"Kiosk mode" very slow to load!
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@Ramses - OK sorry that didn't help. I'm currently using the kids/kiosk package as well but not seeing anywhere near the load times you are. I'm running on a Pi3 with 5k+ games and bootup and shutdowns are <30 seconds.
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@Jeck11 said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:
@Ramses - OK sorry that didn't help. I'm currently using the kids/kiosk package as well but not seeing anywhere near the load times you are. I'm running on a Pi3 with 5k+ games and bootup and shutdowns are <30 seconds.
Well, i have a pie3b too, but i have 31489 games, and almost all of them have picture/description and everything..
...maybe thats why its so slow..
Like i said, if my game is NOT scrapped (no picture/description) it boot very fast in kiosk mode.. The issue is related to the fact that i have a lot of game AND all my game have picture/description in KIOSK MODE
If i keep all my image/description and remove only KIOSK mode, it is very fast too (50 sec!)
Like i said before: The problem is that KIOSK/KIDS mode dont like when we add picture/description to LARGE (30k+) game library..
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well, i have do a lot of test to speed-up that in the last 10 days, but the only way i found to be able to have a descend boot speed is to remove games, or dont scrap game....
Now i have 17 700 games and it took 2min10 to start ...
Does anybody else have experienced this SLOW startup time with LARGE (30k+) scrapped game library in kiosk mode???
Or does anybody have found a fix for that?
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@Ramses - why have so many in your active build? I understand keeping the backups. You could use a ROM cleaner to move the duplicates to another folder then scrap a manageable number.
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@Jeck11 said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:
@Ramses - why have so many in your active build? I understand keeping the backups. You could use a ROM cleaner to move the duplicates to another folder then scrap a manageable number.
I had over 30k but i have removed all duplicated and now i'm at 17 700 ..
Why i have so many? why not?
By the way, this tread is not about the reason why i have a large game library, its about the difficulty for "kiosk mode" to handle large library. And if i just remove 99% of my game, kiosk mode will continue to have difficulty to handle large library and next time someone use kiosk mode with large library same problem will happen.. So its better to find a way to fix that issue in kiosk mode itself than juste deleting all rom games
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isn't kiosk/kids mode based on an older version of ES? it has had recent(ish) speed improvements that i guess aren't in the kiosk/kids fork.
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@dankcushions
This is true, i am in the process of merging in the latest changes.
It will be a while though, as I am going through some medical issues in de family.If tetris has thought me anything, it's that errors pile up and that accomplishments dissappear.
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@Zigurana take time for yourself mate. RetroPie will be here when you get back ;) wish you and you family well
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@Zigurana said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:
@dankcushions
This is true, i am in the process of merging in the latest changes.
It will be a while though, as I am going through some medical issues in de family.Ho! Thanks a lot for your answer!
Take your time with your family, its not an emergency here! :)
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