Spring RTS Engine

Hi to all!

I got a notebook with optimus technology. It has nvidia 540m video card and intel hd graphics video card.

As I know, these video cards can switch during play.

So I am running Spring... everything is OK but until AIR was built. If someone built some airplanes - my FPS slowed from 40-50 to 3-9. And strange looking black tails after planes appears. Take a look at screenshot: http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/8881/screen00000.png

I turned off everything at spring settings: advshading, shadows, reflections, dynsun etc., and bug is still there.

My infolog is attached.

I got my PC with i72600k and nvidia 560ti, so I will not play on this f#cking notebook anymore. But I want to report this problem and maybe such reports can help to improve springrts. This is my work notebook, so I can test more if needed and provide additional info.

i would guess that the black tails is caused by failing shaders.
maybe the slowdown is a result of that too.. i dont even know if it is possible to disable shaders in spring.. i would guess yes.. or there should be at least a widget that can be disabled.

hoijui wrote:i would guess that the black tails is caused by failing shaders.
maybe the slowdown is a result of that too.. i dont even know if it is possible to disable shaders in spring.. i would guess yes.. or there should be at least a widget that can be disabled.

I found a way to run spring on nvidia videocard only on this notebook and it runs on 40 FPS and without this bug. So this bug is 100% intel video card related. It was so hard to find a way to switch video card manually. I hate optimus technology

... it might help others (and possibly even yourself in the future) if you could give a short description here, about how you did it.

There are some related options in nvidia control centre:

I reported slowdown on this map long ago. I guess this is NOT airplane related. Try another map on Intel video to make sure.

slogic wrote:I reported slowdown on this map long ago. I guess this is NOT airplane related. Try another map on Intel video to make sure.

I tried other maps too. My bug is 100% airplane related. Slowdowns begins when black tail of airplanes appears.

is the lups widget disabled? (don't know if lua shaders disables this indirectly...)

Disabling the lups widget should fix it.

or better disable 'LuaShaders'