PSX on x86

SamAllmon

I’ve been having issues getting PSX on x86 on this ThinClient I’m repurposing. I’m able to use one of the many different n64 cores to get n64 running, and that has been the hard one for me to emulate in the past on my retropie (on Raspberry Pi 3+). But that selfsame RPi3 could run PSX at 2x speed, and on the ThinClient, I can’t get it to run at full speed on either of the available cores.

On V30, I wasn’t able to get Rearmed to run at all, and updating to V31, I can get Rearmed to work better, but it’s still unplayably slow.

But because of the performance on the RPi3, I’m sure I’m just misconfiguring it or something on the ThinClient, especially because it handles N64 without issue.

I’m new to Batocera, so I’m not sure what logs/config files/etc you’d need me to get so you can see what I’m working with, but I would really like to be able to have PSX on here. If I can’t, it’s fine because I have a modded PS3 I can play my PSX games on, but it would have been nice to have all my retro in the same place.

Thanks in advance for all help you can give me.

joinski

SamAllmon

What are the specs of your ThinClient? CPU and GPU?

And did you already try some older versions of Batocera? Like 5.21 for example

https://mirrors.o2switch.fr/batocera/x86/stable/last/archives/20190326/

SamAllmon

I haven’t checked out an older version yet. But I might give that a whirl. The first one I’m setting up is for my brother who only really likes Tony Hawk on PSX, and those have an N64 version, so His is probably okay, but my personal one I’ll try an older version to check it out.

Both machines have the same specs, they are identical.

On Batocera’s system info it says for CPU
AMD GX-212JC SOC with Readeon™ R2E Graphics. Dual core.

joinski

SamAllmon

Hmm, the AMD GX-212JC seems to be a very exotic chipset. Never heard of it before and it does not seem to be very powerful if you look at benchmark results:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+GX-212JC+SOC+&id=2288

But i guess it should be powerful enough for PSX emulation.

Could you install windows or another linux distro on this machine and then test psx emulation on it? just to see, if it maybe a driver related issue. If psx emulation under Windows runs better, you could try out Retrobat. That’s a software, that runs under Windows and is kind of similar to batocera (same EmulationStation frontend).

https://www.retrobat.ovh/