blender UI corruption

Started by Amanda Dearheart, January 20, 2022, 05:49:47

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Amanda Dearheart

What's up with the new Blender.  I downloaded the version 3.x  the other night, and it corrupted the UI of every blender version I own.  (which is 2.93 and 2.83).  Even after I uninstall every version of blender and reinstall only version 2.83 or 2.93 the UI is still corrupted.  Take a look at the attached image!
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Derron

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I would have thought that Blender uses separate folders for configs..
%APPDATA%\Blender Foundation\Blender\VERSION\config

Have a look if they have some common config data there - which could bork the older "installs".


More probably you coincidently updated Windows with a broken update - or a gpu driver doing stuff it better shouldn't.

Your screenshot looks as if it fails to render textures or the textures contain single-colour data (as they still "vary" it might mean they have a texture but it contains wrong data / no "mask")

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Ron

Amanda Dearheart

Thanks for the advise Ron.  Will take a look at the files soon.
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Amanda Dearheart

Well Derron,  it seems like you're not far off.  I've had a look at the file location you suggested, and sure enough, there is only a config file for 3.0.
I haven't updated Windows lately, so that leaves the textures and gpu driver.  With those,  I have no idea of what I'm doing there.
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Kryzon

I know that's a bug, but it's still a pretty interesting view of how their OpenGL text rendering works, all the little sprites for each character.

Derron

Yeah ... like max2d and the imagefonts.

thought they use some "sdf" approach - or rendering into textures for "always the same" stuff like labels... and wonder why they don't if they didn't.


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Ron

Amanda Dearheart

I just had this wild idea!  Is it possible to re-write the config file to point to adapters to version 2.93 instead of 3.0.  Perhaps that will solve the issues.
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Derron

which config file and which adapters?


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Ron