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GroovyArcade live-CD 2022 (collaborative effort)
Giddygoon:
Hi Substring, I am not trying to play two monitors at the same time.
I am just using the LCD screen for set up i.e bios set to UEFI USB for full install but when it auto checks the video cards it can't find the VGA for the Sega Blast city CRT but it does find the HMDI for the LCD.
It did work for ATI 5450 card but that gave me the ATI freeze bug
Now I can't get past the auto detect stage also I bought two of these cards MD ASUS Radeon R7 240 Graphics Card 2GB DDR5 PCI-E VGA HDMI DVI - Low Profile and Its the same result...
is there a way you can manually set the video outputs ie VGA only
Substring:
At the part where the computer speaks, informing you of what it is doing, it will force analog outputs to ON if the OS doesn't report any connected screen to it
hearttinker:
Hi Substring.
I have tested GA2021.8 iso on one of my systems, which composed with i3-9100F & Radeon HD 7750.
There were frequent soft or hard freezing when groovymame or retroarch playing with default frontend atractmode, but when I tested groovymame and retroarch using commandline without attractmode, both of them well worked. Especially Sonic 2 with retroarch shows really nice progressive-interlace mode change.
Radeon HD 7750 is one of GCN1 cards. I have seen your comment in other thread that a patch is applied for GCN1&2 from previous your GA iso. I think amdgpu driver might be applied for this HD 7750. is it right? I have other cards like Radeon r5 240 & HD 8490 & HD 5450. Is there any better alternative?
Anyway, this is not main problem. I'll try with other alternative frontend like advancemenu plus. I think advmenup is better for mame roms because of fast 2D rom navigation and easy clone roms selection.
Main question is below.
When I tested retroarch using GASetup installation, there was no core for FC-FX.
Moreover, I wanna use Mednafen core for Sega Saturn.
There are two (or more) options.
1. Use pacman, main package manager of Arch linux.
2. Retroarch internal core download system, hidden option.
I'll follow your recommendation.
Additionally, how can I turn off frequency change popup message during Retroarch playing?
Substring:
--- Quote from: hearttinker on October 05, 2021, 06:36:45 am ---Hi Substring.
I have tested GA2021.8 iso on one of my systems, which composed with i3-9100F & Radeon HD 7750.
There were frequent soft or hard freezing when groovymame or retroarch playing with default frontend atractmode, but when I tested groovymame and retroarch using commandline without attractmode, both of them well worked. Especially Sonic 2 with retroarch shows really nice progressive-interlace mode change.
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Sonic2 is one of the best roms to test ingame modeswitching, as it genuinely switches to interlaced on 2 players games (if you enable the right option) ;)
Can you give more details on those "soft and hard freezing" ? I don't see what you mean.
--- Quote ---Radeon HD 7750 is one of GCN1 cards. I have seen your comment in other thread that a patch is applied for GCN1&2 from previous your GA iso. I think amdgpu driver might be applied for this HD 7750. is it right? I have other cards like Radeon r5 240 & HD 8490 & HD 5450. Is there any better alternative?
--- End quote ---
The patch is for some specific Vega chips. I can't recall any other GPU patch. There are a number of ways to list which driver you're using, the easiest being "lspci -k" then find the display adapter. You'll have 2 lines regarding the kernel : the possible drivers, and the current drivers. Some cards are handled in both amdgpu and radeon drivers.
--- Quote ---Anyway, this is not main problem. I'll try with other alternative frontend like advancemenu plus. I think advmenup is better for mame roms because of fast 2D rom navigation and easy clone roms selection.
--- End quote ---
You can install pegasus if you want a modern FE, retroFE is also available. I find the others too ... ugly ... And I don't ship advmenuplus anymore with GA.
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Main question is below.
When I tested retroarch using GASetup installation, there was no core for FC-FX.
Moreover, I wanna use Mednafen core for Sega Saturn.
There are two (or more) options.
1. Use pacman, main package manager of Arch linux.
2. Retroarch internal core download system, hidden option.
I'll follow your recommendation.
Additionally, how can I turn off frequency change popup message during Retroarch playing?
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I don't have GA at hand right now but you can't select a core through gasetup if the system emulated has a simple core available. If there is a single core than can emulate a system, then it should be automagically set. If not, there is a bug I need to dig
Now, for updating cores it rather depends on your knowledge of RA, hence the normal/advanced mode when configuring RA :
- the normal mode simply uses the libretro group from Arch, so it has a limited number of cores, and doesn't allow updating them from the RA GUI
- the advanced mode leaves full control to the user, and enables the core downloader from the RA GUI. That's for people who have a good knowledge of RA. When you set the advanced mode from gasetup, GA downloads ALL available cores, sets default for single core systems. For systems that have several possible cores, there is a new menu entry when in advanced mode. Maybe that's what you need to use the mednafen core for Saturn ?
- for the refresh rate change : it's somewhere in the RA notifications parameters. Some people asked me to remove this but ... Let's say that my philosophy is to ship ba bare emulator configuration with just what it takes to have CRT enabled, I leave the full configuration fun to users. GA cares about having a CRT working with any emulator, not to preconfigure too much for rookies.
contemplator:
Little tip for everyone experiencing Attract mode freeze bug - on my old GA2019 setup I had the same problem occasionally and I "unfreezed" it just by switching linux consoles Ctrl-Alt-F2, then back to Ctrl-Alt-F1.
No need to reboot the machine etc. You can of course manage the processes from the 2nd console.. Anyway, the bug seems to be gone (at least in my case) in GA 2021.08.
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