What are the RetroArch system requirements

[DOS76]

I'm trying to install RetroArch on a laptop that I have that has a Core2Duo T8300 but every time I try to open it crashes this is a vanilla install that hasn't ever been opened yet so none of the settings have been changed. I've tried both the 86x and 64 versions and they both just crash every time. I searched for the system requirements but didn't see them on the RA website.

[SentaiBrad]

Theoretically really low. RetroArch runs on my PSP-2000, my 3DS, RasperryPi's, but these were built for those platforms specifically. Your CPU instruction set may technically not be covered by the software. My suggestion would be to first delete your RetroArch.cfg on that machine, at least for testing purposes. If it does boot it should be in the RGUI mode. Technically speaking RA should run on anything, it's the specific cores that may or may not have problems, but I don't know. Never tried running the Windows build on an old machine.

[DOS76]

I tried to remove the cfg files before I posted but it didn't help. The laptops from 07 it works pretty great and runs Windows 10 like a dream I'm just stumped as to why RA won't run.

[silveralex]

Don't mean to necro-post but I'm having this exat sam issue. Retroarch crashes on startup, newly imaged Win 10 laptop (it is an older Dell E6400). Does RA have minimu requirements to run? RAM or needs a GPU?

[DOS76]

I don't know what the deal is I couldn't find anything listing minimum requirements. I think my limitation is graphics but I'm stuck with this laptop. Is the E6400 a desktop if so a new GPU might fix your issue and a RAM upgrade will never hurt. What I did was set it up to run Steam and now I just stream my version of BigBox from my i7 4770K to my old laptop so I never looked back into it.

[Lordmonkus]

I don't think there are minimum system hardware specs as much as it is software.

I have it running on a 1.5 GHz AMD APU with shared 4 gigs of ram, Windows 8 first then upgraded it to 10 and still works fine.

[SentaiBrad]

Each core does have a system requirement, but RA it's self can run on a lot of things. It runs on my Vita and New 3DS for example.

 

Try a new or later version, change the location of RetroArch?

[silveralex]

I'll setup a fresh RA. I had copied the folder from my main PC .

[silveralex]

Still no luck with this . As I said my regular laptop (with old NVidia card) works fine.

On this second machine with only onboard graphics - no dice. All my other emulators work fine.

Found this on reddit which seems to be problem I'm seeing . Only advice is to get a new card. It makes sense to me that retroarch wouldn't have a requirement (only the cores would), but even installing a new plain retroarch sees to crash right away on this laptop.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/46bk17/retroarch_crashes_on_startup/