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      piintheski
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      Hey guys,

      I have my RetroPie built on top of the GUI on my Rpi4 (so I can use it as a lightweight desktop when I'm not gaming).

      I recently found that a few of the N64 games run better when I'm running 720x480 resolution instead of 1080. I changed the resolution using the RetroPie config menu and set it for lr-mupenplusnext only...however, when I exit the game, I find that the resolution has been changed for my whole system...I have to close out Emulation Station and go back to the desktop, reset it to 1080 and reboot.

      I thought if I changed the resolution for only the emulator, it wouldn't affect the whole system but that doesn't seem to be the case in practice.

      Am I missing something? Thanks in advance guys. I'm fairly new to Rpi so please be patient lol

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        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by mitu

        @piintheski said in Resolution by emulator:

        I have my RetroPie built on top of the GUI on my Rpi4 (so I can use it as a lightweight desktop when I'm not gaming).

        This is not a supported configuration, on the Pi models EmulationStation should be started from the terminal.

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          piintheski @mitu
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          @mitu you mean like opening the command prompt and typing "emulationstation" when on the home screen?

          Or do you mean flashing the RetroPie image onto the SD card?

          I have it built on top of Buster and it works fine for me, I'm just trying to figure out this one issue

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            mitu Global Moderator @piintheski
            last edited by mitu

            @piintheski said in Resolution by emulator:

            @mitu you mean like opening the command prompt and typing "emulationstation" when on the home screen?

            No, I mean not having any 'home screen' at all and starting EmulationStation from the text console/command line.

            I have it built on top of Buster and it works fine for me, I'm just trying to figure out this one issue

            and this one issue is caused by the fact that's not a supported configuration. If you're using Buster, then you can use the RetroPie image to boot. If you need the desktop, then you can install it from RetroPie-Setup and start it from the Ports section.
            NB: The RetroPie image is based on RaspiOS Lite (Buster).

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              piintheski @mitu
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              @mitu I had no idea the Pixel environment was a thing. Just rebuilt my RetroPie and it works much better, thanks

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