Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition

[TPR]

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

I use NUMA and my Pi5 is overvlocked. God of War run very fast and well with that setup

I'm using the following overclock in my config.txt:
arm_freq=3000
gpu_freq=1000
force_turbo=1

and I have the following in my cmdline:
numa=fake=4

And I'm seeing no improvement at all with God of War using your aethersx2 settings. Just trying to figure out what I might be doing wrong here.

[DTEAM]

@TPR

My overclock settings

# Tell the DVFS algorithm to increase voltage by this amount (in µV; default 0).
# IMPORTANT: See note below
over_voltage_delta=50000

# Set the Arm A76 core frequency (in MHz; default 2400).
arm_freq=3000

# Set the VideoCore VII core frequency (in MHz; default 800).
gpu_freq=1000

and I have the following in my cmdline:

numa=fake=4

I'm not sure you need this if you use

sudo rpi-update pulls/6273

[TPR]

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@TPR

My overclock settings

# Tell the DVFS algorithm to increase voltage by this amount (in µV; default 0).
# IMPORTANT: See note below
over_voltage_delta=50000

# Set the Arm A76 core frequency (in MHz; default 2400).
arm_freq=3000

# Set the VideoCore VII core frequency (in MHz; default 800).
gpu_freq=1000

and I have the following in my cmdline:

numa=fake=4

I'm not sure you need this if you use

sudo rpi-update pulls/6273

Got it... thanks. Trying now.

[DTEAM]

@TPR
Also, no turbo

[TPR]

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@TPR
Also, no turbo

So this is what I have in my config.txt:

# For more options and information see
# http://rptl.io/configtxt
# Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details

# Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces
#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on

# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented
# /boot/firmware/overlays/README

# Automatically load overlays for detected cameras
camera_auto_detect=1

# Automatically load overlays for detected DSI displays
display_auto_detect=1

# Automatically load initramfs files, if found
auto_initramfs=1

# Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2

# Don't have the firmware create an initial video= setting in cmdline.txt.
# Use the kernel's default instead.
disable_fw_kms_setup=1

# Run in 64-bit mode
arm_64bit=1

# Disable compensation for displays with overscan
disable_overscan=1

# Run as fast as firmware / board allows
arm_boost=1

# Pi5
kernel=kernel8.img

[cm4]
# Enable host mode on the 2711 built-in XHCI USB controller.
# This line should be removed if the legacy DWC2 controller is required
# (e.g. for USB device mode) or if USB support is not required.
otg_mode=1

[all]

# Tell the DVFS algorithm to increase voltage by this amount (in µV; default 0).
# IMPORTANT: See note below
over_voltage_delta=50000

# Set the Arm A76 core frequency (in MHz; default 2400).
arm_freq=3000

# Set the VideoCore VII core frequency (in MHz; default 800).
gpu_freq=1000

And here is my cmdline:

console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=5ecf2855-02 rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait cfg80211.ieee80211_regdom=US

And I'm not seeing any real improvement with anything. I just loaded up God of War and also Radiata Stories and they are both still running sluggish. Any ideas?

[DTEAM]

@TPR

Strange? Maybe the Bios or the rom

[TPR]

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@TPR

Strange? Maybe the Bios or the rom

I'm not sure. Everything else seems to be working fine. I would have thought that the NUMA and/or Overclock would have been more of a global thing and I would have seen improvement across the board, but it doesn't look like I am.

[TPR]

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@TPR

Strange? Maybe the Bios or the rom

Do I still need this in my config?

arm_boost=1

or should I remove that ?

[TPR]

@DTEAM So this is interesting. I put the comments for the overclock in a different position in my config. I put them above the [cm4] section and now it's been doing this:

is this normal?

[TPR]

@DTEAM Well, this is interesting...

I went and grabbed my 8gb board with the same SD card not working in the 4gb board and guess what... it works just fine! and I can even see that the overclock is working...

So then I went and grabbed a newer 4gb board that I had not opened yet, and it works just fine, too!

The Pi 5 4gb board I was initially using was one of the very first boards that came out so I wonder if maybe the newer boards just work better with the overclock and NUMA?

Oddly enough I'm still not seeing much of a performance boost with any PS2 games yet. Any chance you can post a video of how God of War is playing on your system?

[DTEAM]

@TPR

Here's my config.txt file . I'm on a small touchscreen and I use a USB port for my audio.

https://pastebin.com/W1RqfXAB

Here's my SD card. Maybe it's this. I got a super fast one.

[Retrodade]

how about? Aquaplus P/ECE

https://github.com/autch/piemu

[ExarKunIv]

@Retrodade maybe, i would not hold my breath, since last update on that was 13 years ago. it might not work on 64bit, unless you already tried and got it workling.

[TPR]

Here is another suggestion to help speed up AetherSX2 that I discovered today:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/36636/aethersx2-cache-question-any-way-to-auto-clear-or-turn-off