shadowfire

Not sure if this has been reported before, but I think I've found a memory issue. By just randomly selecting games in a playlist view (mine was populated by only 15 items) I ran out off free memory rapidly. And starting a game doesn't seem to free it up, only quiting the application. (Launchbox Next 8.4-beta 5 / Windows 7)

Thanks for the advice, but no bad sectors found. I've done some additional testing and after a reboot and after most disc activity has settled according to the resource monitor it seems that disc-loading spike (of Launchbox.exe and metadata.xml) is 1/3 of the 60 seconds at most. (Note that this is after a reboot, launching a second time obviously goes much faster (a few seconds) because it's cached.) But the main reason why I posted is that it seems to me that Launchbox is getting (noticeably) slower starting up with recent versions and I suspect it could be related to this forum thread rather than some recent incident on my system.

SentaiBrad said How long do you consider long? It is probably normal, LaunchBox has to load a lot of data at start. I run Launchbox on Windows startup along with Steam (I use Windows solely for gaming) and I noticed it took substantial longer for Launchbox to finish loading than before, somewhere around the version that came with the loading screen. Before it took Steam longer to be ready than Launchbox, now Launchbox takes about 30 sec - 1 minute longer than Steam to be ready. Overall Windows takes between 2 to 3 minutes to load everything on startup. (Judging by my patience it used to be much shorter ;) ) (Edited:) I have removed Launchbox from autostartup to test it independently and (after a reboot and waiting for other startup programs to finish loading) it takes a minute to launch. More than half of that is "Populating settings" Specs: Windows 7 64bit, core i7, 8GB ram, HDD harddisk. Launchbox has 352 games: 117 Windows, 69 MS-DOS, 83 MAME, 66 c64, 17 other

Came here because I have exactly the same issue but on my system the "populating settings" stage seems to take longest (or at least as long as the "populating emulators" stage).

I guess this hasn't been implemented yet? I couldn't find it in the options. (version 5.0 beta 8) It would be nice to be able to tweak the appearance of the black bars because they tend to be somewhat distracting, especially on a wide screen. My suggestion would be an option to hide the beveled borders so it's more consistent with the overall 'flat' design of the UI and maybe even an option to control the transparency.