AMD Radeon and Starmade weirdness

[Skwidz]

I have a problem with Starmade and rendering with my AMD dGPU:



The textures rip and shift while moving and viewing things at a distance in all view modes (astronaut, build mode). The pipes in the big blue part of the structure aren't supposed to show through the layer of ice like that. I'm using a laptop with an Intel HD 4600 iGPU with an AMD Radeon HD 8690m dGPU. I've updated the drivers for both of them after noticing the problem which I think happened after I reinstalled the latest version of Java. The problem goes away when I either enable the framebuffer setting or disable the AMD GPU. Disabling it doesn't seem to have much of an impact on performance so I'm not sure if it's broken or not. Is there any way to test it without taking it out of the laptop and wiring it up to an incompatible desktop? Also what else could be causing this?

 

[AndyP]

Could you upload your graphicsinfo.txt after running the game with the AMD video card?

The framebuffer helps with those see-through problems a bit, and keeping it on also makes the outline feature work properly, so aiming for keeping it enabled is the best way.

Transparency inconsistencies are a problem, however only for mostly transparent blocks, not sure how far this effects this type of block.

- Andy

 

[Skwidz]

Could you upload your graphicsinfo.txt after running the game with the AMD video card?

The framebuffer helps with those see-through problems a bit, and keeping it on also makes the outline feature work properly, so aiming for keeping it enabled is the best way.

Transparency inconsistencies are a problem, however only for mostly transparent blocks, not sure how far this effects this type of block.

- Andy

Uploaded

I would like to use the framebuffer setting so I could have the fancy lasers but my fps drops to about 20 :/

 

[AndyP]

Interesting, I assumed the dedicated GPU is playing on a completely different level than the internal one.

According to this:
PassMark - Video Card Performance Comparison

The only advantage would be the dedicated memory, the GPU does not seem to be at a huge advantage at all.
Did I miss something or is this particular pair of internal and dedicated GPU kind of odd?

- Andy

 

[Skwidz]

Well if that's the case I feel better about leaving a useless disabled piece of hardware lying around in my laptop...

My laptop model is a refurbished Latitude e6440 by Dell so it could be an odd hardware choice during design

 

[AndyP]

Well, may not be useless, but you can for sure use the one that runs better for you.

- Andy