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Massive White Blobs in Mirror Universe Event

reximuzreximuz Member Posts: 1,172 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Graphical and Sound Issues
Last night while doing the Mirror Universe event, I noticed two massive white blobs in the space past the station. You can fly to and through them, so they aren't in the background like a star. I don't know if they were an intended change or if there is something wrong, so I thought I'd post here, but I will say they are painfully bright, as in my eyes literally hurt, and they obscured any ships that past in front of them, including their targeting reticles.

I didn't think to grap a screenshot at the time, but if so desired I'll try next time.

If these are intentional I hope consideration would be given to removing them, or at least making them way less annoying.
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  • soidutssoiduts Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Some of the Borg encounter missions have them as well. They seem to be pulsars or something and are very hard to look at as they are bright plus they take an excessive amount of gpu power to render. Suggest that the next patch remove them or have the ability to turn them off in the graphics control.
  • dma1986dma1986 Member Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Also occurring in the T'kanis Nebula (ignore the file names... got confused while naming them). They're causing major slow-down during warp-in, so couldn't be in a worse location considering you get shot as soon as you arrive:

    GlitchTongnebula.jpg
    GlitchTongnebula3.jpg

    And also in the small groups of hostile ships floating around in Sirius:

    GlitchSirius.jpg
    GlitchSirius2.jpg
  • betanembetanem Member Posts: 122 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Yeah I get those in a few DSE and kling nebula's, which make them totally unplayable . :mad:
  • burstdragon323burstdragon323 Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    soiduts wrote: »
    Some of the Borg encounter missions have them as well. They seem to be pulsars or something and are very hard to look at as they are bright plus they take an excessive amount of gpu power to render. Suggest that the next patch remove them or have the ability to turn them off in the graphics control.

    I've been calling for a "Turn all bloom off" mode forever. I would love to have it in response to this c**p.
  • jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I saw these for the first time in Red Alerts last night. Very annoying, lost my ship and target more than a few times.
  • phantasrsphantasrs Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    jkstocbr wrote: »
    I saw these for the first time in Red Alerts last night. Very annoying, lost my ship and target more than a few times.
    I've been seeing the white blobs in the Red Alerts for several days now. Makes it extremely difficult to play since it slows you way down.
    Whatever they're supposed to be they're not necessary at all. Better to just get rid of them if it fixes the problem.
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  • captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    they were originally in the no win scenario on tribble but somehow seem to have escaped to everywhere else.
  • omfg4202omfg4202 Member Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I get these giant stupid blurry blobs in EVERY SPACE ENCOUNTER. This huge glaring visual bug is at least a month old and not even listed in known graphical issues sticky thread? Look at these screen shots. This is pretty shoddy if something so (1) visually stupid, and which (2) really hinders gameplay, can go completely ignored for so long.
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  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    dma1986 wrote: »
    Also occurring in the T'kanis Nebula (ignore the file names... got confused while naming them). They're causing major slow-down during warp-in, so couldn't be in a worse location considering you get shot as soon as you arrive:

    GlitchTongnebula.jpg
    GlitchTongnebula3.jpg

    And also in the small groups of hostile ships floating around in Sirius:

    GlitchSirius.jpg
    GlitchSirius2.jpg

    Yeah the following is in the Empire Defense Against: Romulans, Cardassians, and Borg, as shown in the Screen shots.
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  • sovereignmansovereignman Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    aww i thought the l was an o
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  • khurgakhurga Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I have the same issue, seems like any area described as a "nebula" has these blinding white areas that not only hurt my eyes, but causes my FPS to nosedive into slide show mode. So far I've noticed them in the Azure, ChoS, T'kanis nebulas, as well as Borg encounters.

    It needs to be fixed ASAP.
  • kazinsalkazinsal Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Having the same issue here. It's really jarring to go from 50-60 FPS to 6...
  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Having ZERO fps issues. They look interesting, but hardly fit to appear everywhere.

    Turn down your bloom, it may help your eyes.
  • kyeto13kyeto13 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I've noticed these in the Mirror event. They instantly drag your frame rate down whenever they are on screen, yet as soon are you turn away, everything goes back to normal.

    Really annoying -___-

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  • khurgakhurga Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Still an issue after the last patch.

    I found that a lot of the glare and FPS hit goes away, if you go to your options->video->postprocessing, and turning that off. Bloom settings don't seem to make a difference, so I left mine alone.
  • maltinpolarmaltinpolar Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    nynik wrote: »
    Having ZERO fps issues. They look interesting, but hardly fit to appear everywhere.

    Turn down your bloom, it may help your eyes.

    Just tested "Empire Defense: Romulans" with bloom, light and shadows turned completely off and the white blobs still sent my FPS to hell. Makes it impossible to play the mission efficiently.

