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Bug #636

Severe graphics corruption and crashing under OSX.

Added by SuperD almost 11 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Severity:
Very Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
Camera
Target version:
-
Start date:
05/17/2013
% Done:

100%

Version:
Platform:
OSX
Expansion:
Language:
English (US)
Mod Related:
No
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Description

System Specs:
OS: OSX 10.8.2
RAM: 16GB
GPU: AMD 6770M 1GB
CPU: 2.4Ghz I7 quad core
Machine: Late 2011 MBP

Mod Packs:
B9 aerospace
MechJeb
KW rocketry

Problem Description:
Severe graphical problems and crashing under OSX with any mod pack installed. corruption typically happens after a crash or 'stressful' game event such as a stage separation or 5x+ warp. Problem persists with fresh download of mod packs and game, using the exact same download(s) for the mod pack under Windows causes no graphical problems.

Additional:
Problem cannot be duplicated under a vanilla game install. still attempting to produce results.

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History

#1 Updated by Ted almost 11 years ago

  • Severity changed from Urgent to Normal

Downgraded as it does not occur without Add-ons.

#2 Updated by Ruedii almost 11 years ago

I wanted to add my insight from years of experience: I think this is likely a hardware issue.

This looks like either video memory overheat, or GPU overheat.

You may want to check your power management settings to see if you can turn on active cooling while you are playing. You could also try throttling back your processor's maximum speed by one notch to reduce the amount of heat being fed into the unified heat sink from the processor, allowing it to better cool your video components.

It seems some games handle this better than others. There is a routine to reduce this issue. (Checksumming and/or reloading of textures and shaders in certain cycles.)

You might want to throwing together a large rocket or airplane (or simply try loading someone's wiggler) and see if that will get it to trigger in stock.

Otherwise it would be helpful to figure out what add on is causing it. I suspect it may be B9 Aerospace since that is most likely to increase the number of physics calculations.

Make sure to report back, since that information could be very helpful.

#3 Updated by Ted almost 11 years ago

  • Target version deleted (0.19.1)

Removed target version.
superD, could you try reproducing this error and including your player.log when it does occur?
Until then, as Ruedii says, this could be an issue with your system as opposed to the game.

#4 Updated by sal_vager over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Need More Info
  • Severity changed from Normal to Very Low

Marking as requiring more information as this needs to be retested without graphics addons.

#5 Updated by TriggerAu almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Need More Info to Needs Clarification

#6 Updated by TriggerAu over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Needs Clarification to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Closing this report out for now. If you find it is still occuring in the latest version of KSP please open a new report (and this one can be linked to it.) For best results, the wiki contains really useful info for when creating a report http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/projects/ksp/wiki.

You can also ask questions about the bug cleanup in the forum here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/143980-time-to-clean-up-the-bug-tracker/ and tag @TriggerAu to get my attention

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