Arioch's Bug Reports

[Arioch]

I figure I might as well post bugs here as well, so that everyone else can potentially benefit from them if they see something similar.

Running SIS in windowed mode, I noticed some graphical artifacts in the starfield on the main menu and faction selection screen. They appear to be the outlines of the large stars in the background. The most noticeable one is at upper left. These only appear in windowed mode, not in full-screen mode.

http://well-of-souls.com/temp/svenfleet ... shots1.jpg

My system is a Dell/Alienware X51 R2 (Intel Core i5-4430 quad-core 3.0GHz processor) running Windows 7 Home Premium with 8GB of RAM; the graphic card is an nVidia GeForce GTX 645 (8 GB RAM), driver version 344.75.

[sven]

http://well-of-souls.com/temp/svenfleet ... shots1.jpg

Yup, not only is this a known issue, I believe mharmless also mentioned it in one of his admirably thorough reports.

I know why it happens. I can replicate it, and it's very fixable. The bigger problem is the repeating lines that turn up in longer resolution modes. The starfield you've drawn for me doesn't extend that far up -- so I need a little code to shift around some of the elements enough to avoid the gap. Not hard. But it will take a few minutes of fiddling.