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    Got my video driver messed up, can't seem to change back

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      noobsaibot
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      Okay, newbie here! I was messing with the video drivers using the Retroarch GUI menu, and I picked "VL". That has seriously messed it up as I can't load up the menu anymore (just get a blank screen), and I also can't play games as now they look seriously wrong.

      The retroarch config file has also been edited manually, and even if I edit the video_driver line to sdl, dispmanx, or gl, Retropie seems to retain the original saved driver and still won't show the menu nor play the games. So I'm kinda dead in the water... please help me get back to the original video driver!

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        noobsaibot
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        lol fixed it. So apparently I didn't have to edit the retroarch.cfg file I thought I had to, which was the one under config/retroarch/config. The one I had to edit was under "all", some sort of root directory not accesible through the File Manager. I had to use the Configuration Editor to make the change. Initially I had tried using the editor within File Manager (nano).

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