EmulationStation Sluggish and Scraper Broken with 4.7 Release
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Running a Pi 2B, I also have slow framerates with ES on RetroPie 4.7 (having updated both to latest versions).
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Also seeing low framerates in ES on a Pi 3B+ after upgrading a nearly-fresh 4.6 image to 4.7.
Also, every time I start a game it prints the message "VolumeControl::init() - Failed to find mixer elements!" before the runcommand dialog comes up, sometimes several times in a row. The volume is much louder now, and when I open the ES sound settings (which I hadn't touched before), the System Volume is set to 0%. If I set it higher, close the menu, and reopen it, it's set back to 0%, but it's still very loud. The Audio Card is "Default" and Audio Device is "PCM". It was working fine before the upgrade.
EDIT: After switching Audio Device to "HDMI" the volume control worked and the error stopped appearing. ES is still sluggish, so this was probably unrelated.
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@Kapow the audio issue is well documented (there's a thread on the forum - it's due to a driver change).
I will sort ES today and roll new images. You will be able to update once this is done.
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@BuZz Thank you!
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Pi4b 2gb
Official PSU
Hdmi
4.7 updated via retropie setup, I ran update and choose yes to everything.I had my first emulation station crash since updating I just had to hit ok on this little square screen it took me to cli and I typed emulationstation and it reloaded fine.
But after approx 1 year of stable this was a surprise hopefully it will sort itself with updates.
My issue might be aeperate,is there a Emulation station crash log?
Crash image
Thanks
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Please do an update from RetroPie-Setup and the performance issue with EmulationStation should be sorted. Note you can either do a full update or update Retropie-Setup script, then EmulationStation.
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@BuZz It's fixed! Thanks so much!
Unfortunately, the scraper is still broken. TheGamesDB hasn't reported anything wrong on their forum, and the error of
TheGamesDBJSONRequest - Response had no include boxart data.
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@maserspark said in EmulationStation Sluggish and Scraper Broken with 4.7 Release:
Unfortunately, the scraper is still broken. TheGamesDB hasn't reported anything wrong on their forum, and the error of TheGamesDBJSONRequest - Response had no include boxart data.leads me to believe it might be ES.
If no games are scraped, then you may be over your monthly request quota.
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@mitu This issue concerns about three games I added to my collection most recently. The rest of my games are scraped and have been so for years. The new games are:
- EarthBound (SNES)
- Phantasy Star IV (Genesis/Mega Drive)
- Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (Genesis/Mega Drive, Japan-only)
All three scraped fine in 4.6. I didn't save my changes before updating to 4.7, so I have to rescrape them.
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@maserspark Yes, you're right - there's a bug in EmulationStation's scraper. We'll have to fix it.
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A fix from @mitu has been applied to the scraper and new ES binaries are available again (v2.9.6rp)
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@buzz My scraper is still not working with the v2.9.6rp update.
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@phil_chambers What scraping source are you using ? Can you give an example of game/rom that's not working ?
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@mitu I'm using the built in scraper for various roms on various systems and it doesn't work. It was working last week when I installed 4.6, But I've fully updated 4.7 and it is still unable to find anything.
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@phil_chambers You already said that - please add some details, as I asked in the previous reply, otherwise we'll not be able to check whether it's a scraping source error or an actual error in EmulationStation's scraper.
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@mitu You don't need to be rude. As I previously stated it's unable to scrape for ANY AND ALL games I have, that were previously being scraped while on 4.6. So why I would need to provide specific examples escapes me, but I'll give you several examples to humor you.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - GBA
Legend of Zelda, The Oracle of Ages - GBC
NBA Jam Tournament Edition - Sega Master System
Castlevania II - Simon's Quest - NES
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - Playstaion
Donkey Kong Country 2 - SNES
Metal Slug X - Arcade -
@phil_chambers I wasn't rude, just merely asking for more details. What scraping source are you using ?
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@mitu The built in scraper that comes installed with stock 4.7.
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@phil_chambers The built-in scraper has 2 sources for scraping available
You can configure which one is used from the EmulationStation's settings. Right now, ScreenScraper.fr is not accessible for non-registered users, so scraping from that source does not work - it's not a bug in EmulationStation.
If you change the scraping source and use TheGamesDB, scraping will work.
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