Retropie freezing while playing games
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I have searched already and can't seem to find the right answer so I figured I'd make a post. I have a pi 3b. Kernel is 4.9.35, emulation station is 2.7.4. Freeze happens in fba, snes, and genesis, but this is a very new pi so I haven't gone much farther in testing.
Freeze is complete, no video, sound, or response in any way. Have to pull the plug to restart.
First thought it was the Bluetooth problem because I didn't notice it until I hooked up 8bitdo snes30pro. Then I saw that was fixed in kernel 4.4 and I have 4.9. Then just to be sure I played with wired 360 clone (powerA) and still froze. Nothing Bluetooth is hooked up at all and in 5-15 mins frozen.
I also considered heat but no warning icons and every time I go to cli it says I am around 50C which I understand to be fine. Also power seems fine. Adapter was for r.pi and I confirmed it says 2.5 on side. Also no lightning icons.
One thing that stands out is that every single time it freezes the yellow/green internal led is flashing in a pattern of 4 flashes then a pause. My understanding is that this is a signal relating to sdcard interruption but that was an article from 2013 so I do not know how accurate it is. I do not at this time have a fresh sdcard to test card corruption.
I am not sure what other information I can include. I'm not sure where to find error logs etc. Thank you.
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@eternalsage Did you overclock your system ? What did you use to install the system ?
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@mitu No overclocking. I installed from the official image from retropie website. Its a sandisk 32gb. I have not adjusted any settings like ram allocation or anything. Practically stock. I think I saw an error message pop up when loading the game last time. Something about sound I think but the sound worked before everything froze a few minutes later. Haven't had a chance to look into that yet. I have ordered a new sd card as well. Contemplating taking this one out of my phone to test as well. Only major setting I tweaked was setting roms up to load from external hdd. Was going to try it with a direct copy of this card and with a fresh install with games on sd.
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@eternalsage did you try to flash the same image to a different sdcard? Sometimes the sdcard gets corrupted, and this is a common issue of raspberry pi.
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@danielmewhouse I have not as I do not have another card atm. Thinking about pulling the one out of my phone but not sure if I'm that impatient (I have another card on order)
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So I went ahead and backed up and reformatted the card I have. Reset things to read from memory and played all the way through an arcade game with no issues. Whatever was causing it was in the original image. Some type of setting or something. Going to gradually set it back up the way it was while coming back to test after every change to see if I can find it. I'll report back
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