graphical/crash issues in tideborn zone

osiris wrote: »

Yeah, I'm running SP2 with Directx 11. The flickering occurred for me at 2 different areas of the tideborn area, each were spots with more people in a very small area than I could count (I didn't run around too long before logging out to see if there was a solution posted here).

From what I am seeing so far it looks like anyone running the DirectX 11 software is having the problem, even if you have DirectX 9 or 10 hardware.

It's what I get for being an early adopter of Windows 7. b:surrender

Nothing to do now but let the Dev's patch it up.

Naabi - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Just a thought. It is proberly because of the new area and race that so many people has logged on to the new land and have crashed the area where it can not support the amount.

Denied. Disconnect away from the area and return. This'll clear all players and you will still get the frameskip.

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In other news, I managed to install XP right after sunset (Finally!). No frameskip happens on my XP install excluding those of the thousands of nooblets running around. Vista is being installed right now on my laptop.

After that I'll take video clippings from all 3 just for comparison's sake. A picture may be worth a thousand words but a video is worth a thousand pictures. (and it makes it easier to see)

ColdSteele - Lost City wrote: »

^This worked for me



^This is stupidity at work

ok troll go back into your cave...

Finally got the video clips. b:tired

XP was nice and smooth and Vista/7 got the frameskip/flashing. I had 7 on my desktop, Vista on laptop, both got the same effect so I just went with one video for them. I recorded it in windowed mode to avoid the flashing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB2pBe4D7vo
^ XP version: Perfectly normal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA6gWT8pLnA
^ Vista/7 version: I flipped between best performance and quality. This makes the effect on the building go away and reappear. Moving the camera you can see that the framerate is fine for about half a second before it reappears.

This is all I can do. The rest is up to you gms and devs. b:surrender

same kinds or problem with 7 and a nvidia card. And i doubt it's really that much of an issue of peopel being in one place. As the servers are made for people to be on them. The lag that happens in populated areas is your gpu+network card. So it's just the devs it seems not testing their program under windows 7 properly.

it happens to me too when i look at sandy place in south island of broked dreams

vista x64
hd4870x2
1650-1050 lg l226w
in-game max-details 1440-900 ws-mode

drivers: 8.14.0010.0700

I have the same flashing problem. As others have mentioned, it has to do with the starting safe zone of the tideborn. Looking away stops it, yes, but it's not exactly playable in that fashion. Still, I used that to get closer and park myself right in the area to do some testing. I used to think Best Performance Mode simply turned some graphical settings down all the way, but now I'm not so sure. I tried each setting, one by one (by looking towards the direction that causes it, flashing a bit, then looking away), and no single option seems responsible; and yet, I can run just fine in Best Performance Mode.

People think that it's the sheer amount of players causing problems, but I do not believe that is the case. For one, many players were in Archosaur like this and it didn't do that. Second, the problems first started to occur for me once the starting area was in view - so far away that my game did not even load all those players. It is the pretty scenery, not the players, causing the flashing. All other new tideborn areas run sluggish but I think I can tolerate that if I simply turn down some things. Everywhere else in the game runs fine with all settings at max, save for slight lag in West Archosaur. I guess when I play the new characters I'll have to do it in Best Performance Mode for the first few levels, and then have some settings lowered 'til 20 or so.

It's interesting to see a majority of the people who have this problem, myself included, are using ATI video cards and drivers. It's too bad we can't pinpoint that as the problem, however.

Darkmoonmist wrote:

It has nothing to do with ati. I dont have ati on my laptop and its doing flashing as well. My husband on his pc with his cleric lagged and glitched alott in that area. So not just new character prob.

Paer wrote:

same kinds or problem with 7 and a nvidia card. And i doubt it's really that much of an issue of peopel being in one place. As the servers are made for people to be on them. The lag that happens in populated areas is your gpu+network card. So it's just the devs it seems not testing their program under windows 7 properly.

It's not just Windows 7 either, but like some others, I have this problem using Vista (Ultimate 64-bit in my case). Has anyone had the problem with XP or earlier Micro$oft operating systems? Sorry if someone said already... I read over every post but I'm also dead tired. Also, I haven't tried windowed mode as I cannot stand playing a game in that. (-_-);

run the game in windowed mode, problem solved

screenie or it didnt happen ^^

i know i know, just sayin it worked for meeee.

Peeps..dont blame your computers,graphics cards,drivers...not point.
The real thing is bad programing and beta testers dont do their jobs very wellb:tired....so simple.
The only thing to do,is wait for another patch to fix this damn bugsb:bye

The problem is a result of the graphics card and cpu dealing with more moving 3d objects than they can handle. This may have been made worse by an apparent increase in the number of polygons used in most models. When the framerate drops down to 1 or 2 per second, the screen blinks on and off rather than leave the old image up while redrawing. To try and stop the blinking, aim your camera away from the extra objects, usually straight up (if flying) or down (if walking) or facing away from the crowds. There seems to be some application problems because I have to force anti-aliasing and anistropic filtering on my ATI card to have archosaur look decent. If I let the graphics card use the application settings, all the jagged lines and other problems make the buildings in archosaur look like @&#%. Maybe there are no application settings to apply? It is possible that the same inept application settings are causing the frame rate to plummet and the screen to blink on and off for no reason.

This was not a problem before the tideborn patch, so someone must have goofed big time and killed the appllication settings. Arcosaur was full of buildings with straight edges before the patch, but has jagged edges after.

Peoples I Solved It!!!!!!!!!!! To Go Aroud Without Staring At The Ground Or At The Sky Zoom In On Ur Character!!! So U Cant See Anything Around U!!!! I Just Did It And I Was Saved!!!!!!

This patch must not have been tested to good. There are a lot of issues with it not just the tiborn area but the Faction list the character list. It all runs into each other and cuts words off on every thing. TEST NEXT TIME AND THIS WONT HAPPEN

I refuse to work around their **** up