Videomode file ignored if game override cfg file exists?

mitu

@stevas said in Videomode file ignored if game override cfg file exists?:

I'm not at my pi, but does creating the game override through the GUI add resolution/scaling settings? I thought it was best to create game overrides yourself rather than doing that. I'm... Not sure where I got that idea tbh.

Yes, this is what I was referring to. The previous situation - just creating a single line .cfg file -, didn't yield the error for me, like I mentioned.

stevas

Sorry, I misread: when you were detailing the problem with the retroarch.cfg I pasted, I thought you were saying also you'd reproduced the issue.

So using said main config, built by my system, and a manually created game override, you're able to switch resolution no problem through runcmd? Interesting.
And by that, I do of course mean: more confusing.

In that case, I got nothing. And I guess I'll just move on, make sure I use a manually created main config from now on, and be very suspicious of what these applications are doing regards resolutions.

Incidentally, and amusingly (to me anyway), I just realised the dude who literally only came in here to ask if I was fibbing was actually indirectly the cause of all this!
(In other words: was trying to get the overrides in this forum topic to work.)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4046/crt-pi-shader-users-reduce-scaling-artifacts-with-these-configs-in-lr-mame2003-lr-fbalpha-lr-nestopia-and-more-to-come

Is this not recommended either now? Should I be using the GUI to create game overrides? (Then editing them after the fact.)

mitu

@stevas said in Videomode file ignored if game override cfg file exists?:

Incidentally, and amusingly (to me anyway), I just realised the dude who literally only came in here to ask if I was fibbing was actually indirectly the cause of all this!
(In other words: was trying to get the overrides in this forum topic to work.)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4046/crt-pi-shader-users-reduce-scaling-artifacts-with-these-configs-in-lr-mame2003-lr-fbalpha-lr-nestopia-and-more-to-come

Shaders are not part of overrides, they're saved separately, using shader presets. Not sure if it worked back then (quite possibly)

Is this not recommended either now? Should I be using the GUI to create game overrides? (Then editing them after the fact.)

It's still recommended, but it won't play nice with the resolution switching. Why are you using the overrides for ?

stevas

I was trying to get the cfg overrides in that forum topic to work (as I say, created by dankcushions). Not the shader itself. The shaders bit is fine. I'm aware the best way to set that is with a saved preset now.

But I was trying to get the cfg overrides to work without the shader bit, ie. just the bit setting aspect ratio index to 23, and some viewport settings to centre/scale it nicely (he very kindly created packs for resizing games individually - and in multiple resolutions too).

At the same time it occurred to me that I'd maybe need to drop resolution to get some games performing well (particularly dreamcast), so I started messing with the 720 override equivalents dank created, and got this issue.

So I guess the question really is: do I still even need to do this to ensure crt-scanlines plays nicely, or is there some faster new fancier way I've missed? Or a later pack for fbneo, MAME?
That topic is linked to by the shaders webpage, btw.
@dankcushions I guess?

Incidentally, I'm running Aladdin smd in 1080p with crt-scanlines, and the performance is awful - is that normal?
I have got threaded video switched off, mind.
Just figured the pi4 would have the horsepower to not have to make the choice between threaded or 720p for just a megadrive game? Or is there something special about Aladdin?

mitu

@stevas said in Videomode file ignored if game override cfg file exists?:

Incidentally, I'm running Aladdin smd in 1080p with crt-scanlines, and the performance is awful - is that normal?

Depends on your configuration - I think that should have been fullspeed even on a 3B model.

I have got threaded video switched off, mind.

Why ?

stevas

I'd read that it could introduce judder or make scrolling less smooth, which is something I find particularly jarring. In actual fact, what kicked off this whole thing was me noticing the scrolling in metal slug (fbneo) wasn't quite right, so I attempted switching resolution down to 720 (with an override for that game present). And... Here we are.

mitu

If you'd like to disable threaded video, then disable it globally in the global retroarch.cfg, so it's present for all emulators, or in the system's retroarch.cfg. That would work without any overrides and can be set from the configuration editor. Not sure if it helps reducing the judder though.

stevas

Thanks, yeah, I'm already doing that (switched off globally). I dunno if it does anything yet, as I got totally distracted with this resolution switching shenanigans.

Anyway, thanks for the pointer, I'll look at what's going on when you create a game override through the GUI...

dankcushions

@stevas those shader overrides have been broken (like anything that relies on consistent retroarch config options) several times over. eg https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/166725

please don’t use them. if you’ll use them as-is they will mess up resolutions/aspect ratios.

stevas

Hey dank, thanks for the heads up; I kinda figured they would be, yeah. I'm just using them as a basis to create my own such that the screen gets positioned right, ie. for the x and y values. I certainly wasn't gonna just lump them all in there.

While I'm here, did Naomi get borked in the last few weeks? Suddenly the ROMs I have for that don't work (since I had to reimage I mean).

You know what, never mind, forgetting so many things already done several times over: BIOS!