Jason Carr Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 Hmm, well that would be the issue then. It sounds like it's having trouble creating the Temp folder for some reason, which doesn't really make sense outside of a permissions issue, but if LaunchBox is running and working well, then there really shouldn't be any permissions issues, so I don't know. You can try manually creating a Temp folder inside of your Metadata folder to see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Hey all, unfortunately I really botched the 7.2 release (and to a lesser extent to the 7.1 release for that matter). I'm putting out the 7.3 release shortly; I'd really appreciate if you guys could update and test things when you can. We've had some major issues with some of the VLC changes that have been a bear to fix (specifically I messed up a bunch of stuff when I added the VideoControl for the background videos). New release will be up shortly. Hi Jason, No problem these things happen :). From quick testing the big performance issue with the background video playback in the city hunter theme seems solved for me with the 7.3: - Theme background video in the city hunter theme now stops when launching a game / emulator and CPU usage is much lower now. There are two issues left for me: - Scrolling info notes in the theme keep scrolling while emulator is launched / running, which causes CPU usage to vary between 0% (scrolling note is stopped) to 3 to 4% (scrolling note is scrolling). It would be very nice to have an option to disable scrolling of the notes when the theme is "inactive" (i.e. after a game / emulator is launched). Which would put Big Box cpu usage down further. - After exiting a game the background video in the city hunter theme remains paused. It only start playing again when I "ESC" the category/platform I'm in. Other than that I just wanted to say that Big Box with the Critical Zone City Hunter theme is unbelievably good. Stunning. I'm soo happy with it. Thanks to you and both theme developers. Thanks again for all the effort you're putting into making this so great Edited December 26, 2016 by Rod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 Thanks for confirming all that for me, @Rod. Great to hear. Good point on the scrolling notes; I'll add that to my list. Also working on the non-resuming background videos issue. I'll be putting out only betas for a bit here to perfect everything; thankfully I think the trainwrecks have all been fixed in 7.3. Let me know if anyone else is seeing any major issues with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Does 7.3 fix the enabling of two xbox controllers freezing up BB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 @ckp Unfortunately not yet. I'll look at that soon; it's on my shortlist. A new beta is out with fixes for a few issues: - Improvement: In order to reduce CPU usage while playing games, the scrolling text now pauses when Big Box is not in focus - Fixed: Videos in Big Box were not resuming when going back from the game details screen the first time - Fixed: Big Box Background videos were not always resuming after playing games We're still in bugfix mode, though all the glaring bugs should hopefully be fixed. We're going to take our time fixing as many things as possible and then we'll put out one last official release before tackling new features. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) @Jason Carr , related to cpu, if I watch task manager launchbox.exe while LB is just sitting there, I see the cpu spike up about every 5 seconds. I'm concerned if this also happens while in game? Does LB stop doing this when not in focus I hope? Is this related to your cpu fix or just something that has always been there? Edited December 27, 2016 by ckp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 @Jason Carr I can confirm that the issues I was having with 7.2 are now fixed. Exiting game details view on CPS1 games no longer crashes Big Box and I am now getting fullscreen background video in CriticalZone v1.6. Thanks so much to you and @CriticalCid ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 57 minutes ago, ckp said: @Jason Carr , related to cpu, if I watch task manager launchbox.exe while LB is just sitting there, I see the cpu spike up about every 5 seconds. I'm concerned if this also happens while in game? Does LB stop doing this when not in focus I hope? Is this related to your cpu fix or just something that has always been there? I'm getting consistently less than 1% CPU usage in LaunchBox while games are running. Yes, LaunchBox stops most of its background processing when not in focus. You're probably seeing the background caching going on, I'm guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 I get a small spike when launching a game then it fluctuate but never goes higher than 1.2% then there is another small spike as you close RA but it seems like normal usage to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) According to Performance Monitor, while logging cpu usage for launchbox.exe only when a MAME game is running and in focus, it is showing ~11% cpu usage exactly every 5 seconds. I have 4 cpu cores. I don't think that will help me when running cpu intensive games and emulators. Edited December 27, 2016 by ckp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Okay tested running MAME games and my performance is the same. MAME is only using 2.8% of my CPU and LB never gets higher than 1.4% while it is running in the background this is on a core I7 4770K with 16GB of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 2 hours ago, ckp said: According to Performance Monitor, while logging cpu usage for launchbox.exe only when a MAME game is running and in focus, it is showing ~11% cpu usage exactly every 5 seconds. I have 4 cpu cores. I don't think that will help me when running cpu intensive games and emulators. So it only happens when MAME is active? Not when MAME isn't running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imdavid555 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Thanks Jason! Will have check out the latest update when I get home from work. BTW 7.2 did not seem to help at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) 8 hours ago, Jason Carr said: So it only happens when MAME is active? Not when MAME isn't running? I'm assuming it happens when any emulator is running or just not having LB in focus. When LB is in focus and idle, I think it also uses this amount of cpu, which was my original statement. It seems like the "background caching" is still using up cpu when not in focus, or something about LB is using cpu. So, if you're only seeing 1% in task manager (times the number of cores) with your LB not in focus, I'm guessing you see that same amount when your LB is in focus (but idle). I'd like to see it take no cpu at all when not in focus, because I'm cpu bound on some stuff. Edit: I'm taking my cpu sampling using Performance Monitor (built into Windows) with it set to log LB usage every second. Task manager isn't really a great tool for checking this. Edited December 27, 2016 by ckp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) Hey @jasoncarr, just a thought but should we start a new thread, 7.0 or above? Just a thought. Lots of changes that no longer apply to previous versions is all. Keep this one obviously but... Edited December 27, 2016 by neil9000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) There is already an older thread called LB beta testing that ended when 6.8 came out this one is for 6.8 + so 7.x would fall into that Edited December 27, 2016 by DOS76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 3 minutes ago, DOS76 said: There is already an older thread called LB beta testing that ended when 6.8 came out this one is for 6.8 + so 7.x would fall into that Yeah I get that, but so much has changed from 6.8 to 7.3 behind the scenes, that newcomers might be a bit lost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 For example there are 66 pages to trawl through, If they have just jumped into launchbox, say over the Christmas period, 60 pages of that is garbage to them! Just a thought though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePolish Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) 9 minutes ago, neil9000 said: For example there are 66 pages to trawl through, If they have just jumped into launchbox, say over the Christmas period, 60 pages of that is garbage to them! Just a thought though. Never ending thread! This one's open until Jason manages to complete every request in these 66 pages followed by Big Box becoming self aware and closing the thread itself. (that is not a dig, it's just highlighting how much stuff was brought up, it's been a wild ride) Edited December 27, 2016 by ThePolish Clarification 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 16 minutes ago, DOS76 said: There is already an older thread called LB beta testing that ended when 6.8 came out this one is for 6.8 + so 7.x would fall into that You missed my point entirely!!! Yes as you say this thread will stay here forever cause its 6.8 plus. My point is so much has changed that a lot of information on this thread no longer applies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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