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[ray12944]

QUOTE (AngelBallz69 @ Apr 30 2003, 06:03 AM)

i dont know if this is true but my frend has over 80 xbox games on his xbox and he sayed that it takes over 3 minutes to load to the MXM dashboard , if this is true will it be fixed so it loads quick like evoX??

I Think its because he doesnt have a valid menu.xml file
So MXM runs in safe mode and Has to AutoDetect Everything

I have a Lot of Stuff on my xbox also,  (my 120 GIG is almost full)
and MXM loads Very Quickly, Cause I got everything in the Menu.xml file

Of course I do make it autodetect  the Apps and Emulators folder
Ex.  If I make it autodetect the F: Drive  (Default) Its gonna search everything,
Including all the games, even if he allready has them in the menu.xml File  So they would actually be in the menu  twice. (In the menu with the Preview movie or pic, And under the F: folder)

To avoid this make the AutoDir detect a subfolder like  F:Apps
Not the whole drive

Hope it helps  

[Amything]

Its very slow for me also. Like 2 minutes slow.

Ray: are you saying that we with 60+ games should add them manually to menu.xml? I don't see that happening, not sure I understand what you mean.

This is all í have in menu.xml

CODE

F:Games

[GoDKiLLaX]

you what would be a cool tag

CODE

F:\games\fighting\*.*\default.xbe

Like that it'll only go one level into each folder and grab the info from the deault.xbe.
I just made this up so i sure it doesn't work.  I know wildcards aren't good but i'm just trying to use it to make a point.  Also maybe MXM can only look one level in from where the autodir tags points to.

[ray12944]

QUOTE (Amything @ Apr 30 2003, 12:24 PM)

Its very slow for me also. Like 2 minutes slow. Ray: are you saying that we with 60+ games should add them manually to menu.xml? I don't see that happening, not sure I understand what you mean. This is all í have in menu.xml CODE  F:Games

Amateur  

Well if you where using Any of the  previous versions, Everything had to be entered manually into the xml file,   and you had to number each one,  <Item_1>, <Item _2> Etc. If later you wanted to add another game or App, and you wanted to keep the ABC order, you had to go in and renumber each one.

So it was pretty simple for me to grab my entries from the previous version, Do a couple of replacements on it , and paste them to my new Menu.xml File

You dont know how Lucky you are for  version .9i

Thanks BenJeremy  

Wow Feels Like Im doing an Infomercial!

[AngelBallz69]

benjermy all i have to do is replace this

<Menu>
<SubMenu>
<Title>E Drive Items</Title>
<Item>
<AutoDir>E:</AutoDir>
</Item>
</SubMenu>
<SubMenu>
<Title>F Drive Items</Title>
<Item>
<AutoDir>F:</AutoDir>
</Item>
</SubMenu>

WITH THIS??

<Config>
<Main>
<RemoveInvalid>false</RemoveInvalid>
:    :   :
  (Other "Main" nodes)
:    :   :
</Main>
:    :   :
  (Other "Config" nodes)
:    :   :
</Config>


AND THAT WOULD SPEED THINGS UP A BIT?

[gainpresence]

That would speed things up alot... Because it wouldn't list any files

Add those lines, don't replace.

[X-eQteR]

I had the same problem before, all my videos, mp3's and games make up a lot space on my hard drive and when running mxm 9i, it was taking forever to load and it was doing it everytime I use it, Now i read all these post in how to set up a correct MXM.xml and now my MXM boots really fast,  so my suggestion will be to make sure your MXM.xml file is done correctly otherwise MXM will re-scan your drive completely everytime you use it.

[gainpresence]

I was thinking about that yesterday..

Maybe an "Items.txt" thing, so the only thing it scans for after the first load is new folders (2-3 levels deep? configurable?).. Unless a "Fresh boot" or something is done.

I'm not programmer, though.

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (gainpresence @ Apr 30 2003, 04:12 PM)

I was thinking about that yesterday.. Maybe an "Items.txt" thing, so the only thing it scans for after the first load is new folders (2-3 levels deep? configurable?).. Unless a "Fresh boot" or something is done. I'm not programmer, though.

I'm going to call it "cache_menu.xml" - it will generate if it's deleted, and I might also generate it if the MXM.xml or menu.xml files are updated (tracking file timestamps in cache_menu.xml).

I can have a menu option in the system menu to reset the menu cache (recreating on next boot up).

It shouldn't be hard to do. I have to check my xml output routines, but those are trivial to write up.

[GoDKiLLaX]

That sounds great! Leave it to the creator to solve his own problems, and leave it to us to bitch to him when something doesn't work.

Ben you get a A+

[Amything]

cacheing menu would totally solve it. Good job.

[Jsmith]

Maybe have it so that when it loads if it detects that no cache_menu.xml is detected it'll prompt you if you want to do the directory searching now.  Then also ask how many levels deep you want it to search and from what folder.  Like for me, my default.xbe's are always in the root game folder in F:Games (so default.xbe for NFL 2k3 is in F:GamesNFL_2k3).  I don't get any deeper than that, so there's no reason for it to search the whole thing.  At most one day I might make it one more level deep, but no more than that.

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QUOTE (BenJeremy @ May 1 2003, 05:37 PM)

Just not too much yet

Still works great for me.  

[BenJeremy]