BigBox as shell. Tried on fresh Win install ...So what I do to make it work is the following: -I delete the caches from BB and LB -I go in BB and select either Highest or High for images -Then I refresh the images from BB. Then I run an AHK script that just presses down arrow every 3 seconds, so that the images load for each game. I have to do this for all platforms, and you can feel and see the difference instantly when all games images are loaded, the second you cache the last one, it's butter smooth. And then time, or an update messes it up again...

Personally I have already tried the "default theme" and "old default", as well as "critical zone", and I have the same issue, regardless of settings, or system I use, if a playlist/system has more than 1000 games, it's a lagfest. Only thing that fixes it is deleting bigbox cache and then going manually trough all the systems and go through all games, then it won't lag for a few weeks or untill the next update. Oh well. Ty for the answers.

So, It made me sad when I saw that almost all the topics in regards to performance have been closed or barely have any answers... I have a pretty big collection (information about my arcade build, technical specifications and collection is here) And I've been having this problem for a while, LaunchBox freezes at random intervals for me and I literally have to wait for it to load back up, and unstuck itself, I could live with that because I mostly use BigBox... However BigBox has it's own problems, I'm using Pulse as my favorite theme, however it does the same with default themes or others as well, it has huge slowdowns when scrolling trough games, (I have 3 screens on the Arcade, 2 of them running video: Main Screen and Marquee Screen and a static image Poster Screen) and I've tried with both VLC and MPlayer, and it always gets stuck, like 3-10 seconds wait time to change between the game, attract mode is out of the question, it's choppy and freezes. What I've tried to do to fix it: Tried on multiple systems: Monster Work PC (W10/W11 - RTX4090/i9/128GB/GEN3SSD, etc) Main PC (W11 - Asus B550-E/32GB-DDR4/Ryzen7-5800X/RTX-4080/M2-SSD) Arcade (I7/16GB-DDR3/RX6600/SSD) Same slowdowns even though on Work PC and Main PC I only ran a single monitor. Reinstalling / Re-adding my collection Clean installed on separate computers, nope, didn't work, even with default theme, no settings done to bigbox, if I run my collection, after hours of waiting to import games, and waiting to build a cache, still starts lagging and going choppy when in attract mode, or just holding down, or left trough scroll through the games. Updating or switching Video Player I've tried both with VLC and MPlayer (same results, it's better with MPlayer for a while, then it borks down too) Updating VLC x64 from zip file overwriting the files in the ThirdParty/VLC folder works for a while as well, then it starts going choppy again I've resorted to clearing my cache every week and having a script scroll trough all games, one by one, so they can load at least once, that fixes it for a week or two... But it's so bad I've started looking for alternatives... I would love to stay to launchbox because I've set it up in a way that I like, but the performance is literally driving me insane :)) Sorry for the wall of text: TL;DR: BigBox scrolling performance is terrible, I've tried everything, pls fix/improve before adding "NEW" features not many people asked for, or i cry ------ Later Edit: I was writing this while @C-Beats wrote his reply, so I've read it after I've posted. Thank you for the reply and your work <3, it at least sheds some light on the situation, rather than straight up ignoring or saying that there aren't any performance issues. I may have a small suggestion that might fix some slowdowns, at least in cases like mine, that shouldn't require a full rewrite of the code. Maybe finding a way to delay the videos (theme videos, marquee videos, etc) make them play after 2-3 settings of the game being selected, that way it does not fill the GPU queue or clogs up the video player, basically while scrolling trough games or while in attract mode, it should not play the videos instantly.

