[Bug] Weird shadows on spaceships and ground

[AbacusWizard]

Version: 1.0.4.861

OS: Macintosh OSX 10.7.5

Processor: 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Memory: 6 GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB

Once in a while--still not sure what causes it--I'll switch from map view back to normal view and suddenly everything's covered in weird shadows. Sometimes the ship develops a pattern of dark stripes; sometimes the whole ship is totally dark even when in full sunlight. (Strangely, fairings do not seem to be affected; nor do regions lit by spotlights.) The dark stripes seem to move around as I rotate the view around, and from some angles the planet surface below me also develops dark stripes and/or pixelly patches of full darkness.

When this happens, it continues to happen when I switch to a different ship (or even back to the space center), and generally seems to be a sure sign that the game is going to freeze up shortly thereafter, requiring a force-quit. When I start it up again, everything's back to normal. Any idea what might be causing this?

[Hagen von Tronje]

I get weird effects like this sometimes too, and like you say, it's typically a prelude to a crash, so I assume it's glitches caused by impending OOM crash.

[captainreynolds]

Have this same problem on latest version of Yosemite. Unmodded build. Very upset and disappointed with 1.0.4 - so many other issues. Last played with .24 and it worked great - ... happened? Been playing since before .18.