@Jiryn said in Can RetroPie Be Installed on THIS PI 5 OS?:

I am using an imager, and the recommended OS for PI 5 is Debian BookWorm with Pi Desktop 2024-11-19

Yes, you can install it on Bookworm - the suport is still beta but it should mostly work.

this is a (sort of) known issue.

specifically, MAME (not 2003 or any of the libretro cores, but MAME standalone) appears to be faster run via the desktop, than via the framebuffer. some info here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28362/enhanced-performance-of-mamedev-mame-in-x11

i wonder if this could be fixed by configuring the launch script to launch MAME within X (on pi only)?

it has been on my list to investigate for years now, but yeah...

@PARALAX you can install it just like any emulator, It's under "optional packages".
There you can also uninstall it.

@mitu
Actually I just learned there was a port of Raspberry Pi OS for laptops. I'll get around to trying to Retropie on it.

@androidonpi I checked everything before screen savers and stuff like that all are off, sometimes when i have chromium open ublock crashes sometimes from what i saw before it happens.

When i log back in everything is closed. Could it be a pi 4 going bad at all, thats what has me worried a little.

@ioortropie

Based on your previous answers it sounds like PulseAudio is not starting on its own.

Try systemctl --user enable pulseaudio in the terminal, and reboot.

If you still have no audio please post the output of pacmd list-sinks.

@brandflake11 LOL you beat me to it