Post-Update Visuals Bug Report

daynetreader

After installing the latest update and playing, I noticed that there isn't a single visual effect being rendered. Warp-in/out animations, weapons firing, shield visuals (e.g. Reverse Shield Polarity), anomalies/buff regions (gravity well, rally point marker, etc.), beam down/up effects, none of it.

daynetreader

I just did a reset of my graphics settings to see if one of them was the issue, and it turns out that somehow Depth of Field is mandatory for visual effects to render.

swamarian

Depth of field helps, but some things still aren't rendering, or if they are, it's off from what I saw last week.

daynetreader

That's strange. The instant I turned on Depth of Field everything that used to render started doing so again. Maybe a driver update is in order?

strathkin

I saw they said to ensure that 5/25 patch ensure the Cinematic Focus (Depth of Field) was enabled on Graphics TAB if I remember correctly.

I think that might be the cause, or so they claimed on their twitter earlier (few days) ago; yet still several people report various FX not displaying like they had prior to the 5/25 patch.

Still there seem to be several odd Graphical issues for a limited few that began about 4/28, and far more are having issues since the 5/25 patch. From some seeing black screens, to having issues loading the game, or even a crashes during TFOs, or various FX not displaying like they used to. *sigh*

I know I'm running the latest 466 drivers for Nvidia myself.