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#2019 Elite 128 has drawing issues
For some strange reason in VICE v3.8, Elite 128 has problems with missing pixels (sprites?) when drawing planets and stations. With planets, it's not much of an issue, but with stations, it can make it difficult to judge where the station's docking port entrance is. The closer you get, the less it affects the drawing, but it looks like the error persists within a small square area.
Did you confirm it doesn't happen on a real C64? Or older VICE releases? :)
Last edit: gpz 2024-04-16
Actually, it also occurs in VICE 3.1. Pic is attached showing the visual artifact (clearly visible by facing the sun in any solar system). My original C64 is in storage and the 40-year-old disk has de-magnetized by now (and it was C64 Elite, not C128).
I can't reproduce this. Do you have some extensions enabled? Try "reset settings" for that matter.
No extensions. I selected Preferences -> Restore Default Settings, saved settings, exited, started again, enabled my XBox controller in port 2, started up E128, hyperspaced to another system, lined up the sun in that system, and it's still there.
Also, the third time I started v3.8, it loaded to the blue C64 background, then CTD'd. I just tried again after typing this, and it loaded again normally. Not sure why it's being unstable on my Windows 11 system.
There must be something really odd going on on your system.... it would give some clues (hopefully) if you could do a short video capture of this behaviour - a) using the builtin video capturing in VICE and b) using some external capturing tool. Also perhaps try making a screenshot with VICE itself, not using windows (or whatever tool you have been using).
I don't have any capturing tools, much less a camera. I tried the built-in capturing tool in VICE, and I got the video plus a snapshot. I selected the second-to-last option under the snapshot menu ("Stop Media Recording") to save the video, and the screen grayed out and the window title says "Not Responding". It took about 10 minutes for whatever it was doing to finish. I've attached the snapshot, but I can't find any movie files in the emulator directory. The only thing I found with today's date stamp is "start.vsf" in VICE's bin folder. Two attempts to restart the emulator after closing it resulted in crashes to desktop.
I still think Windows 11 is a major factor. A lot of my software that worked fine on Win7 no longer works properly on Win11. I try not to mess with most VICE settings, either.
closing this - can't reproduce