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I figured I'd post the question here; perhaps any of you have an answer. I've noticed some strange behaviour with SDL vs my CPU. This behaviour is manifested in RetroFE as well as when I run MAME with a simple game like Pacman without throttling (so maximum speed). For some strange reason, the intel powersave kicks in, and the CPU is scaled down to 800 MHz. This doesn't happen when I run Pacman at 100% speed or when I run a demanding game like Radiant Silvergun. I've tried everything I could find online, but no luck so far. Considering the behaviour with Radiant Silvergun, I doubt it's a heat problem. The CPU has no trouble running at 2400-2500 MHz for long times during that game.

I think this downscaling is causing video decoding problems for me as well; my CPU can't keep up on rare occasions. When I reduce the FPS for RetroFE from a maximum of 60 to 30 or even 24, this problem disappears, and my CPU is happily running at 2000-2500 MHz. Any thoughts?

I've got it working in bit bucket; just want to do some more testing.

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Please send me the log.txt of when that happens?

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Great news! Looking forward to it. I've also checked in some changes, so this should make a nice set for 0.7.20b4. I'm working towards a 0.7.20 full release again soon.

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You're so much better at this than I am. 😀

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The reason I asked about the menu structure is this:
If all your menus are 3 tier menus, you could solve it in one layout.xml.
If some are 2 tier menus, and some are 3 tier menus, and your level 2 and level 3 should look the same, you could solve it in one layout.xml.
If some are 2 tier menus, and some are 3 tier menus, and your level 2 and level 3 should look different for the 3 tier menu, you need to solve it via the layouts/ChickenCoop/collections/<collection name>/layout directory.

Basically, RetroFE does not check if your collection is a game collection or simply an intermediate menu. I could change that, but we currently also support mixed collections (e.g. my Main collection contains collections, Shutdown, and Kodi), and that would pose a problem then. As such, all layer 2 collections look the same, all layer 3 collections look the same, etc. If you want that differently, you need to go through the option of a layout for a specific collection.

I'll see how difficult it would be to change collections without going up a level. I'm not promising anything though.

I have no opinion to be honest. My web site problems are not just from a lack of coding capability, but more a lack of aesthetic vision. Would anyone care to chip in here?

Have you considered using the 0.7.20b3 playlist feature for this purpose?

I'll give your idea some thought though.