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I post here before - may be - post on mantis. I have a display trouble of the font in all the game : war room, briefings, hud...
The trouble is all the letters surronded by semi-transparent and irregulars line of dots. This dots are clearly linked with each character font : the same dots appears around the same chars.
I wonder how - at my knowldege - nobody (including me until today !) ever report such an issue. May be only a few of us have this trouble. You can check the elements of screen captures I give in the joined file. Just zoom in and the trouble could not be miss. At normal zoom, it is not so evident.
So, does anyone else have this kind of trouble ?
I don't seem to have this problem. Try using dofferent resolutions and see if it persist maybe?
I cannot reproduce this either.
This has aleays been a gpu dependant issue. I have some slightly visible artifacts on my system
I've just noticed this glitch on my installation but it's not this bad.
Yeah, I've seen this type of artifact as well, but it's not bothersome.
Yeah, I got it too.
I think it's engine specific since I had that issue with FS2, too. Tested it on nVIDIA and AMD cards. No change, the effect persists.
Stinger wrote:I think it's engine specific since I had that issue with FS2, too. Tested it on nVIDIA and AMD cards. No change, the effect persists.
As it doesn't seem to be that bad (and it's probably driver related and I have NO idea how to fix something like this, we'll just leave it as is. It doesn't seem to affect playability so it should be fine.
Ok, it's specific to my graphic card/driver (GTX580 and last drivers). I will try to tune driver parameters to see if it helps. If I find something, I will post the workaround. Anyway, as KeldorKatarn says, it doesn't affect playability at all and it's not so visible at normal zoom.
There is probably a way to fix this even on the affected chips, but at this point of the project we simply do not have the resources to tackle a problem that is so hard to track down and at the same time so unimportant.
I have found the graphic driver setting that make this trouble appears : transparency anti-aliasing. When I disable it, the trouble is barely visible. When set to max quality (8x super-sampling), it's obvious. Fortunately, I don't notice many (any?) transparent textures in WC saga, so this kind of refinement is not necessary. I create a game profile in the nVidia control panel. May be it's an advice that could be add in a text somewhere ?
lsdYoYo wrote:Fortunately, I don't notice many (any?) transparent textures in WC saga, so this kind of refinement is not necessary.
I don't think we have ANY transparent textures. And if we have a few then those are fully transparent. We don't have anything semi transparent. At least not on any of the ships.
KeldorKatarn"]Transparency anti-aliasing does not anti-alias transparent textures only. The AA in general filters the slim lines between the letters in the text so that they become more visible. The issue still exists even with AA deactivated, but it's less visible.