Missing Textures/Icons in season 8 FIX INCOMING See post 608 page 61

richard45750 · November 2013

For me, My issue apparently was caused by an option in the video settings in star trek online. The option "World Detail Distance" was set to its lowest setting. So I upped it and the grey went away completely. I just put it on the highest setting. So you might play around with those settings some and see what happens. But now I can finally play season 8 lol

pozmedley1963 · November 2013

I am having the same issues as the orginal poster.

http://imageshack.com/a/img607/4904/x9s7.png

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7373/kx3.png

darthvrooks · November 2013

I am having this problem as well. Tonight alone I had to exit and restart the game 4 different times in less then an hour just to be able to play. Hopefully there will be at least some acknowledgement of this at some level by cryptic soon.

russellca · November 2013

As this thread has already been touched by a mod! (albeit a move between sections) I'll cross-link another thread with numerous reports of the same problem.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=913941

rylanadionysis · November 2013

I like how in the KASE i just did all of the gates/probes were green squares, the valdore was a giant black square, my ship was a triangle, and my beams looked like sticks of light.

Would you please make this a priority cryptic, its happened to me like four times today.

kharlis · November 2013

This makes for real interesting space battles. Kinda difficult to fight with Dual Heavy Cannons when you are not sure which part of the white blob is the front of your ship!

irwin109 · November 2013

lan451 wrote: »

Aha!

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?

Yep same as what I'm getting, tried loads of suggested solutions but it keeps coming back, takes a while but it eventually hits no matter what I do.

shpoks · November 2013

lan451 wrote: »

Got some good news on this. I found this down in the Mac forums of all places.

[URL=http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=13466081&postcount=4 http://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.

Thanks for sharing this. Let's hope this gets fixed sooner rather than later and by that I mean before the next week's regular maintenence. Because the game's becooming pretty much unplayable like this and it happens every now and then at random.

Already had to walk out of several instances today, due to not being in the mood of fighting against bright geometrical objets.

harmony420 · November 2013

I thought it was perhaps an NVIDIA issue but there is a poster here who is using ATI graphics. Also seen from posters with the issue using both DX9 and DX11, and Win XP and Windows 7, so no help for Cryptic there either

The only thing we seem to know for sure is it always happens after several map changes.

tkg2cav · November 2013

For me the problem crops up about every hour or so. it's already ruined one rich dilithium mining run because the laser sight never appeared. as noted earlier pace combat is weird, and ground combat is weirder as your enemy often gets a set of white glowing clothes.

russellca · November 2013

harmony420 wrote: »

I thought it was perhaps an NVIDIA issue but there is a poster here who is using ATI graphics. Also seen from posters with the issue using both DX9 and DX11, and Win XP and Windows 7, so no help for Cryptic there either The only thing we seem to know for sure is it always happens after several map changes.

Also seen on a Windows Vista (NVIDIA graphics) PC build; Vista & Windows 7 (both AMD graphics) on a Mac via bootcamp and on OSX 10.7.5 & 10.9 (both AMD graphics) proper using the new Mac beta.

straenge · November 2013

I am also having the same issues but it goes even further that white/missing graphics sometimes effects my character select screen and even the main login screen after playing in game, not before. Once I restart, then it resolves itself for a time before returning to missing graphics/textures/whiteout and missing item box graphics. I have tried everything to fix it to no avail.

litchy74 · November 2013

Still no word from the devs on this!
Played for about 30 minutes with no problem, switched to kerrat first mising texture went to k7 a lot of missing textures, explore daily in homie and all the pick up items for ground ie loot drop where just giant white squares!

Ive played for over a year with this set up with no problems the minute season 8 comes out it all goes to pot.

Basics no overheating, no software change at my end, he'll I played the day before s8 and it was fine logged in at 7 pm s8 launch day and I get the texture/graphics problem.

Is this beeping worked on or is it going to be ignored? ....bet we never get an answer on that one!

themarie · November 2013

There is a memory leak, related to the graphics side of the engine. Not sure what triggers it, but I started gradually loosing textures until the entire screen was white. I had to alt-tab out and the game promptly crashed.

Played around with the settings, but all I've been able to do is slow down the inevitable graphics crash.

By the way this is only happening in the Sphere. I played my other toon out of ESD doing Fleet Grinds for two hours without an issue. Switched back to a toon in the sphere, had a crash 45 min in.

sayyadinanox · November 2013

I am having the same problem. It usually starts in Drozana Station where I am doing Spin the Wheel for the Lobi. Other players textures will begin to bug out, going white and not displaying. When I beam out to my ship at that point space textures bug out too. It is not happening for me unless I am in a station. If I stay in space it never seems to trigger. I am using windows XP and an older Nvidia card.

mythicasura · November 2013

Im pretty much getting this issue nomatter where i am. and my Rig is a 4000 doller gaming pc I just had built a couple months ago. My pc can run any and everything. I can run Crisis 2, Planetside, and Warframe, check my email, check facebook, have youtube playing a busta rhymes video in the background with 4 monitors all at the same time with zero lag.:cool:

Here is a linkhttp://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/705106753187214792/EED9F4BC4851B6C23C088557F19716BBD16029A5/

There is no reason it should be doing this on my supercomputer so im guessing its on the Devs end.

harmony420 · November 2013

themarie wrote: »

There is a memory leak, related to the graphics side of the engine. Not sure what triggers it, but I started gradually loosing textures until the entire screen was white. I had to alt-tab out and the game promptly crashed.

