[0.295 Bug][Graphics] Fog of War gone after alt+tabbing

The game was running fine in fullscreen mode. Then I alt+tabbed and opened it up again. The fog of war was almost all gone and although the picture unfortunatly does not show it, I could see the outskirts of a blue city through the FoW a little lower. Here is the picture:

http://www.screencast.com/t/ZjFmMjhlZ

I alt+tabbed again to save the screenshot and when I came back, the fog of war was back down there, but there were some weird designs on the cloth map on the upper left corner of the map. Here are the pictures of the good fog of war and weird graphics, respectively :

http://www.screencast.com/t/OGM4OWZkOW

http://www.screencast.com/t/M2UxNzBi

(Note that I just noticed that the top part of both pictures isn't part of the actual true screenshot, it probably appeared when I used paint...)

 

Here is the debug :

http://tanisgosu.pastebin.com/YGHdZDz5

By the way, like 99% of the debug.err consisted of this line : DebugMessage:  ValidateDevice::Reset. The file was 2.5Mb big <_< .

2,195 views 4 replies
Reply #1 Top

To take a screenshot you don't have to alt-tab. Just press print screen, and you'll have the screenshot in you "my documents\elemental\ etc..."

Reply #2 Top

Or play in windowed mode, then alt-tab doesn't cause problems.

Reply #3 Top

I just thought it would be a good thing to point out that there are some problems with alt+tabbing. Personnally, and I think a lot of people do it too, I alt+tab all the time when playing games, for various reasons. Getting an unfair advantage for doing so seems... unfair X| . I also don't want to play in windowed mode, I didn't get a 17inch screen on my laptop for nothing :P .

Reply #4 Top

Yeah, I have a 17 inch screen on my lapop too, but I prefer to use my 24 inch external monitor.  :grin: