Shift key issue

[morimoto]

Hello, I am having a bizarre issue. When I am playing TA (Balanced Annihilation 5.8 ) and I que-up a build order using the shift key, all icons and and general game boxes disappear including the cursor. If I hit and hold the shift key everything comes back, but as soon as I let go of the shift key---- the cursor and icons are gone again.

My conditions:
OS-------------Windows Vista 32x
G Card--------ATI Radeon X1950 Pro (updated drivers)
Processor-----Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.00 GHz
Ram-----------3gb

Also, I am anticipating responses to this post to quickly point to Vista as the problem, and while I hate Vista as well, TA has been working fine for me with vista for quite a while before this glitch happened, so I don't think this is the issue. Anyways, if there is any brilliant person out there that may have an answer to this weird problem, I would be eternally grateful as I am currently unable to play TA.

[KDR_11k]

Did this start after the driver update you mention? It's an ATI issue AFAIK and they sure love pushing out broken drivers.

[morimoto]

Come to think of it, the problem did come after installing the new drivers. This is most likely the issue then. So will it theoretically be fixed with future drivers? And if not, how would I go about solving this? Having a non-updated driver would present other issues with TA I think.

[2k4]

I have the same problem like mentioned in:

Hi,

My stuff: Windows Vista, ATI Radeon 1300, newest drivers


When I give orders while holding shift and then move the screen, Textures, text, overlay disappear



Funny thing is that when I have a unit select AND it has an action que AND I hold shift then I see above again. While when I release shift all dissapears again.

BTW this problem started when I updated ATI drivers.....

Anyone has an idea?

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12951

problems started with catalyst 7.11, although I had some crashes with catalyst 7.10 also

to produce the error, just press shift a lot of times while queing and it will start to glitch

[Lion-Simba]

I approve this bug.

My system is Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy with Catalyst 7.11 for Linux (Radeon X700).

Any solutions here?

[Lion-Simba]

Just tested with Catalyst 8.1 for Linux.

All the same.

This bug is very determined for being just driver-side bug. It happens only on shift key and only when unit selected. I think that is something in spring code, which responsible for drawing UI.

[Lion-Simba]

With old fglrx 8.42.3 drivers there is no luck too. But. Previous version of spring (0.75b2) does not have this bug. I played it on this drivers very well.

Is this bug solved in SVN version?

Want to hear any developer opinion about that. :)

[marcp]

hi,

i was facing the same problem with my ATI Radeon 9600 and according tothis thread ==> http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 11&t=13935 i've downgraded my display driver and that's works now!

does it works for you ?

regards,
marc

[Lion-Simba]

i've downgraded my display driver and that's works now!

does it works for you ?

For Linux - it's not. I've tried that before. Nor with earler driver (fglrx 8.42.3), which was released before Catalyst 7.11 for Linux.

But, after many manipulations with spring settings, probably I found a good configuration. I attached my ".springrc" file (renamed to springrc.txt).
It works for me with Catalyst 8.1 and 8.2 for Linux.

Does it helps anyone else?

[Drezil]

had the same problem. after diffing with your .springrc i chhanged the following values (i guess the alttab-fix fixed the shift-issue, but im not sure)

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FixAltTab=1
SmoothLines=1
SmoothPoints=1

like i saw it in you file. now everything works fine (up to now) with version 8.3 of the ati-driver.

so thanks for your config-file

[Lis]

I had the same problem. The problem was not solved by only turning on the "Alt+Tab" fix. I also needed to enable SmoothPoints and SmoothLines and the problem was gone. I am on a Vista64 os with a ATI radeon X1300 graphic card.