Can a good SD Card Increase Game Performance?
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@buzz well damn i just bought a Samsung EVO plus 32gb thinking it Will help with an issue i got.
I wont be able to test it till tomorrow when i can out a image on it but darn do its not gonna smooth a game out for me? Thing is the same game runs alot better one some one else pi with the same hardware but a better SD card i got a bad card i thought thats why it had lower frames now im not so sure anymore -
@retrofreak89 I got a Samsung EVO like in this pic: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71KewFMEvqL.SL1500.jpg
It goes perfectly. The games I tried with another class 10 micro sd card (a Verbatim one that's not U1) and they run slower. The Raspberry with Retropie shows the lighting bolt in the right upper corner. When I started using the Samsung micro sd I noticed it loaded the games faster, no lag at all and also with the filters at full resolution, even, it runs OK.
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It should help a little bit.
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Ok i just got home from my brother's house because i dont have a computer so i had to use his to put the image on the new SD card i just got back so i still got lots of stuff i need to transfer over but i Will report back if the new sd card fixes my issues that i had with the crappy no name SD card..(well it did have a name but i cant find anything online about it the name was SOS solutions 8gb class 10)
I hope it does otherwise it be a waste because the no name one was alright i guess never had issue rly exept for Zdoom being a bit choppy when its not soposed to ( runs better on some elses pi) so maybe this will help.
Its a Samsung EVO+ 32gb dont remember if i mention what card it was there was a 64gb version for not much more but ive read online that the 32fb one perform the fastest of all the EVO + and besides i think 32gb is enough for just Zdoom,kodi and snes,nes,Sega and some psx. -
@retrofreak89 i use a 1tb hard drive so my 64gb samsung evo is just full of zdoom and dosbox games.
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@edmaul69 since we are talking about dosbox now how does it perform? I heard dosbox runs terrible like the older elder scrolls game wont run on it very laggy even tho the pi specs is plenty for that game its because of the emulation so the games that do run are limited?
But damn 64gb full of Zdoom and most of it runs good?
Also why 1tb? Youll never fill it with the little ROM and wad sizes..I rly hope this new SD card fixes my choppy issue in Valiant you dont seem to have this issue so i hope its now resolved for me too..
Im transfering over all my Wads right now as we speak :P takes a bit tho sending it over network from my phone. -
@retrofreak89 im not sure about elder scrolls games. But i dont really have a whole lot of issues with the 200+ games i have on it. Duke nukem 3d i havent played long enough to see if it gets laggy with a bunch of baddies on the screen.
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@edmaul69
Hmm what are some of your dosbox fav i could check out?Also damn i just had a talk with a guy at Reddit and he thinks that a good SD card vs a bad one in Zdoom is not gonna do anything he thinks its most likely a setting difference between us somewhere the reason being is Zdoom doesnt use i/o writes so wads can easy be played from memory so yeah getting kinda scared now because i rly want to play these mods if its not the card then what could it be..
We already tried changing to the same settings as you that didnt work..
The ini seemed fine
We both running stock
You sure there is nothing that enabled it somewhere or installed for Zdoom to run better?
But also what do you call lag?
In valient outside it seemed like it was running at like 12 fps so kinda jerky laggy but very unplayable at 1024 resolution tho and that is what you are playing at and its like 30-60fps for you at that part?
So weird man even at the lowest setting possible its still laggy with like 10fps the weird thing is as soon as im in a building it jumps up to super smooth 60fps like... -
@retrofreak89 its probably 60fps outside for me. I will send you my zdoom.ini for you to test. Another thing you might try is remove your fan. That is the last hardware you can rule out. I do use a vga adapter on a 1024x768 sd tv and in the /boot/config.txt i have it set to
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@retrofreak89 please read my last post. also here is my zdoom.ini located in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/doom/
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@edmaul69 what does changing the HDMI group do? And im not sure what a vga adapter is ill Google it heh
Also i just encountered my first problem on the new card i want this fixed before i do anything else and thats when i go to es themes and install a theme there when i go to select it the theme doesnt work they all show up blank white screen i tried a diff one and all of them do this exept carbon not sure whats going now.. u dont know how to fix this i soposed?
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@retrofreak89 if it gives you a white screen just restart emulationstation. It will display the theme correctly. You might want to update retropie setup and emulationstation. I used to have that issue on an older emulationstation.
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@retrofreak89 also, changing to group 2 lets you choose pc resolutions. Of you use an hdmi to vga adapter you can use a vga port on your tv or monitor. But you probably can use group 2 without the adapter if you want to use a pc style resolution.
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@edmaul69 yeah i want to give it a shot at least so i just find the txt and change the mode there?
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@edmaul69 yeah u were right as soon as i did update packages and underlying os kernal the problem went away all theme working fine.
I didnt get to test any doom wads yet since it got pretty late last night all i did was transfer my games over so far -
@edmaul69 tonight i Will know if SD card fixes my problem or not if not ill try the hdmi thing .
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@retrofreak89 i dunno. Its possible. I would try removing your fan too and testing if just the sd card doesnt fix it. Some people have had performance issues while using one.
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I'm a bit late to this thread but I can honestly say a good SD card can make a huge difference, under certain conditions. Basically just your run of the mill SD card will work fine for any of the cartridge based consoles, because after an initial pause upon launch, the game is loaded into RAM and just runs from there. CD-based games like those for the PlayStation, PSP, or Sega CD is where you will see the improvement. This is because the data is often streamed from the ISO file while playing, and anything interrupting that stream will cause momentary (and very distracting) pauses in gameplay. I had this issue and was experimenting with various cards and overclock settings for weeks in my spare time to resolve it. Finally I found a near perfect solution. I bought a 128 GB SanDisk Extreme (not Ultra) series card and overclocked the SD card reader in the Pi from 50 MHz to 100 MHz. This high-performance card coupled with the reader overclock virtually eliminated any in-game lag I was experiencing in ISO based games. I have a thread somewhere on here documenting my experience and towards the bottom I have before and after benchmarks posted. Not sure how to link to it at the moment.
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I found that thread I mentioned in my previous post.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4288/sd-card-experience-requested-fastest-128-gb-card/27
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