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    Most consoles emulators games are now slow, help please !!

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      darthlink
      last edited by

      well all i had changed in retroarch video config was the aspect ration to have full screen mode and the turning on the bilinary filter but i have put it back off.

      Thx for the help and info ;)

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      • TMNTturtlguyT
        TMNTturtlguy @darthlink
        last edited by

        @darthlink said in Most consoles emulators games are now slow, help please !!:

        command: free -h ( mem = 733M total and 562M used and 170M free )

        Ok, i am running my pi and i have a very heavy theme running. My free -h tells me

         Mem:  733M total 358M used 374M free 5.2M shared 25M buffered  157M cached

        I switched to carbon which is a very light theme and i get:

         Mem:  733M total 311M used 422M free 5.2M shared 26M buffered  158M cached

        As i suggested earlier, something is running on your pi that is eating up your memory.

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          darthlink
          last edited by

          I have change the aspect ratio to windowed and now my memory went down to:

          use= 267M

          i think i will have to look a little more into this. I have tried Little Big planet and it seem to run a little better ( or i am just imagining this loll ) but lego star wars still unplayable

          Is there a way to just revert to retroarch.cfg file to default ?

          also i will have to test other games on psp because maybe lego star wars does noit run well on emulation so i will look for a list of psp games that run good on emulationstation with lr-ppsspp and maybe that will help i guest.

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          • TMNTturtlguyT
            TMNTturtlguy @darthlink
            last edited by

            @darthlink no psp run well on the pi unless you overclock.

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              darthlink
              last edited by

              @TMNTturtlguy said in Most consoles emulators games are now slow, help please !!:

              @darthlink no psp run well on the pi unless you overclock.

              It was runing perfectly not long ago and my friend has raspbien but without pixel and he can play pretty well psp roms. he does not overclock.

              he does know much about linux command too so he cant help me much loll unfortunatelly

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                darthlink
                last edited by

                its getting late and need to go to bed, working tomorow morning loll.

                thx a hole lot for your help TMNTturtlguy

                i will make more test tomorow and kepp you up to date ;)

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                  darthlink
                  last edited by

                  here is the result of the command free -h when emulationstation is not running

                           total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached

                  Mem: 733M 112M 620M 5.2M 14M 59M
                  -/+ buffers/cache: 38M 694M
                  Swap: 99M 0B 99M

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                    darthlink
                    last edited by

                    i have just went and renamed the file retroarch.cfg to retroarch.bak then rebooted then went into retroarch directly from emulationstation and it created a new retroarch.cfg file. There is a new background ( maybe from my packages updates yesterday ) in retroarch, it look exactly like the PS4 default background loll with the wave and all.

                    so i tried little big planet a 10 second cause i have to leave to work now but it seemed the same, still crappy audio and a little laggy.

                    I will search for a list today and try that.

                    so now my retroarch.cfg is back to default.

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                    • dankcushionsD
                      dankcushions Global Moderator @darthlink
                      last edited by

                      @darthlink said in Most consoles emulators games are now slow, help please !!:

                      so now my retroarch.cfg is back to default.

                      to retroarch's default, not retropie's. to get retropie's defaults, delete the file and then immediately reinstall retroarch via the retropie-setup script > manage packages > core > retroarch.

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                        darthlink
                        last edited by

                        I am starting to think that there may be a permission issue here because here is the result of ls -l on the folders inside the folder roms ( within my network external HDD ) :

                        total 0
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:31 amstradcpc
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 arcade
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:34 atari2600
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:33 atari7800
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 atarilynx
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:31 fba
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 fds
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 gamegear
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 gb
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 15 15:01 gba
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 15 13:01 gbc
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 1 19:58 genesis
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 20:52 kodi
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 mame-libretro
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:31 mame-mame4all
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 20:52 mastersystem
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 1 19:58 megadrive
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 5 21:14 n64
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 16 21:24 nds
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 9 18:18 neogeo
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 9 20:29 nes
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:31 ngp
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:31 ngpc
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 3 20:19 pcengine
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 17 08:04 ports
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 23 18:04 psp
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 10 19:01 psx
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 28 09:13 raspbian
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 21:17 sega32x
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 segacd
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 sg-1000
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 14 14:19 snes
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:34 vectrex
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 27 19:32 zxspectrum

                        and here is the same command but within the folders in the roms folder in my microsd:

                        total 312
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:31 amstradcpc
                        drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 arcade
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:34 atari2600
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:33 atari7800
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 atarilynx
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:31 fba
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 fds
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 gamegear
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 gb
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 20480 May 21 23:34 gba
                        drwxrwxr-x 2 pi pi 57344 May 21 23:33 gbc
                        lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 10 10:43 genesis -> megadrive
                        drwxrwxr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 20:52 kodi
                        drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 mame-libretro
                        drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:31 mame-mame4all
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 20480 May 21 23:40 mastersystem
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 20480 May 21 23:34 megadrive
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 12288 May 21 23:40 n64
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 May 21 23:35 nds
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 12288 May 21 23:41 neogeo
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 40960 May 21 23:36 nes
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:31 ngp
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:31 ngpc
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 May 21 23:42 pcengine
                        drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 May 17 08:04 ports
                        drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 May 23 22:37 psp
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 May 21 23:38 psx
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 28 09:13 raspbian
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 May 21 23:39 sega32x
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 segacd
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 sg-1000
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 24576 May 21 23:44 snes
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:34 vectrex
                        drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 27 19:32 zxspectrum

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                          darthlink
                          last edited by

                          why is the user diferent ? and what is the number beside the user group ?

                          My network external hdd is originally formatted in NTFS but linux see it as ext4

                          do i have to change the user from root to pi and if yes how please ? And the number after the user group that is 0 on the file from my HDD, does this have any impact on permissions ?

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                            darthlink
                            last edited by

                            I do remember that when i had transfered all my roms, they did got transfered but there were permission denied on every files. I thout it was only because i am transfering them into a diferent file system but maybe it can have some impact no ?

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                              darthlink
                              last edited by

                              I have just had a great idear or maybe it might be way too much outta the box loll please anyone let me know if this can be done

                              I have just saw a post about someone who want to start emulationstation on his PI from ssh on his cell phone ( https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5941/start-emulationstation-with-ssh/3 ) and that gave me this idear:

                              On my laptop i am runing ubuntu ( i do not want or need ubuntu help here, that is not the question ). So what if i install retropie/emulationstation on my laptop then with my raspberry pi a could SSH into my laptop and start emulationstation then import the display back into my raspberry pi 3 or export it from my laptop to the raspberry pi 3.

                              The reason of this is that since i have my PI3 since 2 or 3 months ago at most i think, it is what i am using as a multimedia for retropie and kodi and browsing the internet with raspbian with pixel. My PI3 is connected on my tv with HDMI ( that use to be my laptop setup ) but it is why i bought a PI3, to remove my laptop from tv connection and only use the Pi3 on the tv itself.

                              So, since my laptop is way more powerfull then my PI3 ( witch i honeslty really enjoy everything about that credit card size box ) i was wondering if it could be better to run retropie from it but start it from my Pi3 through ssh and have it played on my tv without the need to connect back my laptop on my tv with HDMI. I know that setup would be a lot more easy as i would only need to install retropie on my laptop then connect it on the tv but....... that is not what i want.

                              You guys are PRO's and i am pretty sure you can help me achieve this setup and it could be working. With that setup, i would not have any PSP and N64 lagging problem loll. My laptop has 4GB of RAM.

                              Am i getting crazy with this or creative loll ???

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