BigBox loading time increased too much, or not?

[xevious1974]

Hi,

I had my BB with about 100k roms and systems, playlists, loaded in very few time, maybe less than 1 min. Usually when the startup video (30-45 sec) ended, bigbog usually started.

Then I have updated mame and added few platforsm but doubled my roms to 210k and now when I load BB it takes a very loooong time, about 7 min to load. I can understand that it takes more...but so much?

What is strange is that hd seems not to load all the time, seems that there are idle times. It is normal? There is something that I can do?

 

[Chris Kant]

I have similar issues just because of sooo many playlists based on filters. so every time I start BB or LB the system is recalculating the Playlists again.

[xevious1974]

1 hour ago, Chris Kant said:

I have similar issues just because of sooo many playlists based on filters. so every time I start BB or LB the system is recalculating the Playlists again.

thank you for your reply!
I have read it, but I have not thought that old playlists should recalculate it each time...what a noob.

So I have removed autopopulate MANUALLY

(ehi, it is incredible that we have not a playlist bulk editor, I have added it immediately to future request:

https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/6958/playlist-bulk-editor

Vote it if you use LB)

and loaded BB two times (I have read that the first time have to precache new playlist)

but has changed quite nothing, maybe a little less, now it take about 5 minus I think

Do you think it is correct now?

I hoped in something better...and I have lost 1 hour to change more than 100 playlist...argh

Anyway thank you again for your advice!!

[Chris Kant]

I did not changed it on my behalf because I like the auto populate style and still have hope the "magic" behind it will some time gets an improvement.

I have playlists like "games done" "favourites" "hides" etc based on flags in the game details. and this per system.

nevertheless: I would like to have an improvement on the playlists as well. bulk editor AND also chance to copy a playlist to another system. I had setup the same 5 playlists throughout 50 systems or so. annoying. even tried copy paste the xml files did not worked for me.

[xevious1974]

1 minute ago, Chris Kant said:

I did not changed it on my behalf because I like the auto populate style and still have hope the "magic" behind it will some time gets an improvement.

I have playlists like "games done" "favourites" "hides" etc based on flags in the game details. and this per system.

nevertheless: I would like to have an improvement on the playlists as well. bulk editor AND also chance to copy a playlist to another system. I had setup the same 5 playlists throughout 50 systems or so. annoying. even tried copy paste the xml files did not worked for me.

I totally agree!
Sometimes seems that editing xml or other stuff makes people cool.

Instead it is a big waste of time and I dont like doing it. Sometimes I have to do but I prefer to do something else. 

Moreover, LB/BB should point to sell copy to all. To reach this target it should keep on simplify a lot of part. Managing playlist, platform is one of the base core, I suppose.
I appreciate a lot retroarch integration, the new mame import and so on. I hope they can add also these standard feature.

I think that there is a problem on the feature request. People that does not like to program or "hard edit", loose interest in putting feature request. Using bitbucket is not so easy like using a forum. Seems that became a "specialist feature request".

Anyway... I love LB and BB and the guys that works here, I am only thinking on how to make our games better

I hope that there is space for some reasonable critic... it is my work, cannot do different 🤣

[Chris Kant]

Just now, xevious1974 said:

I think that there is a problem on the feature request. People that does not like to program or "hard edit", loose interest in putting feature request. Using bitbucket is not so easy like using a forum. Seems that became a "specialist feature request".

I have the same concern. I would like to see more features to manage the roms, its artworks and playlists to make it more handy. it would be a big jump in quality of life improvements for me.

in the meantime I am also losing interest in the development of Launchbox because less and less sparkle in my eyes if I read what's new. on my android device I am just using retroarch. even with its limitation it feels way better compared to LB Android yet

[xevious1974]

I hope someone can reply, we are only here to defend LB work and future

I think that talking togheter is the way to find a better way to work and having pleasure with our games!

finger crossed 🤩

 

[C-Beats]

I'd have to double check but I'm pretty sure we removed the pre-cache of auto-populated playlist on load of LaunchBox and Big Box both in version 12.7 when startup processes were looked at. If you aren't on at least that version I would definitely upgrade and see if that helps you.