Fix store lag: decode cached covers off the GUI thread

2026-09-14 00:24:48 -04:00
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
@@ -2231,10 +2231,10 @@ class StorePage(QWidget):
            rid, system = lc
        else:
            rid, system = covers.stable_key(it["name"]), it.get("system") or "games"
-        p = covers.cover_path(rid, system)
-        if p.exists() and covers.file_is_image(p):
-            item.setIcon(QIcon(_fit_pixmap(QPixmap(str(p)), self.ICON_W, self.ICON_H)))
-        elif system not in ("theme", "dlc") and rid not in self._cover_attempted:
+        # Covers are decoded + scaled off the GUI thread (StoreCoverLoader).
+        # Never load a QPixmap here — doing so for cached covers made the store
+        # unresponsive while filling/scrolling.
+        if system not in ("theme", "dlc") and rid not in self._cover_attempted:
            # Themes and DLC have no meaningful box art in libretro/IGDB, and
            # bulk-scraping hundreds of them on every switch to the DLC list
            # saturates the network/CPU and makes the store unresponsive.