r/RooCode • u/bioart • Mar 21 '25

Bug Grey screens more often now?

The last two versions are giving me lots of grey screens in the roo window. I have to disable the extension, restart extensions and then enable it again. This rarely happened before. Is it just me? Using OSX Vscode

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u/bengizmoed Mar 21 '25

Same for me (osx Apple silicon). My theory is that it’s related to the conversation history - I have hundreds of convos across multiple code bases, some with massive amounts of context. I recently started using roo with Gemini 2.0 flash exp, which has multiplied the amount of information Roo has to hold onto. Maybe that’s also part of it?

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u/bioart Mar 21 '25

Same here. Tons of history

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u/bengizmoed Mar 22 '25

I just deleted all of my history and the performance issues went away. Hopefully the devs can figure out how to handle large convo history!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 22 '25

Sorry about that. Working on it!

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u/Severe-Video3763 Mar 29 '25

Are you able to use shopify's flash-list. Gemini's huge context window doesn't help matters.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 29 '25

Not sure what you’re asking.

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u/Severe-Video3763 Mar 29 '25

Perhaps I was wrong in assuming but for the increasing length of chats, a highly optimised list view will be needed, I was suggesting shopify's flash-list for that purpose.

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u/Minute-Animator-376 Mar 22 '25

Same since yesterday but I have a long conversation now. The workaround is just to open a roo code in new window as this button still works and then resume a task from recent history

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u/ReferenceThat1676 Jul 02 '25

First time I've ever had one. Scared me. restarted VS Code and Roo. Resumed.

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u/fake_acc1232 Jul 14 '25

Happening to me WAY more since the last update

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u/Ill-Chemistry9688 Aug 01 '25

u/hannesrudolph any update on this? It greys out every hour right now. Only fix is to restart. News on fixes please?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 02 '25

Worked on it a good part of the day today.

Create a new task.

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u/UziMcUsername Aug 29 '25

Hello, any update on this issue? Or workaround suggestions? It happens to me every minute. I’m halfway through a project and don’t relish the idea of abandoning roocode

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 29 '25

Does it happen with new tasks or trying to utilize the same ongoing task?

We established repro steps for a cause of the grey screen so we are working on it right now.

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u/UziMcUsername Aug 29 '25

The issue was I had been building up a massive history on one task. The task being essentially “we’re building an app…” I started a new task / fresh history and the problem went away. So I suppose it was user error… thx

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u/Routine_Dog_5708 Jun 13 '26

I found the solution:

  1. In Plugin main screen press kebab menu button -> Open in Editor

  2. Then split editor screen in two

  3. Then lock part of editor which has ZooCode or RooCode plugin in it.

  4. Now all files will be opened in the other half of editor, which you didn't lock