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Flickering issue with VRAM < 130Mb #44

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carlodeb opened this issue Nov 19, 2020 · 1 comment
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Flickering issue with VRAM < 130Mb #44

carlodeb opened this issue Nov 19, 2020 · 1 comment
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carlodeb commented Nov 19, 2020

Hi,
first of all, thanks for your awesome theme.
My issue is related to VRAM limit.
Using a VRAM limit less than 130Mb the interface images start flickering (with some background not loading at all, as shown in the attached image).
Is 130Mb a good value for VRAM? (I've seen that 100 is the value suggested in your "read" file).

I'm using the latest version of your theme (master branch), on a raspberry pi 4 (4Gb RAM) with retropie 4.6.

Thanks for your support!

vram

@Zenjir0 Zenjir0 added the RetroPie Issue Issue only occuring on the RetroPie label Nov 21, 2020
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Zenjir0 commented Nov 21, 2020

More RAM is probably better as I have learned while editing and updating this theme that due to the limitations of the Raspberry Pi we are not able to use the nice 1080p backgrounds that we wanted. Instead it was opted to go with 720p backgrounds and optimize the PNG files to be below 512kb in size. More on that here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10022/best-background-option-for-system-view-gamelist

I also learned about this late in my updates to the theme and I have increased the file size and quality of the system logos as well. Which do have a profound impact when they are up-scaled as seen in this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9211/new-comic-book-theme/1005

My goal/scope for this theme moving forward is, "Quality over Compatibility, but keep Compatibility if possible" If anyone knows of a way to better optimize images to help I am all for it.

@carlodeb If you happen to have a spare SD card. Try installing this theme on https://batocera.org/download and see if the same behavior occurs.

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