I am posting this here at the request of the various customer and tech support people I have spoken and worked with, in the hopes it gets more attention and can finally be addressed and fixed. At random times while playing (anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours) various lighting effects will either begin to fade and disappear, or just stop showing all together. these include the glow around item drops, the guide trail, various spell and skill effects, and even a majority of environmental effects. The cause of this, no one seems to know. It has been attributed to having setting too high for your system, the wrong kind of Anti Aliasing set, to even just overhating of your CPU or GPU. None of those are the cause, from what I can tell, and from what the support people I've spoken and worked with can tell. Mysystem is more than capable of running on full settings (Asus GL Strix 753, i7 7700HQ, GTX 1050 ($GB dedicated Ram, 16GB DDR4, running on solid state NVMe drives, temps don't go over 80 degrees), I have the issue happen even if I turn use the lowest of all graphics settings. A supposed fix that I had heard, and heard others mention, was of course, exit out the game, restart and reverify files, and re-launch. and yes, sometimes this seemed to work, onlt to have everything happen all over again, making this not really a fix, as who knows if it's actually doing anything. At this moment, all I have been told I can do, is leave this bug report, hope people have notice, and, while put very nicely and politely, was to basically deal with it till it becomes a big enough issue to take a priority in being fixed. I will say, I love this game, I have loved DnD since I got my first Red Box as little kid. I will continue to play the game, and reverify files every time this happens in the hopes of getting a few more dungeoun runs in while the effects hold out, but I will say a lot of enjoyment has left when this occurs, as spending half my time running around searching the ground to locate my needed loot, or that one item I've been waiting to drop, is not how I imagined spending my time. I understand that there are bigger issues for the devs and the coders and other to work on, some to keep the game up and running at all, but something that affects our enjoyment of the game, even just the "pretty factor", is important, when it is a selling and advertising poijt in the game. Ok, I've complained enough, I suppose, back to reverifying files for now. While I am sure others out there know what this is all about, here is a sample pic for those that don't, showing the glow around dropped items gone,
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvQlWy6GrP-WmXU1lqZ6XspHqEhK
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it happens after a while of playing game, not at start. mostly it could be temporary fixed by just restart game to have same problem at later time again.Hear from my guldmates that they have same Problem. its not at same time for all in group, so seems that this problem is correlated to pc state, or weather outside.
Just wanted to add a screenshot just in case the other one I had doesn't work. And yes, still happens frequently. Really need to look into this.
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