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Can confirm: Deactivating the Savegame management removes a lot of pressure. Loading times on start are back to an acceptable level and there is also no minute long cpu/hdd activity afterwards.

That is the case for a lot of CD-i games. As far as I know there is still no emulator or option available to get around this.

Not solving your exact problem but watch out for LHA files instead of ADF disk images. Those are HDD installed games. I changed my whole collection and in 90% of the cases such a file is available. You have way faster loading times, no disk changes and less space is needed. Cannot tell you a source here but there are sites out there specialised in so called WHD Amiga roms in LHA format.

13.17 with 20.000 roms: 22 sec startup time on i7 gaming notebook with fast m2 SSD and 64GB RAM and cache on a RAM Disk. I would say from the hardware perspective you cannot get more performance out of Launchbox.

Try to deactivate the Auto-Import feature and remove any third-party plugins.

Right klick on the specified plattform on the left side > edit > in the Folder tab double check if your games folder points to the correct position

Manage > Emulators > Retroarch > edit > second category on the left: uncheck extract roms for the FBNeo there

When I update the metadata of all games and uncheck all media, then after finishing the process the graphics cache will be deleted and all images have to be cached again. Why?

Will it someday be possible to update the metadata for all games just for a selected field? At the moment you have to mass delete the content of the field and do an update over all fields afterwards. For the media it is allready possible so it is not logic to not do it this way for the metadata as well.

I also get thousand of PlayCount entries. Seems to be normal (but kind of strange) I got another error of a missing file "\LaunchBox\Core\Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.XmlSerializers.dll" (never deletet anything and I'm on the latest Beta). Can anybody upload that file here please? 2024-10-15 02:50:42 PM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: Could not load file or assembly 'Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.XmlSerializers, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, processorArchitecture=AMD64'. Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoad(ObjectHandleOnStack assemblyName, ObjectHandleOnStack requestingAssembly, StackCrawlMarkHandle stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, ObjectHandleOnStack assemblyLoadContext, ObjectHandleOnStack retAssembly) 2024-10-15 02:50:42 PM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: Could not load file or assembly 'D:\Emulation\LaunchBox\Core\Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.XmlSerializers.dll'. Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. at System.Runtime.Loader.AssemblyLoadContext.LoadFromPath(IntPtr ptrNativeAssemblyLoadContext, String ilPath, String niPath, ObjectHandleOnStack retAssembly)

I second this. Even with the fastet m2 SSD, fast CPU and 64 GB RAM and the cache files residing on a RAM Disk the performance is not optimal. To get background information for this topic: How is the %-ratio of lifetime to regular license users of launchbox?

Sounds nice. Is it possible that you upload your metadata files somewhere so I can import them with that:

1. Right klick on the SNK Neo Geo CD plattform on the left side > edit > in the Folder tab double check if your games folder point to the correct position 2. Manage > Emulators > Retroarch > edit > second category on the left: uncheck extract roms for the NeoGeoCD/FBNeo there

Yeah I meant Plattform. It works like you described. Thx Case closed.

Stupid me in the past put all SuperNES and SuperFamicon Games in SNES category. Years later, I want now to move the SFC games into a seperate SFC category without losing the statistics (play count/time etc). Is it possible to move games from one system category to another in Launchbox?