Alex Trojankowski Posted August 27, 2022 at 09:58 AM Posted August 27, 2022 at 09:58 AM Hello, I tried reinstalling completely the app, removing the files from its Appdata's folder, and can't make this work correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fuchs Posted August 27, 2022 at 12:58 PM Posted August 27, 2022 at 12:58 PM There is some "xml"-file somewhere that saves all the settings of Vatspy, try renaming or removing it and then restart Vatspy. Fingers crossed this will work. Cheers, Andreas Member of VATSIM GermanyMy real flying on InstagramMy Twitch streams of VATSIM flights and ATC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 27, 2022 at 02:53 PM Posted August 27, 2022 at 02:53 PM VAT-Spy determines the size of the box to draw behind the text by calling a Windows function that returns the size of the text in pixels. It looks like that function is somehow returning zero for the width of the text. Maybe try using a different font. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Trojankowski Posted August 28, 2022 at 12:37 AM Author Posted August 28, 2022 at 12:37 AM 11 hours ago, Andreas Fuchs said: There is some "xml"-file somewhere that saves all the settings of Vatspy, try renaming or removing it and then restart Vatspy. Fingers crossed this will work. This one? I already tried with this one, didn't work 😕 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Trojankowski Posted August 28, 2022 at 12:39 AM Author Posted August 28, 2022 at 12:39 AM 9 hours ago, Ross Carlson said: VAT-Spy determines the size of the box to draw behind the text by calling a Windows function that returns the size of the text in pixels. It looks like that function is somehow returning zero for the width of the text. Maybe try using a different font. I changed the font, the size, everything, and doesn't work 😕 I mean, the font and size changes, but there's the same problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Gövert Posted August 30, 2022 at 10:12 AM Posted August 30, 2022 at 10:12 AM (edited) I am having the same issue and afaik, it's related to the AMD display driver. With version 22.7.1, they made changes to openGL, which seems to have broken VatSpy on AMD GPU's. Most likely, there is an update of VatSpy necessary, which I am hoping for as well 😕 Edited August 30, 2022 at 10:16 AM by Tobias Gövert C1-Controller Leading Mentor RG Düsseldorf - VATSIM Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 30, 2022 at 03:25 PM Posted August 30, 2022 at 03:25 PM 5 hours ago, Tobias Gövert said: Most likely, there is an update of VatSpy necessary, which I am hoping for as well I don't know how I'd be able to fix a bug in AMD display drivers with a VAT-Spy update. Besides, that looks like a problem with basic Windows font functions (measuring the size of a string of text in a given font) and not an OpenGL problem. Hard to say for sure, though. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Gövert Posted August 30, 2022 at 06:01 PM Posted August 30, 2022 at 06:01 PM 2 hours ago, Ross Carlson said: I don't know how I'd be able to fix a bug in AMD display drivers with a VAT-Spy update. I don't think it is a bug inside the driver, it's just that with 22.7.1 and newer, AMD made changes to openGL handling, which vatSpy doesn't like, it seems. But of course I can't tell that for sure. What I can tell for sure, is that the problem 100% reproduceable occured after installing this or newer drivers. https://www.geeks3d.com/20220804/amd-radeon-adrenalin-22-7-1-opengl-changes-tested/ C1-Controller Leading Mentor RG Düsseldorf - VATSIM Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 30, 2022 at 10:19 PM Posted August 30, 2022 at 10:19 PM 4 hours ago, Tobias Gövert said: I don't think it is a bug inside the driver What do you think it is, then? Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Gövert Posted August 31, 2022 at 03:38 PM Posted August 31, 2022 at 03:38 PM 17 hours ago, Ross Carlson said: What do you think it is, then? I don't know, as I have no insight in how vatSpy works. But since I have no problems with other applications who use openGL, it certainly makes me think, that it's vatSpy. Maybe it is relying on one of those 60 extensions which they have removed 🤷♂️ Maybe vatSpy needs to be adjusted to a newer openGL version. I am by no means an expert though - just throwing up some possibilities 😄 Quote In Adrenalin 22.7.1, more or less 60 OpenGL extensions have been removed: – Adrenalin 22.7.1: 273 extensions (GL=253 and WGL=20) – Adrenalin 22.6.1: 331 extensions (GL=306 and WGL=25) Usually, OpenGL extensions are properly sorted in alphabetical order, but in v22.7.1, it’s a mess! Many GL_AMD extensions have been removed as well as some extensions like GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc or GL_ARB_spirv_extensions to quote few ones. C1-Controller Leading Mentor RG Düsseldorf - VATSIM Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 31, 2022 at 04:15 PM Posted August 31, 2022 at 04:15 PM (edited) VAT-Spy uses very basic bare-bones OpenGL, so I doubt it uses any of the extensions they've removed. And as I said before, the problem doesn't appear to have anything to do with OpenGL ... it looks like the Windows functions that "measure" a string of text are returning a length of zero, because VAT-Spy isn't drawing the box with any width ... it just has the padding. I don't know the internals of how the string measuring functions are implemented. I'm guessing that the video driver handles that as well, since you said the problem is definitely linked to an update in the driver. This is the function that VAT-Spy uses to measure text for the purposes of drawing the box: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.drawing.graphics.measurestring Anything about that mentioned in the driver info you quoted from above? Edited August 31, 2022 at 04:17 PM by Ross Carlson Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Gövert Posted August 31, 2022 at 05:03 PM Posted August 31, 2022 at 05:03 PM 44 minutes ago, Ross Carlson said: Anything about that mentioned in the driver info you quoted from above? Unfortunately there's nothing mentioned in the official changelogs. It's a super weird, but also super annoying bug, as you can hardly read anything... 😄 hopefully we can find the issue, either way. C1-Controller Leading Mentor RG Düsseldorf - VATSIM Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Bell Posted October 30, 2022 at 07:26 AM Posted October 30, 2022 at 07:26 AM I have downloaded VatSpy on my windows laptop and although not directly connected to above problem is similar. The popup box opens in as a oblong which would appear properly sized for any information. Unfortunately the popups other than the default background colour of white do not have information. Have been looking for option in settings etc without success. Any help would be appreciated. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Saji Posted January 10, 2023 at 10:28 AM Posted January 10, 2023 at 10:28 AM I have the same problem occurred after installing AMD graphics driver update. Don't know how to fox this. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but still the problem persists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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