I really like this theme for my MAME vertical setup (it's one of my two finalists to use full time) where I've got 80 favorites running on an older I7 PC.
Unfortunately I've run into a problem where this theme seems to have a coding issue and slowly starts to consume CPU resources. Once it hits about 15% CPU utilization in Task Manager, something happens to force it back to normal (which is around 5%), but then it kills the FPS down to 30 FPS where you then begin to notice lag in the starfield and game videos. The CPU usage issue will then repeat the entire process, and each subsequent reset drops the FPS another couple of frames. Ultimately it bottoms out around 12 FPS after only running for around 10 minutes which makes it unusable.
I've tried the following in an attempt to resolve the issue with no success -
- Disabled the starfield effect
- Removed all videos from the media folder so that only images would be used for the game previews
- Turned off the Sequencer plugin (which I thought was the root cause - but even if AM is just sitting on a single game using this theme, it'll eventually drop frames)
Any ideas as to what may be causing the issue? Thanks for any replies in advance.....
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