Having a bizarrely weird time setting up emulation in Bazzite?
I've got a desktop PC running Bazzite (AMD Ryzen 5700X, Nvidia RTX 3080, 32GB RAM)
I've been having a good time with it, but today I decided I wanted to finally play some emulation which I haven't done since moving from Windows.
I first tried setting up EmuDeck as that seemed suggested for Bazzite, but I ran into issues using Steam Rom Manager through it because it did not give me any options to use a parser for PS1 games via Retroarch, only through Duckstation which I did not want to use. Nothing I tweaked in EmuDeck seemed to allow for this and Steam Rom Manager, when configured by emudeck, didn't seem to have any options for me to add my own parsers.
After fussing for a while I decided to just try setting up emulation my own way and uninstalled and scrapped all my Emudeck stuff. So I installed Retroarch's flatpak, got it set up, got it running my PS1 games, got Steam Rom Manger standalone, got the games added to Steam successfully, and the games were running! But then, fastforwarding crashes retroarch? Like any amount at all completely locks up Retroarch until I kill the task. I tried looking this up, found a thread about it being an issue with the "latest version" of the flatpak, but it was like a 2 year old thread? So it didn't really feel like current, relevant information.
I got pretty tired and frustrated and decided to delete everything again and to get advice from others before trying this again.
Solution:Jump to solution
going to Settings > Frame Throttle and disabling Fast-Forward Frameskip seems to fix this, which is the fix i'd read online
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uh, nevermind I guess? I saw an option online that might fix it, so I re-set it up again retroarch and all, and before even trying the fix i tried the game and to fast forward and it just didn't crash anymore for no clear reason.
I wish I had more helpful information but okay.
Oh, okay, seems vulkan related
First time i'd changed the renderer to vulkan (cause its the same renderer emudeck had it set to)
this time id' forgotten to so it was still using glcore
I changed it to vulkan but yeah now it crashes on fast forward again
Solution
going to Settings > Frame Throttle and disabling Fast-Forward Frameskip seems to fix this, which is the fix i'd read online
now it's CTD any time i try to use fullscreen in the Beetle PSX HW core :waah:
fwiw i think this is more retroarch issues than bazzite now so ill stop posting here
if there's an issue with a retroarch core, use the loose emulator to make sure its not a retroarch issue. i like retroarch as a project, but half the emulators/cores are broken pieces of crap
individual emulators will always work better
What about Retrodeck or something like that from the Discover store?... seems to work for me with things out of the box once you get things prepped right.