[3.30] Invisible walls issue

[Zikke]

I thought that I should make a separate thread for an issue.

Both permanent and granite walls are invisible for me in 3.30. I set the visuals to something different to see if it would fix it, but it did not. When I descend into the dungeon, the walls of the room I start in are visible but the walls are sometimes visible and sometimes not visible when I walk through a corridor (and yes, I'm wearing a light source ).

The buildings in the Town are invisible black spaces until I walk right up next to a wall.

I tried removing the pref-win file, which for some reason I remember trying that for a previous version, but it didn't fix the issue anyway. I am on Windows Vista 32-bit and using the standard tiles. I tried both full screen and regular size.

Any ideas?

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Zikke

I thought that I should make a separate thread for an issue.

Both permanent and granite walls are invisible for me in 3.30. I set the visuals to something different to see if it would fix it, but it did not. When I descend into the dungeon, the walls of the room I start in are visible but the walls are sometimes visible and sometimes not visible when I walk through a corridor (and yes, I'm wearing a light source ).

The buildings in the Town are invisible black spaces until I walk right up next to a wall.

I tried removing the pref-win file, which for some reason I remember trying that for a previous version, but it didn't fix the issue anyway. I am on Windows Vista 32-bit and using the standard tiles. I tried both full screen and regular size.

Any ideas?

Wow. I was all set to congratulate you on our first 3.3.0 bug report (esp. because I forgot to remind ppl to start new threads). But if this is a bug, it's somewhat embarrassing that we didn't spot it. I'm having trouble reproducing it on Linux though, so I'm hoping it's just a local issue ...

Can anyone else reproduce this? If so please state platform (and display module if applicable).

[fizzix]

I don't see it on Windows XP. I tried both my own build and the packaged build from rephial. Walls look fine on both...

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by fizzix

I don't see it on Windows XP. I tried both my own build and the packaged build from rephial. Walls look fine on both...

AFAIK this is Win7 -problem, if there is a problem.

[ehertlein]

I just started a game in Windows 7 from the build on rephial.org and I am not seeing this issue.

[Zikke]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

AFAIK this is Win7 -problem, if there is a problem.

I am seeing the issues and I'm on Windows Vista. I remember this happened in the previous version, and only me and a couple other people had the issue. I remember Nick posting some file that I copied into one of the game folders and it started to work... but that was a while ago.

I'll try it on another Vista computer I have here and see if that computer sees the same issue...

[thapper]

I've tried 3.3.0 on three windows machines. I have visible walls on windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 starter SP1.

However, the walls are not visible on my Windows Vista SP2 machine.


(on a side note I found a !Aug on dlvl3 on one machine but I wasn't going to continue that game...)

[Zikke]

Originally Posted by thapper

However, the walls are not visible on my Windows Vista SP2 machine.

I just tried it on my other Vista computer, and I had the same issue. Must be a Vista thing?

[thapper]

A quick fix that works for me on Vista is to edit the font-win.prf file in the lib\pref folder

It originally looks like:

### Terrain features ###

# Floors (white : centered dot)
F:1:all:1:7

# Magma (slate : solid block)
F:50:all:2:127

# Quartz (light slate : solid block)
F:51:all:9:127

# Granite walls (white : solid block)
F:56:all:1:127

# Permanent rock (dark red : solid block)
F:60:all:4:127

Change all "127" to "1" for solid blocks or "35" for "#" signs.

[Nomad]

Here's the previous thread about this issue. It does seem to be Vista-specific; I've got no problems on Windows 7 64-bit.