Update to 4.4.7 = no more Pictures in ES

sirhenrythe5th

Hi Folks,

i just updated the Retropie Script to 4.4.7
I had two issues:

with the update to Retroarch 1.7.6. the frames where shown by default.
This problem was easy solved bei deactivating "Show Frames" in Retroarch Settings.
this one is a riddle to me.
There is no more Artwork shown in ES with the update to 2.8.0RP 😐.
I checked if the Images are,still in /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_Images/systemname/filename.xxx - and they are.
The Screensaver (Slideshow) still finds the special picture-folder and the wav-file for his needs in that folder, but ES keeps showing me pure Text at the Moment.

I tried Carbon, Carbon no Meta and Chicuelo.
My System is a RPI3B+ with genuine power Supply, Retropie 4.4.7 (created and updated constantly from the official image 4.4.2) and default settings.
No gimmicks, no modifys, no overclocking.

Thanks in advance for help!

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th Look in the Gamelist view Style under the UI settings in Emulationstation, change to Detailed/Video.

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu thank you Mitu!!! Changed it to 'detailed' and everything is fine now.
Great help, thanks once more 👍😊

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th Actually, @quicksilver discovered it, I'm just relaying the info :).

EDIT: do you remember what was the option set before you changed it ?

quicksilver

@mitu After updating ES its set to Automatic. Changing it to detailed brought back the scraped images and icons in settings. Not sure what it was set to before updating.

mitu

@pjft If you have the time, maybe you can take a look at why this happens ? Since the dev branch has been recently promoted to stable, I think the new grid view addition might have impacted how the gamelist view style is updated. I don't have so much experience with that part, maybe it's easier to spot what modification triggered this ?

A Bored Ninja

@mitu I have this same issue, and switching to
Detailes shows art. Switching to Video shows only the video but no scraped art. How do I fix that?

mitu

@A-Bored-Ninja What theme are you using ?

A Bored Ninja

@mitu Chicuelo. But it seemed to do it on all the ones I tried.

saccublenda

I add that changing the style to “grid” made my RetroPie crash.

mitu

@saccublenda Could happen because you're not using a grid enabled theme, but regardless of it, it shouldn't crash.

mitu

@A-Bored-Ninja I tested briefly with Carbon also and it seems there's something wonky either when the view style is detected or when showing the scraped image. Normally, the automatic style would inspect your gamelist and determine - based on the existance of video/images - if the video or detailed style is applied. I guess that the detection doesn't work correctly or there's something else when displaying the image.

pjft

@mitu thanks for tagging me. I'll certainly take a look.

From the description, I take it @sirhenrythe5th and @quicksilver don't have videos?

mitu

Can you update your Emulationstation binaries now ? There should be a new version available (2.8.1) that should fix the problem you reported.

sirhenrythe5th

@pjft no, i don´t have Videos ;)

mitu

@saccublenda I reproduced the crash - it happens when the theme doesn't support the new 'grid' theme. It also happens the other way around, when switching from a Grid enabled theme to another one that doesn't.
We'll see how we fix this, thank you for reporting it.
@pjft I'm going to ping you again - this time for this problem. You can test with ruckages neogeo-mini or pandora themes.

saccublenda

@mitu said in Update to 4.4.7 = no more Pictures in ES:

@saccublenda I reproduced the crash - it happens when the theme doesn't support the new 'grid' theme. It also happens the other way around, when switching from a Grid enabled theme to another one that doesn't.
We'll see how we fix this, thank you for reporting it.

Thank you.

jthomas5150

Hi, i am having the same issue of changing to grid and my ES crashing. ES is v2.8.1RP. Using the stock Carbon theme, so I assume grid view is not supported? :)

RPI3B

sirhenrythe5th

AFAIK Carbon and Carbon no Meta have not been updated awhile.
They even don´t support Videos which was implented a while ago.
So Carbon will have no Grid-View-Support.

A little bit odd in my eyes: when i switch to grid-view using Carbon noMeta, my System does not crash.
I did not try it with the latest release 2.8.1., but when i opened the thread using 2.8.0. i switched to grid -view just to test it.

a grid view was opened! In complete other Colors (light blue, dark blue and White. very basic), but it was there.
Maybe it did not Crash because there were no Images, who knows? ;)

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th Carbon supports video. As far as I know, the only grid enabled themes are @ruckage's Pandora and Neogeo mini themes, which are not in the RP list of installable themes (specifically because they only support the grid view).