I’ve been away for some time. I’ve have updates from PiSetup_1.1.92_x64_int.exe to my current PiPlay_Setup_2.0.5.46_release.zip, these were from 400 to 600+ MB in size. Now in the PiTools forum the latest that I found is PiToolSetup_1.0.1.249_R255.exe, with a size of only 125 MB. It’s a bit confusing with the name changes.
Am I missing some other file or I just run PiToolSetup_1.0.1.249_R255.exe and it will do everything? Also, in case anything goes wrong or it works worse that the 2.0.5.46 that I have atm, is it easy to revert to my current one?
It didn’t go well though. I installed 249 and as people said, I had black bars on each side of the screen. What I wasn’t expecting is that they would take about 1/3 of the total screen surface. This won’t do, why not reduce the viewable screen to a keyhole and claim even better performance. As seen on other threads I downgraded to 132, but on my system it didn’t reduce the szie of the bars, so this version is useless as well.
So I uninstall 132, and bam, PiPlay doesn’t work anymore. Upon reboot pi_service.exe is now using 100% CPU, not detecting the Pimax, and freezing the whole PC for seconds at a time. I made a system backup prior to installing PiTools, and this problems wasn’t even fixed by a system restore :).
So, only an uninstall and reinstall of PiPlay 2.0.5.46 brought my system back to a playable state. I don’t understand why these black bars were introduced.