Pi3 problem running Metal Gear Solid PSX

rbaker

@allintospace How fast is your SD card?

allintospace

I'm fairly certain it's a Class 10 Sandisk.

rbaker

allintospace

I believe it is lr-pcsx-rearmed and that is the only one that appear in the emulator options. I remember checking.

However I just checked my online orders and it was actually a 64GB Class 10 Sandisk Ultra card that I ordered. I don't know why I thought it was only a 32GB.

Will update original post.

allintospace

Right, I spent an hour last night just experimenting with settings and dropping/lowering anything I could to see if it made a difference, and no joy. It's still sluggish as soon as I pass guard, worse if I'm spotted and goes into alert mode.

However I went into the emulator settings during the game and turned on 'Show FPS' and strangely enough it showed a solid 60fps even while it was being sluggish. What could that mean? Is data not being read from my SD card quick enough? Bad Pi? Bad SD card?

I'm stumped. =/

rbaker

@allintospace I'd probably try another card - make sure it's a genuine compatible one from the list.

dankcushions

@allintospace i would update lr-pcsx from binary first, and if that doesn't fix it, try updating from source. there were some recent fixes that might not be in your image, i don't know.

allintospace

@rbaker Could you point me in the direction of a compatible card list. Thanks

@dankcushions Will also try this when I get time. Thanks

rbaker

@allintospace said in Pi3 problem running Metal Gear Solid PSX:

Could you point me in the direction of a compatible card list. Thanks

http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards

(As advised in https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#hardware)

I use Sandisk Ultra class 10, never had a problem.

edmaul69

@allintospace no problems here. I am using a class 6 16gb samsung card. No overclocking whatsoever. There is aprogram to test your sd card but it has to format it. It will tell you the speed and the true size. If you have a bootleg sd card like 99% of them from ebay then it will be slower or have far far less capacity as stated. But i would use win32diskimager to back up your card first using its read function. But i forget the program name. Someone here should know.

Darksavior

No issues here either. I'm loading my games through a 128GB sandisk USB stick. Using latest retropie 4.1.12 with an OC'd Pi2 at 1Ghz.

allintospace

I'm totally stumped. As the FPS was a steady 60 despite the game running sluggish I thought the SD card might be the issue but I'm fairly confident it's legit. Bought through Amazon themselves.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B013UDL58E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485964264&sr=8-1&keywords=sandisk+64gb

The version of RetroPie I flashed was the most recent available for download as of 2 weeks ago. I've tried a few other PSX games with no issues, such as Rival Schools, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Final Fantasy 8. No problems to speak of, however I don't know how FF8 would do further into the game.

If anyone can name the program to test SD Card speed I'd give that a try. I've reformated and flashed it so much now, once more won't make a diference. Can it be a dud Pi3?

I'm on my last legs with it to be honest. It might just be a great little emulator for everything other than Metal Gear. =/

I'm actually gonna thrown in a PSP games sometime just to see if the Pi3 has a meltdown. If it actually runs well, then... god knows.

edmaul69

@allintospace most games on the psp suck on the pi. There are some older ones that run ok'ish.