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Windows - White flashing text on various games

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Description

Description

Garbled, consistant white text flashes on screen at game launch through retroarch cores.

Expected behavior

When you launch the games, it's expected for the games to load properly without extraneous graphics or text

Actual behavior

Game launches and flashing, flickering text displays over screen, including bezels.

Steps to reproduce the bug
  1. Launch game through emulation station DE (installed through emudeck) interface
  2. Game Launches
  3. Within a few seconds, flashing white text will appear on screen

This is a UM773 with a 7735HS, integrated 680M Radeon GPU

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/assets/85232911/ae76d4f6-580c-4f59-8a64-fe4469383333

Bisect Results

I installed retroarch through emudeck Windows installation.

Version/Commit

You can find this information under Information/System Information

  • RetroArch: [version/commit] 1.16.0 f4f43d9
Environment information
  • OS: Windows 11
  • Compiler: N/A

image

image

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/assets/85232911/168cfe75-9e87-4057-a2cb-5d6d26df6b6b

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/assets/85232911/cc6159
retroarch__2023_12_21__08_06_15.log
retroarch__2023_12_21__08_13_25.log
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https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/assets/85232911/6076b985-68cc-492d-a3b5-0edf04e68fa6

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the flashing text through the EmulationStation DE and EmuDeck launch path on Windows 11 with the UM773 hardware, then inspect the attached RetroArch logs and video evidence. Compare affected cores and rendering behavior; done means games launch without flashing text or extraneous graphics, including over bezels.

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Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
computer-graphics, desktop-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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