I'm not sure about the speed of running RetroBat on a flash drive. Maybe it's just my scenario? I bought a Sandisk 512GB USB 3.2 flash drive and installed RetroBat on it hooked up to my Windows 11 gaming PC. The PC also supports USB 3.2, but I am getting sluggish performance in the menus and am unable to play anything other than N64 games and older without choppy and laggy gameplay. I checked, and it's plugged into the highest speed USB port as well. I installed the exact same setup on my internal SSD and had no issues with speed running RetroBat with the same games. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need a different flash drive?
Just get an Image of Batocera and flash it directly onto a USB or Internal Storage (be aware of data lost) with balena Etcher, turn Secure Boot in your Bios off and boot the PC from that Storage
Just what I was looking to do. Thanks.
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I'm not sure about the speed of running RetroBat on a flash drive. Maybe it's just my scenario? I bought a Sandisk 512GB USB 3.2 flash drive and installed RetroBat on it hooked up to my Windows 11 gaming PC. The PC also supports USB 3.2, but I am getting sluggish performance in the menus and am unable to play anything other than N64 games and older without choppy and laggy gameplay. I checked, and it's plugged into the highest speed USB port as well.
I installed the exact same setup on my internal SSD and had no issues with speed running RetroBat with the same games. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need a different flash drive?
What's the best filesystem/formatting for the HDD I'll use?
Can you set it up to directly boot into it on PC startup?
There is a way but personally I’ve never done that. At that point I would suggest using Batocera.
Just get an Image of Batocera and flash it directly onto a USB or Internal Storage (be aware of data lost) with balena Etcher, turn Secure Boot in your Bios off and boot the PC from that Storage
Can I install it onto a micro sd and use it on something like a ROG Ally?
I think so but have never tried that.
How can u set it up for android tv boxes?
Batocera can. Don't think Retrobat can.