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General / Re: Attract Mode not running at 4:3
« on: January 19, 2021, 08:24:09 PM »
All of this could be easily remedied if we could set a custom resolution in the Attract Mode config.  Im surprised at how stagnant Attract Mode development has been.  Ive been looking at CoinOps and a few other front ends wondering if it was time to move on.  Ive invested so much time into my Attract Mode builds that Id hate to abandon ship.  Admittedly Ive never gotten comfortable with the Squirrel code language Attract Mode uses.   

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General / Re: Attract Mode not running at 4:3
« on: January 19, 2021, 08:19:31 PM »
A heavily modified Robospin.  Ive also noted Retroarch is setting everything to 1920x1080 because this is the maximum supported res of the display even though ideally it looks best at its native res of 1024 x 768.  So this might be more an issue with Retropie or Linux and the display.  An error in what the display is reporting to the system and software.  Ive had to force each emulator and Retroarch to run at 1024 x 768.  The boot.config is also setup to that res as well.  I can tell the resolutions are switching between the Retropie cmd line and Attract Mode.  Like Attract Mode is forcing the screen to switch to 1920 x 1080 but when a game loads its switching back down to 1024 x 768.  The screen is blanking out between Retropie and Attract Mode which usually indicates a resolution change.


Probably the layout(s) have a specific width and height defined  which creates a different aspect.

I've run into the same problem.

What layout are you wanting to run?


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General / Attract Mode not running at 4:3
« on: January 19, 2021, 03:02:02 PM »
I have a weird bug with Attract Mode on Retropie.  The screen and Raspberry Pi are set to 1024x768 but for some reason Attract Mode is acting like its still running at 1080p 16:9.  So everything in Attract Mode is essentially squished down from 16:9 to 4:3.  My theme backgrounds are fine since they are formatted to 4:3 but Video snaps and game logos are all being squished.  Also the settings menu is clearly being squished down as well.

Is there anyway to force Attract Mode to run at 1024x768 or at least at a 4:3 aspect?  I suspect Attract Mode is confused since the displays hardware does support 1920x1080 but its a 4:3 display with a native res of 1024x768. 

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 16, 2020, 05:04:06 PM »
Seems Im not the only one with this issue.

https://github.com/mickelson/attract/issues/641

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 16, 2020, 03:56:35 PM »
Is there a way to control the order in which elements are loaded into memory?  Once a menu loads it loads fine when you exit and load back in.  Its just the first load per sesssion seems to lag with the various png layers.  I'm not sure why this is an issue now on this more powerful hardware but I imagine it has something to do with how the new screen driver handles memory and image cache.  Its too bad Attract Mode does not offer more settings or Retropie for that matter.

I tested some other themes and cant seem to recreate the same issue.  I do notice things seem to load in the order of file size.  So smallest sized elements or layers load faster then everything else follows.  Similar to how a webpage loads.  Again nothing is over maybe 600kb in size aside from videos.  Videos should load last anyway so thats not the issue.

Im not gonna blame this on hardware since earlier X11 versions of Attract Mode on Pi4 didnt exhibit this behaviour.  This seems to have changed with the lastest Attract Mode and I suspect its related to this new cache implementation.   

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 16, 2020, 12:16:03 AM »
What layout are you using? Can you test others to see if it might be the issue?

Have you tried overclocking the sd bus? Backup your sd card before you try this. If the card isn't fast enough it will get corrupted on the first boot.

Backed up and put on a known working brand new Samsung SD card and the issue is the same.  The layers of each layout seem to load at different intervals.  Each Time with the video layer loading at the sametime first everytime.   

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 15, 2020, 11:22:50 PM »
Here are the SD card speed results in Windows.  Id say its not the SD causing the issues.  The writes are a little slower but reads are very much the same.

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 15, 2020, 11:20:28 PM »
Did you watch the video I linked above? 

The layout is Robo Spin heavily modified. 

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 15, 2020, 10:58:38 PM »
Ive gone with a healthy overclock just now to see if that resolves it.  The slow loading background images is still a thing.  Also tried changing the memory split with no effect.

