manners Posted September 28, 2017 Posted September 28, 2017 Hi. I bought BigBox and love the interface and have had fun setting everything up. Everything seems to work ok - certainly in terms of displaying my ROMs and loading up emulators. However I have an issue with Retroarch. I have retroarch set up as my default emulator for some of my platforms - for example Sega Genesis and it works exactly as it sould. However with N64 BigBox loads the emulator and game except the is a noticeable, unplayable stutter and lag. Of course I tested outside of BigBox by loading the games directly in Retroarch and they play perfectly, even with BigBox minimised. My system is plenty powerful enough - Core i7, Geforce 660, 16GB ram etc. Its almost as if BigBox launches the Retroarch N64 core with some sort of option or switch or setting which is causing issues because like I said its fine to play directly inside of retroarch. Any ideas? How should I start troubleshooting? Quote
Lordmonkus Posted September 28, 2017 Posted September 28, 2017 That is strange that BigBox would cause your Retroarch emulators to run slow. I have not experienced that problem with either of my systems, one is a relatively decently high end system and the other is pretty low end by modern standards. Quote
neil9000 Posted September 28, 2017 Posted September 28, 2017 Are you sure you are using the same core when you launch through Launchbox as you are when just launching through Retroarch? Quote
manners Posted September 28, 2017 Author Posted September 28, 2017 Solved! I had specified the retroarch_debug.exe as the executable path in the instead of just retroarch.exe. N64 performing fine now. Thanks for quick responses. Obvious oversight by me really but useful in case others make the same mistake. Quote
Lordmonkus Posted September 28, 2017 Posted September 28, 2017 Glad you got it sorted out easily Quote
neil9000 Posted September 28, 2017 Posted September 28, 2017 Doh!! Glad you sorted the issue though. Quote
BigDigg Posted September 30, 2017 Posted September 30, 2017 I'm having the same problem so wonder if there's something more to this. Slowdown (for me) seems limited to snes9x core in Retroarch and only when launched by BigBox. Games play 60fps when running Retroarch direct or launched from Launchbox (vs. BigBox). Interestingly it seems to run OK the first time I run it following a fresh reboot but subsequent snes9x launches lose 5-10fps with stutter and audio issues. I've checked that closing retroarch and bigbox don't have any zombie processes but still persists after closing and relaunching. My PC is a KabyLake i37100 with 16gb ram on Win10 64bit. Thoughts? I'll play around with others to see if it's limited to snes9x core... Quote
Lordmonkus Posted September 30, 2017 Posted September 30, 2017 I suppose there could be something with BigBox causing Retroarch performance issues but I run BigBox on a pretty low end PC with only 2 gigs of ram and it doesn't cause any issues with Retroarch at all. Quote
BigDigg Posted September 30, 2017 Posted September 30, 2017 It's definitely weird but it only happens when launching from BigBox mode and is repeatable. I don't recall this happening before the most recent LB update but then I'm a bit new to this and haven't spent much time on the SNES emulators. Performance is flawless on Retroarch launching different ways and like you said the PC should be plenty powerful enough to manage this. Quote
cunningmunki Posted December 17, 2017 Posted December 17, 2017 (edited) I've also noticed slowdown and sound issues with snes9x (1.53) when launched through Bigbox (not using retroarch). Closing the Bigbox window fixes the issue immediately. I've only noticed this in the last week or so, but I've not played a snes game in a while so I couldn't be certain when it started. Edited December 17, 2017 by cunningmunki Quote
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