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    Hardware questions

    Lordmonkus replied to Kcoat's topic in Noobs

    For emulation you generally want the fastest single thread performance CPU. Some of the newer emulators such as Cemu and RPCS3 will take advantage of multi core CPUs. Video card for the most part does not matter much though it will help with the newer emulators like Cemu and RPCS3.
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    A lot of work has been done on this since this thread and with 49K games your system shouldn't have any issues with BigBox but if you have a lot of auto-generated playlists this may impact performance because of all of the metadata parsing going on.
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    It has been looked into and Jason continues to look into it but it's not something he can replicate and not something everyone has so it's extremely difficult to troubleshoot and track down the exact cause to fix it.
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    This would be dependent on the emulator you use if it's possible, I don't know if it is or isn't because I don't do Gameboy emulation.
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    Bulk edit of additional apps was on the last poll but didn't get many votes so unfortunately it won't be getting implemented anytime soon. It's something I think would be good to have as well but more requested features take priority. You can see the poll results here, bulk edit additional apps is 4th from the bottom: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-V9D22LCH8/ What exactly is it that you are doing that requires bat files for every game ? Maybe there is a better solution.
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    Sure, anyone can make a plugin if they so desired, this is the reason plugin support was added.
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    Possible ? Sure it would be but how likely is another question. I can't imagine it being a very requested item.
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    Nvidia is best, AMD has bad OpenGL drivers and you potentially can run into issues with certain emulators that only support OpenGL.
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    I turned all the bells and whistles off but I think the performance bottleneck there was the lack of system ram (only 2 gigs). If you are thinking about a new system I suggest taking a look at a video ETA Prime did on the Ryzen 2200G / 2400G, it's pretty darn cheap for a new system and rocks for emulation and even some modern PC Gaming. You don't need a graphics card in it but you can throw one into it later on if you wanted.
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    That's why I asked for an explanation, simply making a statement without backing it up with details is pointless. Can't make improvements without details on what is wrong in the first place. Is Steam Big Picture customizable with themes ? You can use a mouse in BigBox Yeah for a relatively small library of games, come back and say that when you have thousands of games separated by platform. And yet people still want to use a frontend like LB, HS or AM over Steam for launching their roms when they have more than a small handful of roms. I have read the nightmare stories that people have using ICE. No, you just want to make a blanket statement with nothing to back it up. Anyways i'm done here.
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    Any dedicated GPU is fine, as I show in my low end system specs above I am using a very old now Radeon card with only 1 gig of ddr5 vram.
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    It's next on Jasons to-do list.
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    Perhaps you would like to explain this is detail because it makes no sense. BigBox without Launchbox itself is useless, Launchbox is where you do all the management and that is where the ease of use comes in while other frontends require you use complicated back end software such as RocketLauncher (HyperSpin) or have your rom set set in stone (AttractMode). So explain to me how BigBox "falls short in terms of ease of use" because at the end of the day you navigate your games and load your games the same way in BigBox, HyperSpin and AttractMode. It's the backend where Launchbox shines and the ease of use comes in, not navigating the frontend.
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    I will tell you straight up that system won't run BigBox with all the bells and whistles of a heavy theme without issues, it will be laggy and slow. It won't impact the load time of the roms themselves but navigating it would be a chore. You could run it with a more streamlined theme without all the eye candy like transition effects and videos and clear logos but judging by what you are describing as what you want. BigBox does benefit greatly from a dedicated graphics card and that laptop doesn't have one so that will hurt it as well. For reference I have an old system with BigBox on it will a simple theme (Fundamental Dark) and it runs BigBox fine, not as well as my other higher end PCs of course but it isn't a bad experience at all. Here are the specs on it: Windows 7 AMD Athlon 3800+ @ 2.4 GHz 2 gigs ram Radeon 7850 (1 gig DDR5 vram)
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    I play on a G-Sync display and I don't use any runahead and I don't have any issues with input lag at all and I have a CRT with real consoles to compare to.
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    There's two 2003 cores now, the normal and the plus, plus is the one you want. It's new and has the save state and run ahead stuff in it. G-Sync and Freesync you will need a display that supports either and that will depend on your video card. G-Sync is Nvidia and Freesync is AMD.
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    I know things felt slow to people and in previous months and years it does appear to have slowed on the surface but that is because there was a bunch of time spent on the LB Next rewrite and the recent bug fix / optimization pass. Also the nested folders took some time to implement and there were some pretty big problems with that which had to be addressed. The good news now though is that is all behind now. I know things like the LB Next and bug fix / optimization stuff isn't sexy or up in your face like new graphical features but they are required for things to work and work smoothly.
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    Where are you getting the lr version of the core ? Those are generally a part of the Raspberry Pi version of RA not the Windows version. If you setup your emulator entry in LB to be called Retroarch you can use the dropdown menu to select the core you want.
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    No one is taking it as such, i'm just offering up some explanations and reasons why it isn't top priority and other things have to be higher on the priority list. Both Grila and Critical Cid need some more development on the wall view to implement their visions of a wall view theme and it is something that will be looked at when time allows it. There's lots of stuff on the poll I don't care about at all and there was stuff I really wanted to see implemented but got very few votes, oh well.
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    Nested folders was a often requested feature and was high on the last poll so it got done, wall view improvements is not something often asked for so it is prioritized as such. Lots of stuff I would like to see aren't put in but it's not a big deal. Now that isn't say that it isn't on the "to-do" list, it's just that Jason has to take the poll and bitbucket requests with the most votes and prioritize, he only has so many hours in a day to work on things. Things take time to do and the Launchbox Next rework had to be done to allow for future development to be made easier. There were actually a bunch of BigBox related features on the last poll and they are coming, you can see the main poll items and what is done and still to come here:
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    Can you post a screenshot of your associated platforms window for the emulator you setup for NeoGeo ?
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    It's the next thing Jason said he was tackling in the latest video. You're entitled to your opinion but one theme doesn't make another frontend catch up to Launchbox. No other front end has the features and update schedule that Launchbox has, perhaps you missed all the stuff on the last update and the previous major release with nested folders which was a much requested feature. Reworked how and why ?
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    It's all good.
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    Well written post but well beyond the scope of this thread, especially considering you have bitbucket requests in for them already.
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    The new Mame2003-plus core has save states and supports run ahead but it is an older core and is only meant for that rom set. As for suggestions to reduce lag in stand alone Mame you could look into GroovyMame which has less input and a Frame Delay setting to further reduce it. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,151459.0.html?PHPSESSID=hlm3f66k7m3td1bvppnojr11d3 Beyond that though you will have to look at the display you are using to play on. Are you playing on a TV or a PC monitor ? TVs have much more lag than even an average monitor but a good gaming monitor will have less again and then something like a G-Sync / Freesync display will have a little less lag again.
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