(2013-05-03, 03:39)Angelscry Wrote: I'm sorry, but I'm not able to fix this problem. It is over my knowledge... and I do not understand why it happen. Paths containing non-ascii characters are stored and send correctly to the python function starting the command line... but the python function do not recognize the path correclty. Encoding paths to the system encoding before send it to the function generate en error. More stangely this problem only occurs under Windows... and all is working correctly under Linux.

So... if someone could bring its help and take a look at the Advanced Launcher code, it will be welcome.

(2013-05-03, 18:03)HeresJohnny Wrote:

(2013-05-03, 03:39)Angelscry Wrote: I'm sorry, but I'm not able to fix this problem. It is over my knowledge... and I do not understand why it happen. Paths containing non-ascii characters are stored and send correctly to the python function starting the command line... but the python function do not recognize the path correclty. Encoding paths to the system encoding before send it to the function generate en error. More stangely this problem only occurs under Windows... and all is working correctly under Linux.

So... if someone could bring its help and take a look at the Advanced Launcher code, it will be welcome.

I am by no means a programmer, but from what I gather online, Python uses UTF-16-LE in Windows and UTF-8 in all other OS's, so maybe that's your problem right there. Windows needs a different environment variable "_wenviron" as opposed to all other OS where it's "environ".

subprocess_hack.py, Line 678 could be a possible culprit.

I'm just blabbering without any real programming knowledge, though.

Also found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1737410/file-open-error-by-using-codec-utf-8-in-python

(2013-05-03, 23:23)firewasborn Wrote: Now the problem is that this doesn't suspend XBMC and RetroArch is running with XBMC in the background, with huge lag.
Should I be running the .bat file with the standalone launcher instead of the files launcher? If so, how do I locate where my ROMs
path is?

(2013-05-04, 01:58)davelr Wrote:

(2013-05-03, 23:23)firewasborn Wrote: Now the problem is that this doesn't suspend XBMC and RetroArch is running with XBMC in the background, with huge lag.
Should I be running the .bat file with the standalone launcher instead of the files launcher? If so, how do I locate where my ROMs
path is?

My initial guess is that the batch command continues processing once your emulator starts and just restarts XBMC. You could test this by using a start /wait command to fire off the emulator. An alternative would be to use Autoit to create a script or exe file to handle the start up. Autoit has a number of conditional commands to halt processing of the script until processes are fully started or closed, etc.

(2013-05-04, 02:07)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 01:58)davelr Wrote:

(2013-05-03, 23:23)firewasborn Wrote: Now the problem is that this doesn't suspend XBMC and RetroArch is running with XBMC in the background, with huge lag.
Should I be running the .bat file with the standalone launcher instead of the files launcher? If so, how do I locate where my ROMs
path is?

My initial guess is that the batch command continues processing once your emulator starts and just restarts XBMC. You could test this by using a start /wait command to fire off the emulator. An alternative would be to use Autoit to create a script or exe file to handle the start up. Autoit has a number of conditional commands to halt processing of the script until processes are fully started or closed, etc.

My initial question will be : Do you have installed the pssuspend application part of the pstools package? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649

(2013-05-04, 11:51)firewasborn Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 02:07)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 01:58)davelr Wrote: My initial guess is that the batch command continues processing once your emulator starts and just restarts XBMC. You could test this by using a start /wait command to fire off the emulator. An alternative would be to use Autoit to create a script or exe file to handle the start up. Autoit has a number of conditional commands to halt processing of the script until processes are fully started or closed, etc.

My initial question will be : Do you have installed the pssuspend application part of the pstools package? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649

I didn't have the application installed, so I downloaded PsTools and installed pssuspend.
Went to XBMC, and executed the game from the launcher with the same results, retroarch in focus with game running, framedrops and xbmc in the background. Am I missing something?

(2013-05-04, 13:32)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 11:51)firewasborn Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 02:07)Angelscry Wrote: My initial question will be : Do you have installed the pssuspend application part of the pstools package? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649

I didn't have the application installed, so I downloaded PsTools and installed pssuspend.
Went to XBMC, and executed the game from the launcher with the same results, retroarch in focus with game running, framedrops and xbmc in the background. Am I missing something?

And during this time XBMC is suspended or still active into background?

(2013-05-04, 13:32)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 11:51)firewasborn Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 02:07)Angelscry Wrote: My initial question will be : Do you have installed the pssuspend application part of the pstools package? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649

I didn't have the application installed, so I downloaded PsTools and installed pssuspend.
Went to XBMC, and executed the game from the launcher with the same results, retroarch in focus with game running, framedrops and xbmc in the background. Am I missing something?

And during this time XBMC is suspended or still active into background?

(2013-05-04, 18:12)firewasborn Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 13:32)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 11:51)firewasborn Wrote: I didn't have the application installed, so I downloaded PsTools and installed pssuspend.
Went to XBMC, and executed the game from the launcher with the same results, retroarch in focus with game running, framedrops and xbmc in the background. Am I missing something?

And during this time XBMC is suspended or still active into background?

How do I tell if it's suspended or not? All I can tell is that retroarch is active but with lag.

(2013-05-04, 19:48)firewasborn Wrote: Looks like I messed up a little, but I made it work! Seems like pssuspend was not installet properly but now everything works just fine, running
smooth and fine with suspended XBMC in the back, thanks to all of you!

Some minor things, the resolution or aspect ratio doesnt seem to have some effect when started with launcher, should I configure that in the .bat file? And how if so?

(2013-05-04, 19:59)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 19:48)firewasborn Wrote: Looks like I messed up a little, but I made it work! Seems like pssuspend was not installet properly but now everything works just fine, running
smooth and fine with suspended XBMC in the back, thanks to all of you!

Some minor things, the resolution or aspect ratio doesnt seem to have some effect when started with launcher, should I configure that in the .bat file? And how if so?

Seems that from Advanced Launcher, RetroArch is not using its defualt configuration file. To solve this add a cd command just before starting retroarch to indicate the RetroArch directory as working directory. Something like this :

Code:

pssuspend XBMC.exe
cd "C:\Program Files\RetroArch"
"C:\Program Files\RetroArch\retroarch.exe" -f -D -L libretro-git-snes9x-next-x86.dll %1
pssuspend -r XBMC.exe

(2013-05-05, 10:27)firewasborn Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 19:59)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-05-04, 19:48)firewasborn Wrote: Looks like I messed up a little, but I made it work! Seems like pssuspend was not installet properly but now everything works just fine, running
smooth and fine with suspended XBMC in the back, thanks to all of you!

Some minor things, the resolution or aspect ratio doesnt seem to have some effect when started with launcher, should I configure that in the .bat file? And how if so?

Seems that from Advanced Launcher, RetroArch is not using its defualt configuration file. To solve this add a cd command just before starting retroarch to indicate the RetroArch directory as working directory. Something like this :

Code:

pssuspend XBMC.exe
cd "C:\Program Files\RetroArch"
"C:\Program Files\RetroArch\retroarch.exe" -f -D -L libretro-git-snes9x-next-x86.dll %1
pssuspend -r XBMC.exe

Adding cd to the .bat file fixed the problem, thank you! I now went into another issue though, when starting retroarch with launcher, there is no sound. I tried the exact same config with another pc and xbmc and it worked just fine, and sound is also working when opening a rom with only retroarch. Any idea on this?