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 Oct 18 2016, 5:58 pm
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I'm playing SS13 and half of the titles are just pitch black, and clearing my cache doesn't fix anything. Is there a fix?
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Sorry, forgot to add the screenshot earlier
http://imgur.com/a/1odHS | |
Very curious. It looks like a lot of textures simply didn't load correctly.
Does switching to software rendering mode fix the issue? Also, does this problem show up in all other SS13 servers, or just this one? It could be an issue at the server end. | |
Software rendering mode?
Also its only on tg station | |
Is this reproducible? Otherwise it is most likely the bug with appearance replacement.
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Ah. I wish I had more insight into what was up with that.
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But looking at OPs pic again it looks a lot more like compile failure
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Its reproducible, kinda
I can get the same effect to happen, but doesn't persist past a DS restart like it does for the people i've been getting reports from.     I can get the 2nd and last one to reproduce the effect (but not the cause most likely) if i reinstall my video card driver while DS is running. The first and third seem like something else. The 2nd and last one are where only the top most overlay of any atom with an overlay is showing. The 1st and third seem to be the entire dmi displaying rather than the part of it that has the proper icon state/dir/frame. the doors on the top of the 1st one show this, it's like it's displaying all the frames of the close animation side by side. https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/21109 https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/21099 https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/21066 Users reporting this bug have not had upgrading to beta fix it. Bug has been tentatively narrowed down to when we started to use plane masters, here is the code for that change: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/20707/files we aren't yet 100% sure this caused it, but the timing matches up. We will be testing out removing it to see if it fixes the issue. I was suggesting that maybe reinstalling gpu driver might fix it for the user, but no word back on any of them if that worked. | |
Narrowed it down to this:
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/20707/ files#diff-a6ec6d960d8140159e0638a04774b970R17 we have two plane masters, the "game world" one, and the "lighting" one. If you are predisposed to the bug and have the game world one in your screen object list, it happens, if you have the lighting in your screen object list, no issues. if you have both (the default for most mobs) it happens. Game plane is 0, lighting plane is 15. | |
update 420: So basically we force hardware rendering on, but if you have a plane master in your client screen, anything under that plane master will display odd (seems like any atom with an overlay displays with a black tile background and only the overlays or top most overlay (depending on unknown factors) displays) if your preference for hardware rendering in the pager is set to false, even if hardware rendering mode is still running.
(it's either that, or software rendering has somehow gotten good enough that that blend multiply with alpha still works (since thats how i tell if i'm actually in software rendering), but i don't remember seeing anything about that in the changelog.) For anybody affected: Open pager/hub (the main byond application where you log in) And click the white gear/cog icon in the top right and go to preferences (or press control+p). Go to games then make sure that "Use graphics hardware for displaying maps" is checked. Reconnect to the game and that SHOULD fix it | |
I have confirmed that one user fixed the bug by disabling their intel secondary graphics card.
Still waiting to see if some of the others fix it by enabling hardware mode in pager. edit: currently linking everybody to this post to attempt the 3 potential fixes: https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/ viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5525&p=220316#p220316 | |
There's a good summary of the issue here as well
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/21264 although in this case it was enough to update to the 511 beta client. | |
You should of course normally seeing black tiles for anything that's hidden from view, so I'm assuming that's not what you mean.