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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006112 | Dwarf Fortress | Technical -- Rendering | public | 2012-07-19 23:06 | 2012-09-11 21:14 |
| Reporter | kreepergrimms | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | immediate | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | unable to reproduce | ||
| Platform | laptop | OS | windows | OS Version | 7 home premium |
| Product Version | 0.34.11 | ||||
| Summary | 0006112: weird visual flashes on screen sometimes causing unplayable conditions | ||||
| Description | randomly when i load df my laptop screen will visually bug out with random colors and lines across the screen sometimes to the point where you cannot see the screen at all but all the glitches, i know this is a df issue due to as soon as i alt tab to another program the flashing stops, sometimes it is minor just a few random screen flashes and other times it will make my whole monitor screen go white | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | load dwarf fortress and wait, most times issue occurs in menu screens and trade menus | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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What's your video card, and are its drivers completely up to date? |
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More importantly, how old is your videocard? It's possible that running DF might be causing it to overheat - does the same thing happen in any other games (particularly 3D games using hardware acceleration)? |
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And finally, does the same thing happen in legacy vs. SDL versions? |
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all hardware is stock to this laptop, its 3 years old, and all drivers are up to date, didnt start happening till df was installed and will occur randomly during the startup of the system but hasnt happened during any of the other games i play, i have tried having df running and go into one of my mmo's and the video is fine in the mmo but soon as i alt tab to df it start bugging out |
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hp g71 notebook, pentium dual core cpu T4300 @ 2.10GHz 2.10 GHz, 4 gb ram, 64 bit os, windows 7 home premium |
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and yes sometimes running df does cause the laptop to get hot, but this issue happens on cold start too after it has been off overnight |
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Are you playing in a window or fullscreen? And have you tried changing the video settings in the init files? |
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usually windowed, and i have set the fps to 300, 150 respectively, i have not tried full screen but i will try and see if any new issues arise |
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update: running as full screen. the flashes are still occuring but not as frequent or as bad so yes improvement but still an issue, showed a friend who plays df and he said that its normal with df |
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It could be the high FPS causing the card to work too hard. I have mine set to the default 100 on a laptop and it works fine. |
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Please reopen this if changing the FPS to the default 100 doesn't address the problem. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2012-07-19 23:06 | kreepergrimms | New Issue | |
| 2012-07-20 05:33 | musicmastermsh | Note Added: 0023284 | |
| 2012-07-20 05:49 | Quietust | Note Added: 0023285 | |
| 2012-07-20 06:14 | Logical2u | Tag Attached: AWAITING UPDATE | |
| 2012-07-20 06:14 | Logical2u | Note Added: 0023286 | |
| 2012-07-20 10:57 | kreepergrimms | Note Added: 0023288 | |
| 2012-07-20 10:59 | kreepergrimms | Note Added: 0023289 | |
| 2012-07-20 11:00 | kreepergrimms | Note Added: 0023290 | |
| 2012-07-20 15:05 | Drazinononda | Note Added: 0023296 | |
| 2012-07-20 20:49 | kreepergrimms | Note Added: 0023298 | |
| 2012-07-20 22:59 | kreepergrimms | Note Added: 0023300 | |
| 2012-07-21 02:28 | Pufferfish | Note Added: 0023301 | |
| 2012-09-11 21:14 |
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Note Added: 0023560 | |
| 2012-09-11 21:14 |
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Status | new => resolved |
| 2012-09-11 21:14 |
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Resolution | open => unable to reproduce |
| 2012-09-11 21:14 |
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Assigned To | => user6 |
| 2012-09-11 21:14 |
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Tag Detached: AWAITING UPDATE |
