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    Fullscreen is always on when starting an arcade game

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator
      last edited by

      Please fill out the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

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      • rogeriolR
        rogeriol @mitu
        last edited by

        @mitu

        sure, there it goes.

        Pi Model or other hardware: (B, B+, 2 B, 3, X86 PC etc..)
        Pi 4

        Power Supply used: (If using a Pi)
        generic 3A, no power issues

        RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest):
        4.8.4

        Built From: (Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website, Berryboot, or on top of existing OS etc.. - please provide the filename of any image used)
        retropie-buster-4.8-rpi4_400.img

        USB Devices connected:
        none

        Controller used:
        8bitdo FC30 BT

        Error messages received:
        none, fullscreen always enabled on start

        File: (File with issue - with FULL path)
        Emulator: (Name of emulator - if applicable)
        FBNeo

        Attachment of config files:
        links below

        How to replicate the problem:
        start an arcade game, fullscreen is always ON. No way to start it OFF.

        retroarch cfg

        arcade fbneo cfg

        tia

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by

          Since you have modified the stock arcade system config, my guess is you modified some of the video aspect/scale options and this produces scaling you're noticing.

          Remove the retroarch.cfg from your arcade config folder and then re-install lr-fbneo to re-generate it. See if you get the same scaling issue.

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          • rogeriolR
            rogeriol @mitu
            last edited by

            @mitu it's not the case, but I did what you suggested.

            The same continues, I cannot start an arcade game in window fulscreen only, fullscreen is also enabled every time.

            To illustrate:

            fs enabled (always)
            fs.jpg

            fs game (more borders up and down)
            fsg.jpg

            fs disabled (manual, window fs enabled)
            wfs.jpg

            window fs game (up and down borders smaller, best fit)
            wfsg.jpg

            thanks

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator
              last edited by

              Hm, the screenshot you posted doesn't look like the stock RetroArch RGUI config - are you sure you've reset the configuration ? Get a verbose log and post it on pastebin.com.

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              • ByteThisB
                ByteThis @rogeriol
                last edited by

                @rogeriol I'm sure I saw your post on Reddit about this problem and you said you were not using the Retropie stock image but a 3rd party one. If so.that may be your problem.

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                • rogeriolR
                  rogeriol @ByteThis
                  last edited by

                  @ByteThis hi, I did not post this anywhere else. I'm using the stock image, latest.

                  I found out this problem happens in several cores, if not all. NES, SNES, PSX, MSX.

                  Have deleted retroarch config and reinstalled it. Changed the config again to:

                  # Start in fullscreen. Can be changed at runtime.
                  video_fullscreen = "false"
                  

                  I just cannot disable fulscreen mode with the config, only manually inside retroarch.

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                    barbudreadmon @rogeriol
                    last edited by barbudreadmon

                    @rogeriol I'm not sure i understand what you are trying to do here. You are running retroarch outside of a desktop environment, so it will always run fullscreen since there is no window manager to run it in windowed mode.
                    By "fullscreen", are you maybe refering to wrong aspect ratio and/or integer scaling ?

                    FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                    • rogeriolR
                      rogeriol @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @mitu here is the log

                      verbose

                      with this, I figure the culprit is the --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg.

                      This file content (below) sets fulscreen true and it's recreated every time, so no point in editing it. I havent found how this is created or how to disable the -appendconfig when running retroarch... any tips?

                      video_refresh_rate = "60"
                      video_fullscreen = "true"
                      video_fullscreen_x = "1280"
                      video_fullscreen_y = "720"
                      libretro_directory = "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-fceumm"
                      

                      TIA

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                      • rogeriolR
                        rogeriol @barbudreadmon
                        last edited by

                        @barbudreadmon should work only window fullscreen, this is what I want, so the game will fit better on the screen.

                        Works manually, I dont see why retroarch cannot start with fullscreen disabled and window fs enabled.

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @rogeriol
                          last edited by mitu

                          @rogeriol said in Fullscreen is always on when starting an arcade game:

                          with this, I figure the culprit is the --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg.

                          This file content (below) sets fulscreen true and it's recreated every time, so no point in editing it. I havent found how this is created or how to disable the -appendconfig when running retroarch... any tips?

