Run ALL emulators in 720p but ES in 1080p?

[rsn8887]

I want to run all my emulators in 720p, but ES in 1080p. I know I can use the runcommand for each emulator to set it to 720p. But I would have to launch a game in each emulator, press a button on launch, change the display mode for that emulator, and repeat.

Is there a global resolution switch setting?

I tried the emulator config dialog->all libretro configs, but the render mode option there only switches the render target for libretro, it doesn't actually switch the hdmi screenmode to 720p when I launch a game.

Thanks for help in advance.

[jonnykesh]

@rsn8887 Your question / request makes no sense. The Pi scales the original resolution so scaling it to 720p or 1080p uses pretty much the same system resources.

[Darksavior]

@rsn8887
Retropie-setup's configuration editor render resolution option does work, so I'm not sure what else you want. It only works for libretro emulators.

If you want to globally BE in 720p all the time, even in ES, manually set the res in config.txt

[rsn8887]

@darksavior isn't there an option that works for all emulators, even non-Libretro ones?

What I am looking for is this

• emulationstation displays in 1080p
• as soon as I launch any game, the screen mode and TV should switch to 720p and the emulator (even non-libreto) should display in 720p. The TV should show a mode switch to 720p hdmi mode.
• after quitting the emulator, the TV output switches back to 1080p and ES is displayed in 1080p again.
• I think the runmode script makes this possible, but currently I have to set it separately for each emulator.

I think there's a global option somewhere to set it for all emulators, but maybe I remembered it wrong.

But if the scaling to 1080p does really use no resources then maybe it is unnecessary to set this like I intend.