White flicker on moving through UI after update to 4.2.3
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2.1.8RP
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@RedBatman @AlexMurphy I am running the screensaver build right now, what does your say?
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@TMNTturtlguy Well I'm about to go to bed. Look I Did select update from source, I don't know why it's not black for me, should I try again from command line tommorow?
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@RedBatman I would update your setup script first, and then reboot and then update Emulationstation from source.
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@TMNTturtlguy should I update setup script from command line or within retropie setup?
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@RedBatman you can do the setup script form within retropie
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Thanks all for stepping in and so valiantly standing up for the new version. I felt a little bit like Batman, sitting in his cave, and hearing that the villain he just imprisoned had escaped and was causing havoc again. :)
That being said, all changes I've done were only to mitigate and manage the textures better - I can't promise that, under some sort of extreme conditions or lower performance devices (maybe on older Pi hardware?) that it will still take too much time to load the textures and as such the white boxes will show.
Still, the fact that the new build has the black loading screen (great catch!) gives me reassurance that, very likely, you're still running the old build I provided.
Indeed, try to update it from source after exiting emulationstation. What causes the slowdown in compiling isn't anything network related but rather lack of memory, as emulationstation in the background will still take quite a bit. So exiting will help with that. The whole process should take about 30 mins or so.
Were you running any particular emulationstation build beforehand other than the stock one?
Let us know how it goes.
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@pjft After updating to new ES the white flicker issue was sorted but now I cannot see any Metadata on my theme.
I am using a customized version of Carbon where the only changes I made were slight adjustments to the Metadata position. Now metadata is not showing at all.
Any idea how to get this sorted?
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@NightRune not to step on @pjft toes here, but have you tried another theme to see if your meta data shows up? Depending on when the last time you updated ES, there have been some changes to theme making. It should not affect old themes with standard settings, however your custom setting depending on what you did may no longer work correctly with the new update.
The other thing i just thought of was this: Where did you make the changes to the theme? Did you make a copy of the theme and place it in
home/pi/.emulationstation/themes? If you made changes to the theme but did not copy it to this location it is very possible and likely that your changes have been overwritten during an update. -
@TMNTturtlguy said in White flicker on moving through UI after update to 4.2.3:
@NightRune not to step on @pjft toes here, but have you tried another theme to see if your meta data shows up? Depending on when the last time you updated ES, there have been some changes to theme making. It should not affect old themes with standard settings, however your custom setting depending on what you did may no longer work correctly with the new update.
The other thing i just thought of was this: Where did you make the changes to the theme? Did you make a copy of the theme and place it in
home/pi/.emulationstation/themes? If you made changes to the theme but did not copy it to this location it is very possible and likely that your changes have been overwritten during an update.I can see meta data on any of the default themes (like Carbon) but it stopped showing on my customized Carbon one.
My customized theme is placed in home/pi/.emulationstation/themes .
The only changes i made to original Carbon were slight positional adjustments of the meta data so i can't really understand what is causing this issue.
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@TMNTturtlguy Thanks for the reply here - definitely not stepping on anyone's toes!
@NightRune The answers I have won't be especially useful, unfortunately. To be better able to troubleshoot, it'd be good to know what version of ES you were running prior to this last update, as quite a few things were changed on the theming side of things in the past few months. My changes in particular would not have changed anything on the metadata front, so I wouldn't be able to comment on that, but it may certainly have been that your theme was doing something that was working by coincidence and not by design, that has since been fixed.
If you'd want to share the differences between regular Carbon (working) and your version here, I'm sure someone would be able to look into it and easily point you in the right direction. Or just post your changed file here - maybe it'll be something fairly obvious for someone who's been doing themes for long and knows all the changes that took place recently.
My last guess would have been to check in your settings, there's a new option which states "default them view" or something - maybe in the "Other Settings" menu - and confirm it's set to "Automatic" or "Detailed". But given that it seems to work in other themes, I doubt that's the issue.
Best of luck.
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Just wanted to say thanks to everyone here, I was getting the flashing/flicker after updating a couple of days ago and it was annoying, Updated ES from source today and now getting the black screen and no flicker, the theme I am using feels generally less laggy too.
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Okay what exactly do I type in command line I tried above and got a -bash
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Follow the instructions in the early post in the thread. Make sure you match exactly. The command line is case sensitive.
exit to the command line terminal
cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup sudo ./retropie_setup.shThen follow @AlexMurphy instructions above starting with manage packages.
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@TMNTturtlguy so do I press enter after the first line, or do I press a different key? Cause when I typed in the first line and then enter I got the -bash, also I went to update Retropie script and it only took a minute. Is that normal cause it makes me believe that nothing was downloaded
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@RedBatman said in White flicker on moving through UI after update to 4.2.3:
@TMNTturtlguy so do I press enter after the first line
yes you press enter. make sure you have a space between cd and /home
Retropie script and it only took a minute
It probably means that your script was up to date and it did not replace anything. Depending on what I have done to my system i have had it update in less than 20-30 seconds, and I have had it take a couple of minutes.
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@RedBatman after following the instructions from the previous post, then go to manage packages, main packages (I believe), emulationstation, update from source.
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Got it working now, I accidentally updated the main packages instead of emulation station, white box on console png is gone.
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@RedBatman great news! Enjoy
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@NightRune hi.
Just saw this come up:
https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues/141
Might be related to your problem.
I'm curious as to what changes you did vs the default one that may have triggered it. Would love to see a sample of the theme!
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