[0.0.7] MacOS, Metal with AMD GPU - Black text rendering bug

[craggy river]

not so much a bug as an ease of access issue, all the menu text in the game is dark grey while all the menu backgrounds are also dark, making it quite hard to read any of the UI.

My system theme is set to dark (override automatic setting)
Im running on Macos 13.6.9 intel cpu with the radeon pro 540 and 16g ram

update, some text characters also are completely impossible to read due to this, such as highlights during the tutorial that show up as solid black

[scarlet cipher]

It is the same as this issue.
https://discord.com/channels/1000343719314198548/1273619396820078662

Can you try launching using the other Graphics Driver (Direct X 11 or Vulkan) and see if the issue presists?

[craggy river]

ah sorry didnt see that! ill try now

launch options do not show up for my install, is there a flag I can set in advanced game launch options?

[scarlet cipher]

--force-vulkan
or
--force-d3d11
as far as I can remember

[quiet jungle]

Ah since you're on an intel mac, you can try using -force-glcore (note this is deprecated by Apple so you're mileage may vary)

[craggy river]

--force-glcore worked tyvm!

nvm, game boots and then throws an error about compute shaders, will keep testing

[quiet jungle]

Ah yeah Apple deprecated OpenGL the version just before compute shaders got added. So your only option would be Metal then. Can you take a screenshot of the top right corner in the settings menu, it should list your specs

[craggy river]

tried metal but no fix to the text color

if you can read it this is the best I can get it

though the transcription is this

currently running Metal, even when --force-vulkan is passed on start

the force d3d11 is according to unity a windows only flag

[quiet jungle]

That's great, thanks. Just wanted to double check that it is using the AMD GPU instead of the integrated Intel one. Not sure if there is much we can do on our end but i'll try to investigate. Just to double check, it's only text that has visual issues for you, right?

[craggy river]

as far as gameplay, yes its only darkened text

that and highlights are also dark, as was shown in my third screenshot

nothing gamebreaking yet though

thanks for the help by the way!

[quiet jungle]

[0.0.7] MacOS, Metal with AMD GPU - Black text rendering bug

[ashen ridge]

This might also be related to https://discord.com/channels/1000343719314198548/1274567429271322695

fwiw, my system specs are as follows...

[latent musk]

Also been having issues The force commands fix the white text but cause numerous other rendering issues. Would it be possible for the team give us a setting to change the color of the text, or disable all shaders only on text?

[young sphinx]

Hi, just reaching out as even after the 0.0.8 release this seems to still be an issue, not sure if this is the most up to date thread but just wanted to see if any workaround had been found?
I tried the --force-glcore one which fixes the white text but brings the rendering issues others have metnioned.

[quiet jungle]

Hey, no workarounds for the black text with Metal on AMD GPUs other than running with -force-glcore has been found sadly. By the rendering issues, are you referring to this: https://discord.com/channels/1000343719314198548/1273945695006490644 or the vertex explosion: https://discord.com/channels/1000343719314198548/1274175937776320523

[young sphinx]

The first one, the shape rendering issue for me

[waxen shore]

Hi following up on this, since there is no workaround or fix yet. Would it be possible to release a patch that allows / sets the text alpha to 1/0 which allegedly fixes the issue on metal.

[stark vine]

I'm encountering the same issue. I'm also encountering performance issues, but that's proably just my computer.

[stark vine]

I'm also having this happen to tutorial prompts. (Every time it lists a button it looks like that. Just a square, or sometimes a rectangle.)