Pi4

ExarKunIv

@mitu will there be a recommended ram size?
or would the 1 gig work just as good as 4

mitu

@ExarKunIv for RetroPie 1G should be enough. There's not a large difference - price wise - between the models, so if you want to run the desktop you can get the 2G model.

ExarKunIv

@mitu cool, thank you

Pi-nerd84

@mitu

Hopefully these questions were not asked many times before, but I find so few information about Pi4 developement. But I would be quite interested in technical backgrounds on that.

Maybe you could be so kind and answer my questions :)

I already tested several emulators, also lakka and unofficial user builds of retropie. I saw that's not really working well at the moment with Pi4. N64 emulation for example is really bad.

I know that currently a team is working on an updated GPU driver for VC VI.
Would the current driver be also an issue for the emulators, or is it "only" a compatibilty problem with emulators itself?

Am I able to read more information about retropie developement as standard forum user?
Because I'm not able to filter out anything at github. Is there a different forum or something like that, or is this closed and only open for developers?

mitu

@Pi-nerd84 said in Pi4:

I already tested several emulators, also lakka and unofficial user builds of retropie. I saw that's not really working well at the moment with Pi4. N64 emulation for example is really bad.

That would be addressed by the authors of those images or distros.

I know that currently a team is working on an updated GPU driver for VC VI.
Would the current driver be also an issue for the emulators, or is it "only" a compatibilty problem with emulators itself?

The GPU driver is always a factor, but it's something that's outside of RetroPie's project development. Given the short time since the release of the Pi4, we should expect it will improve and what we can do is to report any issue to the upstream team.

Am I able to read more information about retropie developement as standard forum user?
Because I'm not able to filter out anything at github. Is there a different forum or something like that, or is this closed and only open for developers?

RetroPie is an open source project, any new developments will appear on the Github repositories - which you can watch freely. If that doesn't make any sense to you, then it's ok - you just need to wait for when things are ready.

AmigaMoreThanCLi

Good News Then I Guess!, After all good things come to those that wait... ;)

bombshelboy

Just so it's out in the wild, the RPI4 has been out for half a year now. "short time since the release of the Pi4" does not describe reality anymore ;)

mitu

@bombshelboy said in Pi4:

"short time since the release of the Pi4" does not describe reality anymore ;)

Can you point me to a similar situation where an open source driver has added robust support for a newly released GPU model - under 1 year ?

BuZz

@bombshelboy actually it's closer to 4 months. And you are free to try the dev branch.

Darksavior

@mitu or @BuZz I'm seeing game port guides from "PI LAB" on youtube that compiles his own pi4 mesa driver . He said he doesn't get screen tearing. Is this something the retropie team might look into to get out something proper faster? Not familiar with all of this, so I'm wondering.

mitu

@Darksavior Yeah, using the 'bleeding edge' is always fun. I only looked at one video (briefly) and his test setup is using X.org, so it doesn't really compare to the RetroPie's setup (KMS/DRM without X.org).

Darksavior

@mitu That's unfortunate. I was about to nag him for a retropie tutorial with his mesa drivers.