Please delete this topic when you can and sorry for the spam here. It seems that I overlooked the beginning of the log for whatever reason. I have all information I need with the default verbose logging.

Sorry again.

@mitu said in Requesting help for diagnosing ES issue on Pi4B:

@roslof when you have the chance, can you try installing the latest emulationstation-dev from source ? There's a fix added that should help speed up the initial loading.

@mitu as you would expect, with Last Played toggled true, load times are no longer in excess of 50 seconds for me. Cheers to you for the fix!

@chrisw99 said in SD card write cycles:

It was more a generic question about the lifecycle of an SD card if it's in a Pi as there always seems to be stuff being written even when idle.

Things get written to logs when events happen - it's not an issue to cause excessive write tearing. Unless you have a problem which gets logged continuously in the logs (such as under-voltage warnings), the normal operation on a Pi will not negatiely impact the negatively the sdcard lifetime.

You could configure logging to RAM instead of persistent storage (with something like Log4Ram) if you wish.

@nemo93 said in [Solved] "Ecstatica" - issues with saving games in DosBox:

@AdamBeGood You don't have apologize or be sorry for anything. Asking questions and seeking for help is what this forum is there for :-)

Under DOSbox, swapping discs around is not clearly indicated as you experienced yourself! Yet it does work flawless. Let me share a quick hint as well that could come in handy.

Some games do support natively multiple CDROM drives. Meaning you can mount the different "isos" images and assign these to different drives letters. As you mentioned Command & Conquer let's use this as an example below. Just add something like that in your [autoexec] section:

[autoexec] imgmount d /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/isos/comcon/CaCCD1.iso -t cdrom imgmount e /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/isos/comcon/CaCCD2.iso -t cdrom mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/games C: CD COMCON C&C.EXE EXIT

Then no more disc swapping in-game :-) Other games where this is working which I've tested: Under a Killing Moon, Ripper (6 discs!!), Pandora Directive. I haven't tried with the Wing Commander serie so feel free to report back if you have some success!!

Interesting! And I guess that would work with three disks to accommodate Covert Operations also? Great tip!

Thanks again!

Edit - that didn't seem to work for me actually with Covert Ops.. but it may be something I am doing wrong here. That is quite likely. Everything works perfectly so I won't push my luck!

@dudleydes Ha ha :D I'll have a go, but in my entire 18 months of using WinSCP I don't think its comedy search function has ever successfully found ANYTHING.