[MC-280387] Taking screenshots sometimes black artifacts using OpenGL Graphics API

This issue first occurs in 25w08a

When taking a screenshot, there are some black artifacts.

This does not always happen, and I have not been able to figure out any patterns. Just running around in the world and making screenshots still reproduces it for some of them, though.

This does not seem to relate to viewing angle, or anything else.

Environment

Q4OS (Debian Bookworm Based Distro) Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-31-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon R9 380 Series Java 21.0.2

Attachments

crash-2025-06-29_19.46.32-client.txt

Comments 14

NeunEinser 2025-02-28T15:59:07Z

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Fantastime 2025-03-06T08:24:46Z

Are you able to reproduce this issue in 25w10a?

NeunEinser 2025-03-06T18:31:13Z

@Fantastime yes.

NeunEinser 2025-03-06T18:38:22Z

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NeunEinser 2025-03-06T18:39:41Z

It looks like performance is up again for me compared to 25w09b, I was just going to look into that and make a separate report if it hadn’t been reported, but that seems fine now.

I still occasionally get these artifacts. Just booting up a random world, running around and taking screenshots, it will happen maybe 1 in 10 times.

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Fantastime 2025-03-10T08:54:12Z

Would it be possible for you to try and update your GPU driver to see if it fixes the issue?

NeunEinser 2025-03-11T20:08:18Z

@Fantastime From what I can tell, I have the latest that are available to me:

daniel@daniel-Q4OS:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vulkan-drivers xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
firmware-amd-graphics is already the newest version (20230210-5).
libgl1-mesa-dri is already the newest version (22.3.6-1+deb12u1).
libglx-mesa0 is already the newest version (22.3.6-1+deb12u1).
mesa-vulkan-drivers is already the newest version (22.3.6-1+deb12u1).
xserver-xorg-video-all is already the newest version (1:7.7+23).
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu is already the newest version (23.0.0-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

NeunEinser 2025-03-11T20:31:50Z

@Fantastime If it helps you, the first version I can reproduce is 25w08a.

MrMuskle 2025-06-27T22:41:46Z

Does this issue still occur in the latest release or snapshot version of the game?

Also, were you by any chance using your integrated graphics when you encountered this issue? I’m asking since we are tracking a similar issue — MC-296773 — that appears to be exclusive to the integrated graphics of “Haswell” processors (and earlier), and you happen to have a “Haswell” processor.

NeunEinser 2025-06-29T17:50:57Z

@MrMuskle Yes still happening:

From what I can tell, Minecraft is recognizing the correct GPU. Attached is an F3 screenshot and a debug crash report.

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Yamato320 2025-08-08T16:29:08Z

And it happens to me but the screenshots look completely black all the time and it's extremely annoying. 😔

Kevin Jelek 2026-03-20T00:52:33Z

i’ve had the same problem too. i don’t know if it’s my graphics or the game.

NeunEinser 2026-03-20T08:24:52Z

@Kevin Jelek This looks different than what I am experiencing, there are also some glitched colors, and it's on the bottom of the screen, whereas for me it's more black lines all over the image.

I can also see the Basecamp indicator, which (unless this is a datapack) looks like you are playing modded.

If you can also reproduce this in a vanilla environment, please make a seperate report about your issue.

NeunEinser 2026-04-13T20:47:28Z

Hey, so I tested a bunch in the recent snapshots and it appears I cannot reproduce this issue using the Vulkan API, while I got it on two seperate tries immediately when switching to the OpenGL rendering engine.

Because it is still possible for me to reproduce using the old rendering API, I did mark 26.2-snapshot-2 as affected, but since I can use Vulkan (and Vulkan is otherwise also a pretty noticable performance boost), this is a non-issue for me at this point.

cc @Fantastime