    My hardware specs are not the problem, as I've had no FPS issues in the past with any of the MMOs I play, up until these white blobs started showing up. I wouldn't say everywhere, but I have seen them in a couple maps.

    EDIT - Links to my screen captures (ongoing):

    Azure Nebula (July 15)
    B'Tran Cluster (July 16)
    Azure Nebula (July 19)
    Chos Nebula (July 20) <-- Game client froze and crashed after taking this one.
    T'Kanis Nebula (July 24) <-- Taken at quite some distance from the spawn point (which is the worst).

    UPDATE [07/22, 2:36pm EDT]:

    White blobs now showing in all instances of the "Empire Defense" KDF missions: Romulan, Cardassian, Borg and Federation.

    CRYPTIC: please fix this ASAP. Thank you.
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  • aaetiusaaetius Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    THis needs to get fixed, the FPS loss on my comp makes looking at these blobs certain defeat!
    Please remove them ASAP!
  • mewimewi Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I actually think it has something to do with asteroids... I only ever see these giant blobs in maps that have asteroids o.o maybe it happens with other space objects... But I've seen them in multiple deep space encounter maps.

    Suffice it to say, HUGE frame rate drops from them.

    Edit: Wasn't there a recent patch note regarding a change in Bloom Intensity? I wonder if this change had a negative effect on space object generation. Hmm~
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  • retunred4goodretunred4good Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    My framerate doesn't take a hit, but they do make the satellite damned hard to find and serve no purpose but to be an eyesore.
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  • cushionridecushionride Member Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    in my opinion this issue needs addressing right now. i set my graphics to bare minimum and i still have frame rate lag because of these vile abominations. o and for those who think its a bloom issue, YOUR WRONG!

    its a complex multi layered transparent object that also generates its own light source. you add these in with missions where you have over 100 ships flying around. well lets just say cryptic didnt guite think that one through all the way
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  • dann3skj0lddann3skj0ld Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Given that PVE missions are part of what makes the experience, about 40% of the game is now NOT playable because of what these images do to frame rate. It got so unplayable that I just gave up in the middle of a team effort. Sorry to the team but they don't look like artwork, they look like a TRIBBLE poor job at creating visual object. From an Astronomy standpoint they don't represent anything in real space. They look like my nephew was editing the map with vanilla ice cream.

    A response from development on the status of this as a fix is greatly appreciated, Please.
  • boolyboolyboolybooly Member Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Yes these things are a blooming nuisance! They prevent you seeing what you are doing and cause even high end PCs to lag, get rid of them, also the glowing planets which obscure all graphics in front of them.
  • jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Adjusting the Bloom settings fixed it for me.
  • maltinpolarmaltinpolar Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    dann3skj0ld wrote: »
    A response from development on the status of this as a fix is greatly appreciated, Please.

    Doesn't look like we're gonna get an answer -or fix- any time soon. Neither the issue nor this thread are listed in the Known Issues sticky post, last updated on, um, let's see... 03-29-2012. Yeah.

    Thread is now 12 days old and 24 posts long. It also has several screenshots and still not a word from any dev.

    Way to go, Cryptic.
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  • beezle23beezle23 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    betanem wrote: »
    Yeah I get those in a few DSE and kling nebula's, which make them totally unplayable . :mad:

    They're in the Red Alerts, too.
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  • nanomorphnanomorph Member Posts: 203 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Huh. I thought I was the first to discover this. I really should know better. :P

    Anyway, I might as well toss another screenshot onto the pile:

    http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9541/07262012acbenebulaparti.jpg

    Turning bloom off doesn't fix it for me. Turning bloom intensity down to 0% doesn't fix it for me either. Not looking at it fixes it for me, but that's not much of a fix. ;)
  • maltinpolarmaltinpolar Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Nothing about this on today's patch Release Notes.

    Peachy. :mad:
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  • zerobangzerobang Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnt0sCUk_k

    my FPS dropped from 60 to 30
    (of course you won't see that in a 30FPS youtube vid *duh*)

    from DSE in Sirius Sector Block
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  • shimmerlessshimmerless Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I had this in the Romulan Empire Defense thingy and it pretty much made the map as close to unplayable as you could conceivably get. I have no idea how it crunches such shameful amounts of GPU power (does it use particle effects? If so, why?) and it's obtuse and ugly to boot. No idea what they were thinking.
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  • beezle23beezle23 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    shimmerless wrote: »
    I had this in the Romulan Empire Defense thingy and it pretty much made the map as close to unplayable as you could conceivably get. I have no idea how it crunches such shameful amounts of GPU power (does it use particle effects?.

    I don't think it's particles. I think it's non-optimal layered transparencies . . . with glow.
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