Retroarch Freezing on Phone

RetroArch Android devices
#1

My phone has a Mediatek MT6577 chipset(dual core 1ghz cortex a9,512 mb ram)

Basically ,the app will just randomly freeze while playing a game.Can either happen the moment a ROM is loaded,or after a while. Happened on the pcsx re-armed and all the nes cores(haven’t tested on others)

On pre-1.0.0 builds,it only happened rarely or occassionaly but current builds have it happening much frequently

I noticed that it never happens when I don’t acess the RGUI menu

#2

If it’s freezing the app and not the entire phone, could you post a logcat?

#3

i have the same problem when i play ps/nes/snes games?but ios ver. not,can anybody fix this?

#4

maybe 'Threaded video driver‘ in video option is the problem?when i turn it off ?no freeze again on my device

#5

im having a similar issue with pcsx rearmed since the 1.0+ release (i didnt not have these issues with 0.9.7) pcsx rearmed simply freezes and doesn’t work anymore

#6

Can second this, but for me

  1. It only happens when Threaded Video is turned on and
  2. It’s not just rearmed, it happens with a few cores including the NES ones (but not VBA)

I expect it’s a threading error causing deadlocks. I’m having trouble getting a logcat though- I just tried and my device hard reset instead of staying on the “Wait | Force Close” popup. I’ll keep trying.

#7

Yeah I was actually just testing it with Threaded Video set to off and it doesn’t seem to be freezing anymore.

device: Nexus 4, Android 4.4.2

slight offtopic: is retroarch compatible with ART? (using dalvik atm)

#8

Here’s the Github issue, if anyone has pertinent info.

Yep, works fine for me.

#9

Okay WTF? I posted that and I was logged in as “affickJag”!

Here’s the Github issue, if anyone has pertinent info.

Yep, works fine for me.

#10

Now that you have mentioned it,the issue actually started when the threaded video was implemented