Starmade Versus Intel: The Months-Old Beam Bug

[Valiant70]

http://bugs.star-made.org/issues/33

The whole story is there. Macs with Intel graphics cards crash every time any kind of beam is fired in sight of the player, thus the Draw Beams option must be disabled in graphics settings. This is a known issue that has been around for months without any significant progress that can be discerned.

Why does this happen? Is Schema just ignoring Mac users with Intel cards, or is there a legitimate issue that prevents this from being debugged?

FAQ:
Q: Is your Intel driver up to date?
A: That was the first thing I tried, Einstein.

Q: Did you re-install Starmade?
A: Many times, many versions, zero fixes.

Q: Get a new computer.
A: That's not even a question. I do not have money to drop on a new computer right now, and I should not need to buy one because Starmade staff can't fix one bug.

Q: What computers are affected?
A: Some Mac series; the ones with Intel graphics cards. Windows with the same card has no issues for some reason.

Q: Why not just play without beams?
A: That's what I'm doing now, and I'm at a disadvantage in battle because I cannot see beam weapons fire.

 

[Vengeance42]

As a programmer....
This type of bug that only shows up on one type of machine can be very difficult to diagnose. Unless Schematic has access to that hardware, it comes under the heading of "bug that cannot be reproduced", which I can tell you from personal experience is the bane of any programmer. Likely it's not even a star made bug but an Intel one anyway. I feel for you but take heart that by the time this gets out of beta you will likely need a new machine anyway!

 

[Qweesdy]

Why does this happen? Is Schema just ignoring Mac users with Intel cards, or is there a legitimate issue that prevents this from being debugged?

I'd assume there's bugs in the Intel driver on OS X. If that is the case, you can't really expect Schema to fix problems in software that he had nothing to do with, and you might consider asking Apple and/or Intel to fix the problem.

 

[Comr4de]

As a mac user with an Intel card, and the person who initially reported the bug;

I'm not having the issue anymore.

I'd recommend updating your OS to Yosemite, making sure Java is up to date.

 

[Valiant70]

As a mac user with an Intel card, and the person who initially reported the bug;

I'm not having the issue anymore.

I'd recommend updating your OS to Yosemite, making sure Java is up to date.

Did you have Lion at the time the issue started?

Interestingly, this didn't happen when I first started playing starmade. It started happening sometime before the weapon update.

 

[Comr4de]

Did you have Lion at the time the issue started?

Interestingly, this didn't happen when I first started playing starmade. It started happening sometime before the weapon update.

Yeah. When I upgraded to Yosemite the bug was fixed around the same time.

Also, if you upgrade to yosemite and your launcher stops working message me immediately.