Spring RTS Engine

Shadows are flickering with .80.2 when moving screen. Mainly at places where some unit died. Groundecals settings has no effect on this.

Screenshots can't be taken properly, because it's very high frequency.
shadows 1; shadow-map size 4096; HD4850 with 9.7@WinVista

Also i have that problem, but seems to happen only with some specific maps & mods, the map start flashing black when i zoom in/out

Yop, zoom in/out is also affected. My problem is connected with BA 7.00 & DSD.

does it happen while the game is paused?

I'm also having this problem. What types of GPUs do you other guys have? Mine's a Radeon 4890/1024.

The problem goes beyond flickering though, some terrain (especially when tall?) fails to draw a shadow and for some reason the lower right quarter of my screen also gets inconsistent shadows. All of these observations were on AD - might just be a peculiarity of the map or lighting angle.

As I posted before, I got HD4850/512@stock with Cat 9.7@Win Vista.

This problem is pretty random, though while game is paused it doesn't occour. /I hope/

//it occours even when a game is paused

Sorry I only read your first paragraph then got excited and posted because we were having the same problem.

Anyone with a Nvidia card having this problem?

If I donated my old 4870 to a dev would it help prevent these constant ATI issues?

Nvidia 8800 GTS also receiving flickers. I've had this for a few versions now though (maybe up till 0.78?)...Spring is the only game that does this to me...T_T

80.4 didn't fixed the flickering

Just had a crash in 0.80.4.1, I alt-tabbed out because the flickering was getting more and more intensive, and thought maybe that would fix it. Infolog shows:

[ 43327] Spring 0.80.4.1 (0.80.4.1-0-g0e3491f{@}-cmake-mingw32) has crashed.
[ 43327] Exception: Access violation (0xc0000005)
[ 43327] Exception Address: 0x0316d570
[ 43327] DLL information:
[ 43327] 0x00400000 spring
[ 43327] 0x7c900000 ntdll
[ 43327] 0x7c800000 kernel32
[ 43327] 0x10000000 DevIL
[ 43327] 0x77c10000 MSVCRT
[ 43327] 0x01bb0000 ILU
[ 43327] 0x77dd0000 ADVAPI32
[ 43327] 0x77e70000 RPCRT4
[ 43327] 0x77fe0000 Secur32
[ 43327] 0x68b20000 GLU32
[ 43327] 0x5ed00000 OPENGL32
[ 43327] 0x77f10000 GDI32
[ 43327] 0x7e410000 USER32
[ 43327] 0x73760000 DDRAW
[ 43327] 0x73bc0000 DCIMAN32
[ 43327] 0x76c90000 IMAGEHLP
[ 43327] 0x6fbc0000 mingwm10
[ 43327] 0x7c9c0000 SHELL32
[ 43327] 0x77f60000 SHLWAPI
[ 43327] 0x71ab0000 WS2_32
[ 43327] 0x71aa0000 WS2HELP
[ 43327] 0x6e940000 libgcc_s_dw2-1
[ 43327] 0x01bd0000 SDL
[ 43327] 0x76b40000 WINMM
[ 43327] 0x7c340000 MSVCR71
[ 43327] 0x66fc0000 freetype6
[ 43327] 0x61b80000 zlib1
[ 43327] 0x6ed80000 glew32
[ 43327] 0x6b180000 vorbisfile
[ 43327] 0x63e00000 vorbis
[ 43327] 0x01c20000 ogg
[ 43327] 0x01c40000 OpenAL32
[ 43327] 0x76390000 IMM32
[ 43327] 0x773d0000 comctl32
[ 43327] 0x5d090000 comctl32
[ 43327] 0x5ad70000 uxtheme
[ 43327] 0x74720000 MSCTF
[ 43327] 0x02b70000 UnlockerHook
[ 43327] 0x755c0000 msctfime
[ 43327] 0x774e0000 ole32
[ 43327] 0x69500000 nvoglnt
[ 43327] 0x76c30000 WINTRUST
[ 43327] 0x77a80000 CRYPT32
[ 43327] 0x77b20000 MSASN1
[ 43327] 0x72d20000 wdmaud
[ 43327] 0x72d10000 msacm32
[ 43327] 0x77be0000 MSACM32
[ 43327] 0x77bd0000 midimap
[ 43327] 0x73f10000 dsound
[ 43327] 0x77c00000 VERSION
[ 43327] 0x76fd0000 CLBCATQ
[ 43327] 0x77050000 COMRes
[ 43327] 0x77120000 OLEAUT32
[ 43327] 0x73ee0000 KsUser
[ 43327] 0x04550000 wrap_oal
[ 43327] 0x048d0000 nvLsp
[ 43327] 0x76bf0000 PSAPI
[ 43327] 0x71a50000 mswsock
[ 43327] 0x662b0000 hnetcfg
[ 43327] 0x71a90000 wshtcpip
[ 43327] 0x59a60000 DBGHELP
[ 43327] Stacktrace:
[ 43327] (0) Unknown [0x0316D570]

Example of the flickering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF94JM0DazU

In only a minute the whole screen will flash black about 6-7 times. (This is and LCD, its not the camera/CRT thing ) And that's the "normal" level. A little before I started recording it was easily double that amount.

Concur, having this problem with 9600GSO, latest NVIDIA WHQL, Windows 7.

Turning off bumpwater shorewaves fixed this bug for me.

I'll give that a go, though I'm pretty sure I lowered my water settings in game and it continued doing that (but I'll have to see if starting Spring without shorewaves does fix it)

Even with reflective its still buggy