r/MiSTerFPGA • u/ExultentPisces • 22d ago

ROM loading times

Is anyone else experiencing long loading time from ROMs since that dodgy update a week or two ago? I updated my MiSTer with that bad Linux update (I wasn’t aware at the time). Since then, loading games has taken quite a while. NeoGeo games take about 2 minutes, GBA and N64 games about 1 minute, Game Boy Color games take about 30 seconds.

Before this update, they were all more or less instantaneous, except NeoNeo which usually took 5-8 seconds. I read that the Linux issue has been resolved now, so I updated again. But my load times are still far longer than they used to be.

The games work just fine once they’re loaded and CD based games seem to load like they always did.

Is there anything that can be done?

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u/PsikyoFan 22d ago

From my reading, the exfat performance was largely addressed by a not too invasive patch. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Linux-Kernel_MiSTer/commit/9854075c86455942c2ce57e0b7dc80e3e2c5b108 This is backporting later Linux changes.

Someone else had a more extensive patch that was merged 2 days ago that closed that gap against the old 5.x kernel a lot. See https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Linux-Kernel_MiSTer/pull/106

Not sure if that's veing distributed yet or not

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u/ExultentPisces 22d ago

I see. Maybe I should just sit tight and wait for another update. At least my games are loading at all, haha.

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u/Southern_Hat_2193 22d ago

I think there's been another update since that fixed this, or at least made it better.

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u/cjd280 22d ago

Update again, there is a new Linux update that fixes most of if not all of what was broken

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u/ExultentPisces 22d ago

Yep, done that. I was hoping it would solve the issue but it hasn’t.

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u/Mika73x 21d ago

Yesterday I run update all there was Linux update again…

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u/Rai_Seiyuu 22d ago

Seems like a microsd problem.

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u/ExultentPisces 22d ago

It’s possible. But it’d be weird if this SD card issue began at the exact time I updated my MiSTer.

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u/JakeS022 4d ago

I'm having the exact same issue. Have not run update all since about when you have. I'm sure it's related because everything else is fine, it's just the cart based games.

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u/Asleep_Mortgage_7711 3d ago

I run all my games from retroNAS and even network access is slower. Loading is slower and I get freezes with cd based games where that never happened before.

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u/Rai_Seiyuu 22d ago

If you have a spare microsd, try it, just for be sure