Modal dialogs and menus frequently completely blank in the editor

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I’m seeing some annoying behavior within the Unity editor itself, where popups and menus are completely blank, having only an outline when they appear. I don’t see this happening in any other programs.

It seems that a very simple way to get this to happen, for me, is to try to perform certain tasks in Unity using the keyboard, rather than the mouse. For example:

  • Select something in the Project view, and press the “Delete” key on the keyboard to delete it. The confirmation popup will be blank. The popup will remain blank until I move my mouse over the portion of the popup that contains some selectable text, and I click the mouse cursor. That causes it to render.
  • Press Alt-F to cause the top-level menus (File, Edit, View) to pull down, and use the arrow keys to navigate between them.

Here’s a quick video depicting the problem:

Is this a known issue in Unity, or something else? I’m using a 4070 with the latest graphics drivers.

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Have you tried the STUDIO driver? It’s supposedly more stable and intended for “creative work” which is what you’re doing when you work with Unity.

I don’t really expect this to change anything though. I’m more inclined to recommend a) “Reset all Layouts” (top-right corner menu) and then b) “delete /Library” and see if that fixes it, with switching to Studio driver a third option.

And lastly, resetting driver settings, and perhaps Windows settings. There are some “Windows performance optimizations” that prevent Windows’ windows from being animated, getting drawn with just an outline while dragging (which looks like what you shown) and things like that which may cause other issues.