Emulationstation taking long time to load

last_of_the_V8s

Hey,

been running Retropie for a year or two now with no problems, great OS project.

I have large romsets shared over my network via NFS. I mount these shares in the RetroPie fstab and symlink to them from the appropriate rom folder. Not had any problems until recently. But now, emulation station has started taking an age to load (15 mins+). After quitting a game, it then take another 15 mins or so to quit back to the menu.

Has something changed in a recent update?

I tried a fresh install on a new SD card, and i get the same problem.

Once I unlink the rom folders, emulation station starts up fine (allbeit with no roms available)

I've checked the emulation station logs.....nothing in there

anyone got any ideas?

cheer!

mitu

@last_of_the_v8s said in Emulationstation taking long time to load:

I tried a fresh install on a new SD card, and i get the same problem.

Maybe something changed on your NFS server. If you have the same problem with a fresh image and you changed nothing on your side, then the problem might be somewhere else.

EDIT: RetroPie is nothing but Rasbian underneath, so there's nothing specifically in RetroPie to alter the NFS behavior other than the OS itself. You can try with an older ES version, extracted from an older RetroPie image, to see if that makes a difference.

last_of_the_V8s

It occurred to me it might be my server, I run FreeNAS which I did update recently. But the shares can be accessed normally by other devices on the network and they appear performant. It's only emulationstation that seems to have problems

I'm pretty sure the problem started when I recently ran a complete update from the retropie setup script.

No one else seeing this?

mitu

@last_of_the_v8s said in Emulationstation taking long time to load:

I'm pretty sure the problem started when I recently ran a complete update from the retropie setup script.

Which version of ES did you have before the update ? As I said, you could try extracting an old ES version from a previous release and run it alongside the current version to check the behavior. Assuming you're using a Raspberry PI and not other system, since the RetroPie images are only built for the RPI.

last_of_the_V8s

yeah - i might give that a go when I get home later (not sure exactly what version I had running before)

cheers

kmancali

@last_of_the_V8s Did you ever resolve this? I'm having the exact same issue

AndersHP

I don't know if this is relevant, but I experienced that having games artwork (boxart, marquees, videos) on my external USB instead of on the microSD made things load much slower.

Clyde

@AndersHP Yeah, since ES loads the artwork on the fly, the access speed is relevant for the user experience. Apart from slow USB drives, network drives are another bottleneck that can be avoided by putting the artwork on the internal SD.