Retropie 4 slower?

naddel81

Hi @ all,

just updated my pi zero to the latest version and I noticed that exiting a game and starting a game now shows some command line and takes a few seconds. On retropie 3.x it was almost immediately, but now there are these "loading times". How come?

Best wishes!

obsidianspider

@naddel81 Are you on 4.0.2 (pre-built image) or 4.0.3 (running RetroPie Setup to update to the latest)? I've noticed some extra texty bits while on 4.0.3 with my Pi 3, but I figured that's because it's still a work in progress.

naddel81

I am on the latest 4.0.3. Work in progress?!?

BuZz

It's not really a work in progress, other than that RetroPie is constantly updated. I need more information though to advise - what commandline ?

naddel81

that retropie login shows for about 3 seconds and I never noticed that on the earlier version of retropie (sorry for the upside down picture):

![http://abload.de/img/img_44481zfb3b.jpg](image url)

BuZz

Not quite in focus either ;-)

Did you update all system packages ? Have you changed any other settings ?

In case it's related to upstream plymouth changes you can try adding plymouth.enable=0 to the end of /boot/cmdline.txt(on the same line as the other parameters separated with a space) and see if that makes a difference after a reboot.

obsidianspider

@BuZz said in Retropie 4 slower?:

Not quite in focus either ;-)

Did you update all system packages ? Have you changed any other settings ?

In case it's related to upstream plymouth changes you can try adding plymouth.enable=0 to the end of /boot/cmdline.txt(on the same line as the other parameters separated with a space) and see if that makes a difference after a reboot.

So that's what that secondary set of stuff is called (Plymouth). I wondered what was going on.

BuZz

Plymouth is a bootsplash system and it's possible it is interfering (And it's the only thing that has changed I know about that could affect this).

obsidianspider

@BuZz Thanks. That helps a lot. I noticed that even though I'd set console=tty3 in my cmdline.txt I was still seeing text at boot, and now I know why.

For anyone else reading along, updating cmdline.txt to have console=tty3 instead of the default console=tty1 hid the boot text. Adding logo.nologo hides the Raspberry Pi logo at boot and adding plymouth.enable=0 suppressed all of the "other" text at boot and shutdown on my 4.0.3 setup. If that's what you're going for.

naddel81

it is not that annoying, but it takes more time to start and close a game compared to 3.x retropie.

will this change anytime soon?
I updated all packages.

BuZz

@naddel81 Did you read above ?

naddel81

adding "plymouth.enable=0" had no effect. it still shows this here for almost 5 seconds on every game boot and exit. (now with focus)

http://abload.de/img/img_4450tgyep.jpg

3.X was way faster because it did not show this.

BuZz

it doesn't do that on mine - it must be something else you have changed.

Almost looks like the tty is being switched or something. Please try from a fresh image to rule out a configuration issue.

naddel81

I was wondering about that, too. because before the update from 3.8 it asked me to press a button to configure/change the emulator.
now on 4.X it does not do that. maybe something went wrong during the update?

I just don't want to lose my games and the scrapped information. how to keep that using a fresh image?

BuZz

I can only think it's related to the thing mentioned above.

post your /boot/cmdline.txt after the modification just in case (using formatting on the forum or use an external pastebin type site)

naddel81

I backed up all the samba accessable folders and will try to re-flash a new image and then paste the 4 folders back.

here is my commandline file:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet loglevel=3 consoleblank=0
 plymouth.enable=0

BuZz

@BuZz said in Retropie 4 slower?:

In case it's related to upstream plymouth changes you can try adding plymouth.enable=0 to the end of /boot/cmdline.txt(on the same line as the other parameters separated with a space) and see if that makes a difference after a reboot.

You need to put it on the same line as I instructed - it's a single line of parameters

BuZz

Also - please use formatting when posting configs as requested or an external pastebin site if you are unfamiliar with markdown syntax. I have asked you to format posts before in other discussions - please read http://commonmark.org/help/

naddel81

will remove the additional "ENTER" and put it into a single line. hopefully it will remove the unnecessary 5s boot delay.
will report back in 10 minutes.

naddel81

Thanks! It fixed the issue.
But somehow my SNES/NES and Master System scrapes are gone.... no images, not text.

game boy + gba is still there... very strange!