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When I play Minetest, artefacts appear randomly or whatever these are called:

http://i48.tinypic.com/2q3no7s.jpg

I am using linux with 945GM graphics and an Intel Atom processor. Minetest usually runs at 20 fps. I play other games on my computer like OpenArena and there are no problems.

Note: This seems to happen when I am near torches or any type of light source. I have smooth lighting off.

This happens to me too. It's really strange, i don't know how to fix it.

Use different rendering system, try opengl, or directx9, look on how to in the minetest.conf.example

jordan4ibanez wrote:Use different rendering system, try opengl, or directx9, look on how to in the minetest.conf.example

The only option on GNU/Linux is OpenGL, unless you use Wine to run the Windows binary. Of course, there's always "null" and "software" but you do not want these. ;)

Ugh, Intel atom processors are horrible, I have one and they are only 1.6Ghz. I would conisder upgrading to at least an Intel pentium (Unless your processor is intergrated, like mine D:)

That sometimes happens on my 950GM too. I think it is some kind of a problem in the linux drivers of that thing. Or it might be some kind of an overheat-related thing. Dunno.

Could be useful to report to the intel driver maintainers, but I'm too lazy to do that.

I have a netbook with Intel Atom CPU, 1GB RAM running under Xubuntu 12.10. I get occasional artefacts in many games, such as Minetest or X-Moto.

I have reported the bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57496

I don't think it's a problem with the drivers. I never get artefacts when playing OpenArena or Minecraft (runs at 10fps). I noticed that lowering the resolution helps.

Updating Graphics Drivers may help

Try, if your distro has FOSS drivers, using them as fallback. If you use said drivers, and there is a proprietary one, try that one if you are OK with non-FOSS.

I have this problem too, sort of; all of the node textures have been messed up and keep flickering, even with texture atlas disabled.

I will try.
EDIT: Fixed! Thank you very much!

On my i7 in 0.4.4 with Intel Ironlake, The colors are wrong. Everything is red

Leroy wrote:On my i7 in 0.4.4 with Intel Ironlake, The colors are wrong. Everything is red

Sounds like your missing the shaders folder maybe? make sure you have the "client" folder in the same directory as your bin, doc, builtin folders

Your folder structure should look something like:


and the client folder structure should be like:


If you do have the shaders folder there could you check if you have any errors being output to your debug.txt, As a temporary fix you could just disable shaders in the options menu of the game.

Let me know if that fixes your issue.

dannydark wrote:

Leroy wrote:On my i7 in 0.4.4 with Intel Ironlake, The colors are wrong. Everything is red

Sounds like your missing the shaders folder maybe? make sure you have the "client" folder in the same directory as your bin, doc, builtin folders

Your folder structure should look something like:

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bin,
builtin,
client,
doc,
games,
mods,
textures


and the client folder structure should be like:

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client
client -> shaders
client -> shaders -> test_shader_1
client -> shaders -> test_shader_1 -> base.txt
client -> shaders -> test_shader_1 -> opengl_fragment.glsl
client -> shaders -> test_shader_1 -> opengl_vertex.glsl
client -> shaders -> test_shader_2
client -> shaders -> test_shader_2 -> base.txt
client -> shaders -> test_shader_2 -> opengl_fragment.glsl
client -> shaders -> test_shader_2 -> opengl_vertex.glsl


If you do have the shaders folder there could you check if you have any errors being output to your debug.txt, As a temporary fix you could just disable shaders in the options menu of the game.

Let me know if that fixes your issue.

My client file is missing. :(

Leroy wrote:My client file is missing. :(

You can grab the client folder from github here: https://github.com/celeron55/minetest

Just out of curiosity how did you get 0.4.4? was it a pre-compiled one?

dannydark wrote:

Leroy wrote:My client file is missing. :(

You can grab the client folder from github here: https://github.com/celeron55/minetest

Just out of curiosity how did you get 0.4.4? was it a pre-compiled one?

It was pre compiled.

Leroy wrote:

dannydark wrote:

Leroy wrote:My client file is missing. :(

You can grab the client folder from github here: https://github.com/celeron55/minetest

Just out of curiosity how did you get 0.4.4? was it a pre-compiled one?

It was pre compiled.

If it was pre-compiled you should inform the person who compiled it for you that the client folder is missing, otherwise more people will likely experience the same issue you have had.