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    How to force screen resolution when booted directly

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      StigNasty
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      I have a setup that was installed over raspberry pi OS. From time to time, I do want to be in the pixel desktop environment, so I want to sometimes toggle between which the pi boots to.

      I notice that running emulationststion while booted into the pixel desktop, it outputs at the set resolution and at 16:9 for menus. When I boot directly, it is very low resolution and in a 4:3 format, and it doesn’t look well as my TV tries to upscale everything. How would I set that so when booted directly to ES, it will output in the higher resolution and at 16:9 for the gui? thanks!

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Please add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

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          StigNasty
          last edited by

          @mitu said in How to force screen resolution when booted directly:

          https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

          It's a rPI4b 2gb model, latest update of Retropie (Everything is updated very regularly), and is was installed on top of Raspberry OS. I generally run it as an app launching via the terminal, but I do see that performance is better when booted directly.

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          • dankcushionsD
            dankcushions Global Moderator @StigNasty
            last edited by

            @stignasty we only support the latter.

            can you please post your /boot/config.txt

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