Blank game info screen after scroll long list

Aloshi / EmulationStation

A flexible emulator front-end supporting keyboardless navigation and custom system themes.

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Blank game info screen after scroll long list #23

Closed john-watkins closed 11 years ago

john-watkins commented 12 years ago

At startup the first few roms display their images, and desc nicely from the gamelist.xml. After scrolling through a long list of games, then all the games no longer display any info, even the ones that worked in the beginning

Aloshi commented 12 years ago

Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce this (with a list of 15 games, with images and descriptions).

How big was the list? Did it have a theme?
How big (as in dimensions) were the images?
Are you using at least the 192/64mb memory split?
Does this happen every time?

john-watkins commented 12 years ago

Aloshi,

Thanks for the quick response, and good work...

I have ~80 roms in the snes folder
If I scroll down to around 30 - 35 the images stop working. It is not real consistent though

I am using the arm192 as my start.elf

At first I thought it might be a problem with a particular image file, but that theory didn't hold up as when I restarted emulationstation it failed at a different rom.

I will keep testing it, and see if I can find a pattern.

Thanks for you help

john-watkins commented 12 years ago

FYI, I resized all of the images 200x300, as I thought that might be the problem...

Aloshi commented 12 years ago

After building myself a list of about 80 NES games and scraping descriptions and images for them, I still can't seem to reproduce this.

Are you using the latest source? I changed how scrolling works a bit yesterday. You can update by running git pull, then make. How are you scrolling? Holding down the button, or pressing it many times?

elpendor commented 12 years ago

Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce it either.

Just in case, could you post the XML file somewhere?

petrockblog commented 12 years ago

Recently, decided to copy my whole rom collection on the Pi, let the scraper run and see if everything is working. The blank screen also appears for me after some scrolling/sliding (in this case for the SNES system). I am using the 192/64 split, my images have a width of 275px. You can download the game list.xml at https://www.dropbox.com/s/has6oux5bk20nov/gamelist.xml. However, as with john, on a second run I am not able to reproduce this. I will keep an eye on that - maybe a pattern can be observed in a more daily use.

Webrow commented 11 years ago

Same here, with a big list ( currently got about 25000 roms on the Pi, ) Only a blank scroll as soon as i try to run it. Second boot ( after segmentation ault when i press F1 ) it loads correclty