ckp Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Hi, When LB is sitting there idle on any platform, I see the cpu spike 5-10% for launchbox.exe about every 6 seconds. This is without any videos or images showing or a game even selected. What is it doing (trying to refresh the images maybe?)? Can it be tuned? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mousnis Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Bumping this for having the same issue in the latest version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) here is a 1 minute video showing that this issue isn't typical for LB behavior unless we are counting the jump from 0 to .08 as CPU spike. version 7.11 beta 14 Edited August 30, 2017 by DOS76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 yeah that video does exhibit the 5 or 6 second "spike" or activity interval. you may have 8 cores, so it's really .08 x 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Okay to me that is like nothing at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 23 minutes ago, ckp said: yeah that video does exhibit the 5 or 6 second "spike" or activity interval. you may have 8 cores, so it's really .08 x 8. Sorry i'm confused, or stupid, or both, probably the stupid part though. I really don't know what you are seeing that i'm not. I mean who sits there with Launchbox running watching the cpu? I mean surely the point of Launchbox/Bigbox is to hide the underlying OS as to only see your games. So why would a possible slight spike if at all distract from that? Sorry it's a honest question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imgema Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) Seems related to my issue. Here's the pic i posted in that topic. Personally speaking, i can feel these spikes as small performance drops and it affects my experience since i use it a lot and every 6 seconds i get a spike/delay/stutter/mini freeze. It happens when i browse, edit, look at stuff, etc. So it's not just a background thing, at least for me since other people seem to not care about it or not notice it and don't find it as a problem at all. Edited August 30, 2017 by Imgema Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, DOS76 said: Okay to me that is like nothing at all. yeah it probably is nothing on stronger systems. may be something on slower systems, not sure. @neil9000 , the reason you may look at the launchbox process in task manager for cpu usage or ram usage is when you see oddities at regular intervals and try to correlate those oddities to the spikes. so, like if you see the actual LB program stuttering every few seconds (even ever so slightly) or see your games FPS go down only when launched by LB, you start to look at these things for an explanation Edited August 30, 2017 by ckp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 6 minutes ago, Imgema said: It happens when i browse, edit, look at stuff, etc. So it's not just a background thing, at least for me since other people seem to not care about it or not notice it and don't find it as a problem at all. you're not the only one who can see it. i see the micro stutters and crashing LB from scrolling the games list fast just like you do. but, at least on my beastly system, i can avoid the crashes by not scrolling super fast, and the stutters don't really get in my way enough to really bother me with anything i'm doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 just tested on my tablet with atom z3740 and the spikes are much more apparent but its an Atom and despite the spikes scrolling and navigating isn't really that slowed down the damn antimalware service executable and wsappx are eating most of my CPU on this system anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 yeah, it's probably pretty minor of a thing for a lot of people. but anyway, it seems like Jason always has a keen eye on this stuff and continues to improve and optimize. overall i'm super pleased with LB/BB, and i feel it has been more than worth the money i paid for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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