Played around with the settings, but all I've been able to do is slow down the inevitable graphics crash.

By the way this is only happening in the Sphere. I played my other toon out of ESD doing Fleet Grinds for two hours without an issue. Switched back to a toon in the sphere, had a crash 45 min in.

I have the problem in or out of the Sphere. The problem almost appears to be less in the sphere, I can play for longer. The icons usually disappear before textures begin disappearing. For me it seems the more map changes, the quicker it degrades.

harmony420 · November 2013

Since no one posted this yet, this is what it looks like at the title screen after the problem begins:

http://picpaste.com/thumbs/DPp7KMtD.1384659610.jpg

themarie · November 2013

mythicasura wrote: »

There is no reason it should be doing this on my supercomputer so im guessing its on the Devs end.

This is the opinion of my friend who runs STO on a six-core two video-card hypercube. He's the one that threw out the term "memory leak."

I speculate it has to do with the new textures and the "material files reloaded" message. What we are thinking is the game keeps loading copies of the material files over and over and over without clearing the previous iteration until the memory fills up... and the screen goes blank.

Of course... I work in plastics, he's an HR specialist... neither of us are Devs OR computer experts. What could we possibly know? :P

themarie · November 2013

Hate to double post but I have further observations on this issue.

I was fine on the Dyson Sphere maps until I warped out to sector space. That's when the textures started dropping.

Upon arriving at ESD most of the textures were washed out.

See last time it happened textures dropped as I was going from allied space to contested zone.

So it's not just happening in the sphere for me, it's happening any time a new set of textures has to be loaded.

This has NOT happened with my Fed, I've been around ESD and the mines without issue for hours at a time with her.

I am going to amend my guess... there is a problem clearing texture sets, something to do with a failure to clear a buffer when going from set A to set B to set C.

hygtkilo98 · November 2013

Limited time project alien vistas icon bug

https://plus.google.com/photos/102680532758386301393/albums/5882902343605157345?banner=pwa

Reward area

ticket ID #2,104,721.

This bug was before at least 5 patches before season 8

Trade lines in sector jagged and curves line thought sector map as well not just this sector look at image closely

https://plus.google.com/photos/102680532758386301393/albums/5882902343605157345/5947095619650044098?banner=pwa&pid=5947095619650044098&oid=102680532758386301393

ticket ID #2,104,731.

hygtkilo98 · November 2013

This bug was before at least 5 patches before season 8

ALL display sign in Deep space K-7 JAGGED

https://plus.google.com/photos/102680532758386301393/albums/5882902343605157345/5947105158319684834?

banner=pwa&pid=5947105158319684834&oid=102680532758386301393

This bug was before at least 5 patches before season 8

ALL HALLWAYS WHITE STRIPS ANd DENTS IN WALL

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ticket ID #2,104,773.

All ESD Hallways

https://plus.google.com/photos/102680532758386301393/albums/5882902343605157345/5947108658152440034?banner=pwa&pid=5947108658152440034&oid=102680532758386301393

ticket ID #2,104,781.

mythicasura · November 2013

themarie wrote: »

This is the opinion of my friend who runs STO on a six-core two video-card hypercube. He's the one that threw out the term "memory leak."

I speculate it has to do with the new textures and the "material files reloaded" message. What we are thinking is the game keeps loading copies of the material files over and over and over without clearing the previous iteration until the memory fills up... and the screen goes blank.

Of course... I work in plastics, he's an HR specialist... neither of us are Devs OR computer experts. What could we possibly know? :P

You seem to know a hell of a lot. if you ask me, you seem to have some good theories.

stormbringer77 · November 2013

Yay! It's not just me!

Can't describe the issue better than it's being described here.

Have found that changing areas doesn't help, the only way to resolve it is to close STO and restart it.

grtiggy · November 2013

a vast majority of players are having these issues but i have not heard anything from cryptic even acknowledging these issues

themarie · November 2013

Contact Branflakes directly by Twitter. I find that this method often gets a problem bumped up in line.

If enough of us Tweet at him with this problem it may spur them to work on the problem quicker or at least tell us what is going on.

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lan451 · November 2013

It's getting worse now.

http://i.imgur.com/lW2b5S2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/slKx1AA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MBD6Nf5.jpg

It seems that the longer I play, the graphics gradually degrade until the game becomes unplayable until I'm forced to exit and relog.

hygtkilo98 · November 2013

Borg acting strange and invisible borg and invisible planet barrier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGDIsfJTorw

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