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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!

That's okay, I understand, I hopefully will try that one day if I can. Is the bar just a graphic element I can make in photoshop? It's a shame it can't go much bigger with the text but it already is a big improvement in my opinion. Perhaps autosizing text would be a good compromise if it doesn't look too bad? It really does look so much better now, thankyou for doing this, I really appreciate it! 😀

Yes!😀 That is what I was thinking, thanks MrRetroLust It's already a big improvment! But I honestly think the text needs to be much bigger, at least double the height and width to make it more visible at a glance. I think the issue of the text being hard to see depending on what video is playing behind it could be fixed if the purple bar could also be extended across the bottom and also across the top, so the usual yellow ARCADE logo can really pop! I know I am asking for quite a bit and I understand if you would rather not do this as I will try to figure it out one day with the editor. But if it is something you can do I would be so very pleased and grateful! Would this be hard to achieve you think? Thankyou for already having a go at this so soon, I was not expecting that at all, you are awesome! 😀

Well done Whatcheizer, it's really good to know that themes can be edited relatively easily and quickly for some things.

You are welcome 🙂 Ah I see, it's the way they are imported/labeled in launchbox. It would be great to be able to have it like yours appears in the picture. Thankyou Mr RetroLust!😀 I look forward to this very much!🤩

Firstly, I need to say that I love your Bigbox theme and launchbox theme, I think the main reason I purchased Launchbox premium recently was so that I could have videos for each game in this exact style and layout of your theme (see picture below) and I could not find any other themes that had this simple and best layout, so I am very grateful for your efforts because the results are so stylish and stunning! The one thing I do not like though, is the time appearing in the bottom middle area of the video display portion of the screen and I thought it would be a good time to post here since I've been thinking about this and someone else has just brought this up too. In my opinion, it just doesn't look so good or like it fits with the rest of the layout to have a clock there and I would much prefer a version without this. But what I would really love to see is a version that replaces the clock with a plain text title of the game because sometimes the banner logos on the side (despite looking great) can be very 'busy' and elaborate and it's not always easy to detect the name straight away. I think even extending the two bottom corner purple info blocks (showing playmode, year, developer and publisher) into one long bar/ribbon across the bottom might even help make the game tittle more visible too and still hopefully look good. I was thinking about downloading the theme editor and seeing if I could manage this, but if it is something you would be willing to do as a slightly changed version for people like me, I would be so very very grateful as it would make this theme just about perfect in my opinion. P.S. I love the new arcade cabinets project you are undertaking (and the fantastic Arcade 3D boxes project too!) because I have really been disappointed and turned off by the terrible quality of the majority of arcade cabinet images I've seen for so many years. But the new cabinet images you and the team you work with are producing look absolutely fantastic and I think they finally match the quality of all the other great artwork available, instead of dragging it down like most of the old images do. And these new cab pics look especially awesome in the theme pictured below, it just works so well within the layout and pleases me so much.😄 In the picture below there is a picture of the Capcom CPS system banner instead of the arcade logo I see on mine, is that because the Capcom logo is maybe missing from my hard drive? I would prefer the system logo appear like in the picture below or if not available then no logo at all. Is this something that can already be done or does the theme need to be edited to achieve this? Thankyou again for all your hard work, your bigbox theme is by far the best theme IMO and I really dig it so much😀 Keep up the good work Mr RertroLust, you are a champion!!👏👍🤩 Image URL

That's okay, I was just hoping you could steer me towards a forum or video or something that could help get started?

Thank very much I couldn't find it because I had the button bar hidden. I think it would be much better if this option was also available in the normal option menu in case of this. That sounds really good, but I don't know how to edit themes or even where to begin, would you be able to point me in the right direction please?

I remember a few days ago seeing this option somewhere in the settings and thinking I will give it go and see how it looks because sometimes the Box art doesn't immedeately make it clear what the game is. But now after seeing it for a while it's really stating to annoy me, so I went looking for the option to change it back and I can't find it anywhere. I looked many times but it seems to have disappeared on me. Does anyone know where to find this option please? Also wondering about something else while I'm on this topic: during researching an answer to this question above, I have read that the current default theme doesn't actually allow for placing the name under the box art and only themes based off the "old default" theme will allow for this. Which now that I have seen the game title actually on top of the box art and disliking it, I realise that the name under the box would probably work really well and look good too. So I'm wondering if there is a theme that looks similar to the new default theme that actually allows for this? Because the "old Default" theme doesn't quite look right and isn't as good as the "new" default theme overall, in my opinion. Thanks

Thankyou faeran, I really appreciate you posting this and clarifying the situation. It is really good to know a bit more about the situation and that something is being done on both ends.

Emumovies sync is incredible slow. - EmuMovies Sync - EmuMovies Thanks, I had a read of this and it seems they are aware that it is more than just single movie scraping through Launchbox being the problem.