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[posila] Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:49 pm
by justarandomgeek
Re: Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:51 pm
by Supercheese
Isn't there a Factorio config setting for this? Something about enabling linear filtering for icons...
Re: Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:30 am
by justarandomgeek
So there is! But, when I set it back to "on" and restart, it flips itself back off again!
Re: Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:45 am
by Rseding91
Can you post your log file? Also are you using any command line options to launch the game?
There was a change in 0.14.2 that would turn off some of the graphics heavy options if it detected your video card as a lower-end model.
Re: Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:33 am
by justarandomgeek
Rseding91 wrote:Can you post your log file? Also are you using any command line options to launch the game?
There was a change in 0.14.2 that would turn off some of the graphics heavy options if it detected your video card as a lower-end model.
I had some non-functional options set in steam still, but removing them (so, no options at all now) does not change the behavior. Attached is a log of the restart after setting the linear scaling option back to on.
Re: Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:17 am
by posila
Rseding91 wrote:There was a change in 0.14.2 that would turn off some of the graphics heavy options if it detected your video card as a lower-end model.
That is supposed to work only when generating default values for config, and this GPU is not detected as low-end anyway.
What happened is that I added launch option "--gfx-safe-mode" which turns off bunch of things and now I found out, that Steam version goes to safe-mode regardless of the launch options being used. Dammit
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One of the thing it turns off is linear filtering for icons, which makes them unreadable sometimes in alt-mode.
Re: [posila] Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:32 am
by posila
Fixed gfx-safe-mode being always turned on on Steam version for 0.14.3
Question is ... should we also attempt to fix the problem of readibility when linear filtering is turned off?
Edit: Ok, only reasonable way how to solve it is to use linear filtering.
Re: [posila] Alt Info icons for letter/number virtual signals unreadable
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 5:57 pm
by justarandomgeek
posila wrote:Fixed gfx-safe-mode being always turned on on Steam version for 0.14.3
Question is ... should we also attempt to fix the problem of readibility when linear filtering is turned off?
Edit: Ok, only reasonable way how to solve it is to use linear filtering.
Thank you! I look forward to having readable signs again!
As to the remaining question, my user-opinion is that it won't matter nearly as much once the option is once again working as expected!
