8.3 USES MORE RAM THAN 8.1

[MJRandJLR]

8.1 LaunchBox uses 68 megabytes of ram 0.1 CPU LaunchBox 8.3 uses 89 megabytes of ram same on the CPU LaunchBox Next the one that came out last week uses 710.2 megabytes of ram and 0.4 CPU. I have both installers and I only use Windows games and I am on Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit April Edition. LaunchBox 8.1 is on a 256 gigabyte SSD Flash drive the 8.3 version is on my D drive. I have all the major releases installers of LaunchBox back to 6.8. And yes I do have a forever License. Both versions have the exact same data base of games.

Edited June 10, 2018 by MJRandJLR

[DOS76]

Are you seeing performance issues or just that it is using more resources?

[MJRandJLR]

Just usage of Ram I have 16 gigabytes but if someone has a low end machine right now I would say version 8.1 is the best for those machines. Just thought Jason might want to know.

Edited June 10, 2018 by MJRandJLR

[Lordmonkus]

Just did a quick test on my really crappy HTPC running Windows 7 with 2 gigs of ram and everything is the same as it was with version 8.1 of Launchbox. My total ram usage in the task manager with BigBox open is 1.1 gigs with BigBox using less than 400 megs.

[Jason Carr]

Yes, as I add more of the missing features, more RAM is going to end up being used. Half of the application was basically missing in the 8.2 release lol.

[Drybonz]

Definitely don't want progress to be held back by old potato computers.

[MJRandJLR]

I was comparing only LauncgBox 8.1 and LaunchBox 8.3 and LaunchBox Next in version 8.3 not BigBox. And as far as I know LaunchBox in 8.1 has all the features and more than LaunchBox Next 8.3 and the ram on my machine is lower on the old interface of 8.1 than LaunchBox Next version 8.3 or the old interface of LaunchBox 8.3. As I said LaunchBox only in version 8.1 is 68 megabytes. Old interface of LaunchBox 8.3 it is 89 megabytes and in LaunchBox Next in version 8.3 it is 710.2 megabytes.

Edited June 11, 2018 by MJRandJLR

[Lordmonkus]

6 hours ago, MJRandJLR said:

As I said LaunchBox only in version 8.1 is 68 megabytes. Old interface of LaunchBox 8.3 it is 89 megabytes

I have never seen ram usage this low in Launchbox going back to version 5.1 or whatever version was out when I first started using it. It has always used at minimum several hundred megs or more.

6 hours ago, MJRandJLR said:

LaunchBox Next in version 8.3 it is 710.2 megabytes.

This has always been the usual ram usage or even more.

[MJRandJLR]

Like I said I am on Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit April Edition and my LaunchBox 8.1 is on a SSD 256 gigabyte flash drive. And the LaunchBox 8.3 is on a standard drive witch is my D drive and theses are the numbers my Task Manager is giving me. So my wife and I wont be moving on to LaunchBox Next any time soon.

[MJRandJLR]

Maybe if you have a ton of Videos and Pictures and stuff this is normal but my wife and I have none of that junk and no plugin either.

[DOS76]

lol okay then 700mb of RAM on a machine with 16gb is like next to nothing but if using the older version suits you then that is great have at it.

[MJRandJLR]

All I am trying to say is Jason says that LaunchBox Next is suppose  to be less on resources and with my findings for just basic LaunchBox nothing else that is not true. I am not saying no one should use 8.3 I am saying for low end machines like people who have shared memory with there graphic card that if you still want to try to use LaunchBox basic then 8.1 might be the way they want to go. My wife and I are handicap we just can't play anything that isn't mostly mouse control very well. So that is why we only do Windows games that are mouse mostly control so we only have 289 games running through LaunchBox 8.1.

Edited June 11, 2018 by MJRandJLR

[Lordmonkus]

Like I said, I have a crappy old HTPC with 2 gigs of ram (does have a dedicated GPU though) and the ram usage is not a problem.

Specs of HTPC:

Windows 7
AMD Athlon 3800+ @ 2.4 GHz
2 gigs ram
Radeon 7850 (1 gig DDR5 vram)
Some generic 160 gig hard drive
2500+ games

There is nothing wrong with being mindful of performance and system resource usage but at the same time you cannot cater to everyone. People want more and more features and you cannot do that without increasing the system requirements. Having said that I have not seen an increase in system resource usage and performance itself has gotten better.

[MJRandJLR]

My answer is to have a basic mode for LaunchBox and the bells and whistles setting for the people who have a great gaming machine. I am tying to come up with a answer so the most amount of people can enjoy LaunchBox. In some way at least.

Edited June 11, 2018 by MJRandJLR

[Lordmonkus]

So in other words you want a 2nd version of Launchbox that Jason would split his time in developing ?

[MJRandJLR]

No just figure out the basic you need and have that as a option in the settings basic mode and advance mode and a brief telling what you get with each mode.

Edited June 11, 2018 by MJRandJLR

[Lordmonkus]

Basic mode or advanced mode wont make any difference in resource usage, it would just hide or show different options. Unless you make a completely separate version of the software with different functions removed from the software.

[MJRandJLR]

then have it in the install a basic that leaves out the bells and whistles and the advance install with everything installed.

[MJRandJLR]

Or do you think that is to hard to have a basic sorting games mode to LaunchBox and a full bells and whistles install.

[MJRandJLR]

A lot of other programs do the same for basic users and the more advance user it would all be in one install package but the user decides witch version of LaunchBox there computer could handle.