No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
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No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
Have had to switch to the laptop for a bit and installed this week's test, first problem was the game mouse wasn't displaying even on the home screen, the game knew where the pointer *was*, because if I moved it over the menu things would highlight and the sounds would happen, but I can't see where it is.
Getting into the game proper and the entire display is flickering, especially the menu at the top, and the mouse isn't visible making UI elements rather problematic...
Within the options screen, for inexplicable reasons, the mouse reappears if I go into Audio, UI, Galaxy Map and colors. It disappears for Autosave but reappears for Keyboard shortcuts.
When running quickstart, the mouse is visible while the screen is black and it's running the "generating" effects in messages, but when the map actually appears the mouse disappears.
This is new, it wasn't in last weeks Test.
(also, didn't there used to be an option to disable the system mouse in Windows? I can't find it)
Getting into the game proper and the entire display is flickering, especially the menu at the top, and the mouse isn't visible making UI elements rather problematic...
Within the options screen, for inexplicable reasons, the mouse reappears if I go into Audio, UI, Galaxy Map and colors. It disappears for Autosave but reappears for Keyboard shortcuts.
When running quickstart, the mouse is visible while the screen is black and it's running the "generating" effects in messages, but when the map actually appears the mouse disappears.
This is new, it wasn't in last weeks Test.
(also, didn't there used to be an option to disable the system mouse in Windows? I can't find it)
Mat Bowles
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
Can you identify a particular commit where the rendering issue start?
Back when using Ogre, which by default would render an in-game and the system mouse, but not always, yes.MatGB wrote:(also, didn't there used to be an option to disable the system mouse in Windows? I can't find it)
Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
No, it's not happening on Linux and I was only using Win10 overnight, it's the kid's laptop and I only have basic git setup there, no ability to compile at all. Plus, I have now cracked the screen of the laptop so while it's technically usable it's not really usable. Which, y'know, really bad timing but that's life.
I have zero clue if it's a that laptop problem or a Win10 problem and have no way of testing.
I have zero clue if it's a that laptop problem or a Win10 problem and have no way of testing.
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
I've noticed some flickering of the star icons when zoomed out in recent builds, which I suspect is related. Only happens when a system is selected, though... perhaps related to the new animation method for the system selection indicator. Never saw major issues on any other screen / situation, though.
Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
I have a laptop with Win10 (upgraded my Win8 one). I will compile today and test whether it's a general problem.MatGB wrote:I have zero clue if it's a that laptop problem or a Win10 problem and have no way of testing.
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
It is almost certainly a video driver or video hardware dependent issue. Likely I forgot to reset the rendering state somewhere in recent rendering code updates, and different drivers or video cards end up responding to that in different ways.
Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
Yup, no problems on my machine.Geoff the Medio wrote:It is almost certainly a video driver or video hardware dependent issue. Likely I forgot to reset the rendering state somewhere in recent rendering code updates, and different drivers or video cards end up responding to that in different ways.
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
I fixed a few places where some rendering settings were being set / not unset incorrectly. Would be useful to know if that reduced / affected the flicker at all?
Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
They came to late for this weeks test version, so I'll give it a go next week, can't really compile on this machine myself.Geoff the Medio wrote:I fixed a few places where some rendering settings were being set / not unset incorrectly. Would be useful to know if that reduced / affected the flicker at all?
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
I'm having this exact same problem on version 2015-10-12.f596343, in windows 7, 64 bit
Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
*bump*
Haven't used the windows laptop for months but this issue is still there with the most recent test build. Any ideas?
Haven't used the windows laptop for months but this issue is still there with the most recent test build. Any ideas?
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
As noted before, probably somewhere deep in the OpenGL rendering code, there's some state not being set/reset properly, which interacts badly with your particular drivers but not most others. The differing results for different options tabs suggests that the last thing being rendered before the mouse cursor on those tabs does reset the state properly, but that that isn't happening on the (rather sparse) autosave tab.
Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
Still happening with this weeks test (I rarely use the laptop), transferred as a Github issue.
https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/issues/676
https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/issues/676
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
For those that have this issue, curious if the order of tab traversal matters.MatGB wrote:Within the options screen, for inexplicable reasons, the mouse reappears if I go into Audio, UI, Galaxy Map and colors. It disappears for Autosave but reappears for Keyboard shortcuts.
e.g. If switching tab selection order from Video->UI->Galaxy Map->Autosave to Video->Galaxy Map->Autosave->UI (or some other combination) has the same effect on display of cursor.
As adrianbroher noted in the issue, a short video of the flickering (original issue) may prove helpful, especially to determine if two users experience the same issue.
I threw together a hotkey addition for testing the current state.Geoff the Medio wrote:probably somewhere deep in the OpenGL rendering code, there's some state not being set/reset properly
Are there other checks that could be performed or are these not the area of concern?
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Re: No game mouse and massive screenflicker on Win10
As it's not in this thread, but is said elsewhere, this appears to be a hardware specific issue with integrated graphics on some Windows laptops, both the laptops this happened to me on are now dead so I can't update or help further (my current Win laptop has a separate graphics card that works fine), but it's still affecting others, especially 'defaultuser' and if those affected can provide extra info that would be great, this has been a very annoying bug for far too long.
Mat Bowles
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