PerformanceSettings

If you want to browse large Rom Collections on small machines you may experience performance issues. It may take some time to load the list after changing filter settings or browsing the list may be slow. There are some options to increase performance or to reduce the result sets to display.

Performance relevant parameters

Size of your rom collection / filter selection

Loading and rendering large lists may become a problem on slow machines. You can try to keep your result sets below this number with the filter settings (see Reduce result set for more info).

Videos in autoplay mode

If you have videos and choose to autoplay them in the main window this could also decrease performance while browsing the list. You could use autoplay videos only in game info window if you encounter performance issues. See Edit Rom Collection for more info.

Artwork size

The size of your artwork files is an important factor to the browsing performance. Loading large artwork files will take some time for Kodi and they may show up later than smaller files.

Drive speed

It also matters if you store your rom collection and especially your artwork on a network share, usb storage or your local hard drive. If you really notice bad performance you may try to move parts of your rom collection to a local drive. Only artwork files are loaded while browsing the game list, so it makes most sense to store these files locally. Rom files are only read during game import and when launching a game.

Reduce result set

You could just use RCBs game filter to reduce the number of results that are displayed. RCB will save these filter settings and starts with the same filters next time you launch it. Additionally you should check the option "Prevent unfiltered search" in Addon settings. As the name says this prevents accidently starting a search for all of your games at once.

You could also remove the "All" entry from your filters. This is the hard way to prevent unfiltered searches. Just uncheck the "Show Filter All ..."-options in Addon Settings.

Another way to limit the number of results is the option "Max number of games to display" in Addon settings. As the name suggests this will just add the specified number of games to your list. New filter searches will always search the complete database. So you can minimize the number of games with this option and do subsequent searches to get better results.