V1.77 - Missing star/nebula textures

[JazHaz]

I would recommend setting the max-texture-size setting in the .GNUstepDefaults file to 1024 or even to 512. This should reduce the load when large textures are used.

[Diziet Sma]

The description of the problem seems to indicate that there is not enough and that RAM swapping might be taking place.

I have also noticed that in your first post you mention Intel graphics, but further down it is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400. I think this needs to be clarified a bit.

I see the same thing with my ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 laptop. I don't think it's a RAM swapping issue.. from everything I've read to date, I'm inclined to think it's due to ATIs incomplete implementation of OpenGL.

[Cody]

... I'm inclined to think it's due to ATIs incomplete implementation of OpenGL.

<has a flashback to three years ago> Those bloody ATI/AMD drivers - arghh!

[CommRLock78]

Interestingly, I haven't any problems with my Radeon HD 5450's driver (essentially - there's some slight tearing that I haven't been able to get rid of). A roll back might just help though, as another_commander suggested.

[Svengali]

Interestingly, I haven't any problems with my Radeon HD 5450's driver (essentially - there's some slight tearing that I haven't been able to get rid of). A roll back might just help though, as another_commander suggested.

VSync off?

[CommRLock78]

Interestingly, I haven't any problems with my Radeon HD 5450's driver (essentially - there's some slight tearing that I haven't been able to get rid of). A roll back might just help though, as another_commander suggested.

VSync off?

Nothing about V-Sync that I can see, but there is a V-refresh which is cranked up because Tear Free requires it to be so (Catalyst AI I just re-enabled yesterday trying to see if I could fix the tearing, which seems to be occurring about 1/3 of the way down the screen particularly when I'm yawing in Oolite fullscreen (windowed doesn't have the tearing, but graphics seem sluggish)).

[Cody]

V-Refresh is the same as VSynch - it should be pegged to your monitor's max refresh rate (I think).

[CommRLock78]

Well, I turned off the V-Refresh (as well as Tear Free). It didn't seem to help very much - it was tearing everywhere as apposed to tearing about the same line across the screen, although the displacement between edges did seem better. I get more displacement in the tearing (which is horizontal) with v-refresh on, but only happens about 1/4 of the way from the top of the screen (if that makes sense). I tried to take a snapshot of the tearing, but no luck with that .

[Cody]

From memory of my old ATI - CatalystAI off and V-Refresh on. Is there a setting anything like Triple Buffering? If so, toggle it on. All other settings (anti-aliasing etc) max!

[CommRLock78]

From memory of my old ATI - CatalystAI off and V-Refresh on. Is there a setting anything like Triple Buffering? If so, toggle it on. All other settings (anti-aliasing etc) max!

This is weird - I thought I had maxed out all the settings, but I realized the basic Anti-Aliasing 'method' was not maxed. After setting it from "Wide Tent" (which gives 8X samples) to "Edge-Detect" (which gives 12X samples), now oolite crashes.

Here's the latest.log

[Cody]

Ah... well, my ATI-foo is old and stale. Back to 8x, methinks.

[CommRLock78]

Ah... well, my ATI-foo is old and stale. Back to 8x, methinks.

Yeah, all reverted to the way it was - AI is back off. Ah well... thanks for the help anyway EV and Svengali . I'll have to play around with it some more. It's weird that 12X didn't work...

[Arch Stanton]

Thanks for the help all, I think the max texture size cracked it, triple-buffering in the ATI options seemed to help too.
Game now very playable, full shader model back on also, sooooo pretty!

another_commander, it's definitely an ATI Mobility 2400, sorry for the confusion - thought it was Intel GMA in my first post until re-checking!

Catalyst AI disabled, MipMap detail to Performance, V-refresh off, triple-buffering on.

Also .GNUstepDefaults (I've chopped out non-gfx settings from the post below, but not my own file):

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{
    NSGlobalDomain = {
    };
    oolite = {
	autosave = YES;
	display_height = 800;
	display_refresh = 0;
	display_width = 1280;
	fullscreen = YES;
	"max-texture-size" = 512;
	"procedurally-textured-planets" = YES;
	"reduced-detail-graphics" = NO;
	"shader-mode" = 3;
	"sky-render-inset-coords" = YES;
	"use-texture-lod-bias" = YES;
	"wireframe-graphics" = NO;
    };
}

Oh, still running in test build also, deployment build may well be faster (all initial problems were deploy build before switching to test).