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No idea, but I'm almost positive I did the same thing while testing... Had it on three drives.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the best way is to install BB to a second location, i.e. Make a second installation. Then you can launch that installation separately, and test as you want.

Many of us have stopped posting or given up hope, I would say. I've moved back to emulation station, myself. The latest Windows update improved performance for me for BB, but now there are even larger performance spikes every 15 seconds or so. One reason I stopped posting here is because too many people say "it must be your system because mine works fine" or others just saying there is no problem. This is niche software, so those who want it, really want it, not require it, so when it doesn't work as it should it's extremely frustrating.

Sluggish BB performance. Using default theme, made other tweaks such as disabled game background images(which didnt work, unless I did it wrong somehow), changed minimum speed from 400ms to 200ms to make it snappier. A lot of times, there is an initial delay going to the next coverflow, or is begins, but then hitches for a second or two 75% of the way through the flip animation. My system specs are: OS: Win 10 x64 CPU: Intel i5 6600K @ 4.6Ghz GPU: R9 Fury X Hard Drives: 2 Samsung Evo 850 SSDs, and a WD plain drive. Tried BB on all hard drives, same result. Thanks for any help.

Thanks, I will post there.

Any performance improvements coming Big Box way? I had issues before, and they still linger. Reformatted system for the last time, rid of the few errors in my Event Log created by the Anniversary update. Updated drivers system wide. Fairly powerful system here: OS: Win 10 x64 CPU: Intel i5 6600K @ 4.6 Ghz GPU: AMD R9 Fury X RAM: 16 GB Hard drives: Both Samsung Evo SSDs Everything on my system flies, except Big Box. Coverflow performance is hurting with most settings on lower than should be. Any ideas or new fixes anyone else has found? Thanks in advance!

For the record, I'm using an AMD card.

As am I. Doesn't matter where it is now, even on my ssd's ... Performance goes back to slow. I'm going to wait for the next update, and see what happens. If all works(BC I'm using beta channel) I'll be happy and turn beta updates off. If it's still slow, I'll probably shelf it for 3-6 months and come back to it.

I cant recall which colour it is - I literally cant bend down to look either. It's definitely 7200 ... I would never use a 5400 in a Desktop. The drive seems in good form, I run battlefield 4 off of it right now.

I apologize for the late reply. All my drives on Windows are NTFS, and the particular drive I had Launchbox on was a Western Digital. I'm not sure how much the model matters, as the drive I transferred it to is the same make and model and worked perfectly. I apologize, I'd get the drive model and include it anyway, but I've badly injured my leg, and can't get down on the ground to open my case and fiddle about with the drive bay.

Ok, I made some headway. I couldnt understand what was going on. I scanned the hard drive my installation of LB was on, and it was completely error free. Out of frustration, I moved the folder to another drive, and it worked great. I moved it back, and it worked fine again. I can't easily explain this one, but I'll take it. Working much better now.

I'll check again later tonight, but from what you say, that would explain why it had a wrong setting.

Totally agree, and I probably wasnt clear enough, which is obviously my fault. I changed the setting in the app, right where you specified, but while hunting through the config file for a perhaps special option I could change that might positively affect performance, I found in the config file, it had my defauly video play listed as Windows Media Player, which I thought was strange.

No apology necessary, and thank you for acknowledging. Strangely, I have VLC set in my settings of BB, and none of the videos played before the last set of betas for me, because BB was still using WMP(I believe), but now the videos play. I went routing through some BB config files and found a video player xml tag, but it stated "Windows Media Player" as my default video player. I changed it to say "VLC", which could wrong, it could be VideoLan for all I know, but I did not see a difference. This could be one problem I'm experiencing in Platform view.

Totally agree, I have all that stuff off, of course for performance but mostly for privacy. I only wish I knew of a reliable way to shut updates off and make them fully manual like they used to be. I used a registry hack, but it disabled updates permanently.