I’ve spent a few years gathering a collection of games that can be played on fighting sticks or arcade sticks. I’ve rounded up all the games I could find and made a list. This is the most up to date and largest list I've seen on the internet for PC games you can play on an arcade machine with a zero delay controller, fighter stick, joystick, xBox controller, playstation controller, switch controller, or gamepad. This is the Arcade (specifications) I've built, running my Launchbox Collection on Windows 11 23H3 with 2x Zero Delay Controllers emulated as XBOX controllers trough XB360CE. Updated on 05/11/23 Click on the game for their marketplace, GOG is preffered, STEAM second, Others afterwards. If any of the links are broken or you know any other games that should be on the list please let me know. PC Games for Arcade Machines 0-9 99Vidas Definitive Edition A Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX Arkanoid - Eternal Battle Astebreed Atomic Bomberman B Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate Deluxe Edition Battle Axe Battletoads Blasphemous 2 Blasphemous Wounds of Eventide Blaster Master Zero Blazing Chrome Broforce Brotato Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans 2 Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans C Captain Claw Castle Crashers Castle of Illusion Castlevania Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate HD CloneHero Crimzon Clover World EXplosion Crypt Of The NecroDancer AMPLIFIED Cuphead Cursed Castilla Maldita Castilla EX D Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Core Fighters TECMO 50th Anniversary Dead or Alive 6 Dead Cells Disneys Hercules DoDonPachi Ressurection Double Dragon Gaiden Double Dragon Neon Dragon Ball FighterZ DuckTales Remastered E Elypse F FIFA 23 FIFA 19 Fight N’ Rage Final Vendetta G Gargoyles Remastered Ghosts n Goblins Resurrection GRIS Guacamelee 2 Guacamelee! Gold Edition GUILTY GEAR STRIVE H Hades Heave Ho Hollow Knight Horizon Chase 2 Horizon Chase Turbo Senna Forever Hotshot Racing Big Boss Bundle HUNTDOWN I Iconoclasts Ikaruga Injustice Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition Injustice2 J Jamestown Plus Deluxe Pack Jazz Jackrabbit Jazz Jackrabbit 2 JoJos Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R K Killer Instinct Kopanito All-Stars Soccer L Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime M Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite Deluxe Edition Mega Man 11 METAL SLUG XX Momodora - Reverie Under the Moonlight Mortal Kombat 1 Mortal Kombat 11 Mortal Kombat 4 Mortal Kombat Trilogy Mortal Kombat XL Mother Russia Bleeds My Friend Pedro N NARUTO SHIPPUDEN Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 Road to Boruto Next Generations Nex Machina Nova Drift O Okinawa Rush One Finger Death Punch 2 Ori and The Blind Forest - Definitive Edition OutRun2006 Coast 2 Coast Overcooked! 2 P Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 Pureya R R Type Final 2 Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX Raiden V - Directors Cut Rayman Origins Rayman Redemption Retro Classix Night Slashers River City Girls River City Girls 2 Rogue Legacy Rogue Legacy 2 S Samurai Shodown Shank 2 Shaolin vs Wutang 2 Shovel Knight Sine Mora EX Sky Force Reloaded Sonic Mania Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II SOULCALIBUR VI Deluxe Edition Souldiers Space Invaders Extreme Spelunky Spelunky 2 Street Fighter V Champion Edition Season 5 Street Fighter X Tekken Streets of Rage 4 Streets of Rage Remake Streets of Red Devils Dare Deluxe Super Bomberman R SUPER BOMBERMAN R2 Super Hydorah Super Meat Boy Super Meat Boy Forever T Tarzan Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TEKKEN 7 Season Pass 4 Tetris Effect Connected The Binding of Isaac Rebirth Repentance THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH The King of Fighters XIII THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV The Messenger The TakeOver Thems Fightin Herds Towerfall - Ascension Tyrian 2000 U Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Ultra Street Fighter IV UNDER NIGHT IN BIRTH ExeLate clr Untitled Goose Game Urban Trial Playground V Vigil The Longest Night VVVVVV W Wonder Boy Asha in Monster World Wulverblade X X-Force Under Attack

You're right, thank you so much for the help. Sorry for posting there ❤️

It does the same with or without the plugin, it's a fairly recent plugin, but i've been having this issue on 3 systems so far, for about 2-3 years, I just thought it's how it is when you have a huge DB of games, now I'm shocked to find that everyone runs it smooth as butter, lmao :)) I'll keep researching it on my end and see what's going on in more depth. My suggestion would be to update the VLC in the Launchbox installer to the latest one so everyone can use, it should without a hitch, vlc included with launchbox is 3.17 and latest is 3.18 I believe

Thank you for the troubleshooting help, That's what I tried first, thinking it has something to do with the custom themes. I've tried it with all themes including the default one as well as without any marquee plugin. Right now I'm running Pulse as a theme and the "Third Screen Plugin" because I'm planning to add a 3rd 'poster monitor'

I run BigBox video marquees and theme videos for almost all my games (will also release more than 1k of my marquee videos for the community, just a bit more to do) Main issue Is that sometimes I have slow and laggy video loading, sometimes it loads a different video because it seems like 'it lost track of what game was selected' and needs a few seconds to recover and play the video for the current game, freezing the whole bigbox for a few seconds sometimes and then playing the marquee and theme videos. What I did to try and fix it: -Changed everything related to images and videos in options (VLC, MPC, Lower res images, Higher res images, you name it, I've touched it and tested it) -Cleared all caches, -Optimized all the files from my media folders and cleaned them up -Defragged the 2TB HDD -Upgraded to a 2TB SSD thinking it will solve it, it did not -Upgraded GPU to a RX580 8GB -Upgraded my CPU to a i7 3770K -Added more ram to 16GB of DDR3, -Optimized and debloated windows (win10 with to day updates) The only thing that seems to work is updating VLC in the thirdparty folder and it works okish untill the next update. I have gone trough all troubleshooting steps on the forums in regards to speeding up bigbox, seems to work great for a while, then it just bogs down so to speak.

Yea, I've been having issues with video marquees and theme videos for a while now, haven't been active about it, because I don't usually complain, however it's been getting harder and harder to have a smooth experience. To temporary fix it, I've updated the VLC (just downloaded latest x64 VLC from here Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/ and copied over the older VLC in thirdparty/VLC folder) And it seems to work a bit better and faster (hopefully it isn't placebo), but with every update the folder gets replaced and it runs worse again so I have to re-replace it, I have now set it to read only, hoping it will keep the updated VLC. I'm really hoping a bit more effort will go into managing image loading and videos in the next updates ❤️ Otherwise I just love launchbox and couldn't have a home arcade without it