# Upon starting my unreal engine my drop down menus do not work

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/upon-starting-my-unreal-engine-my-drop-down-menus-do-not-work/555076>\
**Category:** Getting Started & Setup\
**Tags:** unreal-engine, UE5-0, question\
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/upon-starting-my-unreal-engine-my-drop-down-menus-do-not-work/555076 "2022-05-12T01:54:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SNGlobalKiller](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@SNGlobalKiller](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/SNGlobalKiller)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/upon-starting-my-unreal-engine-my-drop-down-menus-do-not-work/555076/1 "2022-05-12T01:54:17Z")

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Upon clicking a dropdown menu it just shows the top left hand corner on the drop down, and upon hovering over a material or option the screen goes black and shows the option in the top left. Please help lol,

 ![unreal5](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/7/2/0/7205858a142e61b13f31a6e36536528cc6ff5b88.png)

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**Author:** ![S-ed](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/s-ed/32/1194558_2.png) [@S-ed](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/S-ed)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/upon-starting-my-unreal-engine-my-drop-down-menus-do-not-work/555076/2 "2022-05-16T23:22:29Z")

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That may happen on certain Nvidia drivers. Have you tried to get different driver builds?

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**Author:** ![SNGlobalKiller](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@SNGlobalKiller](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/SNGlobalKiller)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/upon-starting-my-unreal-engine-my-drop-down-menus-do-not-work/555076/3 "2022-05-18T10:05:14Z")

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I haven’t, I’m up to date on my drivers but I’ll test other drivers and get back to you!

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**Author:** ![S-ed](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/s-ed/32/1194558_2.png) [@S-ed](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/S-ed)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/upon-starting-my-unreal-engine-my-drop-down-menus-do-not-work/555076/4 "2022-05-22T12:53:44Z")

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One of my colleagues had similar (not the same) issue. Solution was:

> [@Right-Click Menu / Tool Bar Menu Disappearing?](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/right-click-menu-tool-bar-menu-disappearing/478940/7):
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> I also have been running into this issue as well for the past month on both 4.26 and 4.26.1. Whenever the right click issue occurs, I get black screen flashes on chrome as well for some weird reason. The only fix I’ve found for this issue is reverting my Nvidia Game Ready drivers back to the December version.

[https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a\_id/5157/~/after-updating-to-nvidia-game-ready-driver-461.09-or-newer%2C-some-desktop-apps](https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157/~/after-updating-to-nvidia-game-ready-driver-461.09-or-newer%2C-some-desktop-apps)

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**Author:** ![alberto](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/alberto/32/1194695_2.png) [@alberto](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/alberto)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/upon-starting-my-unreal-engine-my-drop-down-menus-do-not-work/555076/5 "2022-05-22T23:44:09Z")

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I had the same issue!  
I had a laptop and external monitor, both like 9 years old.

I bought a new laptop and another monitor, fixed 😃

haha well at some point, the monitor did the same in other apps, so I think was close to die…
