I forgot to pack the image into the blend file so use the second file.

or third, apparently, you can't pack an image unless its saved first.

I can't redo this problem here.

- Does it also happen in the official build?
- Does it only start showing when you are further away from the object and not when you're zoomed in close?
- If you set the GL Texture Clamp under System & OpenGL to a size smaller than your texture, does the problem go away?
- Does the problem go away if you disable Mipmaps?
- Please provide exact specs with the Help > System > System Information tool.

- yes, it does happen in the official build, but not in the static one.
- It shows at all levels of zoom,
- changing GL Texture Clamp changes the size of the pattern, but doesn't fix the problem.
- disabling Mipmaps changes the pattern, but doesn't fix it.
- system info:

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= Blender 2.46 System Information =

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Platform: linux2

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Python:

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- Version: 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 10 2008, 18:00:49)

[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)]



- Paths:



/home/Dan/install/linux2

/usr/lib/python25.zip

/usr/lib64/python2.5

/usr/lib64/python2.5/plat-linux2

/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-tk

/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-dynload

/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages

/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric

/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/PIL

/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10

/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0

/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode

/usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages

/home/Dan/install/linux2/.blender/scripts

/home/Dan/install/linux2/.blender/scripts/bpymodules



- Directories:



Blender home dir:

/home/Dan/install/linux2/.blender



Default dir for scripts:

/home/Dan/install/linux2/.blender/scripts



Default "bpydata/" data dir for scripts:

/home/Dan/install/linux2/.blender/scripts/bpydata



User defined dir for scripts:

<NOTICE> -- not found



Data dir "bpydata/" inside user defined dir:

<NOTICE> -- not found



Default config data "bpydata/config/" dir:

/home/Dan/install/linux2/.blender/scripts/bpydata/config



- Modules: all basic ones were found.



OpenGL:

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- Renderer: GeForce PCX 5300/PCI/SSE2

- Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

- Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 169.09



- Extensions:



GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_fragment_program

GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_fragment_shader

GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multisample

GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object

GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shadow

GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100

GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression

GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add

GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3

GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_rectangle

GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object

GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos

GL_S3_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra

GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax

GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_Cg_shader

GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit

GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample GL_EXT_framebuffer_object

GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays

GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_packed_pixels

GL_EXT_paletted_texture GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object

GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color

GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs

GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette GL_EXT_stencil_two_side

GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc

GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp

GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3

GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod

GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_sRGB

GL_EXT_timer_query GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip

GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_NV_blend_square

GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color GL_NV_depth_clamp GL_NV_fence

GL_NV_float_buffer GL_NV_fog_distance GL_NV_fragment_program

GL_NV_fragment_program_option GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_coverage

GL_NV_half_float GL_NV_light_max_exponent

GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint GL_NV_occlusion_query

GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_pixel_data_range GL_NV_point_sprite

GL_NV_primitive_restart GL_NV_register_combiners

GL_NV_register_combiners2 GL_NV_texgen_reflection

GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc GL_NV_texture_env_combine4

GL_NV_texture_expand_normal GL_NV_texture_rectangle

GL_NV_texture_shader GL_NV_texture_shader2 GL_NV_texture_shader3

GL_NV_vertex_array_range GL_NV_vertex_array_range2

GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 GL_NV_vertex_program2

GL_NV_vertex_program2_option GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap

GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIX_depth_texture GL_SGIX_shadow

GL_SUN_slice_accum





- Simplistic almost useless benchmark:



Redrawing all areas 10 times took 0.1088 seconds.



..



(*) Found 2 notices, documented in the text above.

Tried here with an Quadro FX 1700 and no errors.
It could be interesting to see if changing the tile settings makes any difference. is this error visible in the game engine, or when you disable mipmaps.

However since this works with static OpenGL this is almost certainly an error with your drivers.
Moving to OpenGL errors, we probably cant fix this. This report could be useful to the driver vendors.

I disagree. I think that seeing as it happens most the time, but not all of the time (ie not in texture paint mode after starting to paint), a workaround must exist. If, by any remote chance, I make a patch which fixes it, would you be willing to commit it to svn?

This is a generic request to test your bug report and see if it is still an issue in 2.5alpha2 if so please let me know by making a comment in this report ie 'also in 2.5alpha2' and I will add it to the 2.5 bug list.