I am sorry to hear that you have not been able to play at all. Are you still talking to Support? They had me submit a bug report but other then telling me that the problem is very complicated and they Devs are working on it. They have no given me any ETA on when this problem will be fixed. But I am still talking to them even if they have tried to close out the support tickets I have open. Oh and the odd think..I can play Blacklight: Retribution which is another PWE game..no trouble at all. And I know it has better graphics then STO. I suggested a partial rollback but got no response from that. Oh well.
Ok, glad to know this isn't just happening to me. Unfortunately, I've been having this problem since before season 6 launched, and I'm using a non-Intel chipset video card.
You don't get any response to Bug reports, I asked. Ok so on one of my support tickets they gave my a partial fix. It maybe the only fix we get in a while though.
Please try the following:
Try adding ??d3d11Enable 0 ?d3d9? in the command-line in the Launcher through Options.
Let us know if this helps at all.
I could go onto ESD and do Starbase 234 with it only blanking a couple of times. I hope this helps some of you. Let me know if it does not so I can report back. For me it worked enough so that I could do what I wanted in those areas, but those are only two places and I don't know if it will work for everyone and in every area of the game.
ok it still did it. apparently the forum does not support that character. so where the question marks are replace with a middle dash. normally this key is found to the right of the 0 key. - that should make it work
You don't get any response to Bug reports, I asked. Ok so on one of my support tickets they gave my a partial fix. It maybe the only fix we get in a while though.
I could go onto ESD and do Starbase 234 with it only blanking a couple of times. I hope this helps some of you. Let me know if it does not so I can report back. For me it worked enough so that I could do what I wanted in those areas, but those are only two places and I don't know if it will work for everyone and in every area of the game.
well it is entirely possible that it did not translate over well and is not working. If you still have a support ticket open you might try asking them about it. They are still working on a solution though so don't worry.
Yeah ok sorry it is a special character that is not translating over. Sorry about that, not something that I noticed at first. Try this: http://pastebin.com/ZpSScHbe
Yeah ok sorry it is a special character that is not translating over. Sorry about that, not something that I noticed at first. Try this: http://pastebin.com/ZpSScHbe
Yea - I saw the update and tried the new code. Crashed the game when I was doing a New Romulus Red Alert.
Yeah I crashed it doing the Azura Nebular Rescue, so it does not seem to help everywhere and in some places it only prevents you from crashing. I still get driver crashes when doing Hive Onslaught. But I can go to ESD now and not crash out. And that is waaay better then it was. So please keep trying it. I will let tech support know.
I think it's getting worse... while I was doing the Tour, the game crashed twice and the video driver crashed over 100 times (sometimes as much as 5 times per minute.)
That was with that command? Ouch!! I don't have it that bad. Mostly just blanking screens now in missions and some STFs. I hope that they fix it soon though. It is annoying and makes the game harder to play. You might have to decide whether or not you want to keep playing. I don't feel like I am at that point yet though. I would complain on your support ticket loudly!!
Yes, that's with the command. I don't think the command has helped at all.
The video driver crashes and sometimes right after it respawns, STO crashes it immediately. I've seen the driver crash several times in a single minute, one after another after another.
What I find interesting is that I never had any problems on Tribble before and during the official test weekend. After they released Season 7 on Holodeck, I have problem on both Holodeck & Tribble.
Have ya'll noticed the whole game is blur since S7? With 'blur' I mean:
- Character/BOFF cloth's are looking onsharp, especially at Tailors;
- Panels (i.e. the animated one above exchange Drozana) is blur;
- Star background in star systems (i.e. SOL) are blur, but will sharpened after about 1 minute when hanging idle;
- Ground tiles and scenery textures are blur, seems to me the mipmap is screwed up.
I think Cryptic has added some blur layer or something, what looks great at Onslaught Space, gives somehow a depth feeling. If this is a extra layer of some kind, it screws up a lot of graphic performance. Now and then my STO is crashing, always showing a issue with a nVidea thing what has crashed. Erm... I have double ATI cards with crossfire inside?
I have nothing changed in both my vid settings or STO settings. I'm not want to. I just want the sharpness back in game and get rid of the crashes.
I can no longer get on to ESD or any ground maps it seems. Even just using the bank at Battle group omega makes my driver crash. I have let support know that I have these issues. Until they fix it I am going to tell them every time it crashes. I can't tell if there is a blur or not. I have the graphics set low so everything is a bit blurry now. I will tell Support that even your ATI cards are having trouble. Also I had trouble right off, in Tribble.
Something that I've noticed is that nebula and gas clouds in an instance are almost blinding, I adjusted my video to try mitigating the "glare" but it doesn't go away. At times it has whited out my monitor completely OR masked my ship and those around it so bad that I'm fighting practically blind.
Something I've been noticing while in Q's Winter Wonderland..... I seem to have zero problems in some instances and constant problems in other instances .... and it is not specific to the number of players - I've had some where there's only 3 of us and I'm constantly crashing while another time I don't.
That whiteout problem sounds a bit different from what the rest of us are experiencing. I find it interesting that the crashes are in some way related to what instance you are in. I might try changing instances and see if that allows me to stay in ground maps. Also a really odd thing I have encountered is that my Kinetic Cutting Beