AndromedaToast Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 Hey Jason, I'm still in love with your app.. It's the best thing out there! However, I want to make the case for using better image interpolation. I've been using the app since version 2, but I thought you would have fixed this by now. The issue is that the default image interpolation LaunchBox currently uses is very low quality. And I did a little test to prove why. I took the same box cover (which was 1500 pixels wide), and shrunk it down using several interpolation methods and stuck them side by side next to the default LaunchBox interpolation. I'm assuming that LB uses nearest neighbor, which is not good at all for making out any kind of detail, especially at small sizes. Notice how you can barely make out "Super Mario Land." And "6 Golden Coins" is literally illegible. Also nearly impossible to make out is any of the artwork, including Mario himself! I would like to request that you change interpolation methods to Bilinear (which is not very CPU intensive, and makes a world of difference as you can see from both the Photoshop Bilinear and Google Chrome resizing samples of the exact same image). If it's good enough for Chrome, then it should be good enough for LaunchBox. Thanks for all your amazing work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Well that's interesting...LaunchBox does not, in fact, look poor like that first image on the machines I use. What version of Windows are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndromedaToast Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 I'm using XP.. although I see that the problem doesn't exist in Windows 7. Why would this be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Microsoft made a lot of API improvements regarding GDI+ with the release of Windows Vista, so I suspect that is the reason. But Windows is three versions ahead of XP now; it's almost surprising that it works at all, to be honest. Are you forever sticking to XP or just haven't gotten around to upgrading yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndromedaToast Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 XP works too well... that's the problem. My motivation to upgrade is not very high. I will probably upgrade to Windows 7 sometime this next year though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Sure, I'm one of those "latest and greatest" addicts. It does bite me from time to time, though, certainly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndromedaToast Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 I've learned that even though the latest and greatest usually has some amazing new features and looks really nice, they usually break a dozen things in the process that I've come to rely on and take for granted... then I have to learn a whole new set of workarounds for things that are so basic, it seems we should have solved them last century. hahaha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Yup, no kidding. I hear you there. I just can't resist the shiny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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