Emulators very laggy at start

[oherau]

Hello

I am using the version 4.4.0-beta (updated OTA from previous stable 4.3).
Wifi activated and option "disable services when playing" activated
Any time I launch an emulator (snes, gb, psx, genesis) the engine and sound are very laggy. After a few minutes of gameplay is fluid again.
Is there a reason for that?

[emperordahc]

I've this exact same problem, but only if my Wi-Fi is activated and I'm signed into RetroAchievements. Any new game will take about a minute to stabilize, and then from then on, even after reboots, that specific game will no longer lag. The larger the achievement list for a game, the longer the time needed to stabilize. This never happened before this most recent beta batch that updated RetroArch. Like the OP, I also did an OTA update from the previous stable version and I disable services during play. This has happened ever since that first update weeks ago, I just never reported it.

[emperordahc]

Any new game will take about a minute to stabilize, and then from then on, even after reboots, that specific game will no longer lag.

Correction: a game that has been ran is still laggy after reboot.

[oherau]

Same issue when using the Game Switcher.
In my opinion it could come from :

• the connection/sync with RetroAchievements
• the loading of retroarch core and/or auto frameskip
• the wifi/RTC sync (?)
• some other (new?) background script running when launching a new emulation

It might be useful to get logs but honestly I don't remember where they are located.
It could also help to modify launch.sh scripts to get more info

[oherau]

Converted to issue