New Comic Book Theme!
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@jfick13 with a pi 3 I am set at 120. I have a memory split of 256 (or higher, not sure higher does anything though). At vram 120 I can cleanly run at least 16 systems whiteout any white screen or lag effect. I also have my monitor or HDTV set to game mode.
How many systems are you running?
Thanks
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around the same. i've been using oldroom 720 with no problem. i keep vram at 260
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@jfick13 hmmmm...260 is really hi! Do you really need it that hi? You are holding a lot of vram in ES that isn't really doing much. Can you confirm a pi 3? I have this running on 3 builds and even on 55" 4K Tv without issues at 120. I did have a lot of issues at the beginning before I came up with the smaller file sizes and layering the images and black line work. Now it runs smooth. Do you have any other settings modifications?
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amazing theme.
I love to try in my mini genesis
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What I was doing in my theme to optimize it a bit it's to control the filesize of systems backgrounds regarding of resolution.
For 720p my backgrounds have no more than 256kb, for 1080p no more than 512kb.
Maybe you want to try with that settings.
I save my backgrounds in high quality in case I need them later, and I fine tune the filesize with Riot depending on the final resolution: http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/
I hope this help.
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@Nismo thanks, this is what I have done. All my background files are under 500kb. I have the photoshop files saved at hi res for working on them and then I compress the file size.
I have the theme working really well for me at 120 VRAM with slide transitions. And up to 17 different systems on a 4K tv...so there should be no issues. So far I have only one comment on the white screen issue from testers.
Thanks
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@TMNTturtlguy I don't use rpi, I use windows version, so I have no problems too....
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@jfick13 try lowering VRAM to 120-130, and see if it helps.
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ok so i dropped it to 120 it works better but the art sometimes doesn't pop up behind the system but i know its there. it shows sometimes but shows a white screen behind the console logo other times
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i'm also getting an error message that says underrun occurred
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@jfick13 Slowly try to increase VRAM now - 10 by 10, until you find a compromise that works well for your system. :)
The underrun issues are, unfortunately, par for the course, not related to a theme per se.
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ok so i switched the transition from slide to fade and seems to cleared up the issue thanks for the help guys. this theme is awesome. thanks tmnturtle guy
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Thanks to @pjft for providing a new ES build update that includes the screensaver/omx player/and the current main branch of ES, I hope to be able to update this theme to v2.0 this comming week to work with all the new updates including max size! (I will leave v1.0 as is for those running systems without maxSize) When I work on this I would like to add a few more system names to the theme, but as I have no plans on using any of them personally I would like to get some requests. The top # of request I get will be what I start with. I am thinking a general Mame will be my first addition. Please let me know your top requests!
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@TMNTturtlguy I'd be happy to suggest some, let me double check which ones are missing and report back today or tomorrow!
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currently running 24 systems with videos with no problems.
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@jfick13 awesome to hear! Thanks for the update
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Just a question. I am new to the world of retropie and am curious as to how I may add this theme to my pi. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it!!!
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@R3phil I am just on my iPhone right now, so maybe someone else can help out fill in any info I might miss.
First you need to be able to access the files on you pi by either an ftp client like winscp or you can also connect your pi to your home network and access the files that way. You can search the forum/the docs/ or google on how to do this.
Once you have access you will need to go to home/.emulationstation/themes and simply paste the theme folder as downloaded from github. The theme folder may not exist, so you might have to create the theme folder within the home/.emulationstation
There is also a way to do all of this from the command line or using shh like putty.
Sorry I don't have more links for you, but simply search for this information and there are a lot of detailed instructions on how to do this.
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@TMNTturtlguy Thank you for the reply. I am trying to get it installed now. I think i see what you mean. I just want you to know the screenshots look amazing and I can't wait to get this thing installed!!!!
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