Serious visual bugs on Mac OS (M1 / Intel HD)

Hello Eric,

I've been encountering the "Backwall textures is black." issue non-stop on a non-M1 Mac that previously didn't exhibit this issue. Two things have changed since then, but unfortunately I cannot tell you which one is the issue (since I've not been playing for a long stretch of time):

• Mergedown went live
• That mac got upgraded to Big Sur (MacOS 11)

Here are the Mac specs:

 

I tried the "-force-glcore" option: it did fix the issue for a while, but then resume to having a black backwall texture. It also MASSIVELY decreased performance, to the point I'd rather have a constant black backwall texture rather than play with a low FPS.

Let me know if you need additional informations or if you'd like me to test something.

 

P.S. : Not sure it's relevant, but I've also seen this back backwall texture on Windows in the past, but only in a specific situation: when the game was nearly out of memory because of excessive save/load cycles (and the next load would 100% crash the game).

 

Edited January 12, 2022 by Fradow

funny thing is not all is black, maybe make changes for game that you use some other method like you use those what is not black

Additional note: the "Entire screen except UI is black." happens to me as well on the same Mac. I had forgotten about it, but it definitely happened me several times already.

It seems to only happen after load, never at the first load after starting the game but always at a subsequent load. Restarting the game is therefore an effective workaround. Re-loading the same save without restarting the game on the other hand doesn't fix the issue.

Edited January 14, 2022 by Fradow

I was having the dig-commands, blueprints, and map-revealed errors all after an autosave.

macOS Big Sur v11.6, M1, Memory 16gb

The workaround appears to have fixed the issue. Thanks!

 

5 hours ago, millijay said:

I was having the dig-commands, blueprints, and map-revealed errors all after an autosave.

macOS Big Sur v11.6, M1, Memory 16gb

The workaround appears to have fixed the issue. Thanks!

@millijay What is the model of your computer? For example, MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) in Fradow's image above. You can find this information by clicking the Apple icon in the top left of your screen -> About This Mac. Thanks!

i still think that you doing something wrong at unity engine because menus are draw-ed

maybe just maybe there is issue with transparent

Edited January 22, 2022 by gabberworld

Same issues as described above. I get "ghost" task overlay that moves around as I pan the screen, ands the overlays don't show up at all. Happens every time I load a game and only resolves after the next cycle rolls over. See screenshots for issues and specs.

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

Thanks for the reports. We've been collecting everyone's specifications and are trying to get our hands on a computer that's able to reproduce it.

There have been no reports of the issue happening on macOS Monterey so it's possible Apple fixed this in a graphics driver update. I'm unable to confirm that this will fix it so only try upgrading if you feel comfortable doing so. The most reported MacBook is the 2020 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro17.1) and we also have access to one but could not reproduce it but it's also running Monterey instead of Big Sur.

@DHeraud There has been one other report of a 2020 MacBook Air experiencing the same ghosting issue. Someone on the team has this exact model but we have not been able to reproduce the bug. They are on Big Sur 11.6.0.

 

Edited February 14, 2022 by EricKlei
Added details about most reported MacBook Pro.

On 2/13/2022 at 5:05 PM, DHeraud said:

Screenshots:

 

 

if i remember correctly then that this type ghost started happen in one version when they upgrade something at dlc, they to fixed that in windows mode but seems like its still happen at Mac

Same problem of ghosting build orders. To replicate perhaps queue up some build orders - then manually save - quit to desktop - load up save and play for a bit. For me it occurs about half a cycle after loading. 

Specs:

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

MacBook Pro 16 2021 M1 Max

32GB RAM

EDIT (for extra info):

• Once a new cycle starts the problem disappears and the game goes back to normal.

• I only have the base game (no DLC's)

 

Edited February 17, 2022 by Cat Daemon
adding more information

Continuing from my previous post...

It happened again with another save and load and also half way through the cycle (you can see it's two cycles later) and wanted to show you what the edge of the map looks like when It happens. The dig build orders you can see were placed after the ghosting occurred and are instantly offset and are attached to the camera. 

Everything goes a little bit darker when it occurs.

 

EDIT (for extra info):

with every cycle there's a slight "stutter" at the beginning of the cycle AND at the halfway point of the cycle:

• If you load the game AFTER the half way point of the cycle it will glitch in the "stutter" at the beginning of the cycle and then fix itself at the next "stutter" which would be the half way point.

• If you load the game BEFORE the half way point of the cycle it will glitch in the "stutter" at the half way point and then fix itself at the next "stutter" which would be the beginning of the cycle.