I'm all for figuring this out. will post some screens later when I'm not on my Linux laptop. I just find it hard to believe that, if LB/BB is indeed mostly cpu reliant, that with a fairly fresh copy of Windows 10, on an i5 6600K that runs @ 4.5 Ghz, that I could be having problems when my idle cpu usage sits between 0% and 7%. My idle RAM sits usually around 2GB, out of 16GB. I find it strange that apparently something is eating up my cpu cycles, causing BB to perform worse, but, my BF1 can run on maxed settings with Supersampling at 150% and I still avg 100fps. Rainbow Six siege - no different. I'm primarily a Linux developer, and I dont pretend to know much about Windows development, or the inner workings of LB/BB, for which I havent even looked into, but it seems like if BB isn't utilizing OpenGL for everything, it could really use it. I'm not suggesting I know more or could fix BB, just a suggestion. On one hand, I can totally understand and respect that the devs are saying from their experience that there must be something eating up cpu cycles ergo negatively affecting performance - I understand you can only test so many configuration, I've been there myself so I sympathize. On the other hand however, I have dozens of resource-demanding applications that run seamlessly(even mostly cpu-bound programs), even when I have several background tasks running, and BB is the only one that runs poorly ... literally. Without benchmarking, I'd have to guess it runs between 15-30 fps, and gets a bit hung up upon changing screens and moving around swiftly. I'm one of those guys that turns off Windows services I don't need, and tweaks the system to get some better performance. I have done that, but to be honest, these days, at least on my system, I don't see too much of a difference - normally only in startup time, as most less-common services seem to be set to manual or auto-triggered already anyway. I don't even use LB/BB anymore, because it's such a nuisance. I love the program, but starting to regret my purchase to be honest. I have games that have higher required specs, that run better on my quad core 1.8 Ghz laptop running Ubuntu 15.10. Doesn't seem right.

Hello all! I love the feature that downloads Steam banners in lieu of box art that can't be found, however, after a while, I decided to standardize my library, as I use coverflow and it got a bit irritating seeing the odd-sized steam banners(even though this is a great feature!). I download some box art, and looked in the box art folder, named it appropriately as far as I can tell, then refreshed my images but only one banner changed to a box. Any tips? Thanks in advance!

I have to chime in and say I'm having not the smoothest performance either. I'm on Win 10(64-bit obviously). I have a i5 6600K OC'd to 4.5 Ghz, and a AMD Fury X with 16 GB of system ram. Needless to say, far from a mediocre system, and coverflow, and pretty much every screen is a bit laggy. I've got effects turned down, Image quality set to Medium, and the difference is negligible. There has got to be a problem underlying. I love this software, but right now, it;s usable, but frustrating.

Simply amazing! Thanks again for the software. Paying for the license was a non-issue. I was actually in the midst of creating my own front end when I found LaunchBox. I'm thankful I didnt get too far.

Hi @Jason Carr, I thought that might be the issue as well. Knowing that you have plans for the wheel and other details to slide off the screen to give way for the video makes me even more glad than I already am for purchasing a license - thanks so much! One question I was not able to find an answer for: Can we have multiple videos per game? Is there a way to name videos by appending a number or something to indicate there are multiple videos, choose one at random?

After finally getting retroarch to behave properly(which is amazing), I've finally been able to spend more time with, and properly use LaunchBox more thoroughly. I use Big Box mode only, and it is truly amazing. One issue I'm having is, I have background videos set to play for each game. I am able to watch the video in the background, but sometimes would rather just watch the video. The ultimate would be for say, after five seconds, the game list and details split and divide sliding off the screen, or sliding vertically like a curtain so I can enjoy the video. The actual problem is I see the Play video fullscreen option in the game menu, but when I select it, the screen goes black and nothing plays. Is this a known issue? Any ideas on a fix? I have VLC set as my video player, as WMP doesnt play any of the videos I've tried to watch. Thanks for any help!