ModerateNOOB Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Hello hello. is there any way to shorten save times when importing?, I was used to around 30 seconds but now it takes around 2 minutes (It happened after i updated from ver. 8.5 to the newest). my game library is quite big but it was also big before i updated?, It would be really cool if there was something i could do about it. Is anyone experiencing this as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patient007 Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Yeah mine takes a good few minutes too, but I assumed it was maybe the download speed of covers etc from emumovies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 Yeah it's a little strange, A single nes rom shouldn't take 2 minutes to save. Just wanted to ask if it's safe rolling back the update by using the update folder in Launchbox?. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 2 hours ago, ModerateNOOB said: Hello hello. is there any way to shorten save times when importing?, I was used to around 30 seconds but now it takes around 2 minutes (It happened after i updated from ver. 8.5 to the newest). my game library is quite big but it was also big before i updated?, It would be really cool if there was something i could do about it. Is anyone experiencing this as well? I do not think it has anything to do with the updates. I have seen this sporadically during my use over the years with Launchbox. Oddly enough many times closing out Launchbox or rebooting the pc stopped it from happening. Sometimes though it would just randomly go back to normal a few minutes later without doing anything. I just imported 10 pc games and all only took a few seconds to download media and each took about 1-2 seconds to save after the media downloaded. This is on my test pc running the latest beta and on my main arcade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 5 minutes ago, Retro808 said: I do not think it has anything to do with the updates. I have seen this sporadically during my use over the years with Launchbox. Oddly enough many times closing out Launchbox or rebooting the pc stopped it from happening. Sometimes though it would just randomly go back to normal a few minutes later without doing anything. I just imported 10 pc games and all only took a few seconds to download media and each took about 1-2 seconds to save after the media downloaded. This is on my test pc running the latest beta and on my main arcade. Ok, But i had this problem for about a week now. I also thought it would solve itself, But i have restarted Launchbox and my pc several times during the last 7 days, and nothing has changed?. I have never experienced importing and saving after just a few seconds, Can i borrow your lucky trousers ? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 1 minute ago, ModerateNOOB said: Ok, But i had this problem for about a week now. I also thought it would solve itself, But i have restarted Launchbox and my pc several times during the last 7 days, and nothing has changed?. I have never experienced importing and saving after just a few seconds, Can i borrow your lucky trousers ? ? LOL. Yeah I am not sure what it is. I do not think anything Jason released in the last update altered scraping and importing games. I just know I have randomly seen what you mentioned. When I am talking save I mean the point at which after the media is done downloading the progress bar changes to Now Saving. It is from that point randomly I would get where it took like 1-2 minutes before the prompt showing how many games were imported. Normally it is only a couple seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 19 minutes ago, Retro808 said: LOL. Yeah I am not sure what it is. I do not think anything Jason released in the last update altered scraping and importing games. I just know I have randomly seen what you mentioned. When I am talking save I mean the point at which after the media is done downloading the progress bar changes to Now Saving. It is from that point randomly I would get where it took like 1-2 minutes before the prompt showing how many games were imported. Normally it is only a couple seconds. Yep the 2 first steps are pretty smooth, It's the now saving part that takes a couple of minutes in my case. BTW is it safe rolling back?, It Might or might not fix it (Who knows). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 18 minutes ago, ModerateNOOB said: Yep the 2 first steps are pretty smooth, It's the now saving part that takes a couple of minutes in my case. BTW is it safe rolling back?, It Might or might not fix it (Who knows). You can roll back. Just look for the last version of the install you want to use in the /Launchbox/Updates folder. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Just wanted to say it helped reverting back to Launchbox ver. 8.7. Now I'm back on 20-30 seconds for saving a file. Not saying it's the updates fault, But somehow it must be related to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afxafx Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 +1 Taking a very long time on the "saving.." step for me as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNewClassics Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Hey @Jason Carr and LB team, any chance you guys might have a guess as to what's causing this? I have a large collection as well, but when importing a single arcade game it takes a few minutes on the "Saving Games" step before it is successfully imported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 2 hours ago, TheNewClassics said: Hey @Jason Carr and LB team, any chance you guys might have a guess as to what's causing this? I have a large collection as well, but when importing a single arcade game it takes a few minutes on the "Saving Games" step before it is successfully imported. There's a lot that is done at the end of the process. It's all necessary and I currently don't know of an easy way to speed it up. I can add it to the list though to see what I can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I looked into this; it's taking longer than it used to because we added the "combine with existing games" option, which is on by default. It has to process all existing games for the platform, which does take some time. On my system it's around 5 seconds to process a platform with 1,000 games, but I guess on lower-end systems it could take a lot longer. I don't immediately see any way to speed that part up, but I'll take a deeper look here at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I found a way to cache things that should hopefully speed this up. Will go into beta 14. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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