charchar

This feature works great. Thanks for adding!

So I figured it out. It’s definitely a pitfall people here should consider but the fix might be outside LB. I use Pixelcade with ledblinky integration. Lesblinky sends marquee image requests to Pixelcade as the front end game list scrolls. My Pixelcade is on its own power switch. Power on and everything works well. If I power it down (as common when building instead of playing) then menu navigation in LB/BB stutters. I assume due to a failure/retry upstream as the marquee selected per game cannot be delivered. It’s binary and 100% reproducible. I’m thinking that the fix needs to come from Pixelcade or the way Ledblinky is integrated with it. But if you use this combo as well, don’t fall into the trap I did.

Well this is unfortunate but after a couple of weeks of smooth operation, the stutters have returned. It’s not about playlists this time as I’ve removed all of them during debugging. Other debugging includes going full text/list view with no game details. No graphics to load at all and still the game list stutters. So it can’t be slow access to graphics. And it can’t be playlists. I’ve removed all controllers. The system is strong enough to run AAA titles on steam without issue so it’s not that. IDK what else to try. I may have to punt LB BB after all this work.

Maybe it helps others so I’ll write the fix for me here. I had terrible stuttering and menu lag in both LB and BB. No load time issues just awful menu navigating. I was darn close to moving to another front end. Tried everything including using NO MEDIA whatsoever. Still menu lag. Then I made a change that I had ignored previously because others had indicated it would help boot time which wasn’t my problem. Anyway, I unchecked all the auto-populate playlist boxes which I had used to populate a couple dozen custom playlists previously. Completely changed everything. BB is snappy now even with videos running. Zero stutter. LB is mostly better too but generally not as responsive as BB. I don’t understand why this works unless the playlists are constantly refreshing but it worked. Hope it helps you too.