All games/emulators stuttering after image restore
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This is a hail mary. My cousin, a non-tech normie who lives 2+ hours north of me, saw the RetroPie I made for my kids and asked if I'd cook him up one. So I did. Then last summer a power outage corrupted his SD card, so he shipped the whole thing (including gamepads) to me and I rebuilt it. Thinking ahead, I made an image using Win32 Disk Imager so that in the event something happened again, I could send him the image and he could perform a restore on the card himself. Whelp, he bumbled his way into the MAME input config and managed to jack it up in a way where he not only couldn't play games, but could no longer navigate the menu to fix. He doesn't understand SSH (and the Pi isn't even hooked up to his network anyway), so I told him to flash it. It worked, but now everything is stuttering across all emulators. As I said, he's 2+ hours away, and I'm not going to rebuild it again. Without being able to access it, I don't have much to go on other than the symptoms. I figured the least I could do is ask here if anyone could think of why an image restore of the SD card would cause this kind of behavior and if there was anything to do about it. Like I said, it's a hail mary.
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@tribunal88 So this is the 3rd full rewrite ? Maybe the sd card is weared down ?
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@barbudreadmon it's a good quality SD card, but I wondered that. Doesn't retropie load everything into memory though? It's a Pi4 with 4GB.
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@tribunal88 With all the counterfeits around, it's actually hard to be sure whether a sd card is good quality or not.
A standard OS is constantly reading/writing to the storage device (logs, background tasks, ...). Arguably this can be mostly disabled by editing your system files, but i don't think it's done by default on a retropie setup.
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