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Aloshi / EmulationStation

A flexible emulator front-end supporting keyboardless navigation and custom system themes.
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Emulation Station just crashes when trying to open up Emulators #700

Open Priestick opened 6 years ago

Priestick commented 6 years ago

Emulation station just crashes when trying to open up emulators, it doesn't matter what emulator I try to use it just crashes. No idea why.

Neo-Rio commented 6 years ago

Run out of memory is my guess.

Adding more systems to emulation station will chew up the amount of memory it uses.

Also if you have a system with loads and loads of games in it (e.g. 25,000 for the C64), if you are using a Rpi1 for example, this will cause emulationstation to chew through memory until trying to start any emulator fails.

What needs to happen is the counting and scraping of the number of games per system needs to be turned off so that ES doesn't kill itself trying to load info for all the games and systems. It needs to be configured to be super lightweight for underpowered platforms (like the Rpi1) and tweaked to handle more systems and games without hitting it's limits.

For now, just remove added systems and games from your rom directories until it works properly again.