Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: blkdog7 on April 18, 2009, 08:27:11 pm
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My MALA scroll speed is VERY slow. I am using Marquee images instead of a text list to select games. I have done all the steps I found on the MALA wiki to increase scroll speed and it didn't help at all.
Any ideas how I can speed up my scroll speed?
Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLysvlEAmBw
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If you force MaLa to update every field when scrolling it can be slow (especially with videos)
Have you tried a display delay on some items and/or video? Try a few combos.
gui-optis-display delay
The attached Pic shows my settings.
Note: You can also add an EXTRA video delay in Gui-options-picture and videos
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Whoa, is that an automated Favorites list?
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Yeah I just found that feature too! It's under game lists. Select all games the go to options and put a check box next to "use most played gamelist".
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you can also download a bulk image resizer and resize all your snaps to something like 250x250 pixels, this can help speed it up
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you can also download a bulk image resizer and resize all your snaps to something like 250x250 pixels, this can help speed it up
Yes that is a good tip.
Saves a bit of work for MaLa to resize 'on the fly'
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Ok, so this is a good question then, how can I figure out the actual size that is being shown on my monitor? I have no problem batch resizing. I can do it in Fireworks or Photoshop. I just need to know what size to optimize all my screenshots and marquees too.
250 x 250 is square though. You mean max 250 width or height?
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I just checked and all my snaps are already max 222px. So, that's not it!
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I resized all my marquees to 250px wide and also made them 8bit .png files. My Marquee folder is now only 25MB large! Originally it was 175mb, then when I resized them it was 800mb. It's now 25mb!
Anyways, that did it. It's fast now. I also played with the video delay and made that come one a little slower. It's good now! Thanks!
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Sweet ;D