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    • misterbo42
      misterbo42 last edited by

      Hello everyone
      I am new to the pi community and I a experiencing a trouble with my pi.
      I use retropie for gaming and I can play any games for a few minutes and after that, I have a black screen. Commands seem not working, sound works but black screen. I have to escape the game (hot key + start) to find an image again.
      Anyone experiencing this troubleshooting ?
      I don’t know where I can find a log of these errors but if someone can tell me I would look at it.

      Thanks

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      • BJRetro
        BJRetro @misterbo42 last edited by

        @misterbo42 what power source are you using?

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        • simpleethat
          simpleethat @misterbo42 last edited by

          @misterbo42 you should probably add some more info about you system as outlined here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          • misterbo42
            misterbo42 @simpleethat last edited by

            @BJRetro said in Black screen after few minutes of gaming:

            @misterbo42 what power source are you using?

            The power source is the official from raspberry micro usb 2.5amp

            @simpleethat said in Black screen after few minutes of gaming:

            @misterbo42 you should probably add some more info about you system as outlined here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

            Sorry
            I am using the latest version of retropie on a raspberry 3b+ 1g

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            • mitu
              mitu Global Moderator @misterbo42 last edited by mitu

              @misterbo42 said in Black screen after few minutes of gaming:

              I don’t know where I can find a log of these errors but if someone can tell me I would look at it.

              The runtime log is usually in /dev/shm/runcommand.log. You can also try running dmesg from the command line after this happens to see if any warning/errors are shown in the system log.

              Can you give more details - as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ? Which emulator, what RetroPie version (don't say latest), how did you install it, etc.

              Does it happen for all games or just for a particular game/system ? Did you overclock your PI ?

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