Overscan issue

Mischief

Raspberry Pi Model B+ with Retropie 3.6

I have done a lot of google searching and clicked on many links and have not found an answer, The overscan option in settings and also modifying the config.txt in the boot directory only changes the raspberry pi bootup and retropie splash screen, as soon as you get the Emulationstation splash screen overscan is disabled and will not change no matter what setting I change.

I have also tried changing overscan_left=0 overscan_right=0 overscan_top=0 overscan_bottom=0 and again it has no effect on emulationstation at all.

Thanks.

Drakaen391

Do you have black bars or is it cropping?

Mischief

Both, Bootup and retropie splash image have black bars, emulationstation is cropped (outer edges off screen)

BuZz

try overscan_scale=1 (which should be set by default in the image and when installing ES)

Mischief

@BuZz said:

try overscan_scale=1 (which should be set by default in the image and when installing ES)

Did that and no effect on emulationstation.

Finhead

@Mischief said:

Raspberry Pi Model B+ with Retropie 3.6

I have done a lot of google searching and clicked on many links and have not found an answer, The overscan option in settings and also modifying the config.txt in the boot directory only changes the raspberry pi bootup and retropie splash screen, as soon as you get the Emulationstation splash screen overscan is disabled and will not change no matter what setting I change.

I have also tried changing overscan_left=0 overscan_right=0 overscan_top=0 overscan_bottom=0 and again it has no effect on emulationstation at all.

Thanks.

I thought you were to put in a negative value if your border is too large.

BuZz

on my system using overscan_scale=1 and positive over scan values, it affects both the framebuffer and the emulationstation output

Mischief

@Finhead said:

@Mischief said:

Raspberry Pi Model B+ with Retropie 3.6

I have done a lot of google searching and clicked on many links and have not found an answer, The overscan option in settings and also modifying the config.txt in the boot directory only changes the raspberry pi bootup and retropie splash screen, as soon as you get the Emulationstation splash screen overscan is disabled and will not change no matter what setting I change.

I have also tried changing overscan_left=0 overscan_right=0 overscan_top=0 overscan_bottom=0 and again it has no effect on emulationstation at all.

Thanks.

I thought you were to put in a negative value if your border is too large.

That's not the value I used I simply pasted that so no one would suggest it, as I said no matter what value I put in emulationstation would remain unchanged and cropped.

Mischief

@BuZz said:

on my system using overscan_scale=1 and positive over scan values, it affects both the framebuffer and the emulationstation output

For some reason not on mine and I have no idea why, I did a reinstall and ended up with the same issue.

BuZz

please paste (in a codeblock or via pastebin.com) your config.txt with this set, and also the output of uname -a and cat /etc/debian_version

Mischief

@BuZz said:

please paste (in a codeblock or via pastebin.com) your config.txt with this set, and also the output of uname -a and cat /etc/debian_version

Is there a guide for this, I am still new to all this and using guides for most of it. Ben using retroarch and emulationstation on my PC for a while and Retroarch for my PS3 just new to the Raspberry Pi.

I can make a video showing the issue if that helps?

BuZz

ssh into retropie

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh

and you can run those commands from the terminal. you can also get a copy of config.txt via cat /boot/config.txt

or use sftp to copy it off

I assumed as you were already editing this file you were using the terminal.

Mischief

@BuZz said:

ssh into retropie

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh

and you can run those commands from the terminal. you can also get a copy of config.txt via cat /boot/config.txt

or use sftp to copy it off

I assumed as you were already editing this file you were using the terminal.

Yes i'm using the terminal and learning as I go.

I have to apologise as I have solved it, for some reason I had overscan_scale=1 twice at the bottom of config.txt one had =1 the other had =0 strange as I never added this line myself I just adjusted the first one I saw. Suffice to say It is now solved and working as it should I have adjusted the overscan_(direction)= values and the screen has no black bars or cropped.

Thanks for the replies and help to all.

Drakaen391

Check to see if there are '#' signs before the overscan setting...

If there is, remove them

Mischief

@Drakaen391 said:

Check to see if there are '#' signs before the overscan setting...

If there is, remove them

There was none over the repeated lines at the bottom but as I said in my last post I have solved it now by removing one of the repeated overscan_scale lines, cheers.

jake74

fwiw, I've had exactly the same problem with a fresh apt-get updated retropie.

In the config.txt, the overscan_scale=1 was commented out, and the config had repeated the last 4 commands again, looking like this—

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

Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)

dtparam=audio=on
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
#overscan_scale=1
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
#overscan_scale=1

And no matter how many times I edited the overscan settings in the Raspi-config in Retropie, it would not change the overscan.

So, I deleted the last 4 lines, and the end of my config now looks like this—

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

Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)

dtparam=audio=on
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
overscan_scale=1

and it works without overscan just fine. Bit of a bug if you ask me, as unless I ssh'd in, I could not unset Overscan.

regards

Drakaen391

I do think there is a bug in the overscan setting... I had to manually fix mine because it wouldn't work

Twitch0815

Just going to note this. I am using the BerryBoot version. Just grabbed the Berryboot image from the main site, chose the os Retropie 3.6 from other category.
I get much stabler overscan settings. And my screen is properly stretched to fit. Trying to determine which settings they are getting right will update you when I figure it out.