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Games running slower than full speed ONLY on TV


edugr10

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Hello guys,

As I mentioned in another thread I recently had to do a fresh Windows installation, and I've been running into a few issues with LaunchBox. I still have my old HDD with the LaunchBox folder so I'm using that, and while some things worked out of the gate, stuff like rom paths were a problem that I managed to solve thanks to lordmunkus. However now I've ran into another issue, and I think this is actually RetroArch related since it happens even when I don't use LaunchBox, but I figured I'd ask here because I can't make any threads on the libretro forums yet due to being a brand new member.

The issue is simple, every game I try runs slightly below full speed when I'm using my Plasma TV to play. Some bullet points: 

- Games run fine if I'm using my PC monitor.

- This happened with every platform I tested: Snes, Arcade/MAME, CPS1 and 2, and Neo-Geo. Figured this was a large enough sample.

- I have updated all my cores fairly recently, not long before I had to reinstall Windows. The core files are still in their folder so I guess that's not the issue. 

- All games run just below their full speed, with audio stuttering/lagging. This is consistent accross every game I tried.

- I've always used this TV to play RetroArch via LaunchBox before I reinstalled Windows and everything always ran beautifully.

- This TV still uses the same HDMI channel with Game Mode activated, nothing has changed on that end.

- My PC still has the same specs, nothing has changed on the hardware front.

- My RetroArch folder is untouched other than being moved to a new directory, same for the LaunchBox folder (except for some rompaths I edited).

I've seen some threads on libretro forums of some people that ran into similar issues, but no real solutions. Some mentioned something about v-sync, but I don't even know where that setting is supposed to be. I think this is PC/Windows related as it happened right after I reinstalled Windows. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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The V-Sync setting in Retroarch is located in Settings (cogwheel icon) > Video (towards the bottom). Turning off V-Sync on a non G-Sync / Freesync display will cause screen tearing which can be offputting.

5978243a9ca2f_2017-07-2601_09_05-RetroArch__Frames_2304.thumb.png.534cd5be00c17c2f76bbede4d1bed0a3.pngYou can also take a look at my Retroarch guide I made to maybe find a setting that might be causing an issue for you.

Also take a look in your Windows display settings and see what refresh rate your TV is set to use, it should be at 60.

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37 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

Also take a look in your Windows display settings and see what refresh rate your TV is set to use, it should be at 60.

This looked like the most new-Windows-install thing to me so it was the first thing I tried. It was in 50hz for some reason, all good now. Thank you again so much.

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