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    gba,snes seems a lil laggy+sound issues

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    • DarksaviorD
      Darksavior @SmellyViking
      last edited by Darksavior

      @smellyviking A temp or lightning bolt icon might cause the slowdowns. If you messed with the video config or using a 3rd party image can also cause this.

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      • lovelorn88L
        lovelorn88
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        thank god!!!! im having REALLY bad sound issues with ALOT of my snes games,, ive tried every snes emulator its only snes for me... but the audio is very crackly, laggy, stutter i just overclocked it to 1.4 to see if itd fix it and NOPE no luck

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        • lovelorn88L
          lovelorn88 @SmellyViking
          last edited by

          @smellyviking people keep saying its in my settings but its not.... my settings were fine... NO ONE can figure this out its annoying

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            scooter1974
            last edited by scooter1974

            Taken from [https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Speed-Issues]

            Edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and set:

            Use threaded video driver

            video_threaded = true

            Smoothens picture with bilinear filtering

            video_smooth = false

            Audio driver backend.

            audio_driver = alsathread

            Enable rewinding

            rewind_enable = false

            For me, setting video_threaded to true, fixed a lot of my speed issues. Results may vary though.

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            • DarksaviorD
              Darksavior @scooter1974
              last edited by

              @scooter1974 All of those settings from the wiki are the default, so either you changed them yourself or using a 3rd party image and those aren't supported here.

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                scooter1974 @Darksavior
                last edited by scooter1974

                @darksavior Its not a 3rd party image, for sure. Perhaps I turned off threaded video without thinking, which is entirely possible lol.

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                • SmellyVikingS
                  SmellyViking
                  last edited by

                  thankyou all for the help ill try tweaking some stuff on the snes this weekend. if i figure it out ill report

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                  • SmellyVikingS
                    SmellyViking @lovelorn88
                    last edited by

                    @lovelorn88
                    https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/14310/pi-3-model-b-underpowered-issue-with-retropie-emulators/
                    quoting edale in this oldish thread:

                    "Oh, and it actually takes a 3 GHz CPU to perfectly emulate an SNES, due to architecture differences and timing issues (yes, I know, the SNES was only ike 33 MHz). A Pi 3b only has 1.2 GHz CPU. Most games will run fine, but almost none will run perfectly."

                    hmm

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                    • DarksaviorD
                      Darksavior @SmellyViking
                      last edited by Darksavior

                      @smellyviking The fact snes9x runs fullspeed with all games for everyone else , that quote doesn't apply to these emulators. You only need a 3ghz+ cpu for bsnes or higan, which are not available for the pi. If a game does run slow, you'll either have to overclock or use an older snes9x....if you have a perfectly working setup which you don't have...

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                        JasonBigham Banned @Darksavior
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                          SergV
                          last edited by SergV

                          Whoever could solve the problem with sound on SNES emulator PI3B, PI3B+
                          The solutions described "https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Sound-Issues/" do not work.
                          Very disappointed in Raspberry.
                          Sound sometimes slows down and collapses.

                          a few days later .... after reading a lot of unnecessary information
                          The problem was in throttling.

                          avoid_warnings=2 means don't show the warning squares and don't disable turbo mode on under-voltage condition. We still throttle on over-temperature.

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