I’ve been trying to download the 32 bit version of Lakka for my old PC laptop and every time I click on the link it times out. It doesn’t matter which download I try either. All download links time out for me. I’ve sent an email through the contact us link on Lakka’s website but no response yet. If anyone else has had this issue and knows how to fix it, I’d greatly appreciate it.
Can confirm the links aren’t working here either; neither the stable links from the site nor the nightlies. Tried the main hub of the nightly builds, as well as the i386, x64 and Odroid-XU3/4 download links from the main site (which makes sense, as all of them run off the same server).
They were working fine a week or two ago when I first downloaded Lakka, so chances are it’s just a temporary server glitch. I’d upload the image I still have in my Downloads folder for you, but unfortunately it’s the x64 one, not the i386…
Ok, so the links are working again and I was able to download Lakka. Attempted a live boot from the USB, unfortunately there is a square in the top left that is not displaying correctly and am unable to see anything behind it. Decided to tin the installer
And it also has the large square blocking the view. Is my old laptop just to old for this? Any input would be appreciated.
Had the same issue like you yesterday with the not working download, but today worked without any problem. Also I haven’t had any issues with a blocking square… Perhaps worth trying with another browser/computer?
I can’t speak to any download problems, as I haven’t had that problem myself.
As to running Lakka on old(er) hardware, I do know something about that.
I’m running Lakka on a circa 2008 x86_64 laptop. It has an “Intel Core Duo” T7400 64-bit dual-core CPU (2.18GHz) with 2GB system RAM. The GPU is an ATI X1400 using 256MB of system RAM (no dedicated ram for the GPU). CPU utilization never seems to break about 30%, regardless of the core in use (though I believe the GPU may be close to maxed out during N64, SNES, and PSX emulation).
My point, this is NOT high-end hardware by modern standards. I think the Raspberry PI 2 embedded GPU is a more powerful unit. And why shouldn’t it be? It is a good decade newer (and is capable of 1080p blueray decoding).
My RetroLaptop ™ RetroArch setup runs Nintendo 64, SNES, and even Sony PlayStation 1 (PSX) just fine (and of course earlier systems like A2600 and NES). It chokes on almost every shader I have tried, though, but it runs games just fine with no shaders.
I’m pretty delighted. The laptop that (until recently) I had relegated to the trunk of obsolete electronics is able to run PlayStation games! I remember the original PlayStation (PSX) being a remarkably good piece of hardware when it came out. And my “junk” laptop brings those games back to me. They’re still fun!
I can’t speak to any download problems, as I haven’t had that problem myself.
It seemed to just be a temporary server issue that they’ve now fixed.
Our host was in maintainance.