Hello, I am a new C++ programmer I have been taking some 1 on 1 learning sessions with someone and we have been trying to create a snake game and we have run into a snag where the renderer is not working properly for SDL (after the window opens it just captures whats behind it and freezes it, I can…

ended up doing a clean install of my OS it seems to be working again

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Please post the output of inxi -Gazy, and put SDL_LogSetAllPriority(SDL_LOG_PRIORITY_DEBUG); before SDL_Init(...); and try again and watch stderr closely.

Output of inxi -Gazy is: Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] vendor: evga driver: nvidia v: 440.100 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1b06 Display: x11 server: X. Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia display ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res:…

Interesting because the same program works when I try it, and I get the same log messages. Have you tried creating an accelerated renderer? Do other SDL2 programs work?

We actually tried accelerated first and that didn’t work either, not sure of any apps that have SDL UPDATE: I found an app on my PC that uses SDL a open source game called Xonotic didn’t have any issues launching it.

Maybe you could try some of the sample programs from the lazyfoo.net SDL2 tutorial.

I recognize the site I think we were using this as we went along

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and StackOverflow is indeed the best site to post this kind of stuff, but maybe someone here has some spare SO to spend to put a bounty on it…