C64 Vice, very slow at loading games, what's the trick?
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Hello,
I'm on Retopie 4.0.5 and I have a Pi3.
I've installed Vice and some old games and find the games take a few minutes to load and stays on the basic screen for a long time, I've tried turning off true drive emulation and warp mode to on, but it makes no difference. Vice on my PSP or PC load instantly.
Many games just stay on the basic screen saying "Press Play on Tape"
Am I missing something?
Thanks
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@Shadowfax cartridges load the fastest so if there is a cart version of the game i would use that. As far as your problem i dont gave the answer.
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Have you ever used the 'Reset Options' function for any reason? I was unable to determine why, but after using it one time, I was unable to restore the full speed of the warp feature afterward. I ended up restoring the config file from a backup, but removing the config, uninstalling VICE and then reinstalling would restore the file to the distribution default. My Pi3 loads games just as fast as any other machine that I've ever installed VICE onto.
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There is something strange with Vice. I was messing with the configs (trying to map emulator actions to the pad - I did it!!! thanx @g0nz0uk !!!) and the emulator started throttling (???) (pi3). Something on the sound part (at least that's what I think ...the Dummy sound selection set the performance to the correct level) creates a huge slowdown.
I deleted everything and I started changing configurations manually. After 2 hours I nailed it although I do not know which change made the difference. I will post when I get home.
Advice. Once you setup Vice, dont save/change configurations
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I've installed from source and got my controls working now, but yes as soon as you change others settings like turning warp mode on/off or true drive emulation on/off then Vice hates it and everything seems out of sync and load times are forever and the only way to fix is uninstall and reinstall it seems and don't touch anything :(
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Hello,
I reinstalled from source and copied my sdl-vicerc over and games and my buttons mappings work now. However I then went into the menu and configured my joystick (up,down,left,right, fire) and saved it and now everything is messed up again.
Can these controls be configured in a text file as going into the GUI is the main issue I think?
Thanks
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Once I had the problem I deleted everything inside opt/retropie/configs/c64 the except the emulator.cfg.
I started the emulator again and it created the files back. Then I edited them manually.
I propose you download the configs to your PC, delete them from your PI, download the new ones to your PC and compare one by one (new vs old). Input the needed changes that reside in the old configs inside the new ones and upload the new configs back.
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@Pyjamarama Hello, I did similar to what you said and I'm working now. Doing anything in that menu is very sensitive it seems and can break it.
I seem to get a sound buffer error on some games and end up with no sound, plus the games can randomly speed up for half a second.
Have you managed to make the games full screen at all? I've played with the settings in the gui without success and it usually breaks the emulator again so I haven't gone back in.
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@Shadowfax sorry its 5 in the morning here so im not going to get on my pi for exact details but to fix sound buffer go into sound settings and there is a section at the bottom where there are 3 options that are there with the bottom one checked. I think it says something about "exact" but i could be wrong. Change it to the first option. Then save your settings. Runs awesome for me now with scanlines on.
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@Shadowfax sorry its 5 in the morning here so im not going to get on my pi for exact details but to fix sound buffer go into sound settings and there is a section at the bottom where there are 3 options that are there with the bottom one checked. I think it says something about "exact" but i could be wrong. Change it to the first option. Then save your settings. Runs awesome for me now with scanlines on.
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