No game will launch from any platform after update
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Hey, I ran an update via the setup last night which seemed to go uneventfully and left it alone other than that (the update complete dialogue was still on the screen when I went to play today and no games will launch. As in not a single game from any system. It loads the ES ui as normal but when trying to launch a game I get the animation and then it freezes on the last frame and won’t do anything until I do an alt+f4 to end the task. Was there an update that broke Retropie? I did update the OS recently also via the typical means. No settings were changed and quite frankly other than the updates, I haven’t touched the Pi since I last had a flawless gaming session. Is anyone else’s system broken after running the latest Os/RP updates?
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Please add more info about your setup - as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. What Pi model do you have ?
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@mitu I have a Rpi4b 2gb model. I am running it installed over Raspberry Pi OS, and have been running this installation successfully for some time. It was working flawlessly up until the last time I launched it. The only
use the PI got between the last gaming session (flawless) and this time (won’t launch any game) was the OS update last night, and an update through the RP setup program. The update finished dialogue was on the screen when I went to launch today. -
Are you launching EmulationStation from a desktop session ? Your setup might be affected by the recent changes in Raspberry Pi OS, my bet would be the PulseAudio addition might have something to do with it.
Not a configuration we test or support though. -
@mitu yes. I am running it by typing emulationstation from the terminal. Yikes, yea I did see those updates when I updated. Any advice of what to do at the moment? I was getting close to a backup but haven’t backed up for quite a long time (2020 has been a real doozy so I got lax). Is it a problem with launching from the desktop? If I launched directly to es without the desktop, is that a workaround? That’s something I can toggle in the rp settings, right?
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@stignasty said in No game will launch from any platform after update:
If I launched directly to es without the desktop, is that a workaround?
You could try that. You can look for errors in
/dev/shm/runcommand.log, try turning on verbose logging to see more details.That’s something I can toggle in the rp settings, right?
Yes, you can configure it in the autostart settings.
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@mitu Confirmed: Direct boot via the settings works under current configuration flawlessly (though I see some nasty pixel smoothing I need to turn off somehow). I suppose for now I will switch this on and off depending on needing the desktop or just gaming. Any plans to allow for ES to run as an app under PulseAudio? It will be a pain to require a reboot every time I launch ES.
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@stignasty You should be able to exit from the desktop without rebooting to run emulationstation. You may experience audio lag with pulseaudio btw. RetroPie works best without it on the Raspberry Pi. You can remove it but you will have to manage audio levels on the commandline in the desktop as removing it will also remove the Raspberry Pi OS lx mixer applet.
Running from the desktop was never a supported configuration really for the RPI. Even though some stuff works.
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@mitu Very strange. I tried rebooting directly and then switched it back to desktop and tried launching and it launches just fine. I wonder what would cause it to do this. weird.
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@stignasty Gremlins? After all, it's near Christmas.
Not wanting to annoyingly reiterate, but RetroPie is still best run from the terminal, and if you have further issues, it's worth checking outside of the desktop also. Of course you're free to run RetroPie as you like but some stuff will definitely not work as it should, and we also can only support known working configurations.
Glad it's sorted though.
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@buzz Till that hiccup, it’s run fine from the desktop (This installation was from before rpi4 was supported and had an image). It just took a bit of tweaking. I did notice better performance when booting directly vs desktop, though it was outputting in 4:3 on a 16:9 TV and the resolution was low (I think) so the TV’s upscaling algorithm (4k tv) smoothed out the pixels (will have to tinker to see if I can fix that). I’m just glad it works again.
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