[Known] Sprites graphics square outline
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Dear devs
Very annoying graphical artefacts can be seen on OS X in BG:EE when:
Sprite outlines are turned off
Zoom is all the way
(It happens on less zoom too)
In motion it's much more ugly, tiny lines of sprite boxes appear all around the characters.
You have to download full picture to see it.
Very sad as it renders game unplayable to me - those ever appearing lines seriously distract!
And nope, it was all perfectly cool on 1.4.
OS X 10.9.5/ ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB
Very annoying graphical artefacts can be seen on OS X in BG:EE when:
Sprite outlines are turned off
Zoom is all the way
(It happens on less zoom too)
In motion it's much more ugly, tiny lines of sprite boxes appear all around the characters.
You have to download full picture to see it.
Very sad as it renders game unplayable to me - those ever appearing lines seriously distract!
And nope, it was all perfectly cool on 1.4.
OS X 10.9.5/ ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB
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I have checked the shaders and they seem to be more or less what they should be. Nothing surprising in textures either except may be that the sprites are very tightly packed. I noticed that in tutorial lines appear only when three pals are visible.
My idea was that their boxes somehow collided but nope. I guess it all boils down to arithmetics of boxes calculation as textures seem to be fine as well as shaders.
P.S. I just checked the 'outlined' version of flow and indeed the bounding boxes are much larger in that case
Nobody cares? Come on this glitch makes the game really bad looking.
ati 5870
Same here.
It is available in BGII:EE under Options -> Graphics.
Public report 20503 mentions lines in BG:EE and remains open at this time. If you still see issues, please add to the report at http://redmine.beamdog.com/issues/20503 or failing that, add details here.
Thanks
I'm experiencing this much worse than the picture above lines around all sprites and bodies of liquid on the map (water lava)
I've tried adjusting all of the graphics settings switching on and off and restarting, nothing fixes this. I'm surprised no one has found a solution, then again how many people are playing right now since last patch? Maybe it's hardware specific or a recent Windows updated caused it? Anyway it's really annoying makes it almost no fun to play.
Win10 64
RTX 2070
intel solid state
Acer 1920 x 1080 monitor with gsync
UPDATE - after much experimentation it seems Sprite Outlines is the culprit. Some people don't like that setting but then again some of us do. Tiny lines are still visible around some of the spell icons in spellbook/priest scroll
UPDATE2 - came back. Now it seems to improve the problem you need to enable Nearest Neighbor and disable Sprite Outlines. Combination of the two - also going into the game menu seems to make problem worse when any combination of these two settings is used. NEAREST NEIGHBOR - ON SPRITE OUTLINES - OFF. Still some small tiny lines around animations I shall update if problem rears it's head again
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/78993/windows-bg-ee-bg2-ee-graphical-glitches-lines-around-sprites-spell-effects-and-descriptions/p1?new=1
I remember seeing these glitches years ago, kinda ridiculous that this hasn't been patched yet. Here's a post from 4 years ago about the same issue.
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/737642#Comment_737642
Can this bug get seriously looked into, please? I'd love to finally be able to play my favorite game without getting distracted by graphical issues.
Before the fix, the bug had not occurred with the Nearest Neighbor Scaling enabled.
Note that a similar bug still affects dragons https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/21473 and spell animations https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/38480