Have to be Really Zoomed in for "Star Effects"

grnlbrtnfrnt

I was seeing some pretty bland looking stars in Sector space when you are near them. Thought I had some settings set too low or something. Nope every thing set kind of high.

Turns out it was my zoom level. Have to be zoomed way in before the star shows its effects. At what I would consider a normal zoom level the star doesn't have any. I would never zoom in as far as I need to in Sector, or ever really.

Distant stars look fine, its just when you get close they turn basic. Zoom way way in and the animations and effects show up.


IMO this has to do with the overly small radii a lot of things have in sector now. You have to get right on top of objects.

royalsovereign

Funny, it seems like lots of effects are 'disappearing' at odd levels of zoom. I play on minimum settings, and at the character selection screen my team is in the 'pose' but none of their weapons or gear show up, unless I zoom in really close. Also, the glowing effect behind the captain is also gone until I zoom in close. In gameplay on the ground, similarly, my team appears to be running around pretending to shoot things with imaginary guns until I zoom in close. Loot critters have no 'light spear' effect until I am right on top of them.

chaospimp

same thingr me my ground weapons dont show unless i zoom in
and space weapon the same
i didnt have this kind of problems before s10 came out

fluf2

Its worse for me. I have no shields or engine trails or any effects what-so-ever, unless I zoom all the way into my ship on all 5 of my characters. The only thing I can see in combat is beam weapons. That means I don't see tractor beams, gravity wells, warp plasma, or any of my other effects unless I am completely zoomed into my ship.

I have tried adjusting everything in the video settings to no avail, including logging in in safe mode, switching to Dx9, turning everything to low, then high, bloom on and off, shadows and just about everything else. I don't think there is a setting I haven't messed with. I can play the game, but its really getting hard to play when you don't know what's got you, which shield is down, or what plasma you are running over.

NVIDIA GT520

Operating System: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GT 520
Driver version: 350.12
Direct3D API version: 11
Direct3D feature level: 11_0
CUDA Cores: 48
Core clock: 810 MHz
Shader clock: 1620 MHz
Memory data rate: 1000 MHz
Memory interface: 64-bit
Memory bandwidth: 8.00 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 2558 MB
Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB DDR3
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 510 MB
Video BIOS version: 75.19.1C.00.00
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16
Device Id: 10DE 1040 000010DE
Part Number: 1310 0000

Three years playing this game and I have never had a graphics problem. All this started with Season 10.