Shader settings are not saved.

PittStone

When I am at SNES in the Retroarch shader settings 2 shader set and on save core, go, save the settings and I can leave the emulator. When I start another game, the settings are ok. But when I restart emulationstation, all shader settings are back to 0. All possible "save core" or "save game" settings I have already tried. It is not saved after reboot.

cegrilo

Same problem here....

Genetik57

Make a report file for @nadenislamarre please

PittStone

Genetik57 How i do a report file?

nadenislamarre

I don't understand precisely what you do.
can you describe step by step ?
mainly, are you changing shaders during the game or what ?
(no need of report which can be done via menu/system/infromation/make a report)

RichardPGoulet

Bonjour a tous!
My first time posting here. I have the same problem described. I can save a shader set to a core override. Everything works fine and the shader will load when I launch another game, but after I reboot, all settings are gone and none of my cores have any shaders applied.

Yakuso

Hello,
the same problem on X64 version

after restart batocera, the shadersettings are gone.

1 select shader present
2 apply
3 save core override

after restart batocera lose all shader settings from any cores

any solutions for this problem?

nadenislamarre

it's a known issue. i would not tell it's a bug. it's a missing feature. but it's in my todolist.
i checked one time, but it's not so simple to fix as far as i remember because it's in conflict with the shader choice from the batocera menu/game which suggest only 2 sets of shaders ; one set is a list of shaders, one for each core. creating new set takes time. adding a "custom" could be probably an acceptable solution so that if you set it, it let you change things without erasing when a game is launched.

Yakuso

i have found my solution:

save core-override in the menu (for example NES)
F1 to Editor
go to recalbox/share/.config/retroarch/config/FCEUmm
open FCEUmm.cfg
edit the Line video shader = from "retroarchcustom.glslp" to "crt-pi.glslp" or your favourite Shader

save and exit the explorer and restart Batocera

gman2000

First time posting.

Loving Batocera, however I was encountering the same shader save issue after first install of Batocera 5.22-x86_64-20190609 earlier this week.
I've managed to resolve my shader issues so maybe this post might assist some users.

After loading and then saving a shader set as the default for a core eg gambatte, the shader would load correctly until the next reboot.
After the reboot the saved shader settings would be gone and had to be loaded in Retroarch again. This had to be done after every Bacotera reboot.

After reinstalling Batocera a second time and fiddling with some settings, I found that now the shader settings would would be gone when exiting retroarch and relaunching the same game again, even without rebooting.

I tried creating override files, editing the global shader setting etc but nothing worked. Retroarch would always default to the 'shaders off' setting under the shader settings.

Through a little more experimentation, I discovered that my shader settings per core were indeed being saved, but would not automatically load for any core if the shaderset under Game Settings in emulationstation was set to NONE or AUTO. These settings seem to disable any shaders (even shadersets set in retroarch) from loading.

On my machine at least, if the shaderset is set to SCANLINE or RETRO, then shader settings saved in the Retroarch menus (eg Save Core Preset under shaders) will load as expected and override the SCANLINE or RETRO shaders when the game is launched.

However the shaderset in emulationstation must still be set to one of these 2 settings, even when using your own shadersets. Switching the shaderset to NONE or AUTO results in the issues above where the shader setting in Retroarch defaults to off, including your own shadersets.

My shader settings now load correctly, even between reboots.

So in short,
1) Check that your shaderset is set to SCANLINE or RETRO in emulationstation
2) Load a game and save a shaderset as default for your core (via Save Core Preset in Retroarch)
3) Reboot and see if shaderset now loads automatically.

This may not be the cause of anyone else's issues, but hopefully it helps someone.

Dragu

It's a general issue in Batocera, because it is overriding your own configurations with some automatic standard. Not only shaders, also game and core. As it was told, it should be resolved from 5.23 on. I dont agree that this is "a missing feature". It was functioning in Recalbox even before the fork to Batocera. It is because Batocera expand every time as you reboot. But like I told already multiple time, it should have nothing to do in your /share folder files by modifying them. It is not the right way.