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Missing Textures/Icons in season 8 *FIX INCOMING See post 608 page 61*
harmony420
Member Posts: 49 Arc User
I had been playing the game earlier on Tuesday after the season 8 launch but before the night's maintenance, and The Breach was basically unplayable. The ship was flashing bright white, and pretty much everything else....torpedoes, plasma leaks, other players' ships, everything was square boxes. After the Breach, many other players and ships seemed to be missing textures (white shapes only) and any icons that I hadn't had in my inventory at the start of the combat, including the ones on my hotbar, all disappeared...this was a graphics issue, not an unbinding issue, the keys still worked and the tooltips still popped up on the empty space. Logging out to the title screen left it almost entirely bright white except for the barely visible version number at the top, and the username/password boxes appeared normally. After the night's maintenance I tried the Breach again and it worked fine. I switched characters and went to the Dyson sphere zone for a good hour or so, no problems. Then another log out, and the title screen is back to bright white, and back in game, the textures/icons are missing again. I never had any such issue before season 8 so it must be related to that.
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The Breach before evening's maintenance:
http://picpaste.com/9CDe1rkP.jpg
Another, on the inside this time:
http://picpaste.com/ghbUuLs7.jpg
And one more, missing textures on portraits in this one:
http://picpaste.com/CXvJThtZ.jpg
And here's a shot of a character screen after exiting the mission. Borders on windows also missing, along with a bunch of inventory icons, and of course the textures are obvious:
http://picpaste.com/86bNegDc.jpg
Additionally when this happens for me, every item icon in my inventory, and icon on my toolbars also vanish.
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To help consolidate and bring the scale of this to Cryptic's attention. These other recent threads seem to be on the very same topic:
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With an ever growing collection of affected users, I've had to split this list over t̶w̶o̶, t̶h̶r̶e̶e̶, f̶o̶u̶r̶, five additional posts. These can be found later within this thread or directly linked below.
A link to the affected graphics h/w specs (where stated) has also been added.
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Standalone duplicate threads on S8 missing icons & textures
Part 1, Part 2 - 37 links
Missing icon & texture conversation strands, contained within other unrelated or S8 general error threads
(note: first relevant post only; need to read overall thread to find all additional respondents)
Part 1, Part 2 - 24 links
Possibly related missing icon & texture threads
Part 1 - 9 links
The individual reports in these lists, now span:
-- Graphics Hardware
NVIDIA & AMD/ATI chipsets, multiple models (integrated & discrete)
Intel HD graphics, multiple models (integrated)
low, mid-range & performance machines (PCs and Mac) and high-end gaming hardware setups (PCs)
-- O/S & Drivers
multiple Windows versions running natively on PCs (at least: XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8; with 32 & 64 bit editions)
multiple Windows versions running on Macs via bootcamp (at least: Vista, Win 7)
multiple OSX versions using the new Mac beta (at least: 10.7, 10.8, 10.9)
DX9, DX9Ex & DX11 drivers
-- Star Trek Online application
game setting: postprocessing set to on & off
game setting: anti aliasing enabled (various) & disabled (none)
game setting: ambient occlusion set to on & off
game setting: on demand patching set to on & off
game setting: underwater view set to on & off
In response to a request by tacofangs, the relevant graphics hardware specs (where stated) are summarised below. Note: An earlier post contained a shorter list of h/w, taken only from the related threads; before being moved & expanded upon with entries made here.
Part 1 (PCs & Windows), Part 2 (Mixed setups & Macs) - 80 unique configurations
It should be noted that despite their length, the entries on all of these lists are -solely- selected on the basis of reporting missing icons & textures, occurring over gameplay time. Be they left either: transparent, replaced with a white-out or single colour (usually a bright neon 'bloom') or a very low res alternative. Also swapping / strobing between two of the above.
No attempt has been made to collate additional post-S8 graphical issues such as: other artefacts; frame-rate/lag problems; general resolution settings; smearing/stuttering on game start; nor icon problems whose onset is consistently the result of a user initiated action (e.g. reports of consumable icons in the power tray, disappearing on activation).
Im working off an nvidia geforce 210 with 1 gig of ddr3. If that helps any. And yes my screen looks like the other pics posted here. Thank you
Screen shot-
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...3-14-59-21.jpg
Also seem to get reeeeeally big slow downs when in a 'cloud' i.e. "Vent Plasma effect" or fighting the dreadnaught at the end of the Gorn Fleet action.
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- mostly problem happens, when i switch type of play couple or more times
(like - i go from ship combat to away team play and back)...
I'm using the directx 11 option.
GeForce GTX 460, WinXP 32bit, DX9.
