Leave Theatre running or exit after each round?

[Jack Burton 98]

Just curious how you guys use the program. I generally exit after each session, but noticed a fair bit of lag until everythings loaded after each startup. I've been swapping a bunch of stuff between hard drives so that might have something to do with it, since it definitely takes longer lately. Any issues with simply minimizing it when not in use, or is it better to shut it down?

[techywarrior 689]

I close after each session. With the new ET it checks, and updates, on launch so it helps to occasionally restart it in order to get the latest version.

 

Also, I haven't seen lag when assets are already cached. Of course the "problem' is that if you don't view all the items in the different image sizes it can take a long time to cache everything (especially with a large library).

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

I run it on my personal workstation so I close it when it is not in use. Haven't noticed any lag but have an 115 Mbps internet connection.

Edited March 16, 2016 by Koleckai Silvestri

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I'm running it on a nuc that only exists to run ET.  I leave it open pretty much all the time.

[Jack Burton 98]

I close after each session. With the new ET it checks, and updates, on launch so it helps to occasionally restart it in order to get the latest version.

 

Also, I haven't seen lag when assets are already cached. Of course the "problem' is that if you don't view all the items in the different image sizes it can take a long time to cache everything (especially with a large library).

Good point. With all the rework I've been doing on my hard drives, it would have to recache a bunch every time I start up

[NWGiles 10]

left open on all of mine

[realbenny 0]

I keep Theatre running too, but I realized that electron.exe sometimes uses an incredible amount of CPU.

[Jdiesel 1431]

Has anyone noticed that leaving ET open prevents their PC from going to sleep? Just curious if it is an issue with my setup or an ET related on.

[Info1 13]

I close mine as I have a dedicated media server that this app runs on. The server is on as other family members connect but to get the latest update you need to restart the application. I think this was mentioned above.

 

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[realbenny 0]

Has anyone noticed that leaving ET open prevents their PC from going to sleep? Just curious if it is an issue with my setup or an ET related on.

I can sleep mine just fine with ET running.

[ebr 16177]

I can sleep mine just fine with ET running.

 

I think he was saying his machine didn't automatically sleep as opposed to not being able to manually put it to sleep...

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

I would suspect that if you leave theater running, the system won't sleep automatically. Theater would be keeping an open network connection for the screensaver and downloading the backdrops used for that. Need to be able to turn off the Screensaver to prevent that.

[realbenny 0]

Well mine is sleeping itself automatically also with ET running. I dont have ET in the foreground though.