PSX game taking 15 seconds to start

[papazark]

Hi there

I've got an issue when launching PSX game.

Games are stored in the .cue/bin format and I've got one folder for every one of them.

So the Sub-Folder option is actually used.

The gamelist shows up very quickly, but when I want to run a game, gameex freezes (not even a please wait) about 15 seconds, and then launches the game.

I monitored the GameEx process using ProcMon, and I discovered that during that time, GameEx was reparsing the psx root directory, trying to find the .cue I wanted to load in every single folder. Since everything is networked, it does take that long to complete

Now, I wonder why GameEx needs to go through the whole folders when I am in the launch game screen.

GameEx should already know where the cue file is.

Did anybody get the same issue ?

[Tom Speirs]

  On 12/4/2009 at 9:29 PM, papazark said:

Hi there

I've got an issue when launching PSX game.

Games are stored in the .cue/bin format and I've got one folder for every one of them.

So the Sub-Folder option is actually used.

The gamelist shows up very quickly, but when I want to run a game, gameex freezes (not even a please wait) about 15 seconds, and then launches the game.

I monitored the GameEx process using ProcMon, and I discovered that during that time, GameEx was reparsing the psx root directory, trying to find the .cue I wanted to load in every single folder. Since everything is networked, it does take that long to complete

Now, I wonder why GameEx needs to go through the whole folders when I am in the launch game screen.

GameEx should already know where the cue file is.

Did anybody get the same issue ?

Right now, this is by design. You may be able to improve performance if your rom filter is not 100% narrowed down.

[papazark]

  On 12/4/2009 at 11:44 PM, TSpeirs said:

Right now, this is by design. You may be able to improve performance if your rom filter is not 100% narrowed down.

Thanks for the quick answer

My rom filter is already minimalist. I only have *.cue in it

So I guess I can't do much about it right now.

Just curious, what purpose is this design filling ?

Is that something that could change in the future during a refactoring ?

From a 'simple user' point of view, it look like a bug (stressing the harddrive when there's no need to)

[Tom Speirs]

  On 12/5/2009 at 2:22 AM, papazark said:

Thanks for the quick answer

My rom filter is already minimalist. I only have *.cue in it

So I guess I can't do much about it right now.

Just curious, what purpose is this design filling ?

Is that something that could change in the future during a refactoring ?

From a 'simple user' point of view, it look like a bug (stressing the harddrive when there's no need to)

Its not high on the list to change but its possible, and Ill try and and make sure the please wait runs since it takes some time. Perhaps you could give me an idea on the setup so I can gauge how big an issue it is. eg network speed, folder size, number of files.

[papazark]

  On 12/5/2009 at 3:15 AM, TSpeirs said:

Its not high on the list to change but its possible, and Ill try and and make sure the please wait runs since it takes some time. Perhaps you could give me an idea on the setup so I can gauge how big an issue it is. eg network speed, folder size, number of files.

Glad to hear it's in the Backlog

As for the setup, we're talking about 620Gb of data split into about 8000 files and 3000 Folders

Network is Gigabit but the actual average transfer rate is only 40MB/s (yes, Bytes and not Bits)

I did a quick test in C++ and recursively 'walking' through the folder takes about 5 seconds in release.

[Tom Speirs]

Ive attmepted to improve performance in 10.29, now available. Let me know if any better.

[papazark]

I've just auto updated to 10.29, and it's still taking the same time.

[Tom Speirs]

  On 12/5/2009 at 5:08 PM, papazark said:

I've just auto updated to 10.29, and it's still taking the same time.

OK, well I tried. Thanks for the feedback anyway.

[papazark]

  On 12/6/2009 at 6:06 AM, TSpeirs said:

OK, well I tried. Thanks for the feedback anyway.

Thanks for having a look at it.

I guess I'll just have to be patient then