Charco Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 I am getting freezes in Big Box when exiting MAME, have to go to Task Manager and close Big Box. After a couple of hours play my menu navigation has slowed to a crawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelobodetti Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Loving the different themes for different platforms. Should it remember the games view of the new theme? Meaning I use vertical wheel 2 in city hunter and 1 classic mini. But when I switch back and forth it keeps the view I was on instead of switching back to the specific one for each theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 @kmoney The game menu view currently always uses the default theme, which isn't ideal, I know. I may or may not get back to that before the official release. The tricky thing there is that there are probably several different things users are going to want, whether it be the same theme as the games list you came from, a specific theme for all game menu screens, or the default. Someone will probably ask for all three at some point, which certainly complicates matters, so I just haven't tackled it yet. @GunerX In all honesty, that is almost certainly unrelated to LaunchBox or Big Box. @Charco Well that's puzzling. I'm tempted to say it's some kind of temporary OS issue or something of that nature; have you tried rebooting? I'm doubtful that any changes we've made to the 7.12 betas would be causing any issues like that. @angelobodetti Currently it just uses the previous view that was used when switching themes. Specific views from previous themes are not remembered. I imagined that most people would pick their theme and their view per platform and stick with it; we'll see if we get any more requests for that. @wallmachine We might have to just call that one a fluke for now, since it's likely going to be rather difficult to troubleshoot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emko Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 bigbox bug some background images render just black but it does render when you go to view images fullscreen, i opened the image in photoshop and saved it back as a jpg again and now its working problem is there are many images like this that just render black as backgrounds. example https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/78276 add this game and you will see the snake background image will be black and the other one will show fine. i don't remember this happening before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 @emko I ran a test on that image and I can confirm that it's not loading properly with .NET's WPF JPEG decoding utility, which is pretty odd. I'm not sure how to fix it without coding my own JPEG decoder (that'd be a nightmare). We're using a more performant method of loading images now, which is probably why this is a new issue since 7.11. All I can figure is that that particular image uses some kind of strange codec format; that stinks but I'm not sure what to really do about it. If we figured out exactly what the problem is, we might be able to batch convert problematic images on the games database, though. How many images have you found? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 What about the startup video changes? I added the video folder and it goes through the videos randomly but still cuts them off short before they finish playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emko Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, Jason Carr said: @emko I ran a test on that image and I can confirm that it's not loading properly with .NET's WPF JPEG decoding utility, which is pretty odd. I'm not sure how to fix it without coding my own JPEG decoder (that'd be a nightmare). We're using a more performant method of loading images now, which is probably why this is a new issue since 7.11. All I can figure is that that particular image uses some kind of strange codec format; that stinks but I'm not sure what to really do about it. If we figured out exactly what the problem is, we might be able to batch convert problematic images on the games database, though. How many images have you found? ohh so old method is still used for full screen image viewer and thats why it still works there? there are many i was noticing black backgrounds hard to find them when your looking since many games have multiple background images EDIT: NEVER MIND THIS IS DIFFERENT BUG for these platforms it seems to load a random fanart background which is good but randomly it won't load any image, i was monitoring the file access and when i get these black backgrounds Bigbox is not loading anything Edited October 24, 2017 by emko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 @emko Background images not loading on the platform screen can actually be caused by several different things; for performance reasons, Big Box will just give up if it goes through 5 or so random games and doesn't find a background image for any of them. That logic has been in place for a long time though. I guess my only point is that the background images when viewing a specific game is a better test for that scenario. @damageinc86 It's difficult to get the timing exactly perfect; obviously the goal is to show Big Box immediately after the video ends, with no delay, and without the video getting cut off. That is happening on some systems but I guess on others a split second of the video might get cut off. You're the first person to even notice that that's an issue lol. I'll see if there's anything I can do to improve it, but it's a difficult thing to get exactly right on every possible system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 What's new in the beta I downloaded 2 hours ago @Jason Carr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 @neil9000 I'm actually still working on putting out another new beta today, which is why I haven't mentioned it yet lol. Been working on more RAM reductions and performance improvements. