Leuthil Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 (edited) I am currently running Launchbox on Nvidia shield tv (tube). I have an SD card in as storage and everything works fine except that the app keeps crashing randomly when viewing the game collection. I notice the app starts to slow down for a second or two and then crashes. I checked the logs but there doesn't seem to be anything meaningful in there. I've attached a few as an example but this is reproducible all the time. It seems to crash within a minute or two and faster if I'm scrolling through many games. Perhaps it is related to the downloading of images? debug_logs.zip Edited April 21, 2022 by Leuthil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Hey @Leuthil this is quite common when you are using SD cards with launchbox for android. Most SD cards are notoriously slow and can't handle the loading of images while scrolling. This is especially true if you are using the wheel view. Since the shield tube does not have the ability to add external drives, I would recommend trying a premium SD card that runs a little faster. Just look up the markings on your card, and you can see where yours falls. This website should help https://www.techspot.com/guides/1591-microsd-buying-guide/#:~:text=1 Standard SD cards%3A 1.26 x 0.94 x,0.039 inches (15 x 11 x 1 mm) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leuthil Posted April 21, 2022 Author Share Posted April 21, 2022 (edited) I see, thanks for the info. I have the SanDisk Ultra which should be fairly decent but I suppose getting the Extreme might've been a better option. Does this issue only occur when the artwork still needs to be downloaded or is this still an issue even when just scrolling through? Edited April 21, 2022 by Leuthil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leuthil Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 Honestly this is pretty disappointing. I've tried a few other emulator front ends for Android and they all don't have this issue so this is definitely a LaunchBox issue. I don't think it's acceptable to just say this is an SD card problem. I understand other frontends may be using lower quality images or something but if that's a fix, it would be good to have that as an option. At this point I'm probably going to see if I can get a refund if this isn't going to be fixed. I really enjoyed LaunchBox for PC so it sucks to use a different frontend for Android but I have to at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 On 4/21/2022 at 1:34 PM, Leuthil said: I see, thanks for the info. I have the SanDisk Ultra which should be fairly decent but I suppose getting the Extreme might've been a better option. Does this issue only occur when the artwork still needs to be downloaded or is this still an issue even when just scrolling through? @Leuthil Hello. The markings on the sd card will tell you about its speed. I have heard that the scrolling issue is worse when you are still downloading images. However that does not mean that you won't have issues after all the images are downloaded. I know that the developer has tried working on this, but it is what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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