Lordmonkus

Screen tearing is usually associated with framerates not matching up with your monitors refresh rate.

Weird, I just installed a 1.4.0 beta a couple nights ago and it's there. You could always download the latest cores manually https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/windows/x86_64/latest/

Rename your disks to Night Trap (Disk 1) Night Trap (Disk 2) Remove your old imports and re-import your new disks.

It should be there, try updating the core info using the online updater, the core is labeled "Sega Saturn (Mednafen Saturn)"

It could be. How large is your library ? And yeah you shouldn't be having a performance problem with your system judging by what you listed. As you can see in my performance guide post I have 2 different systems of very different hardware levels and both work fine within their limits. My main system runs great with full settings while my shitty htpc needs some tweaking.

Updated the main post on the first page adding the new Port Audio settings.

For those of you that do not know what this is it is much lower audio latency which in turn means sound effects are now for all intents and purposed happening exactly when they are supposed to matching what is happening on screen. To take advantage of this new feature you will need to edit your mame.ini file and change the following settings: # OSD SOUND OPTIONS # sound portaudio audio_latency 1 # # PORTAUDIO OPTIONS # pa_api "Windows WASAPI" pa_device default pa_latency 0.003334 If after making these changes you find you have really distorted audio or any other speed issues your system may not be able to handle this so just go back to your old settings. There is one drawback to this new feature however. Mames sound will take over all audio from your computer so if you like to play music through your system while playing Mame games at the same time you won't be able to do it. Maybe there is a workaround to this.

Are you having problems with Launchbox / BigBox running slow and choppy on your system ? If you are then please help us out with your systems specs. CPU make and clockspeed, ram, hard drive, video card and operating system. Please also include how many games you have imported. To further help us help you start out with just the stock BigBox theme, user created themes can cause issues. Also go through all your games to get them all cached, the initial caching of images can really slow things down at first. There are things you can do to make sure your computer is running as smoothly as possible. First, defragment your hard drive, especially if your drive is older. This probably won't be a big if any performance gain but it doesn't hurt to do it. SSD's do not need to be defragmented, and the process can damage the SSD. Second, make sure all your drivers are up to date. @SentaiBradrecommends using Advanced System Care and Driver Booster. Driver Booster is included inside of ASC, which is inside the download here: http://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php Advanced System Care's main options should all be ran at least once, depending on your needs, but these 3 options are the recommended options to run every 24-72 hours, or as needed. IOBit's Uninstaller should also be used from the toolbox when removing software. This will help keep your PC clean in the long run as it will remove left over files that Windows or uninstallers won't get rid of. Third, disable all unnecessary system services. This is a little bit more advanced but you can really gain extra performance by doing this. I use the guides on http://www.blackviper.com/ Make sure you follow the guide for your OS version and read what each service does before setting it to disabled. If in doubt of a service simply set it to manual instead of auto and it will get turned on by Windows if needed. One example of a service that is always on but in very rare cases do I think anyone using a computer for retrogaming needs is the Print Spool service. Of course if you use your computer for emulation and printing stuff then you will need this service on but there are many useless services turned on by default. Turning off what is unnecessary can free up a lot of ram and CPU cycles that Launchbox can use to run faster and smoother. Fourth, in some cases a video codec could be causing troubles and @SentaiBradrecommends the K-Lite Codec Pack Standard found here: https://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_standard.htm Let it fix any problems it finds. Fifth, disable 3rd party Anti-Virus and firewall software if this is a strict emulation computer and not used for anything beyond that. Sixth, disable the background images. Users have reported that disabling these have helped them out with performance. This is something I have always just done out of personal aesthetic preference so I have never actually tested this. Seventh, reduce image quality in BigBox. Setting to medium will help performance quite a lot while having very little to no impact on image quality. If after doing all of these things you are still having problems then you may need to look at some LaunchBox tweaks. I mentioned earlier about using the stock BigBox theme, I use this one on my low powered HTPC build and it performs just fine. I use the text games and platforms list and not the logo art. I also use just the box art and screenshots, no video files. The coverflow view with several images on screen at the same time can cause problems if your system is lower powered. Another thing to do is set your image quality to Medium, you really won't notice much of a difference if any sitting back on the couch 6-8 feet away compared to the higher quality settings. Low quality will look pretty ugly and won't help much in terms of performance anyways. You can also go into the Options and then under System > RAM Cache you can try different settings to see how they affect your setup. If you have slow ram or limited amount setting this this to a smaller amount can help in some cases. - No longer applicable since that has been removed. Windows 10 If you are using Windows 10 and the Creators Update try disabling Fullscreen Optimizations by right clicking the BigBox executable and in the Compatibility tab at the bottom. I came across this video recently and it has a lot of great suggestions to help boost performance in Windows 10. It does move along pretty quickly so you want to pause it from time to time and backtrack as necessary. For reference I have Launchbox setup on 2 systems and things run fine on both. System one: Windows 8.1 AMD 8350 @ 4 GHz 16 gigs ram GTX 970 graphics card 2 TB Western Digital Red 10,000+ games Launchbox runs perfectly smooth on this system with full settings and any theme view. System two: Windows 7 AMD Athlon 3800+ @ 2.4 GHz 2 gigs ram Radeon 7850 (1 gig DDR5 vram) Some generic 160 gig hard drive 2500+ games This computer is an old Acer PC that was my parents before they upgraded and by todays standards is pretty much a toaster. Using all the tweaks I mentioned above I have Launchbox with the stock theme and text based lists running very smooth.

It should, yes. But you may want to double check it in the input settings.

Did you configure Input 2 for your 2nd controller ?

Big Box Nested Filters Proper playlists to replace custom filters These 2 right here are the most important by far.

No problem.

With Retroarch ? Make sure you have the correct bios in the /system folder of your RA install folder and make sure your games are cue + bin format and load the cue file.

Not sure about that, I use Retroarch for my Playstation emulation.

Put this in the Auto Hotkey Script tab of your ePSXe emulator config in Launchbox: $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} } I am taking no credit for this one, this was posted by a user here on the forums and I use it on my HTPC and it works for me.

Ah ok no performance issues but still the sound should work through LB if it's working through the emulator outside of it.

Do you possibly have a second install of Mame and your Launchbox is pointing that one by chance ? Because Launchbox should not be causing any performance issues with your emulators or make stuff not work like it works in the emulator on its own. I know I have in the past had issues only to realize I was pointing to a different emulator version install.

Good to hear.

Right. For me by default out of the box my right analog stick is the C buttons or if I wanted to I can hold the right trigger and use the A B X Y buttons as C buttons.

That is exactly how it works by default for me so im not sure what you would need to change to get it that way for you.

Stand alone is it's own emulator outside of Retroarch. The way RA works is they take open source emulators and build their own "core" from the code and the core is then the emulator in Retroarch and uses Retroarchs UI and some other features like shaders and audio sync among others. Often the Retroarch core is better than the stand alones they are based off of but sometimes the stand alones are better. Mame and PPSSPP are good examples of the stand alones being better than the RA core versions.

It has gotten better to be fair but still not quite as good as the stand alone and with the upcoming port audio it's going to spread the gap again unless RA implements port audio as well.

Try the Mame 2014 core first and then the 2010 core. The 2014 core is based off of Mame 159 and the 2010 core is based off 139. If you can though I would recommend getting a 178 or newer romset and using the stand alone version of Mame. Version 178 is very nice for now and requires a 178 or newer romset because of some changes in the Capcom CPS2 roms and emulation. Mame 182 is due out soon and has some very nice sound latency improvements which Retroarch won't have right away and maybe not at all.