Visual glitch? Missing text?

[SlowBro,Eh]

After playing a few minutes, and getting past the first fight (dog) I started to notice more and more text was missing from my game. For example, on the main menu, and save screen I see no text at all...

Anyone else have this issue or know what to do about it? Ive verified my cache and everything, no help.

[Dusty Crawlman]

Is this happening in the legacy build?

[SlowBro,Eh]

Originally posted by dingalingboy:

Is this happening in the legacy build?

Just tried it, and everything looks fine. Whats the difference between the two builds?

[Daverball]

The legacy build uses the original rmvxa engine, whereas the default build uses mkxp which uses OpenGL instead of DirectX.

OpenGL can be a bit dodgy on older cards and especially on older drivers, so somewhat up to date drivers are required, although there's certainly some cards that might have issues even with the latest drivers, because they haven't been updated in ages by the GPU vendor.

Generally from what I can tell AMD and Intel cards seem to have the most issues, whereas I haven't had any issues reported from systems using Nvidia cards.

[SlowBro,Eh]

Alright, Im on AMD so that could be the issue. Thanks for the quick responses, devs. Im off to go play.

[ErinColleen]

I'm running an AMD as well, is there any way to fix this? I keep my drivers up to date but text is missing in a lot of places and it's making the game unplayable. Thx!

[Daverball]

Starting the game with the legacy option should fix the text on AMD systems.

Keep in mind though that unlike with Nvidia, if you have an intel integrated graphics along with your AMD card and have the AMD equivalent of Optimus running, so it'll switch between the cards dynamically, it will default to the intel integrated graphics card, so you either have to force the AMD card in the catalyst control panel for lisa.exe or update your intel integrated graphics drivers, since the issue would be with those drivers.

[Sturmlilie]

On the desktop our players only ever encountered this on AMD Southern Islands (7xxx) cards, basically the texture synchronization in the driver is busted, and since mkxp uses a lot of intertwined render-to-texture and subImage upload calls in the draw_text code the driver starts discarding all uploaded data. See my other post for a potential fix.

[Daverball]

A patch for this should now be live. You might have to edit your mkxp.conf and add the following line to it if it does not exist yet:

subImageFix=true

Alternatively you can also add it to the game's launch options like this:

--subImageFix=true