ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

If I stand on any square on the east edge of the SE crater in searing hall the whole screen goes black (except for minimap, icons at bottom, status bars). If I leave these squares everything becomes visible again. There may also be some other locations which do this (but east edge of at least one other crater does not do it - and just loaded and checked... east edge of all other craters also ok)

I get similar things in abashed expanse which seem to be location dependent but I haven't worked out what the pattern is yet as I die so quickly there if I try the wrong direction to move in initially.

I am running the game on 64 bit ubuntu 15.4 with the current nvidia drivers (as provided by ubuntu) as far as I know.

Have you tried disabling shaders?

I have now disabled all options mentioning shaders, exited game, restarted, created new doomcaller, black screen until I move. Not one of the squares I mentioned previously though. Killed before I could reach the squares I did mention previously.

Retried a few times. Started at SW corner of NE crater of cluster. Black screen until I move.

Also disabled "framebuffers".

Now I get a black screen instead of stats/skills screen - totally black. Nothing visible at all. And when I somehow manage to close that without seeing it, black screen when I start game until I move one square. Ok re-enabling framebuffers doesn't bring stats window back, but re-enabling the basic "shaders" as well option does.
(and with shaders on, framebuffers off, no stats window at game start). (all this as doomcaller every time)

what happen if you set lower resolution on fullscreen for game?

I'll try that this evening.

OK. 3200x1800 windowed mode: seemed ok at first sight but background mostly black. running in any smaller resolution in windowed mode I see an image
of the earth in the top left which wasn't there before. but running windowed 3200x1800 may be unreasonable since that's my entire screen res.

both areas I have problems with seem ok in windowed modes smaller than full screen res based on one try at each.

I suppose 2048x1536 in windowed mode isn't so bad. I've been trying to switch into fullscreen mode in smaller res than 3200x1800 but it doesn't seem to be having it. Worked the other day.

Of course fullscren in a smaller res would be a way of not needing to use extra big fonts. Hmm.

I had previously imagined that when the screen wasn't just black it was basically ok but I'm starting to think it may not have been since I'm seeing new stuff now.

Is it worth my pursuing this any further? I'll try actually playing in windowed 2048x1536 for a bit and see what happens.

Updated: I've maximised the window and taken a snapshot. framebuffers and all opengl features are disabled (and I closed game and reopened).

(Couldn't attach file as too big... and image is insanely big in forum if in img tags Changing to normal URL if it will let me.

http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/abashed1.png

something doesn't look right with one of those island/platform things - one of the corners looks scrambled

The messed up corner happens for everyone.

Here are a screenshot of what I see when entering the second level of abashed expanse, and a log (found out how to turn it on from another posting) from start of game to me entering second level. (View on entering level 1 was the same) On both levels, after one move I can see things again.

http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/archmage.png

http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/archmage-te4-log.txt

From this position I can repeatedly see stuff and not see stuff by moving one square right and left.

screenshot of me being able to see stuff:

http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/archmage2.png

and log after moving back and forth a few times.

http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/archmage2-te4-log.txt

I'm not sure if anything looks obviously significant in there. Maybe "Astar fail: destination unreachable" isn't a real problem.

Here's a log as a halfling archmage where I couldn't see even when moving (possibly because something blocking me so not actually moving) but after I died I also still just saw black and couldn't see the window offering me various options. I clicked in various places until something happened (new character choice of some kind).

http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/halfling ... e4-log.txt

I think turning framebuffers and the basic opengl setting back on may help with this based on problems with the stat choosing screen at the beginning of some other games. Will try to reproduce.

Just now started as a cornac doombringer and didn't even get the stats/skills screen. Just blackness.

This with marson's disabled and framebuffers and opengl all off.

So hmm.

Log of game from start at http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/doombringer-te4-log.txt

in case it helps. (Can't see earth in top left of screen but maybe with all the stuff that's off this is to be expected)