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I have a windows 7 computer. When I play mine test certain things (mostly items) such as apples, pickaxe, shovel, paper, coal, ect. pretty much anything that isn't a block, have a black border around the image itself. you can still see the image it's just enclose by a black square. Please help!!!

is it shaded darkly or do you see a black box when you move the mouse over it. if you are moving the mouse over the object a box appears.

Do you mean the normal selection box?

When you start Minetest, do the first few lines in trhe console window refer to "openGL", or "DirectX"?

Especially these lines:

It says openGL 2.1.0

rarkenin wrote:When you start Minetest, do the first few lines in trhe console window refer to "openGL", or "DirectX"?

Especially these lines:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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Using renderer: OpenGL 4.1.11251
AMD Radeon(TM) HD 6480G         : ATI Technologies Inc.

What graphics card do you have? OpenGL 2.1 is kind of old. Anyway, the boxes that PilzAdam shows are normal, but not if they seem to be fillnig the entire space around the apple.

What can I do to get a picture up here so I can show you guys what it looks like? And graphics card not sure I will have to look (i'll be gone for a while today but i'll get on later and thanks ahead of time for your help!)

jmorrison.jake wrote:What can I do to get a picture up here so I can show you guys what it looks like? And graphics card not sure I will have to look (i'll be gone for a while today but i'll get on later and thanks ahead of time for your help!)

Press F12 to take a screenshot in Minetest. It will be saved in the bin/ folder. Then upload the image here: http://zimg.eu/ and post the URL like this:

It's perfectly normal -- the outline shows that you are pointing something.
Also, OpenGL 2.1.0 works just fine with Minetest (any version starting from 1.2 will).

Ok notice how the selection box you guys are talking about is there and then all that blackness? These are only a few of the items that look like this. They look like this in my hand and on the ground but not in my inventory. And I did check to make sure that there is no background.

jmorrison.jake wrote:Ok notice how the selection box you guys are talking about is there and then all that blackness? These are only a few of the items that look like this. They look like this in my hand and on the ground but not in my inventory. And I did check to make sure that there is no background.

That looks like you have to disable shaders in the settings. Your video driver is somehow broken.

I did disable the shaders and it didn't help. Should I try and see whats up with my video card? (this isn't only a problem in minetest it happens on other games too)

celeron55 wrote:

jmorrison.jake wrote:Ok notice how the selection box you guys are talking about is there and then all that blackness? These are only a few of the items that look like this. They look like this in my hand and on the ground but not in my inventory. And I did check to make sure that there is no background.

That looks like you have to disable shaders in the settings. Your video driver is somehow broken.

Issue fixed. something that I must have changed a while back in my graphics driver settings lol sorry. Thanks for trying guys!

I've recently bought a 24in display for my PC which I'm using via an HDMI connection. When I plug it in I get a 1920 x 1080 image on the screen, but it has a large black border all around the edge which I simply can't get rid of. Can you help?

Disable overscan (you can do that in your screen's OSD, there should be some buttons on your screen).