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Add 2: The keyboard responded in one of those glitched-screen-states (for some reason) and I could boot into another user with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. There, I checked the lines in the .bashrc, and I had forgotten a space between the initial grep and $EMU. Although, when rebooting, the screen yet again glitches, and it won’t respond to my keypresses anymore. Huh.

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Add: And just noticed, this path: /home/pi/RetroPie/EmulationStation/emulationstation, is wrong .. Could that do it?
My first thought was that I had it set to ignore the password/user in the boot screen, and just jump straight into x, could that conflict with the autostart?

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Okay .. I’ve ran into some other issues.

As I have two SNES USB controllers, I decided to add another controller in the config, so far so good.
At the same time, I followed this guide:

gzz wrote:And I saw on the wiki that people wanted to start emulationstation at startup, all Ive done is add to .bashrc

EMU=’emulationstation’

if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $EMU > /dev/null
then
echo “already running”
else
echo “starting up emulationstation”
/home/pi/RetroPie/EmulationStation/emulationstation
fi

and in /etc/inittab

replace
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty –noclear 38400 tty1
with
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -a pi -8 -s 38400 tty1 linux

In order to get my EmulationStation to launch at start-up, as I didn’t check this option in the initial setup (Not even sure it was there?).
Either way, now, I get this big wall of text in the beginning, and then, as it looks like it starts to boot into X, small dots show up, and the entire screen freeze in a glitched state, with wavy lines all over. Although, I can kinda make out the default Raspberry Pi wallpaper in the background.

Now, as I’m really new to linux overall, is there any way to fix this? I mean, I really want it to boot into EmulationStation to begin with, but in this “torn” screen state I can’t do anything at all (Not even CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE works).

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@Floba – I’ll give that a try when I can!

@skater_j10 – I’m not sure, I clicked the Medium OC, and I have the default memory split. No heatsink, which is why I didn’t want to go over medium.

Do I change the memory split in the raspi-config as well?

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I’m running the B version (newest), with 512MB, and I still have the lag.

Could it be that x is running too? Is there a way to test it without running x? As I’ve heard this is possible.

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I forgot to mention, I was also running a USB-hub, and removing it removed some of the lag. No lag is reduced without the controller.

So, now some games are playable, although GBA games, and certain SNES games are still pretty much unplayable. Is there any settings one could do to reduce the lag?

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