Heavy N64 lag after reinstalling

EmK530

@mitu EmulationStation refuses to boot anyway with the GL Driver enabled so it's disabled.

Will give more info when I get home

EmK530

Pi Model: 3 B+
Power Supply: Official Raspberry
Retropie Version: 4.7.1
Built from: Raspberry Pi Imager
USB Devices connected: Wireless Keyboard, 4GB USB (with a N64 game), Controller
Controller used: 8BitDo SN30 Pro (Wired)
(Let me know if you need a verbose log and I'll solve it)
Emulator: mupen64plus-gles2n64
How to replicate the problem: Not sure what caused this.

EmK530

@mitu
Config file: https://pastebin.com/XDbvSQsM

Noticed that scenes that would make it lag way more actually doesn't lag it that much more at all, which makes me thing it's being limited by something but I have no idea what it could be. Hopefully that helps a bit

dankcushions

@emk530 please post your /boot/config.txt as requested

you won't be able to give a verbose log as you're not using a retroarch emulator. however you can still get a regular log in /dev/shm/runcommand.log that will be useful

mupen64plus-gles2n64

i wouldn't recommend using this - it's not the default. mupen64plus-gliden64 is most compatible.

EmK530

@dankcushions mupen64plus-gles2n64 is fastest for me but if you have a solution I could switch what I mainly use

Coming with runcommand.log as fast as I can

EmK530

@dankcushions Can't find a way to get the runcommand.log,

pi@retropie:/dev/shm $ dir
pi@retropie:/dev/shm $

Tells me nothing

Edit:

Saying again, scenes that should make the emulator lag way more actually doesn't lag it much more at all making me think there's something limiting it or something else

dankcushions

@emk530 did you run the game since your last reboot/reinstall? it will always populate it.

sorry, just seen you're using pi3 - gles2n64 was historically good for me for mario kart on the pi3, just not with the mesa driver.

it's definitely normal for a pi3 to lag quite a bit on n64, though. for mario kart 64 it would be normal for it to lag a bit at the start of the race, but should be mostly smooth during gameplay. how does the lag manifest in mario kart?

mitu

@emk530 The log file is created after running the emulator. Since /dev/shm is kept in RAM, you'll have to get the file immediately after exiting the emulator and before starting another game.

EmK530

@dankcushions Let me provide a video if you give me some time

EmK530

@mitu https://pastebin.com/raw/xn5xLSmj

Played on gliden64 as requested

EmK530

@dankcushions Lag is kinda the same in every scene in the game. No idea why.

Runcommand.log: https://pastebin.com/raw/xn5xLSmj

Video: http://emk530.cf/mariokart64_lag.mp4

Sorry for the weird background noise, I don't know what went wrong

EmK530

PROBLEM SOLVED:

I downgraded to version 4.6 and it's running just fine

tuomaspap

@emk530 I upgraded to latest 4.7 and having exactly the same issues with you but on the Pi4.
Can't find the image of 4.6 though anymore :( Is there somwhere you got it from that you could share link ?

EmK530

@tuomaspap Sorry for the delay, I never expected a reply. I was able to get it through the wayback machine. I've gone ahead and found a link on github for the pi4, hope it works!
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.6/retropie-buster-4.6-rpi4.img.gz