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1 minute ago, NJDave71 said:
Computer Specs
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Processor AMD A8-7650K Processor Unlocked Quad Core 3.3GHz Radeon R7 GPU
Memory 8GB DDR3
Graphics Card AMD Radeon R7 250 Graphics Card - 1GB DDR5
SSD Crucial 120GB (OS ONLY)
HDD Western Digital Blue 1TB - 7200RPM 3.5" HDD (all APPS and Programs)
OS Windows 10 Home Premium 64-Bit (Creator Edition)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Overall my machine is fast and responsive Booting up in about 10 seconds from a cold boot.
LaunchBox and BigBox take about 30 seconds to show the UI.
My Current Games count is 13808.
I am considering a clean install but the machine is used just for Games and pinball. there aren't many third party just what's needed to run the games and most are ran on Secondary 1TB HDD (Mechanical).Question / Troubleshooting:
What's the best way of Starting over? I like to test the load time without anything.
Then add back each system and see how it impacts load time.
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.
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1 minute ago, DOS76 said:
BigBox isn't running well for some users and unfortunately you happen to be one of them but it runs good for me on all of my HTPC's is there occasional hickups and slowdowns yeah there is lag some time but not on a consistent basis in my case. I understand your situation is frustrating but if there was a huge widespread performance issue wouldn't there be a lot more unhappy customers?
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.
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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.
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Thanks, I will post there.
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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 SSDsEverything 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!
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For the record, I'm using an AMD card.
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2 minutes ago, SentaiBrad said:
Then I am becoming increasingly more and more confused.
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.
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1 minute ago, SentaiBrad said:
Well to continue down the drive make and model line, do you happen to know if it's 5400RPM? It being a green drive vs a blue or a black WD can also make a huge difference in how it handles power consumption and performance. If it's on a SATA2, or even worse a SATA1 line, performance can also degrade. Even if the port is a SATA3 port, if the cable or drive are lower SATA then it won't matter. The drive, cable and port would all have to be SATA3. In the video that I posted, it does show that in terms of performance for reading your library CPU is most important as it pings the most, and while super fast hard drives may not improve performance too much, a super slow drive can more easily effect it in the opposite. I actually have my stuff on a 5400RPM 8TB SATA3 drive. I wish it was at least 7200RPM, but for the price per GB it was pretty fantastic to have it in an 8TB form, and it seems to do the job just fine. It will take a second to boot open if it's been left un-used for any length of time, but I can help that a bit I believe with some software tweaks.
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.
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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.
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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.
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6 minutes ago, SentaiBrad said:
Which XML? The LaunchBox.xml (if you have one) is not used anymore and is likely outdated. All the XML's needed are in the Data folder now.
I'll check again later tonight, but from what you say, that would explain why it had a wrong setting.
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Just now, Jason Carr said:
Windows Media Player does have some video compatibility issues if you don't install some extra plugins. You can check on and change the video playback engine setting in Big Box under Options > Videos (rather than hunting through configuration files lol). VLC is highly recommended now though over WMP.
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.
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35 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Let me chime in here for a second and just share that yes, we are aware that CoverFlow performance is not ideal currently, even on some fairly fast machines. I apologize but I have not read this entire thread, so forgive me if I'm just repeating people here. If you happen to be using the Windows Media Player video playback engine, you may find that VLC is much quicker and causes less performance issues with CoverFlow.
CoverFlow is smooth on high-end systems, but it is surprisingly taxing right now on video cards. The CPU definitely matters but not as much as the video card for the CoverFlow frame rates. I have this on my plate to address.
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.
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1 minute ago, lordmonkus said:Quote
Also a fresh install of Windows is never as fast as it can be, there is a lot of shit that should be removed and turned off. Windows 10 is even worse than previous versions of Windows with all the telemetry bullshit.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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!
BigBox Performance and How to Make it Better
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No idea, but I'm almost positive I did the same thing while testing... Had it on three drives.