Hello all,

Freshly installed Recalbox on a NUC PC ( Minisforum UM 350 ) : CPU is AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, GPU is AMD Radeon Vega 8, 16 GB of RAM.

Quick questions : are AMD GPUs supported on Recalbox with full hardware acceleration ? (aka drivers installed)

Since Gamecube and PS2 emulation were struggling despite a brand newish hardware (huge FPS drops on Gamecube and lagginess in PS2), I just checked if everything was ok.

Doing glxinfo | grep render gives me this :

direct rendering: Yes
    GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, 
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN, DRM 3.40.0, 5.12.4, LLVM 9.0.1)

It would seem the generic MESA driver is being used instead of AMDGPU ?

@davidb2111
That's really interesting.

Are you sure it plays well with the update process ? Just in case there are updates, I wouldn't want them to mess this up.

Hello all, been experimenting for my first time with Recalbox (which I must say is very well polished).

I've installed it on a fresh mini-PC (so x86_64) by using the provided image (recalbox-x86_64.img.xz). It works well. Transferred some ROMs, tried emulators/network/SSH/controllers... everything works great.

I'm facing a problem though.

Recalbox is installed on an SSD whose size is limited, and I would like to move some ROM folders on an HDD I've plugged on my PC (SATA, appears mounted on /recalbox/share/externals/usb0).

Basically, I would like to keep the 8-16 bits ROMs on the HDD, since they will be loaded quite fast anyway due to their size), and put heavy ones (Wii, PS2, PSX) on the SSD.

I thought "hey no biggie, just pop in some symlinks and go". Problem, the /recalbox/share partition is formated in exFAT which doesn't support soft/hard links .
Also tried altering /etc/fstab and doing some "bind mounts" after doing ( mount -o remount,rw /) to no avail (already done it before on another computer, so I'm familiar with the procedure).

So my question is : where do I go from there ? I thought about reformatting the share partition to ext4 and moving the data back on it, but wouldn't that break any future update ? Since Recalbox provides a polished experience, I wouldn't want to be "too specific" and make upgrading a hassle.

Is there a feature resembling the ones you made for config overrides (where it searches several folders in a specific priority) where ES would search several folders just like :

/recalbox/share/roms/
/recalbox/share/externals/usb0/roms
/myMountPoint/roms