Hopefully a dev will at least acknowledge the problem... I don't want this to become one of those bugs that never gets fixed. It ruins the game, and makes me want to go do something else.
I did try to carry on with it and one space batter became whited out with orange squares floating about! Also visit shipyard and noticed the avenger out the window flickers white!
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I agree, at a certain point it becomes a game breaker cause I can't be bothered to constantly restart the game to get an uncertain amount of playtime untill I glitch again. In fact, that's the reason I'm posting here and not playing atm.
Doesn't matter if I run in DX9 or DX11
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I made a thread about this yesterday. I was told that it was just latency.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=911851
I have screenshots in there of what it looks like. Is this what you guys are seeing?
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Absolutely. The snapshots you posted in the thread you linked is exactly what I'm seeing in game today. Oddly enough, it was fine yesterday.
If it really is latency as Bran Man said, I'm wondering then if it's something on Cryptic's end now that others are seeing this? This never happened to me before Season 8. Only yesterday and today am I seeing this.
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I'd bet it sth. on their end, since others are experiencing it and also since you haven't had this happen before and neither have I. First time for me something like this to happen in STO.
its a screenshot of what i see inside the sphere
So far this has been the issue with me, not just Voth content but throughout the game. You don't mention which graphics bugs, but for me it is everywhere: space backgrounds, white boxes appearing over items, uniforms and objects appearing as solid glowing white, color shifts, bank/inventory items appearing as empty boxes with a colored outline and a number for stack size, mouse cursor disappearing, my ship arrow not appearing on Galaxy map, most lighting 'aura' or glow effects being just large balls of color, etc.
I will log in and play for about an hour or so, then on a sector change or entering battle or just bringing up my inventory/bank, that will trigger the graphics problems. Rarely (ie, twice out of about 20 occurences) opening a dialog box, interaction, or zone change will reset the graphics and they will be okay for a while. Otherwise I have to completely exit and restart the game to get them working again.
ATI Radeon graphics, and even though I had fairly current drivers, I just updated to the latest (13.9 I believe) - problems still occur. Win Vista Business, not using Directx 11.
I had absolutely zero graphics glitches prior to the season 8 patch, so no, it's not the computer.
Will prob be trying it on another computer with an NVidia graphics card in the next couple days, see if it gives similar results.
(Edit: Exiting the game and restarting normally fixes it, and just going to 'Log Out' will normally CAUSE the problem to occur if it wasn't. Also, the missing ship directional pointer on galaxy map is constant whether the graphics glitch is happening or not, so is likely a separate issue.)
http://i.imgur.com/10vVgJn.png
Really, really bad. I'm trying to do the final mission in the Deviidian FE series, and I can't even see the markers for the slingshot back to the past. It's very blinding and practically unplayable.
Like some sort of memory leak because it is initially OK for 30 minutes to an hour then degrades to the issues others have posted.
Note, that I did NOT have these issues at Season 8 Launch (i.e. Yesterday), it's only since the supplemental maintenance/patch.
The delayed onset for most is interesting. Subjectively it seems to arrive earlier the more specialised map changes you make - following to be taken with a LARGE grain of salt as I haven't been paying that close attention to the time aspect nor collating any figures.
All examples are fresh from programme start, as they are variants of my own 'dailies':
Lobi mission replay + Vlugta + Tour of multiple space sectors for doff assignments, back to ESD -> 45 mins+ (at least, before onset)
Lobi mission replay + Visiting one significant ground map (New Rommie, Nukara, Defera or Sphere, then back to ESD) -> 45 mins (45+ ? extended mission time in one location may be altering my perception of the elapsed time)
Lobi mission replay + Staying put at ESD but beaming out-n-back 3 or 4 times to handle freighter bridge requests -> onset clearly under 45mins
I've linked additional forum reports/threads on the same theme, to my earlier post no. 5
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Cryptic/PWE please fix this and immediately...its a game breaker, no one wants to shut down the game and restart it just to get an uncertain amount of play time as another poster on this topic had said.
http://i.imgur.com/FdgBItw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xRY1upT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FdhgLv0.jpg
I link these because they are the same issue im having, only I am also getting a graphical load error when flying around where glowy effects are super bright like someone gave crack to the Bloom Effect.
[URL=http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=13466081&postcount=4http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=13466081&postcount=4
So Cryptic knows about it and it looks like it's a problem on their end that they're investigating.
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Exactly what I have. just tried the breach mission, and got lost due to acute snow blindness. at first I thought the effects were limited to the new content, but no, sadly it followed me to DS9. So come on Cryptic, as we all say, this is a deal breaker, and steals much of the thunder from your pride and joy. We need a fix NOW.