PS1 on O.G. Chromebox

tehpwnd

I have an H.P. Chromebox, Intel Celeron 2955U 1.40 GHz, 4GB Ram.
I've unlocked it and installed Batocera. The o.s. is snappy and fluid, my only issue is Playstation Games run on average 40fps. I understand that the issue is most likely the CPU, but I am hoping the community would have some tips on getting full speed. Back in the day i could get playable games on old hardware with other emulators by enabling frameskip, changing settings, etc. Does anyone have any advice? I've turned off overlays and shaders. Is there another core that would play faster at the expense of accuracy? Any tips for pulling as much juice from the old beast are appreciated! In any case, this software is amazing. Thank You.

metal_slugger

tehpwnd I have exactly the same issue with an s905x TV box. It all works fine except PS1 (I have not tested any other 32bit consoles) which is choppy and sub 50 fps, games work but at a slow speed and audio is bad. All 8bit and 16bit systems work fine. I have not been able to find an answer in the current Batocera build, I changed the core from pcsx_reARMed to mednafen_psx in a text config file (can't remember if it was the recalbox config or retroarch config right now), and the core change was implemented OK (new core name showed in retroarch menu) but the performance was even worse...
I know that the s905x box is capable of running PS1 at full speed as it works fine on this box if I use ePSXe emulator app in a standard Android environment.

joinski

You could test, if disabling rewind function brings performance gain.
Apart from that, did you test with different Emulator Cores? You can change them in ES, Game Settings, Advanced, PS1 and then change Emulator to Libretro and choose another Core if available.
And you could test, if changing RetroArch settings give you better performance (while in game, press Hotkey + B (or X on Playstation-like Controllers)).

Which version of Batocera do you use? x86_64? Did you already test with x86 (without _64)? And did you try older versions, like 5.11 or 5.18 for example?

tehpwnd

Thanks for the insight. I just threw Android x86 on the box and ps1 runs great now... Too bad batocera can't handle it. It honestly runs everything else perfectly.

metal_slugger

tehpwnd One thing I would add is that I used Lakka on this box too, and that ran PS1 fine, using the same libretro cores that Batocera uses. It boots off USB/SD card like Batocera but doesn't look as nice (it uses the Retroarch UI instead of EmulationStation). I don't know if there's a build for your device. http://www.lakka.tv/