Lordmonkus Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Performance seems to be the same to me but I would like to see better performance when in normal mode (not BigBox), especially if in list view without pictures. Now it's not that performance is terrible, I don't mind the 3 or 4 second delay in switching platforms but it would be nice if it was just a little snappier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imgema Posted September 17, 2016 Author Share Posted September 17, 2016 (edited) Performance peaked at version 6.6. After that it got progressively worse. And now i wonder if i could find that version instead. I don't remember any features that were useful to me in newer versions so i could just stick to that, at least until advanced search options is implemented. Edited September 17, 2016 by Imgema Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 I didn't see any noticeable difference in performance on my end but I also have a fairly beefy system so that may have something to do with it. I will support any push in performance gains however. It would certainly be nice if switching platforms was faster than it currently is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Same issue for me @Imgema. I know they will squash this problem! I think its a tough one to make fast and still look awesome, since there can be so many games in one platform with art/video/metadata. I still have some experimenting that I want to do to improve performance on my system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 The beta I just put out today does focus on some performance improvements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 On September 17, 2016 at 3:25 PM, lordmonkus said: Performance seems to be the same to me but I would like to see better performance when in normal mode (not BigBox), especially if in list view without pictures. Now it's not that performance is terrible, I don't mind the 3 or 4 second delay in switching platforms but it would be nice if it was just a little snappier. it's still slow in list view?? i was thinking that would chop of the time to switch platforms significantly (i was gonna try that but haven't yet). hmm, so that kind of makes me think the performance is mostly because of the xml file, which seems like a much easier fix! hmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Performance gains in the new beta are 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Unfortunately those are false assumptions, @ckp. You may find that the box art view is faster, yes, which makes sense considering that the list view shows ALL the data where as the box art view shows only the titles and images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 4 minutes ago, lordmonkus said: Performance gains in the new beta are really? i wonder what area was touched for the improvement? still using xml file in that beta? is the beta safe to upgrade to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Here is what Jason said over in the beta discussion thread: "Just put out a new beta; I focused primarily on performance in LaunchBox when switching between platforms. I improved the rendering, caching, and data population routines all to be more performant. It was actually the rendering/painting operations that were causing the biggest amounts of lag when switching between filters and repopulating the boxes. The single biggest performance gain came from caching the rendered text that is displayed below the games. The caching routines have been significantly cleaned up and also simplified. Previously LaunchBox would cache images in the background, but this was causing quite a bit of confusion ("Why is LaunchBox using so much CPU usage!?") as well as hurting the performance elsewhere a tad. In this beta, images will only be cached once they've been scrolled to. However, we now do a much better job of refreshing the images that are actually displayed on the screen first, so I don't think this will be much of an issue. That said, leaving LaunchBox overnight will no longer automatically cache all of the images. We may add that back in based on the feedback from these betas." Basically he separated the xml into smaller ones and changed the rendering. So far I have not run into any problems with the latest beta. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 For me before the beta switching platforms took on average about 5-6 seconds and now it's 1-2 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Wow, im super excited now!! Cant wait to get home to try it! I guess i just need to check that beta box in the settings to get offered this build? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Yeah, check the box and restart Launchbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Helloooooooooooooooooooo performance GOODNESS!! 6.9 release switch any platform = 9.43 seconds 6.10 beta 2 switch any platform = 2.75 seconds!!!!!! scrolling the games seems totally fine as well. This version is a KEEPER!!! Woohoo!!!!! Don't stop there though...keep optimizing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Added bonus: opening Manage Platforms and then clicking the Close button no longer give LB a fit of freezing up and hanging for several seconds. Now there is no fit and only takes maybe 1 or 2 seconds!! Gotta try Bigbox options and back to platform list now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 The Launchbox.exe process now exits almost instantly after closing the app window now! It used to take MANY seconds to exit. Another win! Ok the Bigbox navigation from Options area and back to platforms list still hangs for several seconds. Ok, can't win 'em all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 @Jason Carr, if you are anywhere near the Emeryville or Sacramento/Roseville (California) area at any time, please allow me to buy you lunch! Serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imgema Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 (edited) Yeah there is a definite improvement with the beta. Time it takes to browse through systems is a little less than 2 seconds for me now. Any chances the stable version reaching version's 6.4 to 6.6 performance? With these versions it was a joy to browse through your collection because it took less than a second per selection. If not, it's ok. "less than 2 seconds" is an acceptable speed (as long as it doesn't slow down again in the future ) Edit: Holy crap at those 9.43 seconds ckp! (how did you even measure it with such precision?). For me the program would be completely unusable this way. In what system you run it? Edited September 21, 2016 by Imgema Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Hi @Imgema, to be honest I'm doubtful that the speed differences you were seeing previously with the 6.4 and 6.6 versions had anything to do with code differences; most likely they had to do with the size of your collection. So I'm doubtful that going back to 6.4 or 6.6 would speed things up, and for that reason I don't think we're going to get it a whole lot quicker for 6.10. Thanks @ckp. You're actually only a couple hours away from me (I'm in Modesto). I'll let you know if I ever head to that area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 ahh, my kids actually have weekend soccer tournaments every now and then out by you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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