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tieme

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Buggy graphics (flashing old frames up)
« on: May 08, 2010, 11:09:08 am »

I have had an issue for some time now where the game's graphics get very buggy.  It's quite annoying.  It seems somewhat random, but only occurs when I am doing things (entering menus mostly, but also a lot on the create new world/embark screen).  The screen starts blinking really fast.  It's almost like one of the frames in the buffers gets stuck because I am seeing older images. 

At first it was just annoying but now it's so bad I can't even embark because I can't see any of the information of the sites I'm choosing.

Normally a restart of the game fixed it for a time, but now it's happening as soon as I start the game.

Has anyone experienced this and does anyone have any solutions?

I am currently using genesis mod on 31.03 but even with vanilla I was getting the same issue (although perhaps not quite as frequent).
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Re: Buggy graphics (flashing old frames up)
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2010, 11:18:10 am »

I think tweaking your partial print settings will help with this issue, but I'm no INIT expert.
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Re: Buggy graphics (flashing old frames up)
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2010, 11:21:43 am »

yeah, turn the partial print number up and it should fix it. Just keep bumping it up a bit and checking if it still happens.

Or alternately just turn partial print off unless you get a huge FPS boost from it.
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tieme

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Re: Buggy graphics (flashing old frames up)
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2010, 11:24:20 am »

YES!!

You guys are amazing.  I turned it to 3 from 1 and it is fixed.  I'll mess around with different settings, but this is definitely it. 

I love you guys.
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Re: Buggy graphics (flashing old frames up)
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2010, 11:26:54 am »

I LOVE YOU TOO, MAN!
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