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    Retropie 4 slower?

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    • obsidianspiderO
      obsidianspider @naddel81
      last edited by

      @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.

      📷 @obsidianspider

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        naddel81
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        I am on the latest 4.0.3. Work in progress?!?

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        • BuZzB
          BuZz administrators
          last edited by 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 ?

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            naddel81
            last edited by 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)

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            • BuZzB
              BuZz administrators
              last edited by

              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.

              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              • obsidianspiderO
                obsidianspider @BuZz
                last edited by

                @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.

                📷 @obsidianspider

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                • BuZzB
                  BuZz administrators
                  last edited by

                  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).

                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  • obsidianspiderO
                    obsidianspider @BuZz
                    last edited by 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.

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                      naddel81
                      last edited by

                      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.

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                      • BuZzB
                        BuZz administrators @naddel81
                        last edited by

                        @naddel81 Did you read above ?

                        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                          naddel81
                          last edited by

                          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.

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                          • BuZzB
                            BuZz administrators
                            last edited by 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.

                            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              naddel81
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                              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?

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                              • BuZzB
                                BuZz administrators
                                last edited by

                                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)

                                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  naddel81
                                  last edited by BuZz

                                  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
                                  
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                                  • BuZzB
                                    BuZz administrators @BuZz
                                    last edited by 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

                                    To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                    • BuZzB
                                      BuZz administrators
                                      last edited by 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/

                                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                        naddel81
                                        last edited by

                                        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.

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                                          naddel81
                                          last edited by

                                          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!

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