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35 minutes ago, DOS76 said:
They actually both use flash memory but the quality of the SSD memory is much higher than the flash drives
Source
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-difference-between-ssd-and-flash-hard-drives/
Hmm, interesting ? It seems I stand corrected (although techincally I sit corrected, as I am currently sitting, but meh..., semantics ?)
What do you think of this review? I cant tell from his conlsusion which would be better suited for launchbox?: https://nerdtechy.com/best-portable-solid-state-flash-drives
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51 minutes ago, DOS76 said:
read and write speeds are usually much slower from a USB Flash drive I haven't heard of SSD USB 3.0 sticks and always thought flash drives used the same tech as SSD just slowed down by the USB speeds compared to SATA. I've had a SSD to USB enclosure for years if that is the same thing you mean.
Yeah, no flash drives use flash memory as oppose to solid state memory. Very different in speeds apparently, according to the interweb.
I also just read that the USB 3.0, does bottle neck the speed a tad, but not by much, and apparently speeds are still better than the usual flash drive and certainly a HDD.
Edit: Also no, I do mean specifiacally a thumb drive (for size/portablilty purposes), not a enclosed SSD.
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Hey guys,
So I have a question, first off I have a completely poratble set up of LaunchBox and BigBox on my portable HDD, for emulators and roms. I however would like to purchase a USB Stick to put it all on, for portablility, and was wondering what others may use? if you use this sort of set up?
I am looking for the best option really, I have heard of SSD USB 3.0 Sticks recently and am hoping some people here may have tried this out to see how well it runs?
Thanks anyway guys in advance ?
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3 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
Yeah, visual hitching while loading the app is going to be even harder to get rid of, so that's probably mostly a pipe dream, unfortunately. There are very few apps out there with animated startups like Big Box that don't hitch at least briefly on startup. It's just that most development frameworks are not really designed to support that kind of thing.
Ah okay, no worries then. I mean its just a little nuisance, but nothing serious. The software even with this is absaloutly brilliant. Best software I have used in a long time, and by far beats other front ends I have used.
Thanks for all you've done for the community so far, and to many more years to come. ?
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9 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
We actually don't use VLC to play that startup sound. We use DirectSound (part of DirectX). Which, in theory, should be able to do it just fine.
To be honest, I can still tell there is stuttering visually, even with everything else turned off (transitions, startup sound and startup video). So maybe its just the CPU is hit with too much all at once? Although I aint a programmer, so I dont know too much haha ?
2 minutes ago, neil9000 said:Thats my mistake then as i said previously it was using VLC, apologies @7ank0v1c.
No worries ?
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2 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Honestly that's an issue that I've tried to fix many times over. The problem is that we want to use up the CPU as much as possible to make Big Box load as quickly as possible, and thus the sound file can hitch. The only solutions I've found so far involve artificially slowing down the loading. I'll see if I can revisit again soon though.
Would using a much less CPU heavy software, seperatley for the sound file work do you think? Instead of having multiple VLC in use?
Edit: Maybe a mixture of that and what you just suggested?
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Just now, neil9000 said:
The problem with default times though is that everyones system is different. Emulator startup time is dependent on your CPU/HDD speeds, so there is no one size fits all.
Oh rite, I guess that makes sense... that was pointless then haha ?
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3 hours ago, 7ank0v1c said:
Here is my complete set up review of the startup screen and pause screen. It seems to be working on most, but there are a few issues currently. Love the idea though and would love to see this perfected =D
Startup Screens:
ePSXe: shows, but becasue of the rescaling of the screen in the emulator, it also rescales the startup screen? Also a brief flash of appears on exite before end screen.
Mesen: seems to work perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears.
PPSSPP: seems to work perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears.
No$GBA: works perfectly
Dolphin: shows but becasue of the rescaling of the screen in the emulator, it also rescales the startup screen?
Project64: seems to work almost perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears. Only issue is the screen breifly flashes (presumably when the emulator loads in the background), the game noise starts and then the startup screen disapeears.
Snes9x: seems to work perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears.
PCSX2: works perfectly
Retroarch: Seems to work perfectly on genesis-plus-core, but loads into the game startup video on the mednafen-saturn core, before the startup screen disapears
Demul: works perfectly
Pause Screens:
ePSXe: works perfectly
Mesen: works perfectly
PPSSPP: works perfectly
No$GBA: doesn't show at all
Dolphin: again, it shows, but the rescaling of the emulator messes up the scaling of the pause screen.
Project64: works perfectly
Snes9x: works perfectly
PCSX2: works perfectly
Retroarch: works perfectly
Demul: works perfectly
2 hours ago, Retro808 said:What graphic settings in these emulators are you using? I do not get any Startup screen rescalling in either and I think this is the first mention. So would be god to try and test with the settings you are using.
