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Starmade | "Adapter" and "Driver Version" are reported as "null" in graphcisinfo.txt
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Description

Possibly Linux/Nvidia specific, has been that way since at least 2014, and without proof even before. Reported because of conversation in T1702.

Current graphcisinfo.txt:

Running on thread: main
Adapter: null
Driver Version: null
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 367.35
Renderer: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2
GLSL Ver: 4.50 NVIDIA

Archived graphcisinfo.txt from 2014-09-15, for comparison:

Running on thread: ClientThread
Adapter: null
Driver Version: null
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 343.13
Renderer: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GLSL Ver: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

In both cases, the driver version is identified correctly in the "OpenGL Version", and the graphics card in the "Renderer" item.

Tested:
"Adapter" shows "null"
"Driver Version" shows "null"

Expected:
"Adapter" shows graphics card name/bus/bus ID/capabilites, eg. "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/01:00.0/SSE2"
"Driver Version" shows kernel module version, eg. "NVIDIA x86_64 367.35"

Context:

In T1702#66219, @lancake wrote:

-Feedback-
Can't reproduce, tried out your settings and we both have the same GPU series. Except that your GPU has no drivers apparently, consider downloading the latest one from Nvidia.

Details

Task Type
Bug
Testing Results
Affected Gamemode(s)
none/unspecified
Reproducible
Yes
Last tested (version)
0.199.114
Category
none/unspecified
First occurrence (version)
before 0.171
Hardware/Software/System
OS-Specific
No
Hardware-Specific
No
Video Card Vendor
NVIDIA
Steps to reproduce

CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: GeForce GTX 960
Kernel: Linux 4.4.6-gentoo x86_64
Graphics driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35
Java: 1.8.0_91 OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM

  • clean install of StarMade in empty directory
  • $ cd /path/to/StarMade && java -jar StarMade.jar -force
  • click "EXIT"
  • $ cat logs/graphcisinfo.txt

Cosmetic side note: graphcisinfo.txt does not end with a newline, messing up the following prompt of the terminal.

Detected video (Graphicsinfo.txt)

graphcisinfo.txt179 BDownload

Serverconfig (server.cfg)
<replace this line with the file content>
Clientconfig (settings.cfg)
<replace this line with the file content>

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Valck created this task.Jul 27 2016, 7:22 AM
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SmilingDemon added a comment.Jul 27 2016, 8:09 AM

-Feedback-

I guess that is an Nvidia driver issue ... that it isnt providing that type of information.

From my AMD GPU setup :

Running on thread: main
Adapter: aticfx64
Driver Version: 8.17.10.1460
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL Version: 4.5.13440 Compatibility Profile Context 16.200.1010.0
Renderer: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
GLSL Ver: 4.50

i dont think this is relevant in anyway. All needed info is shown under Open GL and renderer (driver version and card verion bein used)

Valck added a comment.EditedJul 27 2016, 8:58 AM

It is irrelevant insofar as the information is duplicated in other places.
However because of this lack of information in the expected places, lancake suggested I go download and install drivers when I already had the latest, and as such I see a potential issue with support, however trivial.
I know my system, and know when and how to install drivers, but someone less computer literate might follow the suggestion and get frustrated or potentially even mess up their installation when it isn't necessary in the first place.

EDIT: I'm not picking on lancake here, quite the contrary - I think if even someone "in the know" can be misled, it is an issue.

SmilingDemon closed this task as Rejected.Jul 27 2016, 10:07 PM

-Rejected-

the driver info files from where this is being pulled are not providing that info for Linux and OSX. i have seen samples for Intel and Nvidia and assume AMD wouldnt look any different. I agree that someone in support has to know about how to read that , but nothing can be done about it otherwise.

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