Technical FAQ

I'm getting "ARB_vertex_buffer_object not supported" error on startup

Your graphics card should support at least OpenGL 1.5 to run Pioneer in Legacy (non-shaders) mode. If your hardware is not hopelessly old, it could be just that the drivers supplied with your operating system are out of date.

• Nvidia
• AMD (ATI)
• Intel

I'm getting graphical issues, such as wrong textures on the intro screen

Try turning off "Use shaders" in the options screen. Try updating your drivers.

My joystick is "drifting"

The game has a deadzone setting, but it is only accessible through the configuration file. Open config.ini and raise the JoystickDeadzone value.

Where is the configuration file?

On Windows, it is found under My Documents/Pioneer/. On Linux, it is found under ~/.pioneer.

I'm getting poor performance

The heaviest part of the game is planetary terrain generation. Turn down the "Detail distance" and "Fractal detail" settings, they have the most impact for performance.

The game is frozen after loading a save

It's just paused :)