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Just now, Jason Carr said: @neil9000 I'm actually still working on putting out another new beta today, which is why I haven't mentioned it yet lol. Been working on more RAM reductions and performance improvements. Ah OK. I was just curious as I was prompted a couple of hours ago to download it, but you hadn't posted here about it. Cool, performance improvements are always welcome, i'll grab the next one in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 Alright, beta 12 is now out as well. As I stated earlier, I've been working primarily on performance and reducing RAM usage. I did find a memory leak that I think was introduced in 7.11 that should be fixed now as well. I'm now loading even more things in background threads to prevent stuttering in the interface. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 should the leak fix solve the BB attract mode memory exhaustion issue some of us have? sure glad to get performance and ram usage improvements, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 @Jason CarrNo it's cutting off about a quarter to half of the entire video still. Should a restart of the computer be required perhaps? it seems very odd for it to stop the video so soon after the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 @ckp Yes it should, or at least that's what I'm hoping. Please test and let me know if you can. @damageinc86 That's quite strange. Are you using any file sync services or anything that could delete or change files in the LaunchBox folder? Big Box uses a file located at LaunchBox\Metadata\videoActive to determine if the video is still playing, so if something happens to be interfering with that file, that could be causing the issue. Other than that, I'm lost. I suppose it could also possibly be an issue with a particular video file. Yeah, I'd go ahead and restart the computer to see if that makes a difference, as well as confirming 100% the LaunchBox version number (which should be at least 7.12-beta-12). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 Beta 13 is out now as well guys. Believe it or not, we had a different memory leak that only occurs when a sound card is just randomly ripped from the computer (or disabled, etc.). That doesn't sound like much of an issue, but it is on arcade cabinets where TVs are commonly turned off while the computer is running, and since sound often goes through the TV's HDMI port, the sound card is essentially disabled when the TV gets turned off lol. Learn something new every day. I've also made some more minor RAM and performance improvements in this beta. I've been doing extensive testing on an 8-year-old machine with a Core 2 Quad CPU in order to eliminate as many issues as possible. We're pretty smooth at this point, even when run for days at a time on crappy hardware. Depending on how everything goes for you guys with this beta, I'm hoping to put out the official release tomorrow. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: We're pretty smooth at this point, even when run for days at a time on crappy hardware. My crappy HTPC will love you although I never had any issues on it before but hey, better is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 1 minute ago, lordmonkus said: My crappy HTPC will love you although I never had any issues on it before but hey, better is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emko Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) On 10/24/2017 at 3:51 PM, Jason Carr said: @emko Background images not loading on the platform screen can actually be caused by several different things; for performance reasons, Big Box will just give up if it goes through 5 or so random games and doesn't find a background image for any of them. That logic has been in place for a long time though. I guess my only point is that the background images when viewing a specific game is a better test for that scenario. why not just show random images from the Fanart - Background folder for that platform instead of looking for random games with fanart? for playlist i can see that could be a issue but why not check what platforms the games belong to and randomly go between their Fanart - Background images? anyways i just picked the fanart images for my playlists and platforms so its good now but i did like random game fanarts Edited October 25, 2017 by emko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 2 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Believe it or not, we had a different memory leak that only occurs when a sound card is just randomly ripped from the computer (or disabled, etc.). That doesn't sound like much of an issue, but it is on arcade cabinets where TVs are commonly turned off while the computer is running, and since sound often goes through the TV's HDMI port, the sound card is essentially disabled when the TV gets turned off lol. Oh good! That sounds like my situation. I put my HTPC to sleep. Sound goes through my HDMI cable to the TV. Then later the htpc woke up (TV is off) and was running for a day without my knowing it was awake. I turned on the TV and saw it was powered up with virtual memory errors. So, tonight I'll upgrade to the latest Beta and leave BB running with the TV off to see if it's fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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