Change output to 720p or even vga if you have 1080p. Helped me a lot with graphical issues.

This happened to me today but I found that going to the Retropie config and updating absolutely everything fixed it.

Obligatory Linux forum entry: Me too! ;-)

Exactly the same thing here – just to let you know there’s another one with that problem. I’m still investigating and trying different things to reproduce the problem, no luck so far, but for now I agree that it looks like it has something to do with ROMs in the corresponding folders.

[quote=56881]This happened to me today but I found that going to the Retropie config and updating absolutely everything fixed it. [/quote]

I tried that, no change at all. Further I updated the underlying Raspbian (I’m using the RetroPie SD Card Image) with
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

I looked through the “usual suspects” in /var/log, but couldn’t find anything special so far. Are there any other logfiles to look for? If so, which ones could be the most important for this issue?

Right now I’m doing a complete, clean installation on a different SD Card, I’ll try to tinker with the HDMI-/resolution-settings, later I’ll try it on my secondary RPi. I’ll let you know when I find something.

BTW: Absolutely awesome work on that stuff! Now it just needs to work for me… :-)

[quote=61414]What’s your memory split? If I have memory split set to 384 I cannot run emulation station in 1080p. For 1080p I have to change the memory split to 256.[/quote]
It’s the default 256/256.

[quote=60551]I removed the games I added and am still having the issue.[/quote]
I reproduced the problem by copying all the ROMs I have to the corresponding folders. However for me it does work again if I remove all those files.

So I’m pretty sure it’s either a problem with one or more ROM(s) itself or maybe with a ROM’s filename including some special character or character combination that ES can’t handle for some reason. Finding out which one(s) will be kind of a tedious task…

ES’s Logfile (~/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_log.txt) isn’t much help either, it seems there’s nothing of interest in it. The only error:

lvl1: Error - folder with path ""/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/esconfig"" is not a directory!

However this does also appear with ES working fine, so that’s probably not the source of the problem.

Got it: The problem occurs if you have ROMs for a lot of (respectively “too much”) systems; It has nothing to do with the ROMs themselves.

The background images for each system are (respectively “were”, see below) quite big and they are all loaded into the VRAM when ES starts. Depending on the background graphics for each system, the problems started if you had ROMs for around 17 different systems.

Nils fixed that by reducing and optimizing the blurred images from 1080p to 720p (see https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/250) to reduce the amount of used VRAM by ~50%.

I tested it – it’s still too much for 23 systems, but as a “quick & dirty” workaround you can just delete some background images for some systems in the “simple”-theme (/etc/emulationstation/themes/simple).

So if you run into this problem, you can do the following:

Exit ES (F4)

cd ~
mkdir dl_tmp
cd dl_tmp
wget http://blog.nilsbyte.de/download/emulationstation-theme-simple-v1-2/
sudo mv index.html /etc/emulationstation/themes/es_theme_simple_v1.2.zip
cd ..
rmdir dl_tmp
cd /etc/emulationstation/themes
sudo rm -rf simple
sudo unzip es_theme_simple_v1.2.zip
sudo rm es_theme_simple_v1.2.zip
sudo reboot

If it still won’t work, as said delete some .png and/or .jpg images in some system folders in /etc/emulationstation/themes/simple. You’ll just have a white background for those systems then, but everything else will be fine.

Mine too – Thanks