2011-08-01, 04:36
edwingoh Wrote:.
I spent 2 full weekends tinkering and reading in the threads for solutions. I had also upgraded my NAS HDD from 500GB (7200rpm)to 2TB (5900rpm), so I was suspecting that the stream rate got affected.
Then, I decided to uninstall and remove all traces of XBMC and start from scratch. Literally. I deleted all the folders and then did a clean install from 10.0.4. Ok, everything looks expected of that build. After that, I upgraded straight to the nightly build 0722. YOU KNOW WHAT? All the sluggishness and issues I experienced were ALL GONE! Now I can conclude that due to the upgrades and downgrades had created residual effects/files which cause the XBMC to malfunction.
Whats 10.0.4? This sounds more like mis-configuration that was wiped out with deletion rather than assuming it's residual effects. Remember, configuration files are kept on upgrades, so that is most likely the source of the issue.
Blowing away your configuration entirely and starting from scratch is always a good thing to do especially when testing builds and I encourage everyone if they have this issue to save their userdata folder, blow away their configuration and put files back one by one until the culprit is found.