Spiral Knights - inappropriate shadows on some terrain, Mac OS X

inappropriate shadows on some terrain, Mac OS X

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Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:25

Imperial

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Terrain elements, including square tiles and floor pipes, will occasionally flicker in and out of shadow.

I have observed this behavior both before and after the major update on 4/25. I haven't encountered it since the updates on 4/27 and 4/28, but I also didn't play very much between 4/26 and today. The flickering doesn't appear to respond to my mouse and keyboard inputs. I am playing on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.7; I have no idea whether my video drivers are up to date, as I don't know of any way to manually update them on a Mac. My graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, and my Intel Core i5 apparently has a built-in "Intel HG Graphics" GPU with 288 MB of VRAM. I play Spiral Knights in windowed mode with a resolution of 1024x768x32 0Hz and the graphics quality set to low, vertical sync enabled, and other advanced options disabled. I am happy to provide whatever other relevant details are needed to diagnose this bug.

Screenshots: http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/391/shadowbug.jpg

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:46

Dogrock

Are you running on a MacBook

Are you running on a MacBook Pro model that was released in early 2011? Then you could try giving this update a try. Other than that there seems to be no driver support outside of Apple for your device.

I used to see those kind of errors on two different Windows computers, but correcting the drivers has since gotten rid of them.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:20

Imperial

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Aside: why are post subjects not "Re: thread title" by default?

No, my MacBook Pro model was released in mid 2010. As you said, there appear to be no official graphics updates from Apple for my system. I do have automatic graphics switching enabled, but I have verified with System Profiler that Spiral Knights runs on my NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M card.

It doesn't look like there's anything I can do about this, huh? I suppose this sort of thing is unavoidable on a minority platform. At least I don't have any game-breaking bugs.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:51

Dogrock

I hardly use the Thread Subject field and let it auto fill.

At least you've got it confirmed off the Intel Graphics. My experience says this is very likely a software/driver error, but without alternate drivers to try I'm unaware of any solution.

There is one update from NVidia when I select your setup from their drop-box menu. However, this appears to be for desktop users upgrading to a Quadro 4000 only. It still has the GT 330M in it's supported products list.

I will say that people using MacBooks to play this game are not nearly as minority as usual here.

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