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Graphics / Very odd rendering issue
« on: February 24, 2015, 11:42:36 am »
One person just reported this bug for Pioneers. This is what their main menu looks like:
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This is what it's supposed to look like:
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At first they reported similar visual defects but the game crashed on launch. I then asked them to upgrade the video drivers and that solved the crash but the defects remained. I thought this might be a texture rendering issue (npot or what have you) but notice the white window with buttons in it? The white background is just a RectangleShape, so no textures involved.
I'm not able to reproduce it on my machine obviously but I had a fresh install of Win 8 on my other partition and the game also crashed on launch (no defects) until I installed the Nvidia video drivers (it had the default drivers previously, I presume) so why does SFML crash in that situtation?
I have no snippets of code to post because this is not caused by a snippet of code, I'm sure of that.
Does anyone have any idea what might cause such a thing? I can't even describe what's going on ... like all the rows of pixels are there but the columns are all messed up?
edit: This only seems to happen in window mode. In fullscreen everything is fine.
Full sized image
This is what it's supposed to look like:
Full sized image
At first they reported similar visual defects but the game crashed on launch. I then asked them to upgrade the video drivers and that solved the crash but the defects remained. I thought this might be a texture rendering issue (npot or what have you) but notice the white window with buttons in it? The white background is just a RectangleShape, so no textures involved.
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AMD Radeon HD 7620G + HD 8600M Dual Graphics. Windows 8.1
I'm not able to reproduce it on my machine obviously but I had a fresh install of Win 8 on my other partition and the game also crashed on launch (no defects) until I installed the Nvidia video drivers (it had the default drivers previously, I presume) so why does SFML crash in that situtation?
I have no snippets of code to post because this is not caused by a snippet of code, I'm sure of that.
Does anyone have any idea what might cause such a thing? I can't even describe what's going on ... like all the rows of pixels are there but the columns are all messed up?
edit: This only seems to happen in window mode. In fullscreen everything is fine.