RetroArch works but shows a black screen

[firewater]

I'm having a really weird issue. I'm on Windows 8, and AM seems to load up games on RetroArch just fine, except all I see is a black screen. I know the game has loaded because I can hear the sounds, and I can control it with my joystick, but the thing is completely black. The only way I can see the game is if I Alt+Tab out of RA, and into it again.

It also doesn't happen if I launch them from retroarch.exe, without AM.

I have no idea what's going on. Here's my attract.cfg, and the .cfg for one the emulators: https://pastebin.com/bVM0bLSB / https://pastebin.com/K4EEWDJu

[progets]

Try the different AttractMode "Window Mode" options. One should fix it.

Configure-->General-->Window Mode = Full screen/Fill screen/Window/etc.

[firewater]

The Window one fixes it, but it's very undesirable because it runs windowed instead of fullscreen, I see the taskbar, and so on. Any other solution?

[progets]

The Window one fixes it, but it's very undesirable because it runs windowed instead of fullscreen, I see the taskbar, and so on. Any other solution?

Yes, a lot. This all depends on YOUR setup
- Try "Window (no border)" mode in AttractMode
- Set RetroArch to use the same resolution as your OS
- Set RetroArch to use "full screen" mode
- use a different video driver in RetroArch (i.e. gl, d3d9. d3d11, d3d12, sdl2)
- make sure you have the latest directX drivers installed and working properly if you're using any of the RetroArch d3d* video drivers
- make sure you have the latest video card drivers installed for the OS (and check their setting if they use an application to change them instead of the OS tools)
- make sure that AttractMode is using the same video resolution as RetroArch
- make sure that you have the correct/latest MS Visual C++ redistributable installed for RetroArch

There are many variables in play. Only you have your exact setup to test them.

[firewater]

Thanks a ton once again! it was solved by changing to d3d, which actually solved some other issues I had. I've been using open gl until now because last time RA wouldn't launch last time I tried in d3d, but it seems I installed the correct something between then and now.