[Strange freezing on BigBox]

14 hours ago, faeran said:

 

@HappyGuy, I may be able to shed some light into why you are seeing what you are seeing.

First to establish why you saw freezing: It is caused by themes created with the COMMUNITY Theme Creator that have views with a user defined video element, and was published before the current 1.0.8.99 version. Once a solution was identified, y2guru updated the creator to the new version. From there, the impacted themes would need to be re-published and uploaded to the forums/theme manager.

Since I created the Retrotastic theme, I can say that I uploaded a newer version to the forums that solves the freezing issue (along with a number of other changes), but I have yet to update the version within the Big Box Themes Manager, thus you would still see the freezing issue with that version from within Big Box. However, I should have the newer version within the Theme Manager at some point this week. 

As far as why the Theme Manager asked you to update the theme: The Theme Manager within Big Box doesn't know what version you are using if you download a theme from the forums, thus will always ask you to download its copy instead. This is why you saw what you saw. It doesn't actually mean that the Theme Manager's version is newer, just that it recognizes that it's different.

I'm curious about what you said about CoverBox. It's interesting in the sense that the theme has no current issues and was not created using the theme creator. If you do want to troubleshoot the coverbox issue, send me a PM.

Thank you so much for your reply. 

a lot of what you said helped me understand the problem at hand.

as for coverbox it turns out it was a different problem(it was my hard disk dying after a lot of use over the years which made me realize it was a different crash because it was not able to read one of the files that was 0 byte and undeletable).

also I just wanna say I really love your retrotastic theme but I noticed the forum version is missing the background theme for the platform(its hard for me to describe since English is not my native but I meant the background with the flag on it).

again thank you for your reply and the great theme ❤️

[Lag in COLORFUL BigBox Theme]

am gonna give it a try and see if i have the same lag

Edit: it works fine with me (both light and dark) sorry but I got no clue ?

[Strange freezing on BigBox]

ok coinops froze as well so now am just gonna try the forum ones + see if new themes have this problem or not

Edit: so I used the forum version of retrotastic and coinops redux and they both did not freeze at all which was kind weird since I thought it was the same as the bigbox downloaded themes.

but they both are working now but I felt like I had to do a little bit more testing so I downloaded the new theme pulse.

bigbox asked me if it wanted me to update it to the newest one (the theme that is) which is weird since I just downloaded it of the forums but nonetheless I updated it using the theme manager.

it worked really well and there does not seem to be a problem with It

then I tried using coverbox because I had not updated it yet which broke bigbox again.

I think @G22 is right about theme devs needing to update their themes to fix this.

[Lag in COLORFUL BigBox Theme]

just guess ahead ?

do you mean the transition effect?

because if i remember colorful has like a few second when it does a transition to the next item(as in shows the video and info).

at first i guessed maybe your hdd is slow but you have an ssd so maybe its your input device?

what do you use as a controller?

[Strange freezing on BigBox]

I think they are both are up-to-date no?

I made sure they are both updated using the bigbox theme manager which matches the verision on the forum downloads section. 

retrotastic froze alot so now am testing coinops by leaving it on attract mode.

since most of the freezing happens when entering wheels and leaving.

[Strange freezing on BigBox]

I am using retrotastic and coinops redux both downloaded with bigbox theme manager

I use retrotastic is my main theme for bigbox while using coinops redux as a wheel for games

[Strange freezing on BigBox]

4 hours ago, G22 said:

The version of Bigbox doesn't have anything to do with this matter. Still I find it better to be on the latest version.

You want to use a theme that have been originally created with the Community Theme Manager and UPDATED with Community Theme Manager version 1.0.8.99 and above.

The freezing wont happen anymore.

ummm silly question but how do i know if its been made with the community theme manager ?

[Strange freezing on BigBox]

i have been having this problem i guess because it keeps freezing randomly.

i tried the escape + windows key which kind works.

unless you tab to something else by mistake then it just stops reponding tho the background music still plays.

i am on the newest beta build.

the problem to me became noticible when i left bigbox scrolling the wheel in attract mode and the next day found it froze so i thought eh just restarting it would do good.

next thing i knew is that bigbox menu became unusable from the amount of freezing.

is there any fix for this?

thanks.