I need the Pi4 update!!!
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@drewjbx The development images are already working well for most emulators (https://files.retropie.org.uk/images/weekly/). Btw it's only been just over 7 months since the rpi4 was released and there's been a lot of work to do - retropie includes a lot of software to adjust and test.
Your sarcasm isn't welcome. As mentioned this isn't our job.
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Most everything works well on my Rpi4 from the last main release. N64, dosbox (the standalone install of dosbox works fine, so I just launch that seperately) and AGS are the only ones with performance issues that I’ve found. I haven’t tried every core, but even psx is running full speed.
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I was missing linapple but just saw a post saying we can compile it so I might give that a try. Also having Kodi issues but I think those are just me being a Kodi noob.
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@StigNasty update... I’m the dumbest guy alive. I just discovered that I had accidentally uncommented an overclock setting that set my rpi4 at 800mhz in the config file. Fixed and applied an overclock appropriate to the rpi4b. N64 is working pretty well, now. :D Doh!
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@BuZz said in I need the Pi4 update!!!:
@drewjbx The development images are already working well for most emulators (https://files.retropie.org.uk/images/weekly/).
This is very useful to know, thank you. I've been holding back on a Pi 4 purchase until I know how much memory would be advisable to have (I don't need a Pi for anything else - my existing Pi 3 is going to be repurposed as a children's PC for my daughter) and I've been trying to follow development to gauge a rough idea of progress (I know asking "when's it coming out?" is a frowned-upon question). As I understand it, the two biggest bugbears have been spotty GPU drivers and incompatibility of certain emulators with 64-bit.
A propos GPU drivers, it seems official Vulkan support is coming to the Pi 4, which is potentially a boon for PPSSPP and Flycast.
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@ChaosFox said in I need the Pi4 update!!!:
A propos GPU drivers, it seems official Vulkan support is coming to the Pi 4, which is potentially a boon for PPSSPP and Flycast.
Not likely very soon, the Vulkan driver work has just been started.
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@mitu Eben Upton said in the comments section of the blog post that they might have something testable in 6 months or so. So as you said, not soon. But its not that far out either, at least its not years away.
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Oh, I know, it's just when the drivers ARE finished, the Vulkan API is likely to offer emus that tax the GPU heavily a substantial performance boost for the aforementioned emulators, plus PCSX ReARMed when using higher resolutions and texture scaling. Possibly for N64 (depending on how advanced the experimental Vulkan renderer for mupen64plus is), but it'll be an important step forward for Dreamcast, PSP emulation as well as tangible steps to achieving GameCube emulation (probably more likely on a possible Pi5, but seeing Crash: Wrath of Cortex and Soul Calibur 2 running so well with frameskip on Dolphin on a Pi4 even with overheads from a desktop environment absolutely blew my mind).
As @quicksilver said, we're probably looking at a functional beta for within the year for Vulkan drivers.
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I am just commencing the emulation fun. I bought a Pi4 to be more future proof, using Lakka in the meantime. As a newbie, I can't really compare the advantages of the different systems, but I am reading a lot of good about Retropie. Just bothers me that I have to learn the Lakka mechanics before having to start over again with Retropie. Well, that was my choice when picking the Pi4.
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@Tim-s-up The retropie weekly dev builds are usable and nowhere near as buggy as lakka. For example, Lakka still crashes endlessly with the ozone theme since July. Also, retropie uses retroarch as well...
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