Don't worry about it, that is what the forum is for. Are you saying that you want to rotate your screen for everything? That is done in the /boot/config.txt file. type:

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

then you need to add a line at the end that reads ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

display_rotate=0        Normal
display_rotate=1        90 degrees
display_rotate=2        180 degrees
display_rotate=3        270 degrees
display_rotate=0x10000  horizontal flip
display_rotate=0x20000  vertical flip

from the gui, double click on lxterminal. then run the command sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Find the line you need to edit with the arrow keys. When you are done, press ctrl-x, then press Y to exit and save.

Whats funny is these small accomplishments seem super huge to me. lol I feel like having a party..lol

@Wooodyii2
That would make a good tutorial to go on the 'Tutorials' page at the PiPlay website :D
Thanks

Hi,

When I set display_rotate=3 the fps for MAME4ALL ROMs drops from 60 to 15!! ANyone else got this problem or a solution please?

Thanks,
TT

@sadeter @mholgatem I've updated the FAQ to make it easier to read and added this rotation to it. Thanks :D

@TonkaTuff - Are you running piplay inside of the X window system? or from command line?

Thanks for the help.
I've got a RPi B+
Running PiPlay 8 Beta 7 from image
I've tried setting overclocking to max and GPU_Mem to 448MB
448 makes the RPi unusable, so went back to 384. Still no joy with FPS. Got 20 max out of it.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks, will give it a go.

@clocey - Anything can be done. I think that it would require a reboot each time and probably some black magic. But I could be wrong.

I'm working on a vertical cocktail project and also needing to rotate the screen. Things were really running poorly when I rotated, but then I increased the GPU Mem to 256 and overclocked it to 900. Seemed to run better.
How can you tell what your actual frame rate is?

@atv223 - I would overclock to 'Turbo' using raspi-config (1000 Mhz). Also make sure that you are running piplay on startup, not from a terminal window.

I believe that mame4all has a way to display framerate (somewhere in settings) but I could be wrong. it's been a long time since I messed with it. Make sure you use raspi-config to set your overclock settings and you should be fine. If you do it through your boot/config.txt file, you run the chance of putting the wrong setting in and burning something up. (also, the raspi-config overclock settings won't set the sticky-bit and void your warranty)