 

Edited February 17, 2022 by Cat Daemon
extra info

The "phantom copies of objects to be built" bug has happened a couple of times (not sure if it coincided with autosave). Gonna try the command line fix next time I play.

2020 M1 Macbook Air, 16GB
Monterey 12.2.1
base game, no DLC

I had this ghosting issue as well.

2021 16" MBP M1 Max with Monterey 12.3

-force-glcore did fix the issue

I'm seeing the "unrendered world"  issue on McMini 6.2 (basically identical first to screenshot in OP).

Player.log

I'm just about to add the glcore switch and see how that improves things - I doing so only now because the first save after launching the game loads fine, but any subsequent loads results in black world.

EDIT: Oh, so the backwall was missing too, I just never noticed. As Fradow posted above, forcing glcore results in a MASSIVE drop in performance. I guess I'll stick with having to relaunch the game between reloads. 

Also, sometimes the graphics stop updating completely - the game runs (music keeps playing, Esc produces the pausing sound, and clicking in the centre of the screen seems to click on the buttons, but nothing in ONI's window changes). I've had this happen 3 times by now, and I think every time it happened after opening the tech tree (R) or some other full-screen ONI window (colony summary, skill tree). Don't have the logs for this (yet). The OS's window manager remains working fine after this.

Edited April 15, 2022 by myxal

11 hours ago, myxal said:

I'm seeing the "unrendered world"  issue on McMini 6.2 (basically identical first to screenshot in OP).

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I'm just about to add the glcore switch and see how that improves things - I doing so only now because the first save after launching the game loads fine, but any subsequent loads results in black world.

EDIT: Oh, so the backwall was missing too, I just never noticed. As Fradow posted above, forcing glcore results in a MASSIVE drop in performance. I guess I'll stick with having to relaunch the game between reloads. 

Also, sometimes the graphics stop updating completely - the game runs (music keeps playing, Esc produces the pausing sound, and clicking in the centre of the screen seems to click on the buttons, but nothing in ONI's window changes). I've had this happen 3 times by now, and I think every time it happened after opening the tech tree (R) or some other full-screen ONI window (colony summary, skill tree). Don't have the logs for this (yet). The OS's window manager remains working fine after this.

intel graphics is not really a gaming gpu, also minimum is 4600 what is supported

On 4/16/2022 at 12:48 AM, gabberworld said:

intel graphics is not really a gaming gpu, also minimum is 4600 what is supported

Well, regarding system requirements... they're more what you'd call guidelines than rules. :P 

Both bugs I encountered (black backwall on first load, and fully black screen on any subsequent load) are fixed with Public Testing U42-506365.

Thanks for taking the time to fix those!

Changed Status to Fixed

In the Fast Friends update (U42) this fix will go live. I'm going to leave this bug report pinned for a little while longer. We really appreciate all the information and testing provided by everyone.

On 5/11/2022 at 4:23 AM, EricKlei said:

Changed Status to Fixed

In the Fast Friends update (U42) this fix will go live. I'm going to leave this bug report pinned for a little while longer. We really appreciate all the information and testing provided by everyone.

Only had time to run a few cycles but the update seems to have cured the issues I posted above. Great work and thanks for not neglecting us Apple folks - I'm sure we're in the minority. 

I am currently running into an issue on my MBP M1 Max 16 inch. When loading a saved game halfway through the cycle the map reveals itself and the mouse cursor stops working. I am gonna try to let the game run to see if it fixes itself half way through the cycle like has been reported.

Hello everyone, I'm also running on strange visual glitches after the Fast Friends update, namely whenever I move around the map the textures get glitched. It looks like part of the textures "lag" behind when moving. It happens on all the planets, on different saves, on the starmap and at a certain degree also on the menus and the main screen. When not moving around the game runs just fine, although some dupes get temporary glitched when running around the base.

The game was running fine before the Fast Friends update.

I'm attaching some pictures to show the issue (sorry for the poor quality, could get screenshots directly from the Mac so I have extracted frames from a video) as well as Mac's specs.

 

EDIT:
The issue disappears when using the "-force-glcore" launch option.

 

Edited June 4, 2022 by DocShadow
Added check of launch option

EDIT: couldn't change a pic, got it now, please delete this post

Edited June 4, 2022 by DocShadow

On 5/28/2022 at 12:23 PM, crs117 said:

I am currently running into an issue on my MBP M1 Max 16 inch. When loading a saved game halfway through the cycle the map reveals itself and the mouse cursor stops working. I am gonna try to let the game run to see if it fixes itself half way through the cycle like has been reported.

Would like to state the new update seemed to fix the issues when resuming a save game. Thanks!!!