qBitTorrent GT.ru Guide

bi4smooth

Can you kindly tell what you think is making my qbt client slow and freeze from the jump? It's been like this for 3+ yrs despite updates. could it be the number of torrents? it's in win10

The only time I've had performance issues with qBitTorrent myself was when I ran it on a virtual machine with not enough RAM and/or swap space.

Shepard69

I used qBitTorrent for years but it would create some strange data files whenever it felt like it. I figure that it happens when I select not all, but some of the files to download of a multi-file torrent. Researched but could not solve the problem, so I switched to Tixati.

ianfontinell

I've been having some really frustrating issues with qbittorrent recently, and I don't really know the cause, because it started recently and resisted to multiple re-installations of different versions.

I noticed that my speeds always start blazing fast when the app launches, and over time it just keeps dropping to mere dozens of kylobytes per second. I also started to experience very poor performance with frequent freezes and the app refusing to close at all, staying in memory forever and forcing me to use the reset button because not even windows can unload it during a regular restart/shutdown.

I refuse to switch to a different client because apart from this big inconvenience it has everything i need, i tried other clients and they all fall short.

ianfontinell

@Shepard69 said:

I used qBitTorrent for years but it would create some strange data files whenever it felt like it. I figure that it happens when I select not all, but some of the files to download of a multi-file torrent. Researched but could not solve the problem, so I switched to Tixati.

thought i'd explain this since i'm already here. torrent files have a fixed piece size, like 4MB, or maybe 8MB, and you cannot ever download "half" a piece, when a piece is request you have to download it fully. Because of this, some files' boundaries share the same torrent piece.

So, suppose you have 10 files, you select only files 2 to 10... In order to get the very first bytes of the 2nd file, you need to download the last bytes of the 1st file, even though you opted for not downloading it. Those parts that you are forced to download even though you don't want, are stored in a special .parts file. When you select all files, there's no need for such file, naturally.

All clients create those files, if you don't see them using tixati it only means the client is storing them somewhere else.

Shepard69

@ianfontinell
I'll be damned. Thank You very much for this info, was wondering why this was happening for Years and never found an answer.

Shepard69

@ianfontinell said:
I also started to experience very poor performance with frequent freezes and the app refusing to close at all, staying in memory forever and forcing me to use the reset button because not even windows can unload it during a regular restart/shutdown.

I trashed Windows decades ago, switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon and could not be happier. Used qBitTorrent on it for over 15 years and the only problem I 'thought' I had, was that data file thingy you solved for me.

jokuihmemies

hey is it possible to change .torrent files image? now its hard to see if i have photo and torrent on the same folder.
im on windows 11

Kevin4fm

@jokuihmemies Do you mean the icon that represents ".torrent" files?

jokuihmemies

@Kevin4fm yup
as u can see on the picture white and blue... hard to notice which is which in quick look

Kevin4fm

@jokuihmemies I've certainly assigned icons to my own "pretend" file type (".xxx" files) but I can't remember how. Give me a sec and I'll ask my AI friend.

jokuihmemies

@Kevin4fm ️
chatgpt said i cant change it in windows unless i download 3rd party software

Kevin4fm

This is what my AI says. I can't test it myself cos I've switched to Linux now. (I'm assumng you use Windows.)

"If you mean changing the icon for an entire file type (e.g. all .txt files or all .xyz files), that's done through the Registry.

Press Win + R, type regedit, and press Enter.

Navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Find the extension, for example:

.txt

The (Default) value tells you the file class. For .txt it's usually:

txtfile

Now navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\DefaultIcon

(If DefaultIcon doesn't exist, create it as a new key.)

Set the (Default) value to the icon you want, for example:

C:\Icons\MyText.ico

or

C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,70

where the number is the icon index within the DLL.

Restart Explorer (or sign out/in) to see the change."

Kevin4fm

LOL. My AI is also ChatGPT. You realise you can argue with them, right?

Is it possible you're not phrasing the question right? "How do I change the icon used to represent a file type when displayed in MS Explorer?"

jokuihmemies

@Kevin4fm well i copy paste urs to my chatgpt and it say oh yeah ure definitely right u can do it via regedit XDDD duh? xD

but it didnt work tho. ill try again tomorrow gotta sleep now

ianfontinell

@jokuihmemies said:

hey is it possible to change .torrent files image? now its hard to see if i have photo and torrent on the same folder.
im on windows 11

just skip the hard work and switch to a different image viewer, imageglass is the best viewer extremely customizable and versatile, and the icons are very distinctive: