LaunchBox 14.1.0 Beta Thread

[MysterNybble]

2 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Pretty sure I never had combine enabled (but stranger things have happened).

All tests were ROMs imported from an internal HDD.

Fortunately/un-fortunately, my 4 tests this morning were all under 15 seconds. With each import of 10 [different] ROMs being faster than the previous one.  e.g. 15 sec, 13 sec, 11 sec and the last, seemingly near instant. 

The only difference from previous test was, today, the local db didn't get updated alongside the import process. And to clarify, all Saving Games times mentioned (1 minute, 4 minutes...) by me were from the time Saving Games appeared, to the end.  aka, They did not include the update local db time.

I'll try again tomorrow and see if I can find something in my/the process that triggers the anomaly.

 

I was able to recreate something similar, finally. It wasn't Combine ROMs after all or related to metadata download or anything like that.

When importing (and at startup with auto-import on), LaunchBox checks every game's file path on disk while holding up the import. We were inadvertently leaning on Windows/filesystem caches and when importing on a "cold" disk that took quite a while which is likely why I didn't see it originally as have tests running all the time. I was able to reproduce it on external drive (since you can easily reset windows cache by unplug/plugging it in) and I saw it go from 100 seconds to under a second.

But we don't need to do those file system checks as we already know about all your games from the datafiles so less spinning and less waiting. Beta 3 will include this tweak and hopefully this is what you were seeing, if not, I added more logs to help pinpoint it as well.

[SqHd]

Looking forward to this fix. I've noticed it for a while now. (Note: I use external drives.)

[xmas]

10 hours ago, MysterNybble said:

I was able to recreate something similar, finally. It wasn't Combine ROMs after all or related to metadata download or anything like that.

When importing (and at startup with auto-import on), LaunchBox checks every game's file path on disk while holding up the import. We were inadvertently leaning on Windows/filesystem caches and when importing on a "cold" disk that took quite a while which is likely why I didn't see it originally as have tests running all the time. I was able to reproduce it on external drive (since you can easily reset windows cache by unplug/plugging it in) and I saw it go from 100 seconds to under a second.

But we don't need to do those file system checks as we already know about all your games from the datafiles so less spinning and less waiting. Beta 3 will include this tweak and hopefully this is what you were seeing, if not, I added more logs to help pinpoint it as well.

I think your latest finding is exactly my issue.

My ROMs are on an internal HDD (F:), and LaunchBox runs from an SSD (J:). Imports used to be fast on this same drive, so it seems to be a change in LaunchBox, not the drive.

Matching is fast. Only “Saving Games” is slow, and only on the first import after opening LaunchBox. Automatic imports are off for my platforms (only storefronts are on), so this happens with manual drag & drop imports. Combine ROMs is off when importing. My library is about 70k games across many custom regional platforms, so a cold check of every game path on a spinning drive would explain 2–5 minutes.

I’ll test Beta 3 and report back with logs!

[AzgoRAth]

Hey guys I found another bug in Beta 2. It looks lik BB doesnt save/remember the last game and last platform because every time i exit BB and relaunch it, it starts on 3DO (The 1st platform) instead of the last platform i used. I've tried disabling and reenabling the options but no change.

[launchretrogirl2562]

9 minutes ago, AzgoRAth said:

Hey guys I found another bug in Beta 2. It looks lik BB doesnt save/remember the last game and last platform because every time i exit BB and relaunch it, it starts on 3DO (The 1st platform) instead of the last platform i used. I've tried disabling and reenabling the options but no change.

You are right, I hadn't even realized that this was related to the beta. But for me it happens also in LB
So each time I do something in LB, I get back to platform ALL...which is a downer cause that are over 100K games that it reverts back to.
So I think then that it's not just BB, but also LB.

[JoeViking245]

3 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

each time I do something in LB, I get back to platform ALL

Can you elaborate a little on "do something"? 

Unless by "do something" you mean restart LaunchBox, I don't think it's the same thing as AzgoRAth was experiencing in Big Box.  Also, I just started up LaunchBox and it opened to my "last" platform. (vs. defaulting to "All").

 

3 hours ago, AzgoRAth said:

It looks lik BB doesnt save/remember the last game and last platform because every time i exit BB and relaunch it, it starts on 3DO (The 1st platform) instead of the last platform i used.

I just tested here and Big Box [for me] did startup in last Platform I had opened.  

There may be something else in a setting somewhere (e.g. starting in Platform View) but I haven't finished my 1st cup of coffee to "think" about it.  The only other possibility I can think of is how is BB being shut down and is it getting a chance to properly save the "Last Platform" used?

Edit:  I did not check for, if it was remembering the last game.

[launchretrogirl2562]

4 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Can you elaborate a little on "do something"? 

Unless by "do something" you mean restart LaunchBox, I don't think it's the same thing as AzgoRAth was experiencing in Big Box.  Also, I just started up LaunchBox and it opened to my "last" platform. (vs. defaulting to "All").

 

I just tested here and Big Box [for me] did startup in last Platform I had opened.  

There may be something else in a setting somewhere (e.g. starting in Platform View) but I haven't finished my 1st cup of coffee to "think" about it.  The only other possibility I can think of is how is BB being shut down and is it getting a chance to properly save the "Last Platform" used?

Edit:  I did not check for, if it was remembering the last game.

My apologies for being unclear.
I will check again with clear steps with which I hope u can reproduce it.

[skizzosjt]

3 hours ago, AzgoRAth said:

Hey guys I found another bug in Beta 2. It looks lik BB doesnt save/remember the last game and last platform because every time i exit BB and relaunch it, it starts on 3DO (The 1st platform) instead of the last platform i used. I've tried disabling and reenabling the options but no change.

 

 

13 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

I just tested here and Big Box [for me] did startup in last Platform I had opened.  

There may be something else in a setting somewhere (e.g. starting in Platform View) but I haven't finished my 1st cup of coffee to "think" about it.  The only other possibility I can think of is how is BB being shut down and is it getting a chance to properly save the "Last Platform" used?

Edit:  I did not check for, if it was remembering the last game.

 

 

I reported this previously.

LAST PLATFORM being properly recalled has been bugged for last few releases. 

last game being remembered is working fine for me

I found it has some bad logic being used for when the last platform is saved. Previous post for reference. devs, please address this issue. 

 

 

in my opinion it should work where I don't even need to go into a platform for it to be remembered as last platform. for ex, scrolling through the platform wheel, land on Sega Genesis, back out to system menu, right then and there Sega Genesis should be written to BigBoxSettings as the last platform. instead it waits for users to enter then exit platforms to make that write, but the logic used isn't working right as it can save platforms that were previously selected rather than the most recent platform. 

[JoeViking245]

49 minutes ago, skizzosjt said:

I reported this previously.

LAST PLATFORM being properly recalled has been bugged for last few releases. 

I recall that previous post now.

If I'm understanding correctly, the concern is not that when you restart BB, it doesn't start on the last platform you left on.  But that it's not physically writing to the BigBoxSettings.xml file every time you select a different platform.  

It's only writing to the xml file if:
a)  you go into the platform [to look at the games] then go back to platform View
b)  when shutting down Big Box

 

Is that correct?  Or did I miss something [again] (which I sometime do, and I apologize for that).

[AzgoRAth]

LB is saving the last selected platform on my side.