Textures Going Mad Crazy Flashing On Everything!!!

http://www.x3dapparel.com/BUGS/bug.mov

is this happening to anyone else? that video seen there, is minor in comparison to what it is doing now...now it flashes like that on multiple prims, like my shoes, skirt, hair, a few rugs, all the lamps, one or two of the walls......all at the same time and in Sync


so it all started when I upgraded to OS 10.4 then all the sudden it started doing this..
Any ideas?

Thankies!!
Digit

Can't load your video completely but... here is what iMac G5 users experiment. Mine has a Geforce FX5200:

- hires/lowres texture errors: texture change when seen from near or far distance. One of the two is correct, the other not. On the ground, the two textures blends at mid-distance. This is what I see in the first frames of your video;

- correct textures suddenly replaced with wrong textures picked randomly in memory (checkerboards, pieces of UI; one user had his inventory displayed to all; i often have my menus on my clothes); once corrupted, it don't revert back;

- blinking textures, making your eyes cry and your mind sick;

This is the case of First Look as well as the regular client, in every release i've used.

I just updated to 10.4.8 and all is well now so i guess it was an OS/SL conflict but apparently it is fixed in 10.4.8..WOOT!

I have this same problem on my iMac Core Duo 1.8ghz with 2gig ram and ATI X1600 128mb. Running 10.4.8 to no avail

I just upgraded to OSX 10.4.8 and have EXACTLY the same problem. I tried upgrading to 10.4.9 and STILL have those mutating textures all over. And it seems to get worse as time goes on.

Digit, did the problem ever come back?

And Jim, what does this mean, "This is the case of First Look as well as the regular client, in every release i've used" ?


If there is a solution out there, I would be MOST grateful to hear it!

Blue

Once, I calibrated my monitor for Photoshop purposes. Aftwards, SL wouldn't work.

When I re-calibrated and set the color managment settings back to defaults, SL worked fine again.

Just a thought.

I turn off fog (Ctrl-ALT-6) to keep full bright textures from flashing. Think I saw this in another post that referred to the knowledge base.

That means that it affects every version of the client software, and is probably a problem in Apple's OpenGL's implementation over some graphics processors. That's why it may be so difficult to Linden to fix it.

I have the same flashing everywhere textures problem after having installed 10.4.9 on a iMac with geForce 5200.

I'd suggest ya all report a bug as I did, so hopefully it will be taken care of in future upgrades. I tried First Look for a bit today and it doesn't seem to have the problem ...YET...we'll see in a few hours or tomorrow.

I have seen this bug in FL. I have a MacBook Pro with the ATI card. I teleported to another island and the problem went away and I have not seen it happen since.

it isnt getting better in fact it is getting worse, but Im sooooo trying that monitor calibration thingie......there is another post in the forums from someone with the same issue.....read that, It has some interesting points...

Mac has released a new OS system 10.4.9, I suggest every one having problems do a system up grade to 10.4.9, this is the test up grade for mac OS X, SL seems to be running fine, apart from the rezzing/render issues and frequent crashes.

YOu can find the 10.4.9 updates here:
http://searchcgi.apple.com/cgi-bin/sp/nph-search-downloads.pl

So far the update to 10.4.9 Worked!...
key words being..."so far"
Thank you!!
Digit

with the Imac the prob is with 10.4.9 but it doesn't do it right away, it happens a few hours after loggin in!

Your Welcome

odd, I use an Imac G4 10.4.9, I'm not having the problems you described.
I don't think it's 10.4.9 it self, I pretty sure it's a bug in the viewers coding, or a grid problem.

So I upgraded to the new version of SL just now, and the texture issue is back in full effect...I dont know if this issue is ever gonna go away.....sigh

-digit

I really hate to tell ya this... but a friend of mine went back to 10.3.9 and I'm still using 10.3.9 for the same reason...works like a charm/