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Hahaha! Indeed it is! I have an Acer Veriton minipc for BB that strugles with some themes when there is too much stuff going on at once

This is going to be epic! Hopefully it ends up not being too demanding on my potato FE PC XD

Yeap! Awesome changes @Jason Carr, just to be sure; say I have a heavily modified xamls from a theme, these updates will be applied automatically to the theme, being inserted without messing with the rest of the code there?

Cheers DOS; will take a look at that file once I get home and see if that works.

The thing is that bullet 1 has to do with Views, not with Themes, so if I change the theme at the Platform selection level, it will change it as well inside each platform, keeping the view on each one yes, but with the new theme, not maintaining the one I had before. Bullet 2 is what I did before when trying to test different themes in the Category/Platform level, so I changed it there, and then accessed each platform and switched the theme to the one I wanted. The problem with this is when you have over 30+ platforms, I cannot afford to change a theme on the Categories level, and then access each Platform one by one and switch the theme to the one it was before. Makes sense?

Hey guys! I have Big Box set up the way I like it, but I would love to try a new theme at the Category/Platform level only. The problem comes when changing the theme there, as it will change it as a whole for my 30+ platforms (game view) inside. is there a way to only change a theme in the Categories or Platform list, but not inside the Platforms/Playlists? I don't mind if it involves editing xamls or xmls. Thinking out loud, it would be great to have some sort of BigBox Snapshot feature; so all your settings/themes/views/etc/ info gets stored and you can get back to it in a couple of clicks, in case you mess it up or want to revert stuff you did.

Love the idea of new graphics. Will be eagerly waiting for any news :)

My dream theme. New Retro Arcade bgs and screens could be used, so consoles bgs are a corner with a crt tv; handhelds bg a table with stuff in it. I'm ready.

Pinballs?

I did not know! Will test it out as soon as I get home; I thought I already tried it, and the music did not fade out on game details screen. Cheers Stovies.

This would be an awesome feature indeed. My ideal scenario would be to have specific background music per platform/playlist, and once you enter the game details screen, the background music fades out, letting you hear the actual game sound from the video snap. Going back to the game selection screen fades in the background music back.

I can make the custom text in PS like the original, no problems there, I only need the mags rendered logo, which I am not being able to find a decent one over the web, and was trying to avoid making it myself.

Hey guys! Sorry for bumping this old topic again. I am adding the comics/magazines category and wanted to know if somebody already made or has a category logo with the same aesthetics as the ones from this topic. I tried to find something like a book shelf or similar, but was not happy with the results.

Ah! You got it @Zaazu! I had stuttering issues with VLC since day one, and with WMP always worked like a charm. I would have never guessed that your processor consumption would be tied to that change.

@Zaazu try launching Windows in Safe Mode and see if the problem persists.

Thanks @Retro808! Ive been waiting for a Unified platform bgs startup theme! Will use your modified version two posts above as well if you dont mind. This, in conjunction with the Unified bgs as well as the unified overlays I did will make the games look like they are appearing inside BB. Cheers!

Sorry Zaazu I was going to say the same as Lust; to force cache on all images (takes a couple of minutes to process depending on the amount of games you have, but definitely worth it). Besides that, I am out of ideas.

@DOS76, did not know game mode affected performance; supposed to be the other way around right? @Zaazu I have LTSC 2019 and it has game mode.

When it starts lagging like that, if you open the task manager is there any program taking memory or cpu to the max?

+1 for this. The only other way is to audit the platform and check where you have more than 0 in the Apps column, although if you have 3rd party software as well it will not be differentiated.

Ah, yes. I shoud have left the original message, sorry. I wanted to know how you launched the games on win3.1 startup. You got it.

EDIT: Disregard; found it in WIN.INI

By any chance, could you have switched the two F310 controllers? Even though they are the same model/make, it could be that your original configuration was set with a specific F310 in a specific USB port, and after you plugged them the other way around, Windows read them differently? In my minipc Windows reads the joysticks in different order depending on the USB port I use for each one, so I got their cables marked to know each of the 4 USB ports go with which controller USB.