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Whdload Games run slowly after updating Retropie to 4.4 #378

Closed marus70 closed 5 years ago

marus70 commented 5 years ago

Expected behavior

Games installed following the thread below run properly in my PI 3: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12656/amiga-amiberry-whdload-holy-grail-amiberry-s-official-thread/370

Actual behavior

After updating Retropie to 4.4 from 4.3 every game run slowly. I've also updated Amiberry from source without resolving the issue.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Install Whdload games following this thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12656/amiga-amiberry-whdload-holy-grail-amiberry-s-official-thread/370 Update Retropie to 4.4

midwan commented 5 years ago

@marus70 Did you also update the emulator along with RetroPie? Did the same version of the emulator work normally under 4.3, but slower under 4.4 for example?

What versions of the emulator have you tried, exactly? You mentioned the latest from source, but which one did you try before that?

Have you tried the latest available binary release (v2.19 currently)?

marus70 commented 5 years ago

@marus70 Did you also update the emulator along with RetroPie?

Yes I did, a few days ago, once realized the speed issue I updated Amiberry from binary (with no success) then from source (with no success too).

Did the same version of the emulator work normally under 4.3, but slower under 4.4 for example?

Exactly.

What versions of the emulator have you tried, exactly? You mentioned the latest from source, but which one did you try before that?

I had 2.14 on Retropie 4.3 and it worked like a charm until update to Retropie 4.4.

Have you tried the latest available binary release (v2.19 currently)?

Yes I did (with no success).

CypherXG commented 5 years ago

2.14 is really an old Version. Try newest.

midwan commented 5 years ago

@CypherXG I think he mentioned that he tried v2.19 and the current master as well?

@marus70 Could you please give me some examples of what worked slower, e.g. specific games that behaved differently?

marus70 commented 5 years ago

@CypherXG I think he mentioned that he tried v2.19 and the current master as well?

Correct.

@marus70 Could you please give me some examples of what worked slower, e.g. specific games that behaved differently?

Every game I tested, for example Agony, IK+ and so on...

marus70 commented 5 years ago

I forgot to mention that I have updated Retropie to 4.4 without underlying OS packages (i'm on Jessie, non Stretch). Maybe this helps to find the issue.

HoraceAndTheSpider commented 5 years ago

When you say you installed games “following that thread” did you go from post number 1’s method?

I ask because that is wildly out of date.

In one of the posts throughout it says “Consider my previous post as deprecated.“ and provides a link to the update guide on this project’s wiki page.

The “old” method for this uses individual .uae Config files and as a result If you are still doing this, I wonder if your slow downs are caused by not updating your configuration files with the emulator changes.

midwan commented 5 years ago

Thanks @HoraceAndTheSpider that's a valid point I missed out :) @marus70 could you please confirm?

marus70 commented 5 years ago

Horace, I followerd the thread below until about 8 Months ago when everything was ok and my Aminerry plus whdload Were Perfect: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12656/amiga-amiberry-whdload-holy-grail-amiberry-s-official-thread The thread you linked is older, I never seen it before. Thanks for your support.

HoraceAndTheSpider commented 5 years ago

@marus70 I didn’t link a thread?

I was referring to the same one you posted- which dates back several years.

You need to explain what method you are using.

HoraceAndTheSpider commented 5 years ago

I think we should close this issue - it refers to following a guide on an external site.

The “supported” route for running WHDLoad games is via the wiki page here. Anything else will be near impossible to diagnose and is likely caused by Config settings.

marus70 commented 5 years ago

I think we should close this issue - it refers to following a guide on an external site.

The “supported” route for running WHDLoad games is via the wiki page here. Anything else will be near impossible to diagnose and is likely caused by Config settings.

Ok: any suggestion to keep part of the work I had done (about settings, configuration, etc) on a new installation?

midwan commented 5 years ago

@marus70 If you have WHDLoad installations, then you probably won't need to recreate anything you did before, as the new approach takes care of selecting the best match for each game (based on user feedback, we've come up with a collection of settings per game).

If they are not WHDLoad installations, then you can still use a config per game, but you'd need to recreate the old configs because with the updates to the emulator, some options have changed (they are now closer to what WinUAE offers, and some obsolete entries are removed).

Closing this issue since I think we can agree it's not a problem with the emulator as such.