farima4 Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) Using windows 7 (downloaded the vs2015 redist). The game runs perfectly fine except for the fact that even when you build an outpost or make a unit go in to the unexplored areas they don't lighten up so it is impossible to see anything. It could be because I lowered the graphics, though I reinstalled the game and reset the settings and encountered the same issue again. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance! Edited February 19, 2023 by farima4 Added more context and made it easier to understand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternstaub Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 Hello farima4, welcome on the forum That sounds odd. Can you send an image of this phenomenon? Are your units walking through the black ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 Outpost don't have vision unless garrisoned which might be counterintuitive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternstaub Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 15 minutes ago, Stan` said: Outpost don't have vision unless garrisoned 7 hours ago, farima4 said: or make a unit go in to the unexplored areas If i understood correctly, the problem is not limited to outposts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 10 hours ago, sternstaub said: If i understood correctly, the problem is not limited to outposts. Yes. Units don't light it up either. Probably some visual bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 11 hours ago, Stan` said: Outpost don't have vision unless garrisoned which might be counterintuitive. Just as @sternstaub said even units don't light it up. I have the game on my laptop (running linux) so I know how it should function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 17 hours ago, sternstaub said: Hello farima4, welcome on the forum That sounds odd. Can you send an image of this phenomenon? Are your units walking through the black ? Here. Took it with my phone so the quality aint great but you can see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternstaub Posted February 20, 2023 Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 19 hours ago, farima4 said: It could be because I lowered the graphics Were you before able to play without encountering the issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 12 hours ago, sternstaub said: Were you before able to play without encountering the issue? Sorry for not responding immediately, i reached the daily post limit. As soon as I downloaded the game I put the graphics down because I knew it would lag a lot (very old pc). So no. I immediately encountered the issue. But as I said I re-installed the game and reset graphics to default and that also didn't fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladislavbelov Posted February 21, 2023 Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 8 hours ago, farima4 said: reset graphics to default and that also didn't fix it. Could you try to add the following lines to your user.cfg (path to the configuration file you might find here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths)? renderer.backend.debugcontext = "true" renderer.backend.debuglabels = "true" renderer.backend.debugmessages = "true" renderer.backend.debugscopedlabels = "true" Also is the issue reproducible for both OpenGL backend and OpenGL ARB backend (it's an option inside the advanced graphics tab)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternstaub Posted February 21, 2023 Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) Ah, @vladislavbelov, god bless; just asked the questions for someone with much more knowledge to come along Hopefully we will be able to solve @farima4 problem now 45 minutes ago, vladislavbelov said: Also is the issue reproducible for both OpenGL backend and OpenGL ARB backend[...]? Right, of course, the backend.@farima4if you are on an old machine, you might also want to test it out with the new alpha (A27, but it is still pre-release) for vulkan backend (which was also added by @vladislavbelov - kudos!). It seems to sometimes make a big difference for old systems performance-wise, and although not related to the actual bug, it might fix it aswell. That is, if you want to play singleplayer. If you want to do multi player, you will still need the current A26 release. See this topic: Cheers Edited February 21, 2023 by sternstaub clarification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 1 hour ago, vladislavbelov said: Also is the issue reproducible for both OpenGL backend and OpenGL ARB backend (it's an option inside the advanced graphics tab)? Same issue for both yes. Also adding those lines to the user.cfg didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted February 21, 2023 Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 1 minute ago, farima4 said: Same issue for both yes. Also adding those lines to the user.cfg didn't work. Can you upload the logs mainlog.html, interestinglog.html and userreport_hwdetect.txt Information about how to find them can be found here https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 49 minutes ago, sternstaub said: you might also want to test it out with the new alpha (A27 Where can I find the download for it? I only see alpha 26 on the download page. Also thanks for sticking with me through this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternstaub Posted February 21, 2023 Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 5 minutes ago, farima4 said: Where can I find the download for it? I only see alpha 26 on the download page. Also thanks for sticking with me through this I am not sure if there is a pre-built download for windows 7. Might be that you have to build it yourself. There are instructions for it here. But before you test this out, it would be good to provide the logs that Stan asked for. I am also very new to the game, so my suggestion might not help with your problem at all, and building can be a lengthy (30min) process. So, best do a quick upload of the log files first, because that can be done much faster than testing a whole different game version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted February 21, 2023 Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 Just now, sternstaub said: I am not sure if there is a pre-built download for windows 7. There is no download yet. We're waiting for the last release blockers. If you get SVN you'll have prebuilt binaries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Stan` said: Can you upload the logs mainlog.html, interestinglog.html and userreport_hwdetect.txt 12 minutes ago, sternstaub said: it would be good to provide the logs that Stan asked for Here userreport_hwdetect.txt mainlog.html interestinglog.html Edited February 21, 2023 by farima4 Incorrectly added the renderer flags to the user.cfg file. Now it should be alright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperion Posted February 21, 2023 Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 3 hours ago, sternstaub said: Right, of course, the backend.@farima4if you are on an old machine, you might also want to test it out with the new alpha (A27, but it is still pre-release) for vulkan backend If it's really old hardware as stated Vulkan won't be available, and the userreport_hwdetect indeed suggests this to be the case. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 3 minutes ago, hyperion said: If it's really old hardware as stated Vulkan won't be available, and the userreport_hwdetect indeed suggests this to be the case. Yep. I just checked. The gpu is intel hd graphics family and it is not supported by vulkan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladislavbelov Posted February 21, 2023 Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 3 hours ago, farima4 said: Also adding those lines to the user.cfg didn't work. Could you try to add the following line to your user.cfg then? smoothlos = "false" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farima4 Posted February 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 20 hours ago, vladislavbelov said: Could you try to add the following line to your user.cfg then? smoothlos = "false" It seems like that fixed it! Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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