Reply To: [Retropie 2.X] list of issues

[borlandoflorida]

[quote=14085]VGA mode and overscan

First things first. If you have an HDTV and the Raspberry Pi is connected via HDMI to it, I highly recommend you switch to VGA Mode. This is for a better performance (1080p/720p vs. 480p) in emulationstation and the emulators run anyway in 480p. HDMI Group 1 stands for CEA and Mode 1 is VGA. More Infos here. You should also set the overscan scale to one. Otherwise emulationstation doesn’t start or the scaling is incorrect.

/boot/config.txt

hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=1
overscan_scale=1

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Thanks, this helped. I added the overscan_scale=1 to the config.txt and then I was able to fine tune the overscan settings so that everything fit perfectly on my TV. For some reason, without the ovescan_scale=1 in the config.txt, the GUI for ES would not scale properly, but once I added this line it worked!

Once I realised the overscan_scale=1 was required, I then changed the other settings to:

hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=4

This put my TV in 720p mode and then everything fit perfectly on the screen, plus it was HD and there was no slow-down with the games running at this resolution too.