N64 emulators not loading textures
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@maclock89 Yes, it will be overwritten if you choose to update all packages from the setup menu, but a fix has been added recently and the next update might not have the problem reported here.
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Thanks - steeeb's fix works.
That said - I think it might have some recently-introduced performance problems that are presently being discussed in that github thread. I get ~1 FPS if I fire a weapon in goldeneye, and mario bogs down to a stutter upon loading the first world if I aim the camera toward the mountain.
I want to say it used to do fairly well in goldeneye and perfect in Mario. memory may be failing me.
I tried to export the SO file from the retropie IMG from 9/2017 to get around this. It didn't work. I am curious if anyone has an SO file that is even older than steeeb's?
if not - it seems that GlideN64 is on track to be fixed quite soon.
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Yeah I noticed issues with some N64 emulators that previously worked fine recently too. So it looks like updating, or applying the above fix, solves the issue for now?
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So far, the texture loading issue is fixed by upstream, but there's a crash on Pi due to the shader cache as well as severe freezing issues in certain games from a recent commit. There's a PR being reviewed that fixes these issues, but needs more time.
I applied a workaround until the PR is merged upstream. If you update RetroPie-Setup and reinstall mupen64plus (I think that buzz has updated the packages, but you may need to build from source), it should work OK.
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I have an older .so if you like that doesn't seem to have the performance issues.
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Would love it if you can share. (Did you notice these performance issues too? Seriously, I could be imaging this.)
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Yeah, Goldeneye is completely unplayable.
With this older .so it's at least playable(ish).
I'll attach the whole folder as a zip to replace /opt/retropie/emulators/mupen64plus if you wanted older files, if not you can just get the .so and try that.
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In other news - there seems to be an effort to improve performance a bit, there are come commits pending a pull request and also fixes for this issue.
Once they're up I'll update this thread so everyone knows and can test it.
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Thanks a lot for posting. For some reason, overwriting my .so file with that older one or even the whole folder results in N64 games failing to launch at all. FFS. I had the same issue when overwriting my .so with the file I extracted from RetroPie image file.
You don't have any ideas on what's wrong, do you?
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It'll be because the version of mupen64 will be different I think the dependancies are different.
Use the latest binary for mupen64 in Retropie-Setup it seems someone applied a patch to it a whole 13 days ago that fixes the issue. It seems pretty quick now too.
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I just applied this fix using the .so file above (@steeeb's file) however I none of the games load and they just go back to the main menu screen.
What is the next best emulator to use? I set it to the lr-mupenplus for now which seems to work
Thanks
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Read the last replies - the problem is resolved. Ensure your RetroPie-Setup script is updated and reinstall mupen64plus (either binary or source should be OK, but the latter is probably working a bit better right now). Don't use the library posted, as it is not in sync with the latest mupen64plus core changes.
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Someone would mind to post the download link again? Its unavailable and i got same problem!
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