                          /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg contains the resolution that you chose from the runcommand launch menu to be applied to the core/game. You should check the launch menu to see what resolution you have set there.

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                            barbudreadmon @rogeriol
                            last edited by barbudreadmon

                            @rogeriol said in Fullscreen is always on when starting an arcade game:

                            so the game will fit better on the screen.

                            This is the part i don't understand as a developer on this project: switching between fullscreen and windowed fullscreen is not supposed to be used to change how a game "fit" on the screen. Looks to me like you are using some kind of weird bug to get around something that you are supposed to handle through integer scaling and/or aspect ratio.

                            To clarify, if windowed fullscreen acts differently from fullscreen as far as how games "fit" on the screen, then this is definitely a retroarch bug and not something intended, it might even be already fixed in the latest version of retroarch (which isn't available on retropie yet ?) since it does sound strangely similar to the issue i fixed in https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/15247 a few months ago.

                            Nonetheless, if you absolutely want your windowed fullscreen thingy, you might need to set video_windowed_fullscreen in retroarch.cfg.

                            FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                            • rogeriolR
                              rogeriol @mitu
                              last edited by rogeriol

                              @mitu runcommand launch menu has nothing set on in besides the emulator to use with all games of the same category.

                              It's fetching this from somewhere else. I have set the resolutions on the main config.cfg but
                              video_fullscreen = "false"
                              is not respected, somehow it gets transformed into
                              video_fullscreen = "true" in this appendconfig file.

                              @barbudreadmon I agree, my tv even resyncs when disabling fulscreen manually, but since retroarch cryptic configurations and the high probability to mess things up when changing a lot of configs, I thought it would be easier to just disable fulscreeen at launch, but it's proving to be a challenge as well.
                              video_windowed_fullscreen is set to true since the beginning.

                              sds

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                              • mituM
                                mitu Global Moderator @rogeriol
                                last edited by

                                @rogeriol said in Fullscreen is always on when starting an arcade game:

                                It's fetching this from somewhere else. I have set the resolutions on the main config.cfg but
                                video_fullscreen = "false"
                                is not respected, somehow it gets transformed into
                                video_fullscreen = "true" in this appendconfig file.

                                The fullscreen is automatically added by Runcommand, based on your detected resolution. As @barbudreadmon said, since emulators are running 'headless' on the Pi, there's no windowing system present so the emulator window is always 'fullscreen'.

                                Did you modify the config.txt file on the boot partition of your sdcard to force 720p as the video resolution ?

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                                • rogeriolR
                                  rogeriol @mitu
                                  last edited by

                                  @mitu I changed resolution on raspi config to 1280 720 to be easier on the rendering, but no mention to Fullscreen here.

                                  1280 720 was having an effect on my TV upscale so that borders were huge. Still don't understand why window fs made things better.

                                  As a workaround I changed it to 1920 1080 on raspi config so Fullscreen takes the whole area now. Still the setting can't be changed, but the main problem is solved.

                                  If I leave the resolution adjust to best fit the tv, 4k is selected and I believe this could tax the rendering on performance in RetroArch.

                                  Thanks

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @rogeriol
                                    last edited by

                                    @rogeriol said in Fullscreen is always on when starting an arcade game:

                                    Still the setting can't be changed, but the main problem is solved.

                                    You can still change the rendering resolution from the Runcommand launch menu, overriding the default one. 1080p is a good compromise though - 4k is a bit much for the GPU rendering.

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                                    • dankcushionsD
                                      dankcushions Global Moderator @rogeriol
                                      last edited by dankcushions

                                      @rogeriol said in Fullscreen is always on when starting an arcade game:

                                      If I leave the resolution adjust to best fit the tv, 4k is selected and I believe this could tax the rendering on performance in RetroArch.

                                      https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Pi4/#4k-video-display

                                      @rogeriol said in Fullscreen is always on when starting an arcade game:

                                      I changed resolution on raspi config to 1280 720 to be easier on the rendering

                                      pi4 is very capable of doing 1080p so i would use that, using the method in the previous link.

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