Bizzare EmulationSation error on First Boot

[justhoeber]

When ever im in ES the entire screen has these flashing squares over everything. This happens after a fresh flash of the card. However, if I load into a rom or go into a backend menu it goes away.

I've tried updating/upgrading in the backend, multiple different memory cards, hdmi cords, monitors and even tried installing in Debian and still get the same thing. I'm out of ideas.

the flashing squares as mentioned above

[herb_fargus]

@justhoeber well that's a new one. Have you tried a different HDMI cable?

Also if it's a software thing perhaps you can try upping the GPU split

[edmaul69]

@justhoeber bad pi?

[justhoeber]

@herb_fargus tried multiple different cords.

I think it is software because everything works except emulation station. How would I go about trying that?

[justhoeber]

@edmaul69 maybe? but it wouldn't make sense that everything else works how it should.

booting it as a Linux computer works exactly as it should and all the roms work.

[edmaul69]

@justhoeber have you tried forcing a specific video mode (or two) in /boot/config.txt?

[justhoeber]

@edmaul69 I tried a couple but dont remeber which ones, the ones I tried made most of the screen white and worse.

any you would recommend?

[edmaul69]

@justhoeber what resolutions does your tv support? Can you use pastebin.com to post the contents of your config.txt? Also what are you installing this on?

[justhoeber]

@edmaul69 it is a 1080p tv but it suppots everything down to 240p. I've been installing this on a raspberry Pie 3 model B V1.2.

config.txt pastebin

[dankcushions]

can you post your /boot/config.txt?

[herb_fargus]

@dankcushions see link above ;)

[dankcushions]

@herb_fargus said in Bizzare EmulationSation error on First Boot:

@dankcushions see link above ;)

doh!

gpu_mem=128 should be deleted IMO.

[justhoeber]

@dankcushions that can be done, that was me just playing with different gpu splits

[justhoeber]

@dankcushions however the problem persists

[edmaul69]

@justhoeber have you tried these settings?

hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

If i recall correctly i think i have actually seen this before but i forgot how i fixed it or created the problem.

Maybe set this too:

config_hdmi_boost=4

[justhoeber]

@edmaul69 I just put in those settings then booted up the pie and still have the same problem

[rbaker]

@justhoeber Can you post a video of this happening?

[justhoeber]

@rbaker

[rbaker]

@justhoeber Never seen anything like it. Does it do this on clean install of retropie from an image?

[justhoeber]

@rbaker yes, im assuming at this point i just got a bad pie and im in the process of returning it and getting a new one