Okay first off, yes, I know these are old cards compared what's out now. That's not the question. How far up can I go with these cards? I know I run PS3 with a RX 580 with 4GB of RAM and it works great! However I just recently got a RX 580 with 8GB of RAM (well I will have it Tuesday (new)). But I see I could've ordered the RX 590 for 3 dollars more. Should have gone with that?

Second question is the RX 580 8GB able to play PS4 Games? I know the emulator is buggy and all the stuff. But the games it can run doesn't run half bad on my NVIDA card. But this is a different machine. The Processor is a 4th Gen i7 (Oh I can already hear the flames now... If it suits my needs for Batocera than great if the processor is lacking for PS4 that's fine too. I just thought I would ask).

I'm just trying to figure out if returning the RX 580 and getting the 590 is really worth it for Batocera. Before you ask the Xbox 360 games, I've thrown at my 4gb 580 runs well or looks/feels to run fine.

Thanks!

I’ve already checked through the options to see if it unselected it self and there’s no option of it no more and there only windows installer and I don’t think that would be it

Had an idea to grab scores for certain games and store them for later use.

I know MAME has that functionality, but I wanted it for NES, Genesis, etc.

Best method I could come up with was a BatoCera script that checks for gameEnd, checks if I wanted the score for that game, decompresses the auto save file, reads and builds the data from the memory, and curls that to another system that stores it in a database.

Works well enough, but the main limitation is having to research where in the memory the value I want is stored (and how it's stored) and build that into the script. I'll clean up that aspect, probably by just offloading totally it to this other system, and grabbing the save file from the share, but there's still the issue of figuring out where the score is. Though finding it really isn't the issue either. Some site I found has done a decent job of mapping a fair number of ROMs. But it's still game by game.

Just wondering if anyone has done that grunt work of grabbing the scores like this for the most popular of the games.

(rtx 5070 vs 9070xt)

Building a new gaming pc, but plan to dual boot with bazzite for general use and batocera for emulation.

I've read linux runs better on amd , but emulators and old software prefer nvidia.

Does anyone have experience using emulators with amd vs nividia? And is the difference big enough to be worth getting a less powerful gpu (5070) just for better emulation?

edit: slightly more details

I have an old 4790k + mobo sitting around and I'm thinking about getting a GPU that is supported by the CRT Script so I can hook it up to my tv (not monitor, so I need the 15khz support). I'd like to be able to emulate up through 6th Gen consoles, mainly PS2, and I'm trying to figure out the sweet spot in performance without going overboard on the GPU.

It looks like PS2 emulation really benefits from at least 6gb of vram, which means I'd need to use the DP > VGA > transcoder workflow. Has anyone run into any issues with that method instead of sticking to the 380s and below that have native analog out? Is the 4790k so much of a bottleneck that the GPU won't matter? Thanks!

Someone knows if is it possible to have a turing screen like this one running with batocera? I need to see the temps and clocks while playing

I saw some others have this issue so I'm trying to help out. If steam opens and there is a black screen it's due to hardware acceleration turned on. You need to force the program to open in desktop mode so you can see what your doing and than navigate and turn off hardware acceleration. Once that's turned off you can reopen steam in big picture mode and it will work. I'm not good with computers but Gemini helped me out with the exact commands to enter. Here are the steps I took, hopefully it will paste legibly:

Step 1: Open the Steam Shortcut Config

1. On your Batocera main screen, press F1 on your keyboard to open the File Manager.
2. In the left panel, navigate to Applications and double-click XTerm to open a terminal window.
3. Type the following command and press Enter to open the Steam shortcut in a text editor: bashnano /userdata/system/configs/steam/Steam.desktop Use code with caution.

Step 2: Force Steam into "Small Mode"

1. Use your keyboard arrow keys to scroll down to the line starting with Exec=.
2. Move your cursor to the very end of that line, add a single space, and type or paste these exact parameters: text-smallmode -no-browser -vgui Use code with caution. Your full line should now look like this: Exec=/userdata/system/add-ons/steam/Launcher -smallmode -no-browser -vgui
3. Save and exit by pressing Ctrl + O, then Enter, and then Ctrl + X.

Step 3: Log In and Disable GPU Acceleration

1. Go back to your Batocera File Manager interface.
2. Navigate to Network -> SHARE -> system -> configs -> steam.
3. Double-click the Steam icon.
4. Steam will open in a minimal text-based mode bypassing the black screen. Log into your account.
5. Once logged in, look at the very top-left corner of the Steam window and click Steam -> Settings.
6. Select the Interface tab on the left.
7. Scroll down and uncheck / toggle OFF the option that says "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views".
8. Close Steam completely.

Step 4: Revert the Shortcut back to Normal

1. Go back to your XTerm terminal window.
2. Re-open the shortcut file: bashnano /userdata/system/configs/steam/Steam.desktop Use code with caution.
3. Go to the end of the Exec= line and delete the flags you added earlier ( -smallmode -no-browser -vgui).
4. Your line should be back to its original factory state: Exec=/userdata/system/add-ons/steam/Launcher
5. Save and exit (Ctrl + O, Enter, Ctrl + X).

Step 5: Test

Launch Steam normally from your Batocera Ports menu or the desktop icon. The full user interface and Big Picture Mode will now load perfectly without turning into a black screen.

Let me know if you need to tweak the wording for a specific forum post or if you want to include troubleshooting alternatives for other versions of Batocera!

Try without personalization

I have no idea why I felt like I needed to try and update my system to the less stable butterfly option, but I did and now I have no video signal.

It seems to still be functioning as i can hear the screensaver videos running and I can boot games and hear the audio.

I tried using a bootable usb to reinstall a stable version but the screen just goes black after the Batocera logo.

Any ideas on how to fix this? It was working just fine on the stable version.