Really laggy PSX on one retropie, the other is fine?
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I'm going insane trying to figure this out.
I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 B a few months ago and installed RetroPie on it using the image from this site. It worked fine for SNES and PSX for awhile, then I only played SNES games for awhile, and I just went back to try to play a couple PSX games (FFT and FFVII) and both are very laggy with massive sound crackle.
I also have a second Raspberry Pi 3 B that I bought a week ago (same vendor, same power supply - canakit, same SD card, same everything). This one is running OSMC but I installed retropie on it as an addon (you can start emulationstation from the Kodi menu).
Anyway, on THAT retropie all PSX games play fine with no lag, no sound issues, etc (same ISOs).
I cannot for the life of me figure out why my first pi is having issues. I've tried completely resetting the retroarch cfg (the new pi is using the default). One thing that is strange is when I start a PSX game on the OSMC Pi, the dialog box that comes up saying to press a button to change the config is huge (it takes up almost the entire TV) whereas on the original RetroPie machine that same dialog box is just a small box in the middle of the screen.
I assume this means the resolution is wildly different between the two machines somehow, but I cannot figure out where to change this on my old retropie machine. I've tried setting the render res to 640x480 and the video mode to 640x480 and neither one seems to make a difference nor does it solve the problem.
Does anyone know what setting actually controls what resolution that dialog box is displayed in? I have a feeling that setting (however it got changed) is what must be causing my issues but cannot find it anywhere.
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Hi @crackofdawn
Have you tried swapping the SD cards over and seeing if the problem moves, just to rule out some sort of hardware issue?
I don't know anything about running OSMC and putting RP on top of it, the last Kodi build I tried on a Pi was based on OpenELEC and it had very little access to the commandline, so I abandoned it.
If the runcommand window (press a button to configure menu) is displaying differently then it definitely sounds like the OSMC image you used had a custom or forced resolution during the boot.
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@simonster I can try that, I'm tempted to just rebuild my retropie system and see if that fixes the problem since I've already sunk hours into troubleshooting this and could have rebuilt/restored everything in 1/10 the time :)
I would think if anything retropie running on OSMC would be slower since OSMC is still running in the background and using up CPU/Memory.
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