LaunchBox 13.3 resource hungry?

[DeadVoivod]

Since the new version my whole PC slows down when LB is open. All of a sudden opening a single archive takes 10-15 seconds, browsing and working in folders takes forever, saving files, everything slows down in general. When I close LB, after 1 minute or so everything works normal speed again. Never witnessed that before.

Although LB only takes up around 2MB of memory.

Could that be an issue with .net 6.0?

[AshleyYan]

I tried to import the new mame 0.254 full set with my Launchbox 13.3 today.

The Launchbox got no response and load forever...

Before 13.3 it should be very fast.

My computer is a monster, 13900K, 64GB DDR5. RTX4090. It should be more than enough.

 

Edited: It finally completed after I tried five more times...

Edited April 27, 2023 by AshleyYan

[C-Beats]

@DeadVoivod You're the first I've heard having that experience. We've had a few people say their performance increased with the move to .NET 6. If you load up task manager while LaunchBox is running what's your disk I/O percent at? A lot of what you're describing happens when your drive is getting hit hard. Curious if that is the cause here.

[DeadVoivod]

I was updating, or basically finishing bigger sets like MSX, MSX2 and ZX Spectrum, which involved adding considerate amounts of files in one go, although I only did add them letter by letter. 

Even though the process of adding and downloading media was finished, it kept my PC very slow, I didn't check HDD I/Os. Just strange that after the whole process the PC was still "recovering". The moment I closed LB, after 1-2 minutes, everything was running normal again. 

I tried now adding around 10 missing PSX games and it didn't happen then. 

The speed within LB itself increased drastically, but not only since .NET 6, already before, adding games is very fast, I mean adding 100 games is done in seconds and the downloading media process after that, like downloading 1.000 images is also done in 1 minute or less.