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  • 01/24/2015 at 02:23 #85834
    BulletBill
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    Hi! I just started on my Raspberry pi lately, and I have been having TONS of trouble with my ROMs:
    *They have been running slowly
    *They are in the correct file format (.zip) (.smc)
    I have seen some other forums, stating that overclocking is a method to make these games run faster, but I don’t know if I am ready to take risk like that.
    Is there any way I can resolve this?
    Thank you

    01/24/2015 at 03:07 #85836
    Floob
    Member

    Overclocking is pretty common, and as far as I’m aware wont invalidate your warranty

    https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Advanced-Configuration

    01/24/2015 at 18:06 #85859
    evilllama
    Participant

    Off the wall thought…

    Do you have the ethernet cable or wifi plugged in? If so, unplug it and restart the system. For some reason, the connection to a network slows down the pi a lot.

    01/25/2015 at 03:25 #85874
    BulletBill
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    I have a good internet connection, but the thing is, I dont have a heat sink if I am going to overclock the raspberry pi. Are the temperatures safe at high overclock settings?

    01/25/2015 at 19:10 #85919
    proxycell
    Participant

    no they are not “safe”, please use heatinks
    your pi will should automatically clock itself back down when it reaches 80C or 80C or whatever the default temp limit is set to.

    still not a great idea to let it reach those temps and rely upon a safety check

    01/25/2015 at 20:04 #85929
    BulletBill
    Participant

    Thanks. New update- I overclocked to 900mhz, which is pretty good for my rpi.

    01/26/2015 at 06:47 #85961
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Does that mean this is resolved?

    If not, you might also take a look at your mem split setting. You can find it in /boot/config.txt. I had mine set to 256 (on a 512mb pi B) and was getting a lot of slowdown. I reduced the memsplit to 128 and the same games are completely playable.

    My issues were with FBA, but the same might apply to NES and SNES? For what it’s worth, NES and SNES games seems to run fine for me at 128, with no overclock. I didn’t try them at 256.

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