Alpha 16 has buggy graphics and crashes

[alexanderW3]

If I enable shadows, only unit outlines can be seen, everything else is black. The shadows flicker and the game crashes:

"Much to our regret we must report the program has encountered an error.

Please let us know at ​http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ and attach the crashlog.txt and crashlog.dmp files.

Details: unhandled exception (Access violation reading 0x00000004)

Location: unknown:0 (?)

Call stack:

(error while dumping stack: No stack frames found) errno = 42 (?) OS error = 487 (Es wurde versucht, auf eine unzulässige Adresse zuzugreifen.)"

[alexanderW3]

I experimented a bit with the settings:

• Postprocessing enabled: everything black except health bars
• Shadows & GLSL enabled: shadows flicker
• Soft shadow borders: crash

So the original comment saying that enabling shadows causes everything to be black was wrong.

[Josh]

Try testing if enabling the options from the main menu before you start a game works.

[Stan]

Any Updates ?

[alexanderW3]

Changing the settings from the main menu doesn't help. I also noticed that enabling GLSL made some UI elements become almost black now.

[Stan]

Hey may I ask, what OS are you on ? Also what happens if you turn everything on shutdown the game and restart ?

Also, attaching a system_info.txt would be nice :)

[Josh]

Replying to stanislas69:

Hey may I ask, what OS are you on ? Also what happens if you turn everything on shutdown the game and restart ?

Also, attaching a system_info.txt would be nice :)

crashlog.txt contains the system info. It's Windows 7.

[Stan]

Thanks are your nvidia drivers up to date ? Are you using Optimus to lauch the game ? If not you should (usually right click on the programm)

[alexanderW3]

Yes the graphics drivers are up to date. I don't know why, but now it works without any issues. Both with the integrated graphics chip and the dedicated one. But I had restarted the game a few times before, so I don't think that's related to it.

[Stan]

No more crash ? Did you change any options ? If it is fixed I can close this ticket :)

[alexanderW3]

It works, no matter what options I enable. Seems to be fixed indeed.