In each emulator setting in Launchbox you can adjust the emulator load delay. Some may need custom tweaking to get right. Try adjusting the load delay in the Startup tab for each of these emulators. The only one I do not use is Mesen. All the others I have been able to get adjusted to a smooth transition.
So after playing with the settings, I have managed to find settings that work and make most of this a perfect experience, with the exception for ePSXe and Dolphin (of which I will try find a work around later) and No$Gba which i feel is probably a seperate issue for some reason? Any ideas?
Hopefully these will help some people and maybe can be made into autosettings in future updates.
Here are my findings:
Project64: You must turn on 'Aggressive Startup Window Hiding' to get rid of flash and delay it to 4.5 seconds.
Snes9x: Delay it to 1.5 seconds to avoid rom laoding with startup screen still there.
PPSSPP: Delay it to 1.5 seconds to avoid rom laoding with startup screen still there.
Mesen: Delay it to 2 seconds to avoid rom laoding with startup screen still there.
Retroarch: Delay it to 1 second to avoid rom laoding with startup screen still there.
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3 minutes ago, Retro808 said:
I tested on one cabinet that is only 1920x1080. I used only that specific pc resolution and I don't make mine portable so each emulator setting is set for the cabinet/pc it is in.
Just go direct to ePSXe website. The latest version should be v2.0.5 and the settings menu did not look like in your images. So I went to a prior version and it matched.
It is 2.0.5, it might be my plugin though? it is the ePSXe GPU Core 2.0.0?
I downloaded a bunch of plugins before so I may have an older plugin or somthing? nevermind anyway, Ill maybe have a look into different resolutions to find a work around. Hopefully there will be one. Do you happen to know a good resolution that works on all modern widscreen systems?
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23 minutes ago, Retro808 said:
Looks like it is that 1280x780 resolution. I had to go back to older versions of these 2 emulators as those settings are different in the latest version I am using. When I use that 1280x720 I get the scaling issue.
Which resolution do you use out of interest? I have tried using some higher resolutions in the past, but have had issues when loading on different computers with different screen sizes. i wonder if there is then an option where it solves both issues for me?
Also are you saying I have outdated software? I didnt know, where did you get an updated version of ePSXe?
I can see the dolphin one is outdated though haha
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3 minutes ago, neil9000 said:
Well it is a audio file so will be using VLC for playback, as will the startup video, so you have two instances of VLC running while also loading Bigbox, so that is a few things running at the same time from the same disk.
You know I did consider this, I also tried using the inbuilt windows media player, but it did the same thing. I did also try turning one off and then the other way around and it still does it visually and with the sound (where applicable of course)
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1 minute ago, neil9000 said:
Also bear in mind that when the video is playing Bigbox is loading in the background so there is a lot of disk activity going on at that point, but yeah personally i have that "initializing Bigbox" turned off in the Bigbox settings so i never hear it.
I kinda like it to be honest, would be cool if there was a fix...
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22 minutes ago, Retro808 said:
What graphic settings in these emulators are you using? I do not get any Startup screen rescalling in either and I think this is the first mention. So would be god to try and test with the settings you are using.
In each emulator setting in Launchbox you can adjust the emulator load delay. Some may need custom tweaking to get right. Try adjusting the load delay in the Startup tab for each of these emulators. The only one I do not use is Mesen. All the others I have been able to get adjusted to a smooth transition.
Here are my settings. The reason I have these settings is to aim to make these settings as portable as possible.
Also in regards to the timing thing, I had no idea, thanks ill take a look ?
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47 minutes ago, Retro808 said:
Yeah that issue I can replicate if I have the startup sound on in my settings. Turning it off I get no stutter. Which I why I have not used it in years. Not sure why turning it off had no affect on your system. I also have all transitions set to none in my settings as personally I do not care for how the video/image shows up on screen. It could be a transition from the theme?? Maybe try turning them off and see if it changes. It definitely appears to occur only at a point the video ends and BigBox starts to load up the initial view.
Just tried all that now and still no joy. I do wonder what it is? I thought maybe it was my portable HDD latency, but even copied my entire launchbox system onto my C drive and still the same thing. It even did this on my friends PC which is pretty capable. Are you on the latest launchbox out of interest? 9.9? maybe its a bug??
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Here is my complete set up review of the startup screen and pause screen. It seems to be working on most, but there are a few issues currently. Love the idea though and would love to see this perfected =D
Startup Screens:
ePSXe: shows, but becasue of the rescaling of the screen in the emulator, it also rescales the startup screen? Also a brief flash of appears on exite before end screen.
Mesen: seems to work perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears.
