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Greetings fellow Dragon users,
I recently upgraded to Windows 10 (I know, I know) and now xroar won't display the usual Dragon screen. Instead the screen is black. I can load a .cas or .wav file using keyboard shortcuts and I can hear the game playing but the screen remains steadfastly black. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Gareth.

I've been running xroar with Windows 10 for some time without problems. I'm running xroar 0.32-w32.

-- Rolf

If you run it with openGL, try software rendering or the other way round.

Yeah this has come up before when OpenGL drivers don't support textures (but WIndows 10 - really? Still?) - it's actually in TFM. If you can't fudge around OpenGL (new drivers, perhaps), running with -vo sdl might be your only option.

sixxie wrote:Yeah this has come up before when OpenGL drivers don't support textures (but WIndows 10 - really? Still?) - it's actually in TFM. If you can't fudge around OpenGL (new drivers, perhaps), running with -vo sdl might be your only option.

How do I run with -vo sdl? I'm afraid I don't know what that means.

Gareth_O'Flaherty wrote:

sixxie wrote:Yeah this has come up before when OpenGL drivers don't support textures (but WIndows 10 - really? Still?) - it's actually in TFM. If you can't fudge around OpenGL (new drivers, perhaps), running with -vo sdl might be your only option.

How do I run with -vo sdl? I'm afraid I don't know what that means.

I'd be really grateful for anyone's help with this. Thanks again.

Gareth.

They are command line options, but if you're running by double-clicking, you should be able to create a file in the same directory called xroar.conf containing the line vo sdl (as well as any other config options you want to set).

(Or: look for updated OpenGL drivers for your graphics card)

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem with running XROAR on Windows 10 and haven't been able to solve it either! I assume that you create the xroar.conf with Notepad? I've tried typing -vo sdl into XROAR and it made no difference. Any idea what is going wrong?

Stuart

Updated drivers (for better OpenGL) is probably the best fix.

But perhaps try one of the snapshot builds here: http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/xroar/

They include currently-experimental code to use SDL2 for the rendering, which would hopefully be able to manage Windows a bit better. Well, it's worth a shot...

Hi sixxie,

Yay! That worked!

The Snapshot build works perfectly! Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it.

All the best.

Stuart