New Comic Book Theme!

pjft

@TMNTturtlguy Hi! Just updated the theme, and noticed that the custom-collectionsfolder is named custom-collection in the theme, that's why I wasn't finding it.

Thought I'd give you a heads up, as it's missing a "s" :)

Hope you're doing well!

TMNTturtlguy

All versions of the theme have been updated to per @pjft to modify the folder name for custom-collections to match his new features in ES. The update is available through es_themes on the retropie menu.

meleu

@hansolo77 maybe filtering games with cheevos instead of creating a new "ES system" (or collection) would be neater.
Let's see what ES hackers have to say about what I posted here.

beastmode

Excellent looking theme. I have experienced one issue though that I can't seem to fix.

I'm using the most recent version of this theme and have experienced freezing at random points when scrolling through game lists. RetroPie will either completely freeze and force me to hard reset the Raspberry Pi device, or semi freeze preventing me from continuing to scroll through the game list. Scraped video previews will continue to play until i manually restart the device.

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 device overclocked to (1350) with more than adequate cooling, and have not experienced this problem with other themes.

TMNTturtlguy

@beastmode when did you last update ES? I have not experienced this myself related to the theme and have not yet seen others with the same issue. One thought might be that your image, video and marquee file sizes that you have scraped might be a larger file size, and since this theme places all of those images in each view, ES is having a hard time loading the images as you scroll to each game, thus freezing up your system as you scroll.

Another question is what you are using to play your video? Are you using the OMX player? I know you are not having issues with the video itself, but if you are not using OMX, try that as it uses less resources to run the videos.

beastmode

@tmntturtlguy I last updated RetroPie and ES about a week ago. I'm using the OMX player as well. I used Sselph’s scraper to scrape all of the image and video files. I was messing around with the ES VRAM settings though, perhaps that has something to do with it?

pjft

@beastmode set VRAM to 80. Restart ES.

If the permanent freezes/crashes happen again do report back.

beastmode

@pjft Will do. Thanks.

beastmode

@pjft VRAM set to 80mb but I'm still experiencing freezing. I'm unable to scroll but I am able to ssh into the Pi and reboot the device.

I tried with the 4:3 theme and it seems to crash with this reason:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'char const*'
Abort

TMNTturtlguy

@beastmode when did you download the theme? Can you try to update it? I am not familiar with the error you are getting. Do the problems only exist in the gamelist view? Are there any issues in the system view? Does this happen in all systems? Can you chane your ui settings to detailed and see if you still have the same problems?

The only thing I can think of is that the new default system change I added is causing issues, otherwise I have not made any changes to the theme that should be causing errors.

TMNTturtlguy

@beastmode i did some searches on the error and I think it may be a bad image file? See these posts, can you isolate this to a specific system?

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beastmode

@tmntturtlguy I think you may be right, dude. Either a corrupt RetroPie image, corrupt game image, or corrupt gamelist.xml files. I downloaded the theme yesterday morning through Emulation Station's theme menu. I'll start fresh and see if the problem persists. Thanks for your help.

gamelist basic --> works perfectly.
system view --> works perfectly.
detailed view --> crashes.
automatic --> crashes.

TMNTturtlguy

@beastmode keep me posted

beastmode

@tmntturtlguy Will do.

hansolo77

I know reducing VRAM to 80 solved my issues with the freezes. I wonder if it would be a prudent idea to maybe have ES just automatically use 80??

TMNTturtlguy

@hansolo77 no, that would not be useful. I am running my setup at 100 with no issues. It all depends on your personal setup. Please also note that @beastmode problem has nothing to do with vram.

gaavoid

@beastmode @hansolo77 I was having this freezing issue on several themes (detailed and video) after updating from 4.2 to 4.2.8, not just comicbook. But after shutting down and rebooting a couple of times (on 4.2.10), the freezing stopped. My VRAM is also set to 80 which stops white screens from occurring due to memory limitations.

beastmode

@tmntturtlguy @gaavoid @pjft I believe I have just found the problem. It wasn't the theme or my .xml files, it was rpie-art on 4.2.10. I used rpie-art to install those awesome launching images of yours which seems to have broken my setup. Installing those same images manually on 4.2.12 seems to work perfectly.

TMNTturtlguy

@beastmode that is interesting, but I am glad that you have figured it out and everything is working for you! Thanks for the update. In am tagging @meleu as the rpi-art installer is his script, maybe he can look into it.

beastmode

@tmntturtlguy Cool. Excellent work once again, dude. So glad I can use this theme. =)