PPSSPP: seems to work perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears.
No$GBA: works perfectly
Dolphin: shows but becasue of the rescaling of the screen in the emulator, it also rescales the startup screen?
Project64: seems to work almost perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears. Only issue is the screen breifly flashes (presumably when the emulator loads in the background), the game noise starts and then the startup screen disapeears.
Snes9x: seems to work perfectly, but game has already loaded slightly into startup video of the game, before startupscreen disappears.
PCSX2: works perfectly
Retroarch: Seems to work perfectly on genesis-plus-core, but loads into the game startup video on the mednafen-saturn core, before the startup screen disapears
Demul: works perfectly
Pause Screens:
ePSXe: works perfectly
Mesen: works perfectly
PPSSPP: works perfectly
No$GBA: doesn't show at all
Dolphin: again, it shows, but the rescaling of the emulator messes up the scaling of the pause screen.
Project64: works perfectly
Snes9x: works perfectly
PCSX2: works perfectly
Retroarch: works perfectly
Demul: works perfectly
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10 hours ago, Retro808 said:
Have you tried different themes? I wonder if it could be a transition in the theme. I can replicate the issue on only one of my machines, but it only happens if I have that default loading sound on.
Can you post a video?
Here is what it often does, for this though it took a little longer than usual in between the startup video and then loading the application. Again though once loaded, I literally have no problems with it at all. Just this, which I find a little annoying haha =D
Edit: Also I have tried doing what you reccomended and still the same happens. i also tried a number of other things like turning off the startup video, with and without startup sound, changing the video with and without sound, changing theme with all these variations and it seems to do the same thing right at the beginning.
Without the video though, it doesnt flashup the startbar, but it still stutters, and without the sound it isnt really as noticable, but it is still doing it?
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Anyone?
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3 hours ago, Retro808 said:
It could be the startup sound option that is glitching it the video transition. I am not at home to double check the setting but look for an option in the settings for the default startup sound and turn it off.
There is a thread about it somewhere.
So I tried disabling it, but it still stutters. I also tried it on a different system and the same thing happens. I am using a portable set up of Big Box
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Bump!...
Been a while so I thought I would bump this...
Anyone able to help?
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11 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:
I have a few ideas for a new theme that will be aimed for a HTPC / console-like interface but it will probably take quite a while before I start working on it. I can’t work on such creative things on command and I always need the right time and mood for it. Unfortunately that doesn’t happen very often to me so I can’t really tell when I come back. But I will definitely release a new theme sometimes in the future, that's for sure
Thanks for all your work on this theme any way, honestly it is a real beauty to behold when set up with the platform videos as well ?
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Heya,
So I have just got my BigBox all set up, but one thing is bugging me a little and I am wondering if it can be fixed?
So my startup video loads and plays fine usually with no issues, but imediatley afterwards, it kinda stutters as it plays the deafault BigBox loading sound and the startbar shows for a breif moment befroe it disappears again. It all works fine afterwards, but it isnt quite the smooth experience I am hoping for.
Is this fixable? Any tips at all anyone?
Thanks in advance =D
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1 hour ago, pjgold999 said:
Solved, I ended up just cycling through video drivers d3d11 solved the issue.
Ahh, brilliant man. Thanks so much. I opened up debug mode and managed to get it working.
Not sure why I was so dumb as to not try it, duh.. haha
Thanks again man
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22 minutes ago, pjgold999 said:
I’ve installed retroarch 1.7.7 which appears to be working ok, however there are a few odd things happening, the progress bar font is displayed in unreadable blocks when loading cores or updating anything and there is no background ribbon displayed. This remains unchanged after multiple re-installs.
I have a similar issue to this, I have unreadable blocks on mine and not sure why??
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1 hour ago, DOS76 said:
Wait I'm so confused now if you don't already have 32bit version of Windows why do you need the 32 bit version of LB?
Here is why:
2 hours ago, 7ank0v1c said:Hey guys,
I am aiming to make a completely portable setup, which is the most compatible with all computers.
So I have Windows 10 - 64bit, but say if I went home to parents for the weekend or friends and they had a 32bit Windows, I wanna just be able to plug in my HD, install the few dependencies which are DirectX and .net and then play without messing around with emulator settings or LaunchBox settings. I have successfully done this with all the emulators I use so far (except Dolphin, which is understandable as it needs 64bit). It literally just a fresh install of a 32bit LaunchBox by the looks of it now I need and I'm done...
Although saying that, I have one other issue with Dolphin which I may ask about later if I can't find answers.
Thanks again ?
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Well my momma always said "life was like".... no wait wrong one... Ah yes, that was it...
"you learn something new every day" ?
Anyone else know of any good sticks?