Blank UI

[SaebAmini]

I recently came across Fork and wanted to give it a try, however the UI doesn't even show up for me:

The white rectangle is the UI for Fork 1.40.2.0. This is inside a VMWare Windows 10 VM.

[DanPristupov]

Disable hardware acceleration #237

[SaebAmini]

Thanks Dan, but that's not really a viable solution as it makes guest graphics slow as. Is it possible to make Fork not use hardware acceleration?

[Otiel]

Instead of disabling hardware acceleration for the whole VM, you could try turning off WPF hardware acceleration so that only WPF applications won't use hardware acceleration and thus render correctly (hopefully) in VMWare:

Set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DisableHWAcceleration to 1.

See Microsoft docs.

[SaebAmini]

Thanks for the workarounds.

May I suggest adding the option to disable hardware acceleration to Fork as a future improvement?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2169600/how-does-one-disable-hardware-acceleration-in-wpf

[DanPristupov]

We'll try to add a config option to disable the acceleration. We'll see how it works out.

[DanPristupov]

In Fork 1.41 we introduced an option to disable hardware acceleration. I'm not sure if it works, but you can try it.

Open %localappdata%\fork\settings.json, find DisableHardwareAcceleration and set it to true

[SaebAmini]

Beautiful! I just tested 1.41 with DisableHardwareAcceleration set to true in a VMWare VM and can confirm it now loads perfectly.

Thanks for the super quick turnaround on this one!