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Launchbox is slow on Android for large collections.


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So I paid for the lifetime license. Launchbox on Android is too slow compared to DIG frontend. The reason is Launchbox seems to load all meta data when displaying a system is picked. DIG only loads the box art. The meta data seems to be loaded when a game is actually selected on a new page in DIG. Launchbox just puts it on top and doesn't seem to load anything. So DIG is much faster and does not freeze. Also DIG lets you use the screenshots instead of box art. Box art is nice, but maybe some users like me want to view games using a screenshot. Just giving my feedback since I paid for it. I uninstalled Launchbox on me Android because it's not good for large collections although DIG is not as good as Launchbox for scraping meta data, it at least is good stable and fast for the gaming systems DIG supports.

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1 hour ago, jsdf3432432 said:

So I paid for the lifetime license. Launchbox on Android is too slow compared to DIG frontend. The reason is Launchbox seems to load all meta data when displaying a system is picked. DIG only loads the box art. The meta data seems to be loaded when a game is actually selected on a new page in DIG. Launchbox just puts it on top and doesn't seem to load anything. So DIG is much faster and does not freeze. Also DIG lets you use the screenshots instead of box art. Box art is nice, but maybe some users like me want to view games using a screenshot. Just giving my feedback since I paid for it. I uninstalled Launchbox on me Android because it's not good for large collections although DIG is not as good as Launchbox for scraping meta data, it at least is good stable and fast for the gaming systems DIG supports.

There are definitely some devices that are just going to be too slow for LaunchBox. Let us know if you'd like a refund.

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On 12/12/2022 at 8:13 AM, Jason Carr said:

There are definitely some devices that are just going to be too slow for LaunchBox. Let us know if you'd like a refund.

 

Thank you for your kind offer. Just some feedback for consideration. LaunchBox is a good app and I will keep the license for a future version.

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