Jason Carr

Thanks duerra, good to know. Sync between Android and Windows is very difficult due to the differences in emulator and ROM support between the platforms. It will probably be a long time before we ever get to a proper sync, but I know there are several users who would really love to see it.

LaunchBox is available directly from Google Play on the Shield devices, and yes, it's a perfect match. We test heavily on Shield devices during development.

What it ultimately comes down to is just the fact that I have to make sure I'm spending my time wisely. Every moment that I spend in conversations like this is a moment that I can't be in the code, making improvements, fixing things, or adding new features. Unfortunately there has to be a line, and I feel like we've crossed it already. I should have stated above that there's more than SAMBA involved here, including VMs and network routing within the same machine, which can be funky to begin with. So regardless, nothing here is a common scenario. I use SAMBA network paths myself for storing ROMs, but it's known that images and videos should really be local due to performance requirements.

Thanks, let me know if you can confirm. Clicking the X should not be a problem at all.

To be honest, I don't have the time or the desire to continue troubleshooting things in your environment that involves SAMBA. We've been back and forth on this many times over. There are always ways to improve performance, but I don't believe that you're correct in all of your assumptions and conclusions, and I have better ways and tools to identify performance issues than comparing everything to a networking scenario.

Thanks guys; this is still on my list.

We may at some point, but honestly it hasn't been a common request, so it probably isn't going to be prioritized soon.

Sorry for the late reply here. I have everything working in those scenarios on my Shield device, so I really don't know why it wouldn't be working on yours. What version of Retroarch are you using? Are you using a sideloaded version or the version from Google Play? What's the version number?

I've previously reviewed viking's theme, and haven't found any performance issues that can really be addressed, so I'm not sure that there's much he can do. Not sure why you would be seeing a delay in that situation, but I've confirmed that I am not seeing any delays on my systems when switching platforms for the first time.

It happens any time a full size image is read (for example, a large box image).

@LuskPhoto There was one other user who was reporting issues with a Sprint phone as well. What step of the process is it getting stuck on?

Videos are not cached at all. If it's happening the first time videos are loaded, it could be due to loading up the video engine. Other than that, I'm not sure what could be causing a slowdown.

The image cache folders are used constantly, and they're currently always inside of the LaunchBox\Images folder. Just because images are cached, does not mean that they won't be read from disk. They're still read every time they're needed. There's absolutely no way we could store all of the images in RAM.

Will review this as well when I review the above. It's ultimately a relic from the data from thegamesdb.net. There's both an old ID for thegamesdb.net and a new ID.

Will look into this. We're working on it now. Will still be a bit, as it's a major undertaking. Yup, full editing is coming soon.

Odd. You're still missing all of the WPF elements from that screen. Only the old-school Windows Forms elements are showing up. So that confirms that there's something strange going on with your machine, as WPF elements are not rendering. I would try uninstalling/reinstalling the .NET Framework, and perhaps checking for video driver updates. Also make sure you're 100% up to date with Windows Update.

Did you happen to close out LaunchBox via Task Manager at all? That's the most likely cause of something like this. We haven't changed any saving or related code in these betas, so if there is an actual issue, it's not likely to be a new one (and I'm pretty sure that we don't have an issue there). We have an item on our list to improve the sorting for decimal points.

Are you using a network share for the videos as well?

That's no surprise. Even though the VM is on the same machine, it's using all the whole network stack for all file IO, which is naturally a whole lot slower than local. I would imagine that VM network shares to the same machine probably have other performance issues as well. The image cache is (of course) the most taxing part of disk read and write operations in Big Box, which only makes sense. It has to read a ton of images. This isn't an issue with Big Box lol.

The website should update automatically once the change is approved (the delay is only for the app). I will review to see if I can replicate.

Oh, interesting. I thought it was pure Android. There is a known issue with Chrome OS that I haven't figured out yet. I do plan to get a hold of a cheap Chrome OS device here at some point for testing.

@flacogordo Sorry to hear about the issue. From what I can tell, it appears to be an issue with the .NET Framework or video drivers somehow. Are you able to open the LaunchBox Options screen?

@Shade Let us know where you're at on this and if you've tried @C-Beats suggestions.

That's odd; sorry to hear about the issue there. I don't have a Pixel Slate to test with, but I'm wondering if something else might be going on. Do you have anything non-standard installed on or attached to the device? Is it rooted or anything?