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bradkov
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Hi
I was wondering is anyone else having problems with the game such as graphics not working, the amount of loading time, or the game glitching on them?
I was wondering is anyone else having problems with the game such as graphics not working, the amount of loading time, or the game glitching on them?
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I am not seeing this on Linux OS, this may be DirectX related, and how the game client is making calls to the DirectX. I know that doesn't help the users at all. I hope the developers will see this comment and take a closer look into their graphics hooking. White flashes might be a delay of loading graphic textures into the client from the libraries? Which might not be the result of latency (server lag) but instead it could be graphic settings.
I will pop over to Window 10, and let you know what I am seeing there, but preview everything looked fine.
To the users:
Most likely your settings got reset in the update. The ones experiencing graphical issue accompanied with rubber-banding, please go to your Options and set the sliders in the Graphics tab to minimum and bring them up slowly as you play. If you comprehend the detailed settings below the sliders, turn the world and terrain settings down to medium and leave the character at max or high. If the flashes are in the distance sky or background, the world setting is where to look. f the flashes are on the ground or buildings, the terrain setting is where to look.
If you continue to have both graphical issues and lag, try setting the resolution lower or play in a smaller windowed setting. This is not the fault of your hardware so don't run out and buy a new graphics adapter thinking it will solve your problems. I am not pointing fingers at the developers either, they are doing their best working with what they have. They probably need to look into some "old school solutions" for their
API calls. The game engine wasn't originally created for the latest and greatest and I suspect it is having a hard time keeping up. Without hands on information all I can do is speculate.
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And I'm running Win10 64bit.
I usually let GeForce Experience optimize my settings for me but I'm still aware of what they should be so when I log-in I will also have look through them ingame and see if I notice anything has changed.
The current lowest 64 bit system is running;
- Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz
- Memory 8125MB (953MB used)
- Machine Type Mini Tower
- Operating System LXLE Linux 18.04.3 64bit
- Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
- OpenGL Renderer GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2
- X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Meanwhile I can boot into Windows on this same machine and it gets 'laggy' on higher GPU settings or when I run the capture program. I did see a white flash in PE today, riding through the tunnel up near Sybella. Otherwise not experiencing the invisible NPC's Windows 10 either. I did try to record a video in Windows but it lagged so badly, all I got was still frames and sounds.Before someone says, I am being bias toward Linux OS, yes I am bias, using Windows for year the experience has made me bias. I am not messing with my results to prove one OS is better than the other. I am just stating for this game, I am currently having less issue with running this under Linux OS and OpenGL, than running it in Windows 10 and DirectX.
The game is running ok in Windows 10, until I increase the graphics beyond normal or mid range. If anyone has some video or screen shots they should probably post them and make a thread in "bug reports".
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I reviewed my graphics settings and they all seem as normal, only the shader setting was not at max and only set to very high, but I can't be certain that it was changed by the game in the patch because it may have been GeForce Experience automatically doing that when it was optimized last and I didn't know about it. If I was setting it manually I would have it at max so I put it back to that.
Name: Nvidia GeForce GT 320
Manufacturer: Moshe Rabbenu
Manufacture Date: 1592 BC
Chip Set: Dorito
Device Type: Nacho Cheese
Tech Support: Smithsonian Institution
Now I don't know if I really want to pay $500 for an upgrade or not.
Just killing time...
Edit: The GeForce GT 320 OEM was a graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on February 2nd, 2010.
Back on the topic...
@rockster#6227 I can see the texture on your video was loaded, blinked to white, then loaded again. This hasn't occurred while my testing in Linux OS looking for these kind of a graphical issue. I was looking for issues on the wrong end. DirectX, Z buffering, and Nvidia drivers have been blamed for this issue happening by games for the last year now. I read this on several forums from Reddit, WoW, Final Fantasy, etc. all them saying it is not their game. They all claim it is DirectX 11 or 12, or they claim Nvidia has bad drivers, sounds like they want to play pass the buck and not solve the problem.
@foxxy#4211 I don't think there is anything any end-user can do at this point. DirectX was created by Microsoft as a graphics library for games and they created the XBox to feature it. I always looked at these shortcuts as a cheat, back in my old DOS days we had to know how to display graphics ourselves. Almost all Windows games uses the latest DirectX package. They distribute the package freely so developers will use it as opposed to OpenGL or some other library. Programmers use these to avoid learning how to code it yourself.
I personally haven't programmed anything with DirectX since version 8 or 9. I try very hard to avoid using anything I don't fully understand. I can appreciate it would take more time to "reinvent the wheel". I am just saying, I have always wanted to know I can repair the wheel, when it has a flat. Cryptic Studios should (I hope) have a few people there, who know the DirectX software developer's kit well enough to know what went wrong and fix it.
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I do think that it's strange that yes, the texture loads and then portions of it go away and then come back, the only time I have ever seen anything slightly like this was when I was building and two textures would be overlapping incorrectly and the game did not know which one to draw. But it didn't really look like this white flash, it looked more like a stripey effect and tearing with uneven edges to it where the two competing textures shimmered against each other when only one was supposed to be showing. This was always fixed by moving the offending surface 1 or 2 pixels back underneath the surface which was meant to show. But it's the closest thing I can think of I've seen before. Like why just the windows which did it and not the other windows? What makes them different? Could it be the texture placement where they are slightly further away from the camera (like one pixel only) which is causing it and the base structure underneath is pure white? Same with the wall of the market, why only one panel on the market and two others lower down and not more of them, what makes those panels different than anything else which is not doing it? The issue is obviously limited to only certain panels in the build and not others. (The flash on the market I see every day now is always in the same spot btw.) But if that was the issue it would be repeatable and just moving back and forth and around while looking at it would repeat it and this doesn't happen, so I'm not sure that's even it, but it's the closest thing I can think of that I've seen myself.
As far as my drivers go, I receive regular updates about once a month or so via GeForce Experience so whatever driver I have installed right now is the latest one and I can't really do much about it but I don't think it's the drivers at all, I think something is happening at Cryptic's end which is causing issues because only just suddenly since this patch multiple display issues are being reported atm by lots of people. Btw, you said you ran through the tunnel and saw a flash, what GPU were you using at that time?
One other thing and I'm not even sure this IS a thing yet, but the first day I was playing mod21 during Demo actually, I felt that during very busy battles with loads of effects going on and lots of players (not solo just busy busy moments with loads happening at once), it was hard to see what was going on and to my eyes just looked like a big busy mess. I've never had that before. What I mean is that I was having difficulty focusing on what was happening and what I needed to look at in some weird way I could not put my finger on, just it was hard to see any detail at the time and I felt disorientated while playing like I didn't know what I was supposed to be looking at and I am wondering if they have done something rather huge to the way the game is running and displaying that we are unaware of.
This has always been usable before but I guess they have made some change that won't work with older graphics hardware. Guess I won't do much besides get my keys the next few days.
May see if there is a newer video driver but I doubt it.