Graphics problem with Ubuntu-20.04

[the_projectionist]

I am running Surviving Mars on my trusty Lenovo T460 with Ubuntu 20.04

The game runs fine, however, when I go to the control center, I see a weird background, which makes reading quite hard.

Here is an example[imgur.com]


My computer runs on an Intel HD Graphics 520 device, with OpenGL 4.6 and Mesa 20.0.8

Has anybody seen something similar, or does anybody have some hints?

[Turamarth]

I have the same problem. I am also running Ubuntu 20, and my graphics card is an Intel UHD Graphics 620. Did you manage to solve it somehow?

[SkiRich]

The built in on cpu Intel graphics processors have a hard time with transparency amongst other major 3D items of modern games.
Built in CPU graphics cards are not meant to run games and are no substitute for a real GPU. They are meant to be able to run CAD, 3D Imaging and some other stuff, but gaming? Thats not in their wheelhouse.
The best you could hope for is to grab the intel version of the graphics drivers and see if that works, instead of either the generic windows stuff or opensource linux stuff.

[Turamarth]

Originally posted by SkiRich:

The built in on cpu Intel graphics processors have a hard time with transparency amongst other major 3D items of modern games.
Built in CPU graphics cards are not meant to run games and are no substitute for a real GPU...

This is right, I know what kind of GPU I have. I was hoping for a developer / console setting that would allow me to disable certain transparencies even if it looked "uglier".

[SkiRich]

I would start with the graphics driver control panel and binaries from the source, removing any open source binaries to the GPU you have installed.