Invisible objects

dHay · #1 February 6th, 2004, 08:26 PM

Am I the only one still getting invisible ships, planets, etc, in the 1.15 patch?

I suspect that every system has at least one invisible object. You really only notice it when it is your ship, an attacking ship, or a starbase/planet that you are interested in.

I went through an entire system looking at every asteroid, etc, and did find an invisible satellite.

(You can check asteroids by getting into the field, setting radar at 75ls, and checking each one in the radar field.)

My "log.log" file is full of
02/02/2004 9:45:10 PM *** ERROR: DrawIndexedPrimitive HRESULT = 32 ***

Like 200,000 lines of it. (Different time stamps...)

Windows API error 32 is "SHARING_VIOLATION". What it is failing to share, not quite sure.

bearclaw · #2 February 7th, 2004, 11:56 PM

I'm finding them too. In fact, there appear to be many more invisable objects now than before the patch. I just write it off as cloaked ships/planets etc, that aren't fully functional. Works for the story point of view.

"Oh look, those silly Terrans turned on their planetary cloaking device again. And it's still not working right."

Where's Scotty when you need him...

Lastseer · #3 February 27th, 2004, 05:35 PM

I have the same problem. I have found that actually quitting the game and starting up again from scratch causes the objects to draw again.

Whenver my own ship goes invisible. I just save my game. Quit totally of of SE:SF and then load up my saved game. Problem fixed. A little annoying but it doesn't take that long to do.

dHay · #4 February 27th, 2004, 06:55 PM

Turns out this is a known problem (for StarFury) with the NVidia cards.

If you look at StarFury file "Log.log", it is full of an error message.

You should periodically delete Log.log, as it was 32Meg the Last time I deleted it....

Lastseer · #5 February 27th, 2004, 07:04 PM

I am pretty sure some kind of resource is not being released by the game. Because every time I load a saved game the problem gets a little worse. And quitting and restarting the game entirely fixes it. So the game is probably holding on to some resource.

P.S. I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, not a Nvidia card. And the problem affects me as well. So I doubt the problem is driver specific.

[ February 27, 2004, 17:05: Message edited by: Lastseer ]

dHay · #6 February 28th, 2004, 04:52 AM

Hmm, that is not what Aaron had been saying. So, you are correct. It is more than a specific card issue.