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    [New ES Theme] VectorPie (16:9)

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    • ZacharielZ
      Zachariel
      last edited by

      Hello again everyone,

      Just wanted to let you know that over the past few days I've made a great many changes, corrections, and improvements, mostly cosmetic. There were a couple optimizations, so it may run better than the original release. Thanks for all the input so far!

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      • ClydeC
        Clyde @Zachariel
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        @zachariel Thanks for the update! The glitches are still there, but apparently less severe. The threshold between black backgrounds that sometimes (!) load the graphics after a few seconds (or not) and white backgrounds and/or whole screens is approx. between 120 and 130 MB VRAM. The update reduced the amount of systems affected by roughly 30%, I would say.

        One noticable system that nearly always shows a white box instead of the console picture is Neo Geo, even if it's selected as the system ES is starting in, and even if the adjacent systems are okay. So it seems that there's something problematic with it especially.

        Keep on the good work! o/

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        • ZacharielZ
          Zachariel @Clyde
          last edited by Zachariel

          @clyde Thank you for your in depth assessment. I appreciate the attention you put into it. That's quite strange about the Neo Geo. I'll study on that area and see if there's something really wrong there that I missed. Could be a graphic that's way out of wack.

          Alright, so I checked it out, and the weird thing is that the Neo Geo page is one of the smallest and simplest ones. I have no idea what that's about.

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          • ClydeC
            Clyde @Zachariel
            last edited by

            @zachariel said in [New ES Theme] VectorPie (16:9):

            Alright, so I checked it out, and the weird thing is that the Neo Geo page is one of the smallest and simplest ones. I have no idea what that's about.

            *stunned* Okay, I will keep an eye on it in further updates, then.

            [irony] Maybe ES thinks, β€žnah, I won't load that tiny thing while I'm having much bigger problems!β€œ [/irony] πŸ˜„

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            • ZacharielZ
              Zachariel @Clyde
              last edited by

              @clyde Actually, I did consider that maybe ES was prioritizing other things for some reason, but I have no idea. lol

              I just issued another big round of optomizations. I think it might be a bit better now.

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              • ClydeC
                Clyde @Zachariel
                last edited by Clyde

                @zachariel It actually is! I still get many white boxes and screens with 120 MB VRAM and above. In the 110 MB test, only two of my 13 systems and categories were white. With 100 MB, I can actually switch through the whole carusel without any black screens which occurred with this amount of VRAM before, although not smoothly but with some minor stuttering. But alas, the black screens return when I also switch through all gamelists and then again through all system screens in the main carusel. But it is a noticable improvement.

                Though it may arise at the end that the Pi just does not have enough ram for such a theme with as many systems that I have, it seems that you didn't hit the final wall, yet. 😊

                edit: Oh, and this time Neo Geo didn't stand out. So maybe it is/was just random coincidence. 😈

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                • ClydeC
                  Clyde
                  last edited by

                  Update: I finally got around to test VectorPie on my mini pc again. There, from 110 to 120 MB VRAM and higher, the theme works smoothly and flawlessly. With only 100 MB, it shows the occasional fade outs I described earlier when changing systems even in Instant and Slide mode. But it never shows white boxes or screens (no wonder though, with integrated graphics but 8 GB RAM to grab the VRAM from).

                  One thing I noticed on both the Pi and the mini pc: The videos appear rather late after selecting a game. In other themes, the videos appear nearly instantenous. Did you code that on purpose or is that another issue you might want to look at?

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                  • ZacharielZ
                    Zachariel @Clyde
                    last edited by Zachariel

                    @clyde Hey, glad to hear that on both counts! Seems like it just doesn't like Neo Geo. lol I can actually scroll though all 30 some-odd categories of mine in the games list menus without getting any black or white outs, but then of course there's a lot of white on the carousel. It kind of seems like maybe ES prioritizes the games lists. Glad to hear it runs smoothly on your mini PC, of course it worked just fine on my windows ES while I was creating and testing. I'm sure it runs smooth on anything with a bit more ram than the Pi, which comes up just a touch short for the way I did the design. It is my first design after all, and I didn't know anything about themeing for ES on a Pi (or at all) going into it.

                    Yes, I did make the video come up slow on purpose so that I can show the box art, or what have you, for a few seconds first. I made it a little long during testing because I was watching for some things. Seems like I should probably shorten that time down a bit. That will be the next thing I do.

                    Thanks again for all of your input and enthusiasm. I really appreciate it.

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                    • ClydeC
                      Clyde @Zachariel
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                      @zachariel My pleasure. 😊 In my opinion, there are only a handful of original and well designed themes, and yours is certainly one of them. I am curious what future works may follow this astonishing debut. (I don't want to put any pressure on you, of course.) πŸ˜‡

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                      • ZacharielZ
                        Zachariel @Clyde
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                        @clyde Thank you very much for your kind words. I actually do have a couple of other ideas I'd like to work on. I'll be sure to post them if I do!

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