No menu text even with updated drivers

[datspike]

I finally upgraded my PC from 2008 and trying to play customs. Phase Shift installs fine, loads quickly but gets to the menu and there are no options on it, it only plays music. My PC can definitely handle this game and plays Destiny 2/Overwatch/Halo MCC without issues and the drivers are all updated so I'm at a loss for what to change to get it to work.

Here's any system info I can think of that might help.
AMD Ryzen 7 2700
PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Red Dragon Video Card
Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard
16 GB of RAM
144hz Monitor, 1920x1080 res, 8-bit depth
Windows 10 Home 1903

[vandorb12]

You probably did not load up a theme correctly. Remove any custom themes and see if the game works. If it does not, uninstall, remove all PS files in the directory you installed it, and then reinstall.

[lkidd93]

Having a similar issue where I upgraded hardware after Christmas and now nothing I can figure out will show any menus whatsoever. Triple checked I have the latest drivers for my new 5500XT, have restarted several times to see if it's the "locked font" bug and can't get 1 iota of default or Rock Band theme menus to show. Will let you know if I make progress, would hope to get back to drumming soon!

[msaku]

same problem. Also using an AMD GPU. Running a 5700XT and vanilla phase shift isn't showing anything but the background and some music

[codeslayer]

I'm having the same Issue, upgraded my system with the same specs as yours,

GPU: AMD 5700 XT
CPU: AMD RYZEN 3700

RESULT: NO MENU TEXT!

PLEASE HELP!!

[deskanti]

I am having the same issue with a ryzen 2600 and 5500 XT. I think it has to do with amd

[msaku]

Confirming it's an AMD GPU issue. I've upgraded my GPU from a 5700XT to an RTX 2070 Super and now menu texts appear like it's supposed to.

[lkidd93]

It does seem to be something about the 55/5700 XT's, I reinstalled the RX470 I'd been using before my Christmas upgrade and got the game running again for a few hours. Now I've got both cards installed and will just switch to the old card to play this game.

[lindzeybear26]

Just got a drum kit, was excited to try this out, but I guess because I have AMD card I can't play? Same issue, just music plays on start, no menu text at all. Any fix in the works? Any workarounds?

[Rockem]

I had that happen to me no menus but i found it was the theme i was using was from the stream version doesn't work with free version I used a theme called Lava and it works great.

[deskanti]

Hey man can you link the theme the one on the forum has a broken link?

[Rockem]

Copy themes to you themes dir same with data

edit your config.ini in phase shift\settings\ in phase shift directory look for Theme change it to Lava then save and load game if that still don't work send me your config.ini I'll look at it.

[Rockem]

you are running 1.27 right and not 1.38

[Deleted]

!!! THERE IS A FIX FOR AMD USERS !!!

It's for Phase Shift v1.27 not working for people running AMD GPU's. The game loads fine, but the menu screen stays blank(even themes don't resolve the problem).

I specifically have a 5700XT, and if you use Vulkan (A competing Low-Level Graphics API - re: OpenGL, DirectX9-12, and Metal) , the game runs fine:  Open up the latest release with your favorite archival program(7zip, winrar, etc.) then copy the d3d9.dll into the same folder as your phase_shift.exe.

Step 1) Download Vulkan drivers

*For those of you that are rightfully skeptical to just be downloading .dll's off the internet, here's a link to a 100% clean VirusTotal scan of the downloaded folder. Right now, the most current Vulkan Release is 1.7. The file name is dxvk-1.7.tar.gz


Step 2) Unzip the contents of the "x32" folder into your Phase Shift directory (I used 7Zip):

dxvk-1.7.tar.gz   >unzip>   dxvk-1.7.tar   >unzip>    dxvk-1.7   >unzip>   x32   >open folder

Step 2.5)  Place d3d9.dll in the same folder that your phase_shift.exe is in.

Step 3) Shift Phases.