Artifacts NOT WORKING under DX9. It doesn't even launch

samargatha

Hi

After today's Artifacts patch, even if it says it supports DX9, it doesn't work. The game crashes after ENGAGE without any error message of any type. I can't log at all. Not even using -d3d11enable 0 -d3d9, or Safe Mode.

GFX Card is Nvidia GeForce 210

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samargatha

gueneyhallek0420 wrote: »

same problem, was expecting this at least when the same thing happened trying to log onto Tribble. Hopefully it won't be LoR tier when it was over a month before many people could log back in

Accordly with Game Support, it won't work ever again. No if you are playing on XP. But i've heard this many times. "Update this, update that". I didn't update a TRIBBLE and then after some new patch it was miraculously fixed. But I feel this is the time. They finally said "frak you, poor users, update or die. M$ paid us too much to kick off any non Win10 machine. Face it".

freakium

I posted this fix for the "no text appearing" bug but it shouldn't hurt to try this for your problem.

• Go to your "Star Trek Online\Live\Localdata" folder and open Gameprefs.Pref (in Notepad, Wordpad, or other word processor.)
• Find the line:

  PrefEntry GfxSettings.DeviceType Direct3D9
  

• Edit the line so it now reads:

  PrefEntry GfxSettings.DeviceType Direct3D11
  

• On your launcher, go to Options and under the Command Line option, type

  -d3d9enable 1
  

  into the box. Remember to hit the save button.

samargatha

freakium wrote: »

I posted this fix for the "no text appearing" bug but it shouldn't hurt to try this for your problem.

• Go to your "Star Trek Online\Live\Localdata" folder and open Gameprefs.Pref (in Notepad, Wordpad, or other word processor.)
• Find the line:

  PrefEntry GfxSettings.DeviceType Direct3D9
  

• Edit the line so it now reads:

  PrefEntry GfxSettings.DeviceType Direct3D11
  

• On your launcher, go to Options and under the Command Line option, type

  -d3d9enable 1
  

  into the box. Remember to hit the save button.

Seems like a strange fix, as I can't use DX11 but well, nothing lost trying....

generaldisaster

I don't have a dx11 card but had the game switch to that renderer because of graphics performance issues when using the dx9 and dx9ex renderers, and I did not experience a single issue crash wise after the patch. unless you count that the lighting 2.0 option says my gpu doesn't support the feature. and then of course there's that annoying issue with the old style kits. but otherwise, everything is great.