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Where are their faces

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited January 2012 in Tribble - Bug Reports
Turned on DirectX 11 in space everything is fine and much better but when I go to ground everyone's skins is a bit odd.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2mfkwhx.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/2mmu9es.jpg

Just noticed the academy building has also gone black.

Is this my computer or the game?

Graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 410M
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    Game, I have the same problem and I'm running a GTX 470.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    I have the same problem. I use a geforce GTX 460M
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    Same here. I'm running STO on Alienware M11x R3 with GT 540M
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    Ever see the Wizard of Oz?

    Im melting......melting......meeelllllllttttttiiiingggggg......oh what a world what a world........


    Seriously probably just your settings.......in that they may need to be toned down a wee....I understand that while you may have top of the line hardware.....STO is kinda picky that way....just sayin...:D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    Its to do with the lighting quality. If it is set low the problem is not visable.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    stargate_wars wrote: »
    Its to do with the lighting quality. If it is set low the problem is not visable.

    Thanks for the fix. Does make directx11 look worse then 9 though lol
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    kirihoshi wrote: »
    Turned on DirectX 11 in space everything is fine and much better but when I go to ground everyone's skins is a bit odd.

    http://i39.tinypic.com/2mfkwhx.jpg
    http://i39.tinypic.com/2mmu9es.jpg

    Just noticed the academy building has also gone black.

    Is this my computer or the game?

    Graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 410M

    This looks like it could be our known issue of "Shadows look blocky".
    Would you say that all the other shadows you see in the game look similarly blocky?

    Thanks! :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    ZeroniusRex wrote:
    This looks like it could be our known issue of "Shadows look blocky".
    Would you say that all the other shadows you see in the game look similarly blocky?

    Thanks! :)

    I noticed it doesn't occur with all rendering, it seems to pick and choose yet stays that way with certain elements......IE

    The faces

    The sky

    Some buildings used over and over throughout similar missions

    The lighting and shadow quality once dropped in setting seems to squash this to an extent.

    At least thats what I have noticed...

    Does that help at all?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    Saw it on face on Startup Screen, then running around ESD lots of blinky shadows. In space, saw it toward some of the "corners" of space while moving camera around starship. Changing lighting to low solved the issue.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    Oh, my card is the GeForce GTX 570.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    ZeroniusRex wrote:
    This looks like it could be our known issue of "Shadows look blocky".
    Would you say that all the other shadows you see in the game look similarly blocky?

    Thanks! :)

    Thanks for the reply.

    No I would say they look normal, took a screenshot so you can judge for yourself though.

    http://i42.tinypic.com/v3g9zt.jpg
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    kirihoshi wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply.

    No I would say they look normal, took a screenshot so you can judge for yourself though.

    http://i42.tinypic.com/v3g9zt.jpg

    Thank you for the update! :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    Zero this is an image of the excelsior class with the same settings.
    You will see the black areas on the ship.

    http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g341/stargate_wars/screenshot_2011-12-28-18-00-51.jpg
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    kirihoshi wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply.

    No I would say they look normal, took a screenshot so you can judge for yourself though.

    http://i42.tinypic.com/v3g9zt.jpg


    Its normal for them to look slightly terrifying?

    Suddenly I want to write a foundry mission about killer shadows...but I think Doctor Who already did one.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    AlchemistiD wrote: »
    Its normal for them to look slightly terrifying?

    Suddenly I want to write a foundry mission about killer shadows...but I think Doctor Who already did one.
    ]

    hehe I see what you mean. They did and they called them the Vashta Nerada, good name for them xD
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2011
    try beaming down to Starfleet Accademy... the whole map is flickering :eek:

    and shadows are not the cause i turned them OFF -> no change

    only when i deactivate dynamic lighting the black stuff in the faces and on the buildings goes away...


    i interpreted the "shadows can be blocky" line in the patchnotes... that.... the actual shadows can be blocky, but i actually see no change there, i just thought that the Dev's only noticed this Problem now that some shadows IN SOME MAPS look more blocky than in other maps... but they did always in DX 9

    example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=glXv9VYLoHI
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Can you tell us a little more about your settings? Are you playing windowed/full screen/windows maximized? Have you enabled DirectX 11? Are there any particular settings in the advanced menu that you have seen that turn this problem on and off?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Farktoid5000 wrote:
    Can you tell us a little more about your settings? Are you playing windowed/full screen/windows maximized? Have you enabled DirectX 11? Are there any particular settings in the advanced menu that you have seen that turn this problem on and off?

    Does the same with windowed/fullscreen/windowed maximized. With DirectX 11 on. Messed around turning things on and off and found that turning Framerate stabilizer on made everything look how it should. Hope that helps.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    kirihoshi wrote: »
    Does the same with windowed/fullscreen/windowed maximized. With DirectX 11 on. Messed around turning things on and off and found that turning Framerate stabilizer on made everything look how it should. Hope that helps.

    Kirihoshi,
    Thank you. That fixed my issue as well.

    Fark,
    I am also having the same problem as mentioned before (and that the above change fixed it).

    My PC is running the following:
    Video - NVIDIA GeForce GT450
    Driver Version - 285.62 (dated 2011/10/24)
    Windows OS - Windows 7 (ultimate) SP1 64 bit

    Stats in STO
    Screenshot #1 - STOVideoOptions-Part1.jpg

    Screenshot #2 - STOVideoOptions-Part2.jpg
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Farktoid5000 wrote:
    Can you tell us a little more about your settings? Are you playing windowed/full screen/windows maximized? Have you enabled DirectX 11? Are there any particular settings in the advanced menu that you have seen that turn this problem on and off?

    i noticed

    turning OFF

    "post processing"
    AND/OR
    "screen space ambient occlusion"
    AND/OR
    "cinematic foucs (depth of field)"

    makes everything black flicker even worse

    thats noteworthy ...i guess?



    framerate stabilizer ON ...confirmed! it fixed the flickering and gets rid of all the black stuff in faces and on buildings completely, but i also see a unacceptable loss of Framerate ....as bad as from 60 to 30

    so if that option is supposed to "stabilize" my framerate by bringing it down to a crawl, then i guess it's working as intended ;P .... *NOT going to use THAT*


    also setting shadows to LOW gets rid of all the problems, by simply removing all of the shadows;P



    i also noticed that ALT+TAB seems to work better since the last tribble patch, now the picture only once shortly flickers black when i change certain graphics options... which is new, it never did that before
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    I've also noticed a dramatic loss in framerate with framerate stabilizer on. It's still playable but nowhere near as smooth as it is with it turned off.
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