[BUG]: The game grid scrolling performance is heavily degraded by setting the covers

[Florin9doi]

Describe the Bug

The game grid scrolling performance is heavily degraded by setting the covers, especially when the grid is zoomed out to fit more items on every page

Reproduction Steps

• Set the view to game grid
• Set covers for more than a page of homebrew/apps/games
• Zoom all the way out
• Scroll a page down

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• The GUI thread freezes for a few seconds (2-10s) until a page of covers is loaded

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• The second page is loaded

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• The second page is focused and the GUI is unblocked

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Expected Behavior

• Scroll a page down

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• The grid should scroll to the next page immediately and display temporarily placeholders

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• The covers should be loaded in background from the disk

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PCSX2 Revision

PCSX2 Nightly - v1.7.2991

Operating System

Windows 10 (64bit)

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[wefalltomorrow]

Can confirm, happening to me as well. A bit annoying, hopefully it gets fixed soon :)