Flickering bottles at Starfleet Academy

frtoaster

Holodeck ticket 4,431,534 (submitted on 04/27/2017)

The bottles behind the bar at Starfleet Academy now flicker. The flickering started after the Season 13 patch on April 25, 2017. This bug is not affected by camera angle, distance, or movement. Even if I stand perfectly still, the bottles continue to flicker, no matter how far away I stand from them or the angle with which I view them. The bug is also unaffected by my graphics settings. I've tried changing literally every setting under the "Display", "Graphics", and "Advanced" tabs. None of them has any effect on the bug.

Screenshots

There are two issues that give the appearance of flickering:

1. The bottom parts of the clear bottles switch between clear and brown.
2. Sometimes, the clear bottles appear in front of the blue-green bottles, and sometimes they appear behind.

Both of these happen very rapidly, often several times a second. You can see both these issues in the screenshots below.

Right Bar (Holodeck 04/26/2017)
http://i.imgur.com/1o6cJBk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0bdvlhW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zGnnbf0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ek65e8e.jpg

Left Bar (Holodeck 04/26/2017)
http://i.imgur.com/gRWpmmg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sCpTqVe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ObE1gv0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ve1qn8F.jpg

Symptoms of this bug could be seen before Season 13. The bottles did not flicker, but at certain angles, you could see brown in the bottom parts of the clear bottles behind the left bar. However, if you changed the camera angle by as little as one degree, the bottles would become clear again. This problem did not occur with the bottles behind the right bar.

Right Bar (Holodeck 04/14/2017)
http://i.imgur.com/umGLTEw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KKHx2h9.jpg

Left Bar (Holodeck 04/14/2017)
http://i.imgur.com/TKHKTdC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SRMkL5H.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/28tkQqP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8iT1GbV.jpg

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to Starfleet Academy.
2. Look at the bottles behind the right bar. Notice that the bottles are flickering.
3. Stand in one spot and don't move or turn the camera. Take screenshots of the bottles behind the right bar.
4. Compare the screenshots you took in step 3.
5. Look at the bottles behind the left bar. Notice that the bottles are flickering.
6. Stand in one spot and don't move or turn the camera. Take screenshots of the bottles behind the left bar.
7. Compare the screenshots you took in step 6.

Related bug reports

See also

Holodeck ticket 3,439,289: Disappearing banner textures at Starfleet Academy
http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1188155/disappearing-banner-textures-at-starfleet-academy

Graphics Settings

Holodeck 04/25/2017
http://i.imgur.com/xZwiLkb.png
http://i.imgur.com/uEuVFVb.png
http://i.imgur.com/PTeaxrb.png

System Information

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), Service Pack 1
CPU: Intel Core i7-4700MQ
RAM: 12 GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M (2 GB GDDR5)

vayic

I'm also having this issue, but its all bottles, at any bar. They all appear green and flicker. All setting are set to max.

System info

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
CPU:Intel Core i7-5820k
RAM:64 GB
VC:Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

thunderfoot

So now Soda Crush is the Offical game of Starfleet Academy? lol

frtoaster

vayic wrote: »

I'm also having this issue, but its all bottles, at any bar. They all appear green and flicker. All setting are set to max.

System info

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
CPU:Intel Core i7-5820k
RAM:64 GB
VC:Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

What are your graphics settings? I no longer see flickering bottles at Starfleet Academy. They kind of, sort of, fixed it. The bottles used to be semi-transparent. They "fixed" it by changing the textures from transparent to opaque; the bottles now look more like metal than glass. That stopped the flickering, but I don't believe they ever fixed the underlying bug in the graphics code.

On the other hand, I'm still seeing flickering windows and metal gratings at Starfleet Academy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an-6uMYwkk8

And now, there are flickering tribbles on Tribble, as well as flickering ground weapons.

Flickering tribbles on Federation fleet starbase
Flickering ground weapons

Season 14 is coming on October 3rd. They have less than two weeks to fix the flickering on Tribble. I believe they have a general graphics bug. They really need to get a graphics programmer to look at this rather than try to fix it by merely changing the assets.


EDIT: Changed formatting. Vanilla, don't eat this post.

where2r1

frtoaster wrote: »

Season 14 is coming on October 3rd. They have less than two weeks to fix the flickering on Tribble. I believe they have a general graphics bug. They really need to get a graphics programmer to look at this rather than try to fix it by merely changing the assets.

OK...you made me curious.... I am patching Tribble, now. I will get my frickin' Fed Ferengi moved over. Um...have you tried to change settings on Holodeck to see if you can force things to flicker, yet??

frtoaster

where2r1 wrote: »

frtoaster wrote: »

Season 14 is coming on October 3rd. They have less than two weeks to fix the flickering on Tribble. I believe they have a general graphics bug. They really need to get a graphics programmer to look at this rather than try to fix it by merely changing the assets.

OK...you made me curious.... I am patching Tribble, now. I will get my frickin' Fed Ferengi moved over. Um...have you tried to change settings on Holodeck to see if you can force things to flicker, yet??

I suppose I could go through every single graphics setting, as I did for the bottles, but that's a bunch of work and I doubt it would make a difference. I keep the same graphics settings on Holodeck as I do on Tribble. The only difference is that they recently removed the option "Raise settings in character creator" from Tribble.

"Raise settings in character creator" removed from "Advanced" tab

I doubt that's the cause either. It's probably another unannounced graphics change that we weren't supposed to notice, but is obviously causing problems.