I typically run on SanDisk or Samsung SD cards but I figured Id try these odd name brand cards.  Im gonna backup and copy over to another SD card to see if that makes a difference. 

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 15, 2020, 10:33:24 PM »
Are you using ffmpeg?
Are you booting directly to AM?
Are you compiling AM or installing from the retropie menu?
What sdcard are you using?
Have you tried overclocking anything or everything?
Do you have attractmode running when you try to change the screen mode?

I built from source from within the Retropie Setup menu on the latest Retropie. 

The error seems to be a memory error and not a video one.  Videos are playing fine its the theme thats lagging here.

Im booting directly to AM.

Gigastone 64GB Micro SD rated for up to 90mbs

Have not overclocked yet.  Although as I said this is a brand new issue with the latest Attract Mode and latest Retropie.  Perhaps it has to do with the new screen driver?  I didnt notice it on earlier test with the Pi  4

The screen mode option is now gone in this new build so perhaps it was obsolete. 

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General / Re: Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 15, 2020, 09:49:01 PM »
How recent is your compile of AM? Less than a month ago there has been a commit to allow AM to run on the Pi 4 without needing xwindows http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3665.msg25896#msg25896

If you want to make changes to the attract.cfg file, they need to be done when AM is NOT running.

Keyboard might need a boot delay if you are booting directly to AM. This was a old issue with xwindows.

You might want to check out the Pi FAQ (it's dated but still has a lot of good info) http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1249.msg9046#msg9046

I should mention these are just things for you to try/think about. I haven't used AM on a Pi 4, but have used it on Pi 1, Pi 2 and Pi 3.

The configs Ive tried editing from command, via ftp and ssh.  The screen mode does not seem to stick.  Maybe that setting is obsolete in the latest Attract Mode.  I copied over an old config from an earlier version of Attract.  Seems videos are fixed now on a fresh stock Retropie and fresh Attract Mode.  Im getting a new issue though with theme images or layers loading at different speeds or too slow causing this really awkward glitch.  It seems once it loads it loads quicker upon exiting and re entering the menu.  Although restating Attract Mode it comes back again.  My images arent particularly high res or anything.  This whole theme ran fine on the Pi 3.  Ever since we moved over to the Pi 4 I have experienced a new set of issues that seem to slowly become fixed but I imagine the Pi5 will be out before this gets working 100% and by that point we will be at square 1 again.  Ha ha I guess I should learn how to code so I can work on it all myself.

Here is a video of the bug below (dont mind my overscan)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15_aRsenj4Mg1dJ12rVMAuurZFYmw_SD0/view?usp=sharing

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General / Still has issues on the Pi 4
« on: October 13, 2020, 09:32:50 PM »
Ive gotten Attract Mode mostly working on the Pi 4 but noticing videos are tearing like crazy now and still freeze or stop playing.  None of my videos are particularly high quality and they ran well on the Pi3.  They are all non HD videos.

Oh and I cant seem to change the screen mode within attract mode or via ftp.  Everytime I make a change it reverts back to Fullscreen. 

Thank you

P.S. Keyboard still wont allow me to type when editing configs in Attract Mode. 

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General / Re: SFML-PI updated to 2.5.1 - Testers needed
« on: September 15, 2020, 06:14:53 PM »
What platform you're on? PI3, PI4? What backend GLES, KMS/DRM?

The latest Retropie Buster 4.6 image for Pi3.  I installed Attract Mode from source via the Retropie Setup menu.   

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General / Re: SFML-PI updated to 2.5.1 - Testers needed
« on: September 11, 2020, 12:34:33 AM »
Anything unusual.

Could you make an easy to understand guide (with copy pasteable code) on how to update Attract Mode with your build?  Your Github guide doesn't really explain it well.  I'm trying to fix the white border around wheel images and someone pointed me here.   

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General / Re: White border around transparent pngs
« on: September 11, 2020, 12:31:39 AM »
I'm happy to report that this issue has been fixed in SFML-Pi 2.5.1:
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3665.0

A guide would be much appreciated as that Github link is vague at best about the process.

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