Updated EmulationStation for Windows

LiveFreeDead

@f-caruso The --fullscreen method scales from a much smaller resolution, would it be possible to make it set the resolution to the used screen numbers current resolution if no --resolution is supplied? this would not have the scale issue if enabled. Thanks

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I just did some more testing, if I set my High DPI screen to scale 125%, it looks poor when the window is active but looks fine if I click off it (or alt tab out), as soon as the window is active again with 125% DPI it goes blocky again. But if I set DPI to 100% it works perfect if the windows is active or not. I can improve the results if I use --resolution 1920 1080, but if I make the resolution the same as my desktop res it loses the extra 25% scaling size amount of ES on the screen (ES is too big due to it upscaling)... So I am not sure how you could fix this now I know it's related to multiple causes.

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/378

Link takes you to the issue affecting a few other people, seems manually changing the DPI scaling back to 100% is the only way to fix it... I have a QHD screen, so that isn't going to happen :(

ThePlagueIsBack

@LiveFreeDead , Just a few thoughts, have you tried these approaches?

Tool: shorturl.at/uyQY6
Batch:

REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v DpiScalingVer /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00001018 /f
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Win8DpiScaling /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 /f
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v LogPixels /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000078 /f

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-high-dpi-settings-classic-apps-windows-10-april-2018-update (System (Enhanced))

LiveFreeDead

@ThePlagueIsBack I tried all the options and nothing seems to fix it except setting the DPI Scaling back to 100% from the default 125%

Here is an example taken with a phone as ANY and all video and/or screen capture software does not capture the issue, it is perfect for them:
https://i.imgur.com/Ajt4EZb.jpg

The only difference between the first and second photo is the first one had me click the start key on my keyboard to make it inactive (or click desktop of my 2nd screen) and the second image is when I click ES and make it the active Application.

I have tried disabling my second screen with all the tips and tricks also, it's such a weird little issue.

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I've also played with nVidia Control Panel, nothing is making any difference, apart from changing any DPI Scaling to 100%, which makes my OS unusable (small) and I can't change it from command line. Not sure it'll be something fixable, but perhaps if others can reproduce the issue it has more possibilities of being fixed one day.

ThePlagueIsBack

@LiveFreeDead There's an SDL flag for high dpi usage, not sure if it will help you but might be worth a try, it's quite a work to compile ES but perhaps @f-caruso could help you out by parsing a new argument that adds the fullscreen flag, just an idea...

SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_CreateWindow

ThePlagueIsBack

@LiveFreeDead Try this build which I just added the the SDL high DIP flag: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Cereal-Killa/emulationstation/builds/29207246/job/dct323wq9gsx3cbl/artifacts

f.caruso

@ThePlagueIsBack Ran some tests. Problem occurs only with exclusive fullscreen ( using --fullscreen ) only. SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI does not change anything... The problem comes from SDL_GetDesktopDisplayMode that gives wrongs values (1536x864 instead of 1920x1080 for 125%). This is a bug in SDL. My recommandation : ~~don't use exclusive fullscreen~~....

EDIT : Fine, I found a way do fix it. SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI is necessary but was not enough.

jero

@f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@jero said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

settings for the videos that appear without making the animation

Supported in theming, using video.effect ( none, bump, size, slideRight )

Thank you it worked perfect

play background music and sounds when moving and selecting the carousel.

Supported for theming, using <sound><path> in system view (for music) & carousel.scrollSound for scrolling sound.

Carousel.scrollSound work perfect for me, but background music did not work, I tried this way.Dont work for me.I also searched for information on gitub and found nothing. Also in Themes.md

<view name="system">

	<carousel name="systemcarousel">
		<type>horizontal</type>
		<color>00000000</color>
		<logoScale>1.22592592592593</logoScale>
		<scrollSound>./sounds/notice.ogg</scrollSound>
	</carousel>

        <sound>
		<path>./sounds/bgm.ogg</path>
	</sound>

Bootscreen video, when you start ES

I don't agree. It's not ES responsability. It's the launcher / script role.

I understand thanks for answering

Padtokey [...] without having to be outside of ES.

I don't agree. It's not ES responsability.
I know, I shall do a configuration UI & a testing tool for the launcher, but I don't have time for this.

I understand your time is money, it was just a comment, I think Padtokey is something very very powerful for windows. As I said is windows problem, sure that using admin and removing admin or something like that creates a conflict in windows and does not work for me, but with ES in another hdd it works perfectly now. That's why I don't know how to fix it so that I can go back to work.

As always great work and thanks

f.caruso

@jero said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

background music did not work

Missing sound name :

<sound name="bgsound">

About pad2key I know I have things to do to make it better... I will... One day ;-) Maybe I should opensource that project on git too...

jero

@f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@jero said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

background music did not work

<view name="system">

	<carousel name="systemcarousel">
		<type>horizontal</type>
		<color>00000000</color>
		<logoScale>1.22592592592593</logoScale>			
		<scrollSound>./sounds/scroll.ogg</scrollSound>
		
	</carousel>

	<sound name="bgsound">
		<path>./sounds/bgm.ogg</path>

	</sound>

I used this for sounds. But bgmsound, restarts every time I change system and scrollSound does not sound

About pad2key I know I have things to do to make it better... I will... One day ;-) Maybe I should opensource that project on git too...

oooo it's great news, I hope one day this in ghitub

f.caruso

@jero You're right about the music replaying when changing system, it should not when the music is common to the systems. I just fixed it.

ThePlagueIsBack

@f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@ThePlagueIsBack Ran some tests. Problem occurs only with exclusive fullscreen ( using --fullscreen ) only. SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI does not change anything... The problem comes from SDL_GetDesktopDisplayMode that gives wrongs values (1536x864 instead of 1920x1080 for 125%). This is a bug in SDL. My recommandation : ~~don't use exclusive fullscreen~~....

EDIT : Fine, I found a way do fix it. SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI is necessary but was not enough.

Awesome man! Will wait for your build ;)

ThePlagueIsBack

Call me crazy but I could swear there was a menu option to choose the theme variations if the theme supports it (nes-mini for the instance), could have been on recalbox, have you guys seen anything like it on any ES build before?

LiveFreeDead

@ThePlagueIsBack Me too :) I tested your compile, it has the same issue as usual :( I wish I could compile ES myself, I tried for weeks but it kept failing for me - I use windows 10 LTSC and tried with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, but I could never get a complete compile, I kept adding missing features/addons etc, but still would just error out mid compile. I even had a direct copy of other peoples source/build folders and it still failed. I had to give up and just report bugs instead. I think the only way I'll ever get to compile it myself is if someone shared a Virtual Machine HDD with it working :P

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REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v DpiScalingVer /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00001018 /f
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Win8DpiScaling /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 /f
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v LogPixels /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000078 /f

The reg's above do actually fix it, but it requires I log out and back in, same to disable it again... But thanks for this, I can use this fix for now until another option is available.

CarissaIsWierd

@f-caruso Now that I've been messing around with grid view a lot more, I thought I'd mention a slight annoyance in how selecting games is done. Using a 3x3 layout (or more), it keeps the selected game in the middle row (unless it's the very top or very bottom.) It's not pretty. Compare that to Kodi where it feels less jarring.

Is adding proper grid movement a change that can be made? (๑ơ ₃ ơ)ノ︵ ♡

f.caruso

@CarissaIsWierd

<centerSelection>false</centerSelection>

ThePlagueIsBack

@LiveFreeDead said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@ThePlagueIsBack Me too :) I tested your compile, it has the same issue as usual :( I wish I could compile ES myself, I tried for weeks but it kept failing for me - I use windows 10 LTSC and tried with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, but I could never get a complete compile, I kept adding missing features/addons etc, but still would just error out mid compile. I even had a direct copy of other peoples source/build folders and it still failed. I had to give up and just report bugs instead. I think the only way I'll ever get to compile it myself is if someone shared a Virtual Machine HDD with it working :P

-EDIT-

REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v DpiScalingVer /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00001018 /f
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Win8DpiScaling /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 /f
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v LogPixels /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000078 /f

The reg's above do actually fix it, but it requires I log out and back in, same to disable it again... But thanks for this, I can use this fix for now until another option is available.

Use Fabrice's build man, he had to add more into it then the hack I did, give it a try.

https://github.com/fabricecaruso/EmulationStation/releases

ThePlagueIsBack

@ThePlagueIsBack said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

Call me crazy but I could swear there was a menu option to choose the theme variations if the theme supports it (nes-mini for the instance), could have been on recalbox, have you guys seen anything like it on any ES build before?

Never mind, the theme configuration does show up when I use fabz-theme so the nes-mini must not contain configurable
settings. I was looking into have a optional 4:3 config on the theme to run on CRT monitors without duplicating the theme.

f.caruso

@ThePlagueIsBack nes-mini is a Retropie theme. Retropie Themes don't support subsets. You have to edit the theme to add such a configuration option yourself.

CarissaIsWierd

@f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@CarissaIsWierd

<centerSelection>false</centerSelection>

I had already tried that, but everything still selects in the middle row. Here's how it looks in ES as I keep moving up and down.

LiveFreeDead

@f-caruso Well it seams now that if I run EmulationStation.exe directly that the Scaling issues are fixed, thank you.

However - if anyone uses --fullscreen and provides an actual resolution, it doesn't change the screen resolution anymore and if you give it less than the current resolution it condenses it in the bottom left corner of the screen if less than and expands off screen from the bottom left of ES. Might be worth centering it? I don't mind if you don't I wont use --resolution anymore anyway ;)

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GamesLists TXT (Pretend Content)

____________________
_ Atari 2600:
____________________
Asteroids
Frogger
Space Invaders
____________________
_ Amiga:
____________________
Aadams Family
James Pond Robocod 2
____________________
_ Sega Master System:
____________________
Alex Kidd in Miricle World
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Road Rash

Here is another idea, maybe you could offer a tools menu so you can generate a GamesLists TXT that makes a header for each system and then lists all the names of roms, this would save a lot of work if you wanted to make lists. It would have to list them without any folders, but still it may be useful?