Ugly Mouse cursor

[Beaky]

Hello i just started the game and i noticed a very ugly mouse cursor:
--Link removed, ill upload a better shot in a sec--

Im using Linux 64 bit, Open source drivers AMD Drivers on a Radeon R7 260X

[Beaky]

for some reason when i screenshot this, i cant see the bug on the screenshot

[Beaky]

for some reason when i screenshot this, i cant see the bug on the screenshot.
Anyway, theres an ugly box around the cursors

[Kerberizer]

Yes, for me the cursor is also broken (transparency map or something like this) on R9 270X (radeonsi, mesa-git, llvm-svn), and also all planets display only night textures and thus never seem illuminated from the star (specular highlights work as expected though).

[Beaky]

Originally posted by Kerberizer:

Yes, for me the cursor is also broken (transparency map or something like this) on R9 270X (radeonsi, mesa-git, llvm-svn), and also all planets display only night textures and thus never seem illuminated from the star (specular highlights work as expected though).

Probably has something to do with radeonsi then

[Beaky]

Looks the same with amdgpu

[MacArthur]

No such problems on Windows with radeon.

Anyways most games give you ability to enable harware cursor if not in options than at ini files. odd that paradox didn't add it.

[Squiggle]

Same problem with AMD GPU on Linux.

[Kerberizer]

@Laxe.dll, yes, it works fine on Windows, and that is not surprising.

@Jabba the Frog, I'd be surprised if it were a problem in the KMS kernel driver (radeon vs amdgpu). It's almost certainly in the Mesa radeonsi driver, which is used by both radeon and amdgpu.

Anyway, there seems to be some progress at least on the cursor issue on the Paradox forums[forum.paradoxplaza.com]. The link might not be accessible without a Paradox accound and a properly registered Stellaris, so here's some copy-paste...

Originally posted by Zoft, Project Lead (Stellaris):

Could you post your error.log after you encounter this issue? (if it contain anything)
It is in the logs folder under ~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris

Officially we don't support running on the mesa driver

Originally posted by mordocai:

I'm aware you don't officially support mesa but since AMD has stopped properly supporting catalyst(doesn't work at all on newer linux kernels without patching things) it puts us in a bad place. Hope you guys can find the time to help us out!
(...)

Originally posted by mordocai:

Per agd5f on freenode IRC the cursor issue is that "Other OSes use non-pre-multiplied-alpha for cursors but X uses pre-multiplied alpha".

From the same source, the linux proprietary drivers apparently detect this and do the pre multiplication.

I'm guessing modding the cursor files can fix this so I plan on looking at it.

Any chance of an official fix there @Zoft ?

Pretty sure they'll fix it together with the AMD guys, but it might take some time. I guess at Paradox they're currently overwhelmed with all type of feedback.

[ttyb0]

Hello,

Same here with R9 290 on Linux.

Just a problem of opacity.

Fixed files : https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?attachments/cursors-zip.181143/

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ugly-mouse-cursor.926618/