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General Discussion / Re: Seemingly infinite supply of everything my colony is producing.
« on: November 22, 2018, 08:30:22 PM »
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Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Simulator Enhancements (03/13/24)
I've actually noticed that several ships have been completely missing from markets. So, consider this the milk-carton poster
All Tri-tach ships (Hyperion, Medusa, Aurora, Astral, Odyssey, Paragon)
And how many flawless graphics drivers have you gotten your hands on lately?
I still don't think the card needs to be faulty. Faulty cards tend to either throw serious errors or show corruption in general and doing different things, not just one particular borked effect. Windows 7's Aero is hardware accelerated including transparency, and I gather that it works fine. Think 'software first' and save yourself some headache.
The first thing I would do is make a backup of your Windows 7 and try the same thing on a newer version of the OS. You're running a modern card with modern drivers on an almost legacy OS. Could be something isn't playing nice here. If the same thing happens on a test run of Windows 10, then I'd consider sending the card in for a replacement.
Honestly this sounds with high possibility a bad card. If you could return it and get a replacement you should. Cards about to die often wont crash or drop in fps (because the main chip almost never have problems). Pay close attention if you see any other weird artifacts in other games.
If you cant return it or anything you could try "re-flushing" it. There are many ways and you can google it how it works.
Not sure what you mean. Factory defaults are used when you install a new driver if you select "clean installation", which you should always do. I then modify game specific options, never the global ones. I tried changing every setting for Starsector because I have nothing to lose anyway. Worst case scenario the game refuses to launch, but it didn't happen anyway. Absolutely nothing changed.
Definitely changing opengl settings, not directx?
It's been a long time since I had an nvidia card, but they used to be separate settings.
Only because recently I thought my GPU was ready to be thrown out of the window, and if things go south with the drivers, I would suggest trying to remove it from your PC, clean it's connection and put it back in.
Randomly my GPU started giving me artifacts and errors and the PC would get stuck. I tried removing the static a handful of times, holding the power button while the PC was not connected, but sadly it did not work.
I just then took it off, cleared the dust and when I put it back on, it was as if it never had a problem. It was weird cause if I did not try to play a game or watch a video, it would not have problems. As soon as I did, it would show artifacts and eventually get stuck. That feminine part of the computers, that I will never understand..
Could you record a video of the corruption(s) and upload it to YouTube?
Knowing precisely when, and which texture(s) are affected will be useful.
Also do you have access to any other opengl/lwjgl games to see if they might also exhibit the same issue anywhere?
http://wiki.lwjgl.org/wiki/Projects_Using_LWJGL