Custom theme - white screen of death (how many images/objects can i load?)

[giventofly]

@mediamogul i do regular updates, but will do a new one now. ty

[MWGemini]

@giventofly Here's the thread about it: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2389/solution-for-white-screen-of-death

And here's the pull request where it was recently merged in:
https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/88

[giventofly]

@MWGemini awesome, read all of that thread, upadting at this moment :)

[Capeman]

I was playing around with customizing the Simple theme the other night and kept getting the WSOD, my problem was I was making all of the ES background as full 1080p... downscaling all my backgrounds to 1280x720 fixed it for me, currently have 13 systems and no issues.

[BuZz]

@Capeman the issue is fixed if you update retropie.

[Rion]

That's all thanks to @fieldofcows !

[robertybob]

Yay soon we can finally remove all mention of it from the Wiki!

[Nismo]

@giventofly It's a known very old issue from Emulationstation, it's happens when you have a bit more than 10 systems, and there is an amazing @fieldofcows work in progress and experimental builds for fixing that.

You can use windows version for theming without problems, or download the experimental build here:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2389/solution-for-white-screen-of-death/106?page=6

[fieldofcows]

@Nismo said in Custom theme - white screen of death (how many images/objects can i load?):

and there is an amazing @fieldofcows work in progress and experimental builds for fixing that.

It's done and merged into RetroPie. You just have to update to the latest version using the retropie script.

[pablosbrain]

apparently not fixed as the latest post was 12 months ago and any recent installs still seem to have this issue.