1440p map issues

[Hephalumph]

Playing in 1440p high settings. Had the black graphics issue, disabled FSAA and all seemed well.

All, except... when I bring up the nav map, the map is squashed into about 80% of the screen to the left and the right fifth or so of the screen are just horizontal lines matching the pixel color of the right edge of the map. It is really jarring.

If I switch to literally any other possible resolution (including several that give me huge black bars at the sides or top/bottom of the screen), the map works perfectly. But in 2560x1440, I get this messed up map.

Anyone know what I can do about it?

[Edit] Just found out if I pan right, the 'map' will scroll through the banded lines endlessly, slowly pushing the actual map off screen to the left, and continuing to scroll forever (as far as I can tell)...

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Though most would hate to even try it.
I find older games on PC's with WIndows 10...
Will work better if you run it in windowed mode.

[Zach]

I would love to run this game in windowed mode, but for some inexplicable reason if you turn on windowed, you can't choose 2560x1440 as a resolution. But it offers the rarely used 2560x1600 lol. Annoying, and editing the config file doesn't seem possible since it's filled with "NULL" entries.

[Elbmek]

Yes, happened to me when I try to load up higher resolution. But, using Nvidia game experience (RTX3060) it began working, GE alters something. If, like me, you had AMD or have AMD, you cant fix it.

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Publicado originalmente por Zach Fett:

I would love to run this game in windowed mode, but for some inexplicable reason if you turn on windowed, you can't choose 2560x1440 as a resolution. But it offers the rarely used 2560x1600 lol. Annoying, and editing the config file doesn't seem possible since it's filled with "NULL" entries.

Publicado originalmente por Elbmek:

Yes, happened to me when I try to load up higher resolution. But, using Nvidia game experience (RTX3060) it began working, GE alters something. If, like me, you had AMD or have AMD, you cant fix it.

Well you could try navigating to here:
C:\Users\*USERNAME*\Documents\Ascaron Entertainment\Darkstar One
Then try deleting the "Config.bin" file and repair the game and try to launch it then.
You should be able to launch the game and be able to modify settings again.

Maybe also try a older driver that can sometimes fix these quirky-ness issues.
Maybe not all but should be able to fix some.

[jan.schacht]

Does the map for anybody with higher resolution as fullHD rendered correctly? No matter what PC and monitor (4k 32´LG monitor, 2560*1440 laptop monitor or 4k 55´Samsung TV) the map is always bugy, except in fullHD / 1920*1080. GPU and driver does´nt matter anyway (6600xt laptop, RTX 3060ti or 3080 with different drivers).

I think the map is rendered at a fixed resolution, or am I wrong?

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Publicado originalmente por jan.schacht:

Does the map for anybody with higher resolution as fullHD rendered correctly? No matter what PC and monitor (4k 32´LG monitor, 2560*1440 laptop monitor or 4k 55´Samsung TV) the map is always bugy, except in fullHD / 1920*1080. GPU and driver does´nt matter anyway (6600xt laptop, RTX 3060ti or 3080 with different drivers).

I think the map is rendered at a fixed resolution, or am I wrong?

Drivers ALWAYS matter.
There was a driver long ago that no matter the input I tried forced my GPU fans to run 100% -No problems before updating but after...

Not even MSI Afterburner could stop them and they died quicker than I could downgrade the driver. Not a total loss though since the fans were 4+years old and needed replacing anyway. After replacing they still ran at 100% till I switched back to my previous driver and when I finally felt brave enough to upgrade the driver I jumped 20 versions hoping for better results and so far have not had that again.

But I Digress...
Back to the question at hand that I have:
Which driver are you using and reverted to for the NVIDIA cards?
I assume that it is no lower than a 500 numbered driver right?

Something not commonly known about graphics card drivers is that as you go up the hierarchy... They remove support for older games and devices from drivers by removing antiquated instruction sets. Remember Physix or 3D Gilde for example. This is done in my opinion to make way for more modern instruction sets IE:>> RTX and so on. Trade off is older instruction sets go the way of the dinosaurs and likewise the games that depend on them.

In your case the best option is to find a driver that is compatible with older graphics cards say of the 600/700 series -when Darkstar One came out in 2006 that is also compatible with your hardware...

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Publicado originalmente por jan.schacht:

Does the map for anybody with higher resolution as fullHD rendered correctly? No matter what PC and monitor (4k 32´LG monitor, 2560*1440 laptop monitor or 4k 55´Samsung TV) the map is always bugy, except in fullHD / 1920*1080. GPU and driver does´nt matter anyway (6600xt laptop, RTX 3060ti or 3080 with different drivers).

I think the map is rendered at a fixed resolution, or am I wrong?

You know what.
I will save you the trouble:
Try this driver if you have not yet:
Nviida Driver 465.89 WHQL:
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/172060/en-us

It is listed all the way back to the 600 series but also fully supports 3000 series. So hopefully it will have the necessary instruction sets.

Though if it doesn't work you could try being adventurous and use my driver which weirdly shows that it supports the 3000 series but not the TI versions -strange:
Nvidia driver 457.30:
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/166627/en-us

Hope it helps.
Defendereon-KB-M =Debugger

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Publicado originalmente por jan.schacht:

Does the map for anybody with higher resolution as fullHD rendered correctly? No matter what PC and monitor (4k 32´LG monitor, 2560*1440 laptop monitor or 4k 55´Samsung TV) the map is always bugy, except in fullHD / 1920*1080. GPU and driver does´nt matter anyway (6600xt laptop, RTX 3060ti or 3080 with different drivers).

I think the map is rendered at a fixed resolution, or am I wrong?

Good catch.
IF the map is rendered at a predefined resolution -then it is around 2000x1500...
That I guess could explain the map issue squashing and glitching the game.
Since modern PC's don't necessarily follow that resolution scaling so distortion occurs.

[Elbmek]

I am running game perfectly on 1920 x 1080 in beautiful graphics. I used to have it higher and had map probs, but Nvidia did a download a few ago and it reverted all setting, on all games, to 1920 x 1080, the native res of my 27 inch monitor (4K samsung 27 inch) which had also lost its higher settings. When I first got the monitor, diff card; it could go up to 3000+ res. I can now lower resolutions but not higher. Anyway, everything works fine so I have stopped being bothered. Higher res is not necessarily a good thing.