Herbonius Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I have a ASUS Transformer Book T100TA that I am using as a HTPC and emulator platform. As a HTPC it functions fine with all of the major streaming services running in 1080p perfectly and emulators themselves run fine but Big Box is essentially unusable. It only has an Intel Atom Bay Trail-T Z3740 processor and 2GB of RAM but surely this should be enough to run Big Box? I have tried a number of different themes, played with all of the options I can find in Big Box, have no videos in the menus and very minimal pictures , only have a couple hundred games loaded into Launch Box but none of it seems to help - Big Box is always extremely laggy. Scrolling through the menus is very unresponsive and laggy, it takes a long time for each button press to register. Other front ends like Emulation Station work fine but I really wanted to use Big Box and I have already paid for it. Any suggestions as to how I could fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I run BigBox on three different Atom PC's and due to the specs there are always going to be some performance issues. I personally turned off all of the transitions and that improved performance on my machines. Even with the transitions off there is still times when it takes awhile for the box art to catch up so it is usable but if you are at all picky about performance and any slow downs then you may want to go with some stronger hardware Whether performance could be tweaked in order to get BB to run better on lesser hardware or not is something Jason would have to chime in about I'm just sharing my experience with using similar hardware with the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 If you're on Windows 7, 8 or 10 you can also do a lot to turn off transitions and even make the UI go back to an old style, which takes less RAM and CPU power to operate. Doing that may also help as well, but ultimately those machines are just a bit too under powered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbonius Posted November 24, 2016 Author Share Posted November 24, 2016 Yeah I have turned all the transitions off and there is no great improvement. The issue is basically as you describe DOS76, it takes a while for the art to load and this causes my button presses to not register properly. Sometimes they don't get registered at all, sometimes a bunch of button presses go through all at once. I even have a theme that only uses a single image but it's still very laggy. If it was just the art that took a while to catch up then that would be usable, the issue is that I can't actually scroll through the menus properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 Overclocking the CPU could help, but I honestly wouldn't on such a small machine, with low cooling potential. LaunchBox is CPU heavy first, so if a CPU is lacking in anyway, then that's usually the culprit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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