it's retropie + attract mode + hyperspin theme + piemarquee2 but i resolve starting it over from the beginning and the problem is gone
dont know why but now it work

thank you

@hawkes_84 yep, thanks for the feedback though...will keep digging when i get some time.

@Darksavior Thanks Darksavior. Going to overclock it and try it out for a bit. I appreciate the insight!

@accio-brain

The forum has a search option !

Have a look here :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32069/retropie-wont-boot-up-start4-elf-not-compatible

@fretman yeah anything will do just to get the bluetooth ones sorted. These are all things you'll learn as progress as a Raspberry Pier

@mitu Built SDL 2.0.14 with

--disable-video-rpi --enable-video-kmsdrm

The FPS problem still exists with 5.4 kernel, or newer one after full SO upgrade (in this case with fkms or kms), and in this way when emulator is closed EmulationStation is frozen.

Anyway I found a solution, if VERTICAL SYNC is enabled also on emulator (I added a command line parameter for this) also Raspberry Pi v4 version is ok.

If you don't have any other idea I'll stop the investigation, I don't love VSYNC because if a user has a 50 Hz monitor all games with nominal 60 FPS framerate runs at 50 FPS.

Really appreciate your help

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@mitu said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Mar 4 2021 - 19:57:50

That's not the RetroPie version. You may be installing it through RetroPie-Setup, but you're starting another version.
RetroPie maintains a fork of the original EmulationStation, which is installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary.

How exactly are you starting EmulationStation ? When installed via RetroPie-Setup, the main binary is in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/ and an emulationstation script is copied in /usr/bin. Check if the script points to the correct EmulationStation binary.

You are right. When I run EmulationStation from the /usr/bin folder, it runs correctly.

That poses another question... When I call 'emulationstation' in the terminal, how can I get it to point to the right script?

Actually, I found the version that was running incorrectly in /usr/local/bin.

Upon deleting emulationstation from this folder, all works well.

Thank you for your help!

@iandaemon I'm in the exact same boat. I think the last new game I finished was Red Dead Redemption.

@quicksilver thanks a lot for this. Worked a treat on the crackling sounds I was experiencing

@cathyna https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/

@mitu

That seems to have sorted it! Thank you!

When I stared out I first visited the retropie docs
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PC/#install-gravis-ultrasound-gus

Which redirected me to this guide from 2015, that suggest using .sh scripts.
Now that everything is working I'll start converting everything over to just using conf-files, and optimizing the games :)

@barbudreadmon thank you very much

@meltedpineapple ya, that’s what i meant by

ignore the analog part

but i probably should have found / written a more relevant guide !

@twistedpixels sorry for the late answer, yes, you need to do something like this:
set serpentine to run for 60 seconds (endTime="60")
then set filler to run for 30 seconds but start after 60 seconds (startTime="60" endTime="30")
then set pulse to start after 90 seconds and run for 60 (startTime="90" endTime="30")

I think they will repeat, but let me know if not!

I have the same controller and it isn't even recognised when it's plugged in. :(

@kay-row it should still generate a log in the same location, after launching as normal

@ReadyPlayaWon thanks!
I removed the other PPSSPP I had and installed the lr-PPSSPP package, the controls all worked out of the box!
Thank you again!

There's been recent work to include Vulkan support in Mesa for Pi. Here are some hopefully helpful links:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/vulkan-update-merged-to-mesa/ https://blogs.igalia.com/apinheiro/2020/06/v3dv-quick-guide-to-build-and-run-some-demos/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=277125

Most of the links go over similar steps for compiling, installing, and testing Vulkan and its demos. Some additional notes:

The older posts point to a developer's fork of Mesa. Now that Vulkan has been merged into Mesa, whereever you see a git clone you'll want to make sure that you're pointing to Mesa's repository (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/) You'll be able to get Vulkan from the master branch of of the Mesa repository. It doesn't look like it's been tagged to a release yet, so there's likely more work to be done and your mileage may vary. You can actually have different versions of Mesa installed on your system simultaneously, as long as you put them in different directories. In order to ensure stability of my Pi systems, I do this, so I can test and play around while not worrying about everything else. Though Mesa is pretty self contained so it's not too hard to get things back to normal if you overwrite the original drivers. If you have compiled Mesa for installation in another directory, then you'll need to add the following line to your launch scripts or your bash profile in order to point programs to your special installation. You do that with the following line: export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=[YOUR INSTALLATION PATH]/share/vulkan/icd.d/broadcom_icd.armv7l.json I've found that Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS (which is what RetroPie is built on) actually uses NVIDIA's Vendor Neutral Dispatch version of Mesa (which uses code from Mesa), and not Mesa's version of Mesa. I have no idea if that will be changing or not, but it at least indicates that there will be more work to do before we see Vulkan drivers as part of Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS/RetroPie as a default.

I've been playing around with Vulkan and so far it's looking pretty good. I have high hopes that as programs begin to adopt Vulkan we'll be seeing some really awesome performance increases. I have not tried Dolphin though. The only thing I've found regarding Dolphin and Vulkan was someone testing it out on a Jetson Nano, which is a different hardware platform. He did compare Vulkan vs. OpenGL and found that Zelda: Wind Walker ran very well with Vulkan where it was choppy on OpenGL. The post is on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/retropieofficial/permalink/1387063751494192/).

I created a scriptmodule for my own purposes to automate building / installation of Mesa with Vulkan. I may create a separate post for that.

I hope this info helps out.

- George

@Rion Already saw it. Thanks. We try to keep up on Piboy DMG going's on's. :)

We'll add this as an option in our config.txt.

@Firebird_WS6 thanks for digging into this. I figured there was something but I doubt I would have found it.

@superknight1718 Please don't bump old topics, open a new one and provide the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. If you're trying to install on the new Raspberry Pi OS release (bullseye), then there's no need for a new topic - RetroPie does not support it yet.