[4.1] Slow Game Launch (any game/emulator)

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

@paradadf said in [4.1] Slow Game Launch (any game/emulator):

So please, give me the output of the command tvservice explained at the bottom of the same page

hmm I thought that by using only 720, that was going to be so CPU intensive. Thank you =D

tvservice -s

state 0x12000a [HDMI CEA (4) RGB lim 16:9], 1280x720 @ 60.00Hz, progressive

tvservice -m CEA

Group CEA has 14 modes:
mode 1: 640x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:25MHz progressive
mode 2: 720x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:27MHz progressive
mode 3: 720x480 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz progressive
(prefer) mode 4: 1280x720 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 5: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz interlaced
(native) mode 16: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:148MHz progressive
mode 17: 720x576 @ 50Hz 4:3, clock:27MHz progressive
mode 18: 720x576 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz progressive
mode 19: 1280x720 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 20: 1920x1080 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz interlaced
mode 31: 1920x1080 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:148MHz progressive
mode 32: 1920x1080 @ 24Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 33: 1920x1080 @ 25Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 34: 1920x1080 @ 30Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive

[paradadf]

@Raphael-Bueno-Hatencia first of all, your global.videomode should be CEA 4 HDMI.
You have slowdowns in SNES, right?
What about a bad power supply? Don't you get a lightning icon on your screen?

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

@paradadf Yeah, i putted back to CEA 4 HDMI

Nope, my slowdowns on starting the game is on any emulator, gameboy, snes, gba, mega drive etc.

But yesterday I´ve tried Dreamcast, and it ran super fast. I pressed X, recalbox zoom in the coverart, and dreamcast logo was showing on screen. It was instantly.

Not, i had that problem last year, but i bought a new power supply and the lightning icon never appeared again.

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@Raphael-Bueno-Hatencia then it's related to retroarch only ... N64 should start very fast too

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

@Substring Yes it was faster than anygame that uses retroarch.

But it is a clean install from 4.1 image, and I didnt touch anything retroarch related, why the problem remains?

I did another script: https://file.ac/qmVg05xNb0A/

[Substring]

@Raphael-Bueno-Hatencia are ypu using a usb key ? Or did you just reinstall from scratch and test with the free roms ?

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

@Substring I reinstalled from scratch the 4.1 img using sd card and the first tests was using the free roms. Them I added the roms of other system for testing. All roms are in the SD card

[paradadf]

@Raphael-Bueno-Hatencia could you try another tv?

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

@paradadf I´ve tryed in another tv HD, native 720p and it worked fine!

Them another test in a common pc monitor, All roms starting fine and fast.

I thought the problem could be a config on my main TV fullhd, but when I tested it, it was working fine too after the other tests, nothing was changed, not even a rom.

I really don´t understand.

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

@paradadf After turning off and on again, it was slow again!

I tried to change everything on my tv, hdmi ports, gamer mode, everything, nothing worked.

I realized that in my other screens tests, I used ps3 controller, not my ps2 controller with twin ps2 adapter usb. Trying without it, using only ps3 via bluetooth it worked fine!

So this is the problem? Maybe I should only use that adapter when playing multiplayer with 4 controllers. It was pratical because there is no need to recharge battery. Is there anything we can do to make speed with adapter works normally?

[paradadf]

@Raphael-Bueno-Hatencia good finding. Sadly, I can't help you with that... I'm not a developer. Maybe one reads this and has an idea.

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

@paradadf No problem. I just hope this is really the problem.

I will still verify if this is correct, try to plug it after recalbox is on just for testing purposes.

Any news I'll bring here.

Thanks a lot for helping me.

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I have no b****y idea why a USB adapter would slow down the start of RA ...

[Raphael Bueno Hatencia]

I´m not so sure now. The slow on starting games returned, but most times recalbox is restarted, speed is fine (without the usb adapter).

I´m out of ideas what is causing this problem on a clean image.

[rockaddicted]

Did you try an other SD card ?

[ls45]

Hello, I've had the same problem, and found the solution by chance.
Deleting retroarchcustom.cfg makes game launch fast again.
If I save configuration from retroarch's menus, it creates a new 97Kb retroarchcustom.cfg...
And everything is lauching slow again...

There's something in this big retroarchcustom.cfg that makes it launch slow.
I didn't take time to analyse the full retroarchcustom.cfg, but there's a big difference with retroarchcustom.cfg.origin : input_joypad_driver is set to "sdl2" before saving. Saving from retroarch changes input_joypad_driver to "udev"...

[secreus]

I've discovered on my own (same issue btw) that Retroarch launches just fine. There's no delay in the launch, it just takes a bit to display on whatever TV we're using. To test that, you can press [Hotkey + B] 2 or so seconds after clicking the game in EmulationStation. When the screen does display, it will display the Retroarch menu. This proves that Retroarch runs at a normal time, and that input is accepted. It's either an issue with EmuSta or your monitor