I need the Pi4 update!!!

[mitu]

@ChaosFox said in I need the Pi4 update!!!:

A propos GPU drivers, it seems official Vulkan support is coming to the Pi 4, which is potentially a boon for PPSSPP and Flycast.

Not likely very soon, the Vulkan driver work has just been started.

[quicksilver]

@mitu Eben Upton said in the comments section of the blog post that they might have something testable in 6 months or so. So as you said, not soon. But its not that far out either, at least its not years away.

[ChaosFox]

Oh, I know, it's just when the drivers ARE finished, the Vulkan API is likely to offer emus that tax the GPU heavily a substantial performance boost for the aforementioned emulators, plus PCSX ReARMed when using higher resolutions and texture scaling. Possibly for N64 (depending on how advanced the experimental Vulkan renderer for mupen64plus is), but it'll be an important step forward for Dreamcast, PSP emulation as well as tangible steps to achieving GameCube emulation (probably more likely on a possible Pi5, but seeing Crash: Wrath of Cortex and Soul Calibur 2 running so well with frameskip on Dolphin on a Pi4 even with overheads from a desktop environment absolutely blew my mind).

As @quicksilver said, we're probably looking at a functional beta for within the year for Vulkan drivers.

[Tim's up]

I am just commencing the emulation fun. I bought a Pi4 to be more future proof, using Lakka in the meantime. As a newbie, I can't really compare the advantages of the different systems, but I am reading a lot of good about Retropie. Just bothers me that I have to learn the Lakka mechanics before having to start over again with Retropie. Well, that was my choice when picking the Pi4.

[Darksavior]

@Tim-s-up The retropie weekly dev builds are usable and nowhere near as buggy as lakka. For example, Lakka still crashes endlessly with the ozone theme since July. Also, retropie uses retroarch as well...