r53345 tested on M2 Max under VMware Fusion. Everything renders perfectly: orbits, reticle, no black rectangles, no more error messages.

Thanks for upstreaming the fix, the game has no more issues in my setup, so far!

Sven, good news: the black rectangles are gone, both behind stars and under the selection reticle. You were right about the root cause (NaN in the ellipse-distance math), but interestingly, neither of your two newnantest variants worked on my setup. What fixed it was a third approach my AI assistant ...

Hi Sven, thanks for taking the time to answer. And yes, I may be the only one stubborn enough to fly this particular route. ;)

To answer your questions directly, here's the honest state of both setups on my M2 Max:

VMware Fusion (Windows 11 ARM guest) is actually the better experience, by far ...

Hi,

I hit a rendering bug and dug into it a bit with AI's help. Posting because it reproduces cleanly on two very different GL stacks.

Symptom: on the galaxy map, from the zoom level where the system inset appears, each star's inset (the planets + orbits view, composited onto the map) renders as a ...