Beetle/Mednafen PSX HW - Black Screen on start

Hi, i’m trying to use the HW version of Mednafen since my new graphics card has Vulkan support and i want to check how it performs. When i load the game the screen looks black while the game still sounds. If i use the non HW version of the core it works perfect (i even finished the whole game) so the ROM and BIOS should not be the problem.

I did read something about disabling the shaders, or using only glsl shaders but still looks black.

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disable any shaders, go to settings > driver and change the video driver from “gl” to “vulkan”. Close RetroArch, reopen it, go back to settings > driver and make sure the driver change took effect. Assuming it did, go give it another shot, making sure the core option for the renderer is set to vulkan, as well.

Hi, thanks, sorry for taking so long to reply…

It works now :smile: but GLSL shaders doesn’t apply :disappointed:

Any hints?

Thanks :slight_smile:

Edit: Seems like works with the ones in the folder Shaders_Slang. Are these the only ones which works?

Correct, GLSL shaders don’t work with the vulkan renderer, only the slang shaders. However, there shouldn’t be many differences between the GLSL and slang shaders.

Retroarch was working well with vulkan until the new Nvidia driver, now when I set it to vulkan in the retroarch.cfg file it open and immediately close…