Hi there,
I have freeorion installed on 2 PCs, laptop and desktop. On laptop (with Intel card) it works and shows fine. On the desktop, with an ATI card, mouse and fleet icons are shown weirdly. I attach screenshots of the issue.
Is there any known issue regarding freeorion and ATI cards?
greetings,
Rydra
[SOLVED] Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
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[SOLVED] Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
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Re: Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
I've never seen rendering issues like that before (though there have been various others)... Make sure you have updated video drivers.
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Re: Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
As an ATI card owner I'm not aware of that issue. Do you use fglrx or the open source ati driver?
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Re: Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
I'm using fglrx (extract from /etc/X11/xorg.conf)adrian_broher wrote:As an ATI card owner I'm not aware of that issue. Do you use fglrx or the open source ati driver?
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Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
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Re: Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
If you're using the legacy fglrx driver I would suggest to move to the open source drivers. I know when I used the fglrx (a long long time ago…) issues like image corruption as the one in the screenshot were daily business (alongside with the biweekly spontaneous X11 hangups and crashes ;) ).Rydra wrote:Also my ATI card use legacy drivers on ubuntu as it is a Radeon HD 4350 (I think those are not updated anymore, they are ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install and fglrx-amdcccle-legacy packages, which they are installed on my system)
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Attached patches are released under GPL 2.0 or later.
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Attached patches are released under GPL 2.0 or later.
Git author: Marcel Metz
Re: Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
I uninstalled fglrx and installed the OpenSource ATI drivers and now graphics are shown fine! The downside is that performance of demanding 3D like Amnesia or any other FPS decreased dramatically, but ohhh well... I'll have to balance those situations.adrian_broher wrote:If you're using the legacy fglrx driver I would suggest to move to the open source drivers. I know when I used the fglrx (a long long time ago…) issues like image corruption as the one in the screenshot were daily business (alongside with the biweekly spontaneous X11 hangups and crashes ).Rydra wrote:Also my ATI card use legacy drivers on ubuntu as it is a Radeon HD 4350 (I think those are not updated anymore, they are ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install and fglrx-amdcccle-legacy packages, which they are installed on my system)
The steps I followed to uninstall and reinstall the ATI drivers are found here: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... st.2Ffglrx
I mark this post as solved.
PD: Btw, is it normal that the full research tree and the game in general consumes so much CPU? It's always at 100% and I don't think it requires so much 3D rendering... and graphics are not smooth on ATI OS drivers
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Re: [SOLVED] Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
You can limit the FPS in the video options tab. It doesn't actually work correctly to produce the requested FPS, but setting a limit should reduce CPU use doing unnecessary rendering.
Re: [SOLVED] Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
Limit was already enabled, though I'm already experiencing 20 FPS with ATI opensource drivers(though corrupted graphics, fglrx provided more performance up to those 60 FPS). I think it is a graphics card issue and nothing can be done about that.Geoff the Medio wrote:You can limit the FPS in the video options tab. It doesn't actually work correctly to produce the requested FPS, but setting a limit should reduce CPU use doing unnecessary rendering.
Re: [SOLVED] Weird graphics on freeorion with ATI card
I've just fixed this issue by updating the proprietary driver to version 1:13.11~betav9.4-1 from testing, on Debian wheezy.