Wonderboy

My graphics card is a GTX 1080. I updated my drivers right after this started happening but unfortunately it didn't help. Since this issue occurred I have only tried running LaunchBox (no BigBox) and the theme I'm using is the old LaunchBox default theme.

No problem, all good Yeah, it doesn't really make much sense based of everything you guys have said, I guess there is a glitch somewhere that is behind it. Thanks for the screen grabs, that is interesting to see how low your GPU usage is, wish mine would sit on 0% when idle, because that's what most other programs do. But I'm glad that at least the 13.6 downgrade has temporarily improved things a lot.

I just downgraded to 13.6 and the issue instantly went away. GPU Usage now sits at between 5-15% and no loud PC fans whizzing up. There's an issue here guys, something has changed in the latest 2 versions to make that happen.

I see, thanks for clarifying what you meant. But I still don't understand your reference to memory usage? I was saying that the GPU usage (processing, not memory usage) is running very high and has only started doing this recently, causing the fans in my PC to increase a lot, literally 5 seconds after starting Launchbox. This seems like very odd behaviour and a lot of excess processing, when the program is idle. Because when I took that screen shot, no caching was being done as I had left it for 5 minutes to see if it would drop down, but it just keeps fluctuating and generally staying high as though something is going on, but it's just displaying some box art, I even paused videos in the sidebar. Other than running modern games, the only thing that uses the GPU in my system at similar levels, is running a 4k movie in full screen, but even then my system doesn't start running all fans at full speed, like is happening with Launchbox. Something is definitely off.

I'm not sure I follow you. 12-14% is a long way from 42%, it just seems excessively high to me for a program that is sitting there doing nothing, and so I think there is an issue. Especially considering it didn't do this before, as I have only noticed it on the previous 2 updates, because the fans in my PC started ramping up as soon as I opened Launchbox. Is there a way to downgrade the version of Launchbox?

Okay, I'm not sure I fully understand everything you wrote but I think I get the gist of it. Are you saying that Launchbox does not directly require large GPU resources? Can you tell me if that kind of GPU usage is at all normal, when the program is just sitting there and showing some box art? I'm imagining it isn't and based on what you said the problem must lie elsewhere ie: not in Launchbox code but perhaps in the .Net runtime code?

I open LaunchBox and GPU usage immediately ramps up to well past 30% and just stays there, I'm only in LaunchBox and haven't opened BigBox or even done any navigating in the app, this is just how it behaves when opening up to the most recent system. Even climbs up to over 40% sometimes. I left it open for over 5 minutes and it just stayed like that. Closed it and opened it again several times, but it still does this every time. Before the latest 2 updates I never noticed this before, has something changed? Task Manager screen cap: https://imgur.com/a/eq4reWd

Nobody experienced this?

If I'm in Launchbox and I select a game and then hit info button, it brings up the side bar and automatically plays the preview video. Then I stop the video and it stops fine, no sound plays either. But then if I click on another tab/app on the Windows taskbar and then afterwards select the LaunchBox tab again, the sound for the previously selected game video is straight away playing in the background even though there is no game showing in the sidebar/info box. Click away to another tab and it stops straight away and then click back again and it starts again straight away. Anyone else get this? Is there a way to turn this off or is this a bug? Turning off auto play videos seems to fix it but that's really annoying to have to press play on every preview video and it just seems like something is broken with the auto-play feature?

I recently added about 20 Mame roms into launchbox via the import feature in the menu. They all imported okay and all the media downloaded for each game too and it is all the correct info and media for each game, it's just the title that is wrong. I then have to edit each individual game and search for the correct title in the launchbox database and select the correct one and then it displays okay. All rom names are correct official names all from a complete romset all downloaded together in one verified torrent. I have not had this happen before, it always just worked. Does anyone know what is going on here? Also, is there a way to fix a whole bunch of games that have this issue rather than having to edit each one to correct it? I was going to import another 250 games but I don't want to have this happen again and then be stuck renaming them for hours!

Thankyou so much for re-posting, I really appreciate this! I hope you have a great day 😃 and thanks again for posting all these great tables and artwork, you're a champion 🏆

Thanks for posting this here 😃, it's great. But I really needed the artwork most of all as I have quite a lot of tables installed already and it's just high quality artwork that I have been struggling to find to make LaunchBox look pretty. Any chance you could re-post the artwork? Because the link no longer works. Thanks 😃

I have looked online and looked within the LaunchBox menus but I can't find a list of keyboard shortcuts for LaunchBox anywhere. I just want to know the basic commands like a key to turn on/off the game info side bar etc. Anyone know where this is?

That's brilliant to hear the files is structured very well, no doubt all the notes and headings will help me a lot too when I decide to delve into it and try a few tweaks. Yes, I know what you mean, once you can start to see a pattern and locate things within some code you can start to make a bit of sense out of it even if you're a non-coder like me. Thanks for the update that is really cool you were successful and very encouraging to hear for sure. 🙂

Thankyou ! 👍 I installed it just now and it's looking great by comparison, so much easier having the title there and it looks much cleaner too. Great work once again MR RetroLust, you made the best BigBox theme even better! And thankyou for helping me out straight away that was really cool of you and I really appreciate it 😃 I resized some of Vikings 4k Colorful Platform videos to 4:3 ratio and now that they properly fill the screen, I think they look fantastic together with your theme! Cheers MrRetroLust and thankyou again for all your many efforts and projects that make LaunchBox beautiful!