Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition

TPR

@ExarKunIv Nevermind. Just got it to load. I saw the note above about the kernel8 line being BEFORE the CM4 line and I changed that and it did the trick!

Thank you (and the entire community) for all your help!

Shinobi currently up and running on my screen!

TPR

@ExarKunIv I'm getting this error when loading up a game:

TPR

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

Sure, Did you install aethersx2 from Retropie Extra as is and did the changes here ? Do you have the checksum of your BIOS?

In regards to those changes for vulkan, I made those changes for dolphin, but do I need to do something more for vulkan to run on PS2? How can I tell if AetherSX2 is using the Vulkan driver or not?

I have PS2 games up and running now so do I just assume Vulkan is working okay? or is there a way to double check?

ExarKunIv

@TPR that error will probably always come up. AetherSX2 is dead and no one has taken up the work or made anything different. that i have found

as for vulkan, see comment above. unless you find a option saying video drivers or something like that. your guess is good as mine, and i dont know of a way to force it to use vulkan

TPR

@ExarKunIv said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@TPR that error will probably always come up. AetherSX2 is dead and no one has taken up the work or made anything different. that i have found

as for vulkan, see comment above. unless you find a option saying video drivers or something like that. your guess is good as mine, and i dont know of a way to force it to use vulkan

Ok great. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong.

I did just started playing around with the settings and it did show that Vulkan was my graphics driver so that all seems to be working well.

The first two games I loaded up: Shinobi and GTA both seemed to work well, and then the next two games: God of War and Call of Duty Big Red One were both really sluggish.

are there some basic tweaks people are doing to get a bit more performance out of some games or is it just what you see is what you get?

TPR

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@ExarKunIv

To play PS2 games like God of War II at fullspeed on Pi5 with Aethersx2, you must set EE Cycle Skipping at Maximum Underclock (major impact) and Disable Cheats. Affinity Control Mode is set on Performance Cores. I don't see major changes with the last two settings.

I also overclocked my Pi5 . Don't know if it has a positive impact.

I forgot to say something. With that setup, the Enable Speed Limiter menu option must be activated. For the sound quality, you can play with the interpolation mode. Nearest is faster but worst quality. If your sound still choppy, you can use that one

How can I save these settings per game? I did exactly what you suggested on Call of Duty: Big Red One and now it plays much better, but when I exited out of the game it saved it as a global setting for all games and not game specific.

How can I save a game specific configuration?

I went into the editor and made the changes:

but when I go back into the game from emulationstation, the changes didn't save:

I don't want to load my games from the editor or the Aether list, I want to be able to load them from the emuationstation menu.

ExarKunIv

@TPR said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

How can I save a game specific configuration?

this is a new system, so its up to you and @DTEAM to see what we can and cant do with it.

i have not messed around with it much other then getting it working

TPR

@ExarKunIv Got it! Currently messing with it now! Thank you for the scriptmodule which worked like a charm!

ExarKunIv

@TPR said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

worked like a charm

glad it did.

once i get my current project done with. ill be getting back on my Pi5 for my scripts

TPR

Ok so I think I was looking in the wrong place for the game specific settings. Once I made the change in the editor I noticed that the "Game Properties" button was now active when you load up the game:

and there it looks like the game specific settings are working:

Also, I should mention that to get into the game settings editor I followed @DTEAM's instructions of adding this line to my emulators.cfg:

aethersx2-editor = "XINIT-WMC:/opt/retropie/emulators/aethersx2/AetherSX2-v1.5-3606/usr/bin/aethersx2"

and that worked perfectly.

TPR

I just noticed that once you have checked "enable per-game settings" in the global menu for whatever game you have loaded, then the "Game Properties" option will be active and you can edit game specific properties within the game without needing to load up the Aether front end editor.

Sorry if this is all newbie information but I just loaded the emulator for the first time today and going through all my findings.

I will say that the instructions above to get a little more speed out of games like God of War worked pretty well!

TPR

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@ExarKunIv

To play PS2 games like God of War II at fullspeed on Pi5 with Aethersx2, you must set EE Cycle Skipping at Maximum Underclock (major impact) and Disable Cheats. Affinity Control Mode is set on Performance Cores. I don't see major changes with the last two settings.

I also overclocked my Pi5 . Don't know if it has a positive impact.

Have you come up with any good setting hacks for Katamari? It just seems to chug at about 2fps during the opening sequences and then crashes.

TPR

@TPR said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@DTEAM said in Suggestions for ports #3 - Pi5 edition:

@ExarKunIv

To play PS2 games like God of War II at fullspeed on Pi5 with Aethersx2, you must set EE Cycle Skipping at Maximum Underclock (major impact) and Disable Cheats. Affinity Control Mode is set on Performance Cores. I don't see major changes with the last two settings.

I also overclocked my Pi5 . Don't know if it has a positive impact.

Have you come up with any good setting hacks for Katamari? It just seems to chug at about 2fps during the opening sequences and then crashes.

So I've actually found the best results for Katamari so far is to switch to the software renderer than the do the underclocking that is mentioned above.

and the "best" results I've had is went from 1fps to about 10fps. So still not playable, but an improvement. Had the exact sane results with Ratchet and Clank. So if anyone finds a config that works better than this please post it!

ExarKunIv

@TPR Just do remember there are going to be games that are just not going to be playable. This emulator is not optimize for the PI. There is limitations on what it can do

TPR

@ExarKunIv Yep. Exactly. I'm going to keep pushing it as far as I can before I give up on a game though, just in case there is some weird setting somewhere that can add some improvement. I've already got quite a few games running shockingly well. All the GTA games, God of War, Call of Duty, etc. It's pretty impressive what I'm seeing so far!

DTEAM

@TPR

For Katamari, see the Compatibility list. Some hardware have problems with that game. Maybe if you try another BIOS or european version vs US?

TPR

@DTEAM Fantastic! Thank you for that!

TPR

Has anyone figured out a way to be able to load a game in the AetherSX2 "Software Renderer" and not get this error?

The reason why I ask is that a game like Gauntlet Dark Legacy seems to run much better with the software renderer.

And yes, I can load up the game with Vulkan as the default and then switch to the software renderer....

But then the problem is if I exit out of the game, the next time it loads up, I get that error, and I have to go connect my USB keyboard to get rid of it, and if I switch back to Vulkan before I exit out, the game crashes.

So has anyone figured out how to start a game in the software renderer without getting that error?

DTEAM

I'll try to reproduce this error

TPR

@DTEAM thanks!

It's weird that it seems to work just fine choosing "Switch to Software Renderer" in the pause game menu, but if you select software renderer in the game or global settings, you get an error when you boot up the game, and it kicks you back to hardware renderer unless you switch again in the pause menu.