Rob_G Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Playlists performance seems to be going downhill on my system. Opening playlists like 'All Games' for Arcade takes over 30 seconds now. Also entering my Arcade Platform Category makes 2 beeps instead of 1. Some playlists seem affected worse than others. Even small playlists can sometimes take up to 10 seconds to open. This is on an AMD 3950 CPU with a high speed 2TB NVME drive. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 I assume you are referring to within Big Box? What version are you running? We've had some performance improvement stuff put into 11.17 beta that may help if not on that already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 (edited) Version 11.16 I rebuilt my Launchbox setup from scratch last night and am still seeing issues where some playlists take a while to open. The weird thing is that at one point I had it working where 'All Games' would open right away, but after some theme/view changes, it went back to being slow again. I left bigbox running over night and checked it this morning. 'All Games' was still slow to open. I closed bigbox and re-opened it. Now 'All Games' opens instantly again. The behavior seems really inconsistent. edit: The 'Shooter' playlist takes 7 or 8 seconds to open still. This is one I noticed was slow on my system. Other playlists open instantly. edit2: I loaded bigbox again and have not made any changes. 'All Games' was slow to open again (10 seconds). edit3: I loaded bigbox yet again. 'All Games' now took 25 seconds to open. edit4: This appears to be some kind of caching/memory issue? If I let bigbox sit idle, its memory usage keeps growing at about 2mb/s until it reaches a peak at about 2.5gb. When it hit peak, "All Games" opened quickly, but memory usage suddenly dropped back to 500mb with the usual 2mb/s climb again. "All Games" was slow again. Rob Edited August 27, 2021 by Rob_G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) I downgraded to a clean version 11.12, reimported my games and playlists appear to load fine now. I am positive this issue was happening sometime before 11.16, but after 11.12. 11.16 did use more cpu, but memory usage seems about the same. Also of note is that the Arcade platform (not category) shows all the games in it where with 11.16 it didn't show any. I can use an "all games" image with the platform to make it useful in the playfield categories view I have as default. I didn't re-download any media, just moved it over from my old install folder. Rob Edited August 28, 2021 by Rob_G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 I downloaded 11.17. The issue still remains. 11.12 is fine. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Would it be possible for you to zip up your data folder and PM it to me? I'd be interesting in seeing if I can use it to replicate what you are seeing so we can work at correcting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted September 4, 2021 Author Share Posted September 4, 2021 I need to make a backup of my 11.12 launcbox folders and then I will upgrade. Once that is done (hopefully next day or so) I will test the playlist opening speed one more time. If it's still slow (I think it will be), I will forward you what you are looking for. I usually do a build on my main PC and then export it to my arcade PC. The slowness was happening on both machines. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 (edited) Well, surprise surprise... Now I can't reproduce the problem after updating to 11.17 (again). Playlist opening speed is instant and I've tested it several times. Rob Edited September 10, 2021 by Rob_G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 8 hours ago, Rob_G said: Well, surprise surprise... Now I can't reproduce the problem after updating to 11.17 (again). Playlist opening speed is instant and I've tested it several times. Rob We did put some related performance improvements in for 11.17, so it may actually be a permanent fix. Let us know if you see it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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