vaderag Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Okay, I see a load of threads around this, troubleshooting etc etc and I've tried everything I have a fairly old machine, but it still packs a punch and can emulate everything up to Wii without issue, I used to run Hyperspin, without issue But Big Box - it just crawls... moving from game to game it will work for a couple then stall for a bit then continue. If I try and change theme or skin (as some are worse than others) then sometimes it'll hang for 10mins Even on the (apparently) simplest themes it's a similar issue All my images have been cached etc, so I got to the point where I assumed this must be my HDD, so swapped for an SSD and... same... Please can someone help me out here - what can I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 You can try going into BB settings and turning off all the media transitions and then test using the Default theme. Reason I say test with the Default is custom themes can override turning off the media transitions. What are your machine specs? For reference my simplest build is a Ryzen 3 2200G 16gb ram and no dedicated video card and runs without issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaderag Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 44 minutes ago, Retro808 said: You can try going into BB settings and turning off all the media transitions and then test using the Default theme. Reason I say test with the Default is custom themes can override turning off the media transitions. What are your machine specs? For reference my simplest build is a Ryzen 3 2200G 16gb ram and no dedicated video card and runs without issue. Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 2.39 GHz 4GB RAM GeForce GT 740 2GB Is there a way to set it to the Default theme throughout outside of Bigbox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Well I can say that 4GB ram is what is hurting you. BB is a WPF application and loads a good bit of resources into memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaderag Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 55 minutes ago, Retro808 said: Well I can say that 4GB ram is what is hurting you. BB is a WPF application and loads a good bit of resources into memory. Right. So I guess I should look to upgrade that then (or go back to Hyperspin... ) The ram hasn't been an issue for emulation at all Amazes me that things can run smooth as pie on Android and Retropie but 4GB ram isn't enough to run on a pc... How do I test out the basic theme easily before I splash out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaderag Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 On 11/25/2021 at 4:11 PM, Retro808 said: Well I can say that 4GB ram is what is hurting you. BB is a WPF application and loads a good bit of resources into memory. Well, I upgraded the ram. I now have 7gb (was supposed to be 8 but one stick was faulty...) It's still slow I see some improvement, and the default theme works fine except when the videos are on. Seems to be an issue with the videos as far as I can tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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