THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER MGBA LAGGING ARCHIVE
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Something that surprised me, is that now the savestate's saving and loading is extremely fast, for all cores, GBA games save the state in like a split second now, and PSX games just take like 2 seconds (used to be like 10). Game: Crash Team Racing (U)The framerate improved between 8 and 10 fps, it's much smoother and nicer to play now, it's still not perfect, but 50~ frames is not bad at all, if i didn't have to cope with the audio crackling related to sub-60fps rendering i would have no problem with that, in this game the performance was consistent, unlike those 30>60>30 spikes in mGBA. Second test, PSX (with the PSX reARMed core from the 1.6.7 package) Steam link dev people: Please enable swap for those of us who want it in the next build. Really it is kind of frustrating that we can't run a kernel with more options. So there is no way to attempt testing adding swap memory from a USB device to see if more memory would let it function.įrom kernel conf of steamlink: '# CONFIG_SWAP is not set' It appears swap is not even enabled in the kernel that is built for the steamlink.

THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER MGBA LAGGING FREE

If I run 'top' while attempting to run it memory decreases down to 2mb free then it crashes and returns to the launcher. I have some loose speculation that the system doesn't have enough memory to run it. I ran a non-stripped version of retroarch on gdb it appears to crash trying to free a null pointer. Have been attempting to figure out what is happening. The latest changes do seem to include a bunch of refactoring for opengl so hopefully it helps some with the problems that are being seen.įor giggles since I wanted it to give it a try, I also rebuilt bsnes mercury under the performance profile. Latest build here will date them from here on out also: I am not sure why threads are disabled in the example I would think having threads would increase the performance.

This does not disable threads, and it does not disable shaderpipeline. configure -host=$SOC_BUILD -disable-alsa -disable-pulse -enable-neon -enable-opengl -enable-opengles I used slightly different config options than those set in the build script in the sdk example directory. I pulled the latest changes for retroarch and rebuilt the main binary. I am not sure doing so made any difference. INCLUDE(/home/steam/steamlink-sdk/toolchain/steamlink-toolchain.cmake) I also added this line near the top of the CMakeLists.txt file for mgba: This is essentially just build using the following cmake command and the provided SDK:Ĭmake -DBUILD_SDL=ON -DBUILD_GL=ON -DBUILD_GLES2=ON -DBUILD_QT=OFF -DBUILD_LIBRETRO=ON -Wno-dev -DUSE_ELF=OFF -DUSE_SQLITE3=OFF -DUSE_EPOXY=OFF -DUSE_MAGICK=OFF -DUSE_LIBZIP=OFF -DOPENGLES2_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/steam/steamlink-sdk/rootfs/usr/include -DOPENGLES2_LIBRARY=/home/steam/steamlink-sdk/rootfs/usr/lib -DUSE_DEBUGGERS=OFF. Maybe it will improve performance or work better?īuild from commit 17801df8167e24d98b96495a43b0f9550ade8f30 ofĠx00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: Īll of these libs appear in /lib on the steamlink.

I haven't tested the so yet but feel free to give it a try. The libretro so I built doesn't seem to depend on anything except what should be on the steam link. I think that is only for the frontend though, and is not used when libretro is used. The build process then crashed attempting to build the opengles2 support. The so file for libretro seemed to build. Just finished rebuilding mgba from source. You would need to post something somewhere a Retroarch developer would look. If the lag occurred constantly that would certainly be an issue with the core you are using.Īs EdszxNeo stated, I doubt anyone on these forums knows enough about Retroarch to pin down exactly what is causing the lag. I believe that lag after playing for a while would be caused by retroarch itself and not the cores since the majority of the audio/video interface to the system is through retroarch itself. Let me know if it solves the issue for you.

THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER MGBA LAGGING ARCHIVE

( after extracting it from the 7zip archive of course. It is just the raw binary you'll need to ssh replace the main binary from one of the other retroarch steam link installs that are here on the forum.

You can grab the compiled binary from here: The version will report 1.6.9, and should be the latest version of retroarch available up till that date. I didn't play games for very long, but you can give a try at using the version I compiled to see if it has the same issue. I compiled Retroarch the latest commit ( as of ) of libretro from github several weeks ago for the Steam Link.

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