Pi 3 display sometimes freezing and stuck in GPU reset loop

[bominic27644]

Batocera build version

43.1 2026/05/30 20:06

Your architecture

Raspberry Pi 3 B+

Your Graphic Processor Unit(s) (GPU)

integrated

Issue description

During certain actions, such as scrolling in the RetroArch menu, the display would freeze, and dmesg would show several resetting GPU messages. This is a known issue with the Pi 3, although I am unsure if it has been fixed yet or if any workarounds work on Batocera.

Detailed reproduction steps

1. Open any game that uses Retorarch
2. Open the RetroArch menu
3. Continuously scroll down until the display freezes
4. SSH into the Pi and run dmesg to see the errors being shown

Details of any attempts to fix this yourself

I tried changing dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d to dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d, though that breaks audio

Details of any modifications you have made to Batocera.

N/A

Logs and data

batocera-support-20260606161100.tar.gz