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
- Launch game through emulation station DE (installed through emudeck) interface
- Game Launches
- 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
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
72-e3e3-44da-a719-f8b2c0b68258
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/assets/85232911/6076b985-68cc-492d-a3b5-0edf04e68fa6
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- 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.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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