N64 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has no video but perfect sound

goestohollywood

Hey guys, having some issues emulating N64 ROMs. I've tried various different emulators for N64, and it seems mupen64plus-glide64 is the best one so far as I get perfect audio, but no video. All other emulators either left me on a black screen or crashed back to the RetroPie game select menu. I've also tried the different combinations between each emulator and video modes, but no luck. Every other console emulates no problem, just the N64.

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Pi Model or other hardware: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running on a Dell Inspiron 530 (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB RAM)
Power Supply used: Dell Inspiron 530's AC 120/230 V (50/60 Hz) power supply
RetroPie Version Used: 4.6.4 x86
Built From: Debian install
USB Devices connected: WD Essentials 2TB external hard drive (for some ROMs; all others are stored locally on an internal drive. Tried storing N64 ROMs on both)
Controller used: keyboard
Error messages received: n/a
Verbose log: n/a
Guide used: n/a
File: all N64 ROMs. I've tried various ROMs from different sites
Emulator: tried lr-mupen64plus-next, lr-mupen64plus, lr-parallel-n64, mupen64plus-glide64, mupen64plus-GlideN64-LLE, and mupen64plus-GlideN64
Attachment of config files: n/a
How to replicate the problem: n/a

mitu

Can you try and get a verbose log from lr-mupen64plus-next ? Post it on pastebin.com and provide the link.

Can you also post the output of the glxinfo command ?

goestohollywood

Here's my verbose log and glxinfo, though I'm not sure I did the second one right.

mitu

Looks like your GPU is too old and doesn't support the OpenGL version requested by the emulator:
glxinfo shows:

OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 20.0.8

while the emulator requires OpenGL 3.3

[INFO] [Environ]: SET_HW_RENDER.
[INFO] Requesting core OpenGL context (3.3).
...
[INFO] [GLX]: Creating context for requested version 3.3.
[WARN] [GLX]: X error message: GLXBadFBConfig, request code: 152, minor code: 34
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
...

goestohollywood

@mitu got it. sounds like I need to upgrade my GPU then