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Graphical problems on the GTablet
Hi,
I'm trying to get Vendetta working on my Viewsonic GTablet, but I'm getting black textures and a sort of black and white starburst effect. The demo section in the tutorial, where you're watching the view from a turret worked perfectly, however the station in the docking tutorial was textured completely black (looking at it brought the framerate to a crawl). After starting the actual game, my newbie ship is also textured all black and looking at the station (or near it) after undocking makes a very interesting lightshow (starburst).
I'm running the VEGAn Gingerbread edition rom, thinking it may be an issue with that. Does anyone have this working on the GTab, or have any ideas?
Cheers.
I'm trying to get Vendetta working on my Viewsonic GTablet, but I'm getting black textures and a sort of black and white starburst effect. The demo section in the tutorial, where you're watching the view from a turret worked perfectly, however the station in the docking tutorial was textured completely black (looking at it brought the framerate to a crawl). After starting the actual game, my newbie ship is also textured all black and looking at the station (or near it) after undocking makes a very interesting lightshow (starburst).
I'm running the VEGAn Gingerbread edition rom, thinking it may be an issue with that. Does anyone have this working on the GTab, or have any ideas?
Cheers.
It's almost certainly an issue with the custom rom. I haven't heard of any issues with the GTablet with the stock firmware. I understand the attraction of running something newer than Froyo, but there are a huge number of variables that go into the definition of a BSP. Some custom roms, for instance, may reduce the carveout size, giving the system more "memory", but then potentially introducing issues with really texture-memory or video-ram intensive applications (like ours). Any Tegra2 device with 1GB of ram should have a 256MB carveout. Then there's the selection of which nvidia BSP is used as the base, some of which may have bugs. So on and so forth.
I empathize with people wanting to modify these devices, but doing so clearly opens the door to new potential issues, which becomes kind of an exponential support hazard for us. So, while we won't make any official development changes for these situations, there are a lot of tunable parameters within the game options that people can use to experiment. We'll provide information when we can, and generally wish people the best of luck.
I empathize with people wanting to modify these devices, but doing so clearly opens the door to new potential issues, which becomes kind of an exponential support hazard for us. So, while we won't make any official development changes for these situations, there are a lot of tunable parameters within the game options that people can use to experiment. We'll provide information when we can, and generally wish people the best of luck.
I think you're right, I got it behaving better by setting video to the lowest settings, though if I wind up getting addicted ill flash a froyo rom. Thanks for the quick reply!
I am running Calkulin's froyo rom. I am also getting the black textures on certain things (ie. capital ship in training area).
I discovered that the problem was with the kernel. I switched to another and everything displays correctly.