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Unfortunately this is a problem that I believe will never be solved. It seems that BigBox is designed to self-destruct itself little by little. It doesn't matter what theme you use, when you spend more than 15 minutes browsing the menus or entering and exiting a game, BigBox navigation becomes slow and stutters. The only solution is to exit completely and re-enter, but it doesn't take long for the problem to recur. I am clear that it is not a problem with my computer or the drivers, the BigBox system simply has a design flaw in this regard. I use other rom managers on my SteamDeck or Nintendo Switch and none of them have this usability problem. You can spend an entire afternoon browsing the menus and the system continues to work without problems. This is unfortunately impossible with BigBox. Years ago I thought it was a theme problem, but this also happens with the default theme so it is a design problem of the program itself.

Indeed, by resizing the sidebar the problem disappears for that specific game, but it may then appear in a different one.

Indeed, it seems that the problem has been minimized and now the games that cause the dance movement are less, but the problem still persists.

Wonderfull!!!! Let's try it again!!!!

Hello @C-Beats, indeed if you change the size of the sidebar for that specific game the problem is solved, but then the problem is reproduced in other games that did not have this problem before. There is no sidebar size that would fix the issue for the entire set of games. If the size is fixed for a specific game, you will break it for others that did not have the problem before. I know it's somewhat complicated and I'm not sure if it can be solved in any way. I hope that with some time you will find a way to fix this problem since there is no theme with better features than this today in my opinion. Thank you very much for your great work.

After several weeks using this theme as the main theme in my system, it is impossible for me to continue doing it because of the flickering bug. The problem is not so much the flickering of the images in the sidebar, the problem is that while this happens Launchbox stays "locked" for the duration of the flickering, preventing even changing the game in the list. It is a real pity since in my opinion this is today the most complete theme and with the best features of all those that exist. I hope @C-Beats can find a solution to this problem.

Indeed, resizing the sidebar fixes the problem for that specific game but it keeps failing for others. I guess it depends on the size of the text or the rest of the elements that go just below the images. If they do not fit correctly, clipping begins.

I am carrying out more tests and resizing the size of the boxes of the games a bit, the error seems to have disappeared. I guess it is something related to the size of the sidebar.

Hi @C-Beats, I have found a small bug exploring some games in the right sidebar. As can be seen in the following video, when accessing some games the content flashes and the system freezes for a few seconds. I've noticed it happening on all systems and only some games. 2023-08-08 22-27-11.mkv

Updated Translation for Spanish Language-es.zip

Hello, would it be possible to translate the texts "View related games" and "View 3D model" into Spanish? These texts have not been translated for a long time. I offer to translate them "View related games" = "Ver Juegos Relacionados" "View 3D model" = "Ver Modelo 3D" Thank you.

I have also noticed the same thing as you, the default theme does not suffer from this lag and I also thought that it would be possible because of the CTC. I guess there must be some reason for this. It is a pity that the experience in Big Box is not smooth. I guess for most people it's more important to start the game than to be able to scroll smoothly through the game list.

Here I show you a short video comparing two BigBox themes and their fluidity when navigating the games. I hope you can see the difference clearly since it is much easier to notice when you are the one who controls the game controller to move the list.

Hi everyone, over the years I've been using Launchbox and BigBox I've tried dozens of themes trying to get the best gaming experience while still being nice to look at. Every time I've had the same problem, I've found a fantastic theme that suited my needs, clean, pretty, but it always ended with slowdowns navigating the game menus. I see that it is a common problem in 99% of the themes that can be downloaded today for BigBox and what I would like to know is if you think that one day this aspect will be improved to allow a completely fluid experience in exploring our collection of games. I don't have the best PC in the world, my features are AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor 3.60 GHz, 16GB RAM and Nvidia Gforce 1660 Super. I know it's a simple PC, but I understand that it should be more than enough to run a frontend with images and some low-resolution video. My problem mainly is in games list type views. When I go through the different games I notice a lag when going from one game to the next. Sometimes even the sounds it makes when going through the list from one game to another stop listening or even make small jumps if you decide to go between games quickly. I'm sure many of you know what I'm talking about. I want to say that recently I found a theme that (at the moment) is the only one that navigates through the list of games in a totally fluid way, without slowdowns and being able to scroll through the list as fast as you want without problems. The theme in question is called "Stark" and is from the creator @donkeywaffles. As I said, of the dozens of themes I've tried, it's the only one that doesn't slow down in its game list view and allows for totally fluid navigation. The rest of the themes I've tried end up slowing down somehow, especially in game list views with details. My question right now is does this theme have something special that the others don't? and Why can't I have the same smooth experience with the other available themes? I love being able to review the list of my games much more than playing them. For me, Launchbox and BigBox are the way to see my collection, see information about the games, their images, videos and other available media... But the browsing experience is not the best possible right now and I would like to be able to improve it. Do you think I can do something to improve my BigBox browsing experience? Sorry for my long speech, but I needed to tell this for a long time. All the best.

Thanks for keeping this theme updated!!!!

Thanks I solved it !!!

Hello, I want to move the roms from one of my platforms to another location. The problem is that on this platform the roms are not in ZIP format. Each rom is located in a subfolder with its name and inside this folder is the .cue and .bin file. The problem is that if I use the wizard to change the path of my roms I can only choose the top level and when importing the path is not correct, since the files are inside subfolders. What can I do to move this platform to another location without having to re-import the games one by one? Thank you.

Hi @viking, congratulations on this wonderful theme. Would it be possible to disable the animation of the game details that appears on the right every time you change the game in the list? For me it would be much better if the right part with the game details was always visible and that only the game details themselves changed each time you go to the next one in the list. The game box image appears immediately when you switch from one game to the next, but the details take time to appear due to the entrance animation. I think it would be better to leave the details always visible. Is it possible to do this? Thanks a lot.