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Marquee images pixelated?


xmxg85c

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I have a nice pixelcade digital Marquee that has a 1920x360 monitor.

When I try to upload new marquee images , even those at this exact resolution and high quality, they look pixelated on the marquee.  Many other games work fine.

Stranger still - when I copy an image of a game (happens to be Tron) that looks great and unpixelated on the marquee, to a different game (same exact file) ... you guessed it - Pixelated.  I feel like something is happening in the Launchbox import process.  Thoughts?

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What may be happening is that you're using an image cache image in the marquee instead of the raw image file, because of that the image is condensed in size a bit to make loading faster. There are ways to tell the control NOT to use an image cache but you'd need to alter your theme files potentially to do so (assuming that is the cause for what you're seeing).

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Thank you. This sounds like exactly what is happening.  The image is clearly getting compressed down even when I upload lossless images.

Any pointers on what theme files to edit?  Incidentally, I did just solve this by having BigBox stop trying to manage the marquee and instead use 3rd Screen - but I'm curious what the "real" fix might've been within BB.

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3 minutes ago, xmxg85c said:

Thank you. This sounds like exactly what is happening.  The image is clearly getting compressed down even when I upload lossless images.

Any pointers on what theme files to edit?  Incidentally, I did just solve this by having BigBox stop trying to manage the marquee and instead use 3rd Screen - but I'm curious what the "real" fix might've been within BB.

The marquee views are located in \\LaunchBox\Themes\{Name of Theme\Views and you'd be looking at PlatformMarqueeView.xaml and GameMarqueeView.xaml. If the theme you're using doesn't have those files it falls back to the ones in the Default theme folder. If you're using Default it's important to note you need to copy the folder and rename it because the Default theme files get overwritten every startup.

Once you find the file in question you're looking for any FlowImage control and need to add the following to it "UseImageCache="False"" (without outer quotes).

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