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Post by melin 27/07/24, 04:26 pm

Hi everyone.

I am just trying out Retrobat to see if it can solve some issues I have with Batocera.

My mission:
To get a working retrostation / media-center with a nice easy-to-navigate interface (with a controller). I almost have that with batocera, but Steam games are not working very well at all, and since I've invested in a relatively expensive/powerful minipc, Ser8, I'd like to also have the option of playing these games in a relative easy way.

I am kind of getting to grips with Retro-bat, but I am having some issue, that I would like help with getting solved:

1. Whenever retrobat is booting, I get to see the the windows desktop, which takes me out of the experience and makes me annoyed.
2. Whenever I switch between Kodi and Retrobat, I get a split second where I can see the windows desktop, which takes me out of the experience and makes me annoyed.
3. Whenever I autoboot into Retro-Bat, the window does not seem to be in focus, which takes me out the experience and makes me annoyed.

Are there any ways to mitigate these issues? I would like it to work more or less like Batocera, with the convenience of windows and stuff working, but without showing windows.

I hope it makes sense.
Thank you for taking the time.
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Post by tartifless 27/07/24, 04:40 pm

Hello,

Unfortunately, focus issues are inherent to windows, as well as showing the desktop in between elulator launches.

One solution would be to make ES the default windows UI instead of explorer


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Post by melin 27/07/24, 05:10 pm

tartifless wrote:Hello,

Unfortunately, focus issues are inherent to windows, as well as showing the desktop in between elulator launches.

One solution would be to make ES the default windows UI instead of explorer

I kind of thought so. I tried launching a few Steam Games from Retrobat. 3 out of 8 worked. It is going to be an uphill battle. I think I'll just throw in the towel.
Thanks for the answer!

Batocera still is the best fit for my needs, I must just do without pc games.

These issues I've had has made me miss consoles, but I will not go back to modern consoles with online subscriptions etc. They're dead to me!
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Post by tartifless 27/07/24, 06:01 pm

Hello,

All Steam games work. What do you mean by did not work ? Do you have an example ? How did you run them ?


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Post by melin 27/07/24, 06:57 pm

tartifless wrote:Hello,

All Steam games work. What do you mean by did not work ? Do you have an example ? How did you run them ?

The games are installed normally through steam. I have moved all the shortcuts from the desktop to the windows roms library in Retrobat. They were all picked up fine by Retro-bat.

Here is what happens when trying to launch different games:
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - works perfectly
Left 4 Dead 2 - creates warning "Failed to created D3D device! (It works when launcing normally from Steam.) - and then it hangs Emulationstation
Portal 2 - creates warning "Only on instance of the game can be running at one time" (No other instances are running) - and then it hangs Emulationstation
Project Cars 2 - works perfectly
Mudrunner - a quarter screen window and the task bar start blinking like maniacs and hangs. Process is difficult to kill as it jumps all over the place.
Subnautica - works perfectly
Tekken 7 - Kills image, makes my TV ask for signal. Had to powercycle pc to get back on track. Works perfectly without Retrobat.

Some examples of what I've tried.
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Post by tartifless 27/07/24, 07:18 pm

I think the issue is the AMD igpu that does not allow 2 fullscreen apps at the same time.
So either use the "hide es when running a game" option or do not put retrobat interface in fullscreen.

This is a purely AMD issue


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Post by melin 27/07/24, 07:49 pm

tartifless wrote:I think the issue is the AMD igpu that does not allow 2 fullscreen apps at the same time.
So either use the "hide es when running a game" option or do not put retrobat interface in fullscreen.

This is a purely AMD issue

Apparently this seem to solve most, if not all of the problems mentioned. Thanks. :-)
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Post by melin 27/07/24, 07:49 pm


I'll look into it. Thanks :-)
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Post by tartifless 27/07/24, 07:55 pm

In addition, i think we have guide somewhere to put RetroBat as shell instead of explorer !


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Post by Aynshe 28/07/24, 12:41 pm

Chat GPT (lazy mode and without screenshots):

ENG:

Chat GPT (mode flemmard et sans capture) :

FR:


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Post by melin 28/07/24, 01:01 pm

Aynshe wrote:Chat GPT (lazy mode and without screenshots):

ENG:

Chat GPT (mode flemmard et sans capture) :

FR:

Really cool. You are kind of forcing me to try this :-). I really enjoy the friendly people here. Thanks :-)
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Post by getupor 28/07/24, 01:32 pm

melin wrote:
Really cool. You are kind of forcing me to try this :-). I really enjoy the friendly people here. Thanks :-)

Don't forget to choose an avatar Wink


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Post by melin 28/07/24, 02:46 pm

getupor wrote:
melin wrote:
Really cool. You are kind of forcing me to try this :-). I really enjoy the friendly people here. Thanks :-)

Don't forget to choose an avatar Wink

Avatar updated. Do you, without searching the web, know who it is? 🤣
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Post by melin 31/07/24, 11:01 am

Aynshe wrote:Chat GPT (lazy mode and without screenshots):

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Chat GPT (mode flemmard et sans capture) :

FR:

Aaaand of course it does not work in Windows 11 Home.
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Post by Aynshe 31/07/24, 11:24 am

melin wrote:
Aynshe wrote:Chat GPT (lazy mode and without screenshots):

ENG:

Chat GPT (mode flemmard et sans capture) :

FR:

Aaaand of course it does not work in Windows 11 Home.

use méthode alternative.

2:
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Post by melin 31/07/24, 11:54 am

Aynshe wrote:
melin wrote:
Aynshe wrote:Chat GPT (lazy mode and without screenshots):

ENG:

Chat GPT (mode flemmard et sans capture) :

FR:

Aaaand of course it does not work in Windows 11 Home.

use méthode alternative.

2:

I missed that. Let me give it a go!
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Post by melin 31/07/24, 01:08 pm

melin wrote:
Aynshe wrote:
melin wrote:
Aynshe wrote:Chat GPT (lazy mode and without screenshots):

ENG:

Chat GPT (mode flemmard et sans capture) :

FR:

Aaaand of course it does not work in Windows 11 Home.

use méthode alternative.

2:

I missed that. Let me give it a go!

I don't know why messages don't get through anymore?

Can it be that my network shares don't work, when using batocera as "explorer"?
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Post by Aynshe 31/07/24, 01:53 pm

melin wrote:
melin wrote:
Aynshe wrote:
melin wrote:
Aynshe wrote:Chat GPT (lazy mode and without screenshots):

ENG:

Chat GPT (mode flemmard et sans capture) :

FR:

Aaaand of course it does not work in Windows 11 Home.

use méthode alternative.

2:

I missed that. Let me give it a go!

I don't know why messages don't get through anymore?

Can it be that my network shares don't work, when using batocera as "explorer"?

I'm not sure I understand the question.

Do you mean that your network drives are not detected if you put Retrobat in shell?

I don't use network folders, I've never tested it.
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Post by Aynshe 31/07/24, 01:55 pm

Although if.... I can see the folders on my arcade cabinet with my. Secondary networked computer.
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Post by melin 31/07/24, 07:42 pm

Aynshe wrote:Although if.... I can see the folders on my arcade cabinet with my. Secondary networked computer.

Somehow I got it working again. Don't know what was wrong first. I need to able to access my consolized mini pc from my main PC to transfer roms etc.

There is always problems. Now I can't get Ryujinx to launch games through Retrobat, it just launches the emulator and then I have to faff with the mouse and choose the game in the emulator menu. Ahhh homebrew. It's wonderful and it's annoying at the same time :-)
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