Anyone else having emulation performance issues?
  • nightofgrim
    Hello!

    I've browsed around and found that most say PiPlay performs very well. I'm not finding that with mine sadly.

    For example Sonic 2 runs between 15 and 20 FPS and looks super choppy.

    Most SNES titles are about the same.

    My setup:
    Pi B+
    1440x900 resolution
    Official PiPlay image


    If this is the performance one should expect I may look into porting piplay to x86 and running it on a mini pc.
  • beta_tester
    it extremely depends on the game and the emulator you run - how hard the RPi has to work.
    some games work well enough on a RPi, some others not.
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    Make sure that you overclock, are using a class 10 sd card, set your memory split to something like 128
  • nightofgrim
    I did over clock and I'm using a class 10 SD card.

    The memory split is new to me, what's that?
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    sudo raspi-config
    select 'expand filesystem' (just to kill 2 birds with 1 stone)
    next select 'advanced options'
    select 'memory split'
    set to 128 (you can play around with this number -> anything between 64 and 256, but 128 seems to work best for me)
    select 'Back'
    select 'Finish'

    it allocates ram between general purpose and video.

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