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Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.
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We should switch the default renderer to gdi/rgui for windows #5871

Open meepingsnesroms opened 6 years ago

meepingsnesroms commented 6 years ago

Today after not using windows for over 5 years I have installed it as my main OS on a laptop that got screwed up when I tried installing dnscrypt on linux and it had to be formatted(I am terrible at networking, the dns was completely gone and I could only reach the internet through tor).

When I finished installing windows I installed RetroArch, it crashed on launch. It took me over 6 hours with help to resolve it.

There are so many cases of the video driver crashing RetroArch or not working as intended I think we should set the graphics driver to gdi/rgui by default.

Its better that it loads not supporting 3d cores and the users turn on 3d support than to have it crash on load or randomly while running.

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inactive123 commented 6 years ago

That would be awful performance and an awful GUI for most people though. From what I read, most of these issues stem from dated and bad GL drivers to nvidias drivers containing Vulkan regressions. By default we boot with GL driver, I think on most hardware this is sufficient. A failsafe mode could perhaps be implemented and it could be used as a fallback but I would not want it to be the default.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Personally I think #4804 is most relevant here. This should be extended to fallback to a different video driver when e.g. GL is not fully supported.

meepingsnesroms commented 6 years ago

Thats a good idea. On start write "gl_not_safe = true" and "first_run = true" if first_run is not set to the config file. After the gl driver has loaded, write "gl_not_safe = false". When loading if first_run is true set it to false and if gl_not_safe is true due to crashing on load set the driver to gdi/rgui.