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I have the same problem too, after 4-5 idle days, the FPS drop and I need to reboot Windows to watch my movies.
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I'm using the newest 13 alpha 9 and I also have this problem. After about a day I went to play a 1080i video and the OSD showed it was playing at 220 fps, and then back down to 50 and back and forth in the hundreds, even though I have vertical sync locked to 60 fps. Even when it said it was running at 220 fps the menu and OSD was extremely laggy, almost like it was running in slow motion. Closed and rebooted and everything was back to normal. This has happened several times in the past month since I've been leaving XBMC open longer.
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lol, it just happened again, except it went all the way up to 572 fps and became totally unresponsive!
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I have had this bug for 3 years...just saying.
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2014-01-30, 19:56
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-30, 19:57 by ihaveworms.)
I feel the same as you. I have tried making scheduled tasks to shutdown XBMC and restart it, but it never seems to start the program back up. Every time I go back to my PC, I see XBMC has shutdown but hasn't booted up. I have tried making batch files, programs to kill the process and relaunching, etc. Nothing seems to work.
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Same problem here. Makes the argument for Openelec more compelling.
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2014-05-03, 07:38
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-03, 08:18 by Skram0.)
Still have an issue with 13.0 beta 4. After so many days the framerate gets real jumpy. Like a strobe effect. It seems different than it used to be in 12, like there's some progress with this issue. But XBMC still becomes unstable after a few days of being on. I still don't understand how a program with this massive of a bug can become so popular!? I know it's free and all, but free software that doesn't work is not really the thing I wake up every morning eager to download and run.
Don't get me wrong, I really 'like' this program, even donated, but with every build there's always some small amount of hope that this issue has been taken care of. I really want to turn my 'like' into 'love', and repairing this issue could do that.
EDIT: Also, I have my database on an unRAID cluster of hard drives. All my drives sleep after an hour of inactivity. If I program my XBMC machine to reboot every day then when it scans the network share for changes all my hard drives wake up every single day for nothing. I'd rather have them sleep when not is use and only wake up when necessary. Only a single drive will wake up when I want to watch something that's on only one drive. Best way to keep the wear and tear down on my drives. And I'd rather have my XBMC scan for changes on boot up so everything's current every time it's loaded. Saves me the hassle of trying to remember to update the database manually.
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2014-05-19, 04:07
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-25, 15:59 by StinDaWg.)
This issue still exists in Gotham final release. I think I'm going to give Mediabrowser and Plex another try.
I don't have to restart any other piece of software every day to get it to function properly, and it's just crazy that this issue has been going on for years with no one willing to look into fixing it.
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Gotham 13.1 beta 1 still has this issue, and I'm not hopeful beta 2 will make any difference.