PSX Beetle HW resolution Crash

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#1

Any time I try to increase the resolution, it instantly crashes Retroarch. Can someone help? I don’t want to play the games at the original 1X resolution

Here’s the crash report if it helps… and also, Windows 7 X64

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: retroarch.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 30013205 Fault Module Name: mednafen_psx_hw_libretro.dll Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 590f5178 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0000000000002dc6 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 8ce6 Additional Information 2: 8ce63306dc2d6433ffc26ea9e245eeb7 Additional Information 3: f814 Additional Information 4: f814ebb126dfdf0a8e152230ab3c4832

#2

Can you get us a verbose RetroArch log?

Launch from command line with --menu --verbose --log-file=log.txt and then paste those contents somewhere like pastebin and post a link here.

#3

–menu is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file

#4

Those have to be added onto the normal retroarch CLI invocation. Here’s the long explanation:

open your RetroArch directory and shift+right-click in an empty spot and select “open command window here”. Then, type in: retroarch_debug.exe --menu --verbose --log-file=log.txt Do whatever you need to do to produce the crash behavior and then go check the log.txt file and paste its contents somewhere like pastebin and then post a link to it here.

#5

I am having the same crash on W7x64, but I can’t start retroarch with logging enabled. Command line keeps giving me an input parsing error.

#6

Both Retroarch and the core should be set to Vulkan (or opengl/gl depending on what you’re using)

Note that a crash also means that the change doesn’t get saved.

#7

I have a somewhat similar problem with Win7/64 and this core. All set to Vulkan (Retroarch & core) and the PSX game runs fine at 1x res. If i try to access the menu (while the game is running) or manually increase the res above 1x by editing the config, Retroarch crashes!

I tried many different AMD drivers… still no solution.

#8

Vulkan straight up crashes on core load for beetle HW for me, so I can only load in OGL. Any ideas on how to get logging to work? I am on an Nvidia card and am fairly certain I have the most up to date vulkan runtimes.

#9

Did what you said and got this

RetroArch [ERROR] :: Fatal Error recieved in; “retroarch_parse_input<>” REtroArch [ERROR] :: This core requires a content file

#10

I get the same error

#11

oof, my mistake: looks like it’s --log-file log.txt instead of --log-file=log.txt

#12

log is too big for pastebin

here’s a link to the log.

And the Vulkan Log

(Using a GTX 980 and it says device doesn’t support something???)

#13

Here’s mine from pastebin

I scanned through it, and I couldn’t find anything valuable, but you might know better than I do

https://pastebin.com/VRjKsDQB

Also, I’m using GTX 650

[EDIT] - Could it maybe be an nvidia thing? Like, maybe by increasing the resolution of the game, it’s actually trying to increase our desktop resolutions above the maximum?

#14

I can’t get PCSX-R to even load the game. Command window gives “Error loading GPUinit:: Not supported” “Failed to load plugins”

#15

I figured out if I set the resolution before hand in the core-options.cfg file. It doesn’t crash. Same with the texture filtering, which also crashes if I try to change it in game.

This is in OpenGL btw too.

Also: What is the Software Framebuffer option for?

Now the issue is, at 4k. The game loads up with the proper aspect ratio and scaled ok. But as soon as I change any settings in the menu it turns into this

If I turn off Integer scaling it comes back to If I turn Integer scaling back on, it turns back into the middle option

I think I figured out, that for some reason the core reports the game as being 1x scaling at 640x480, which is clearly wrong. Taking a screenshot comes out 480p and it is plainly visible it is 240p line doubled.

EDIT: I just figured out, that if if I start it up and don’t change any options. It uses 240p correctly. If i change anything in the Beetle HW options, it changes the internal 1x res to 480p for some reason.

#16

Re ARMED is for things like cell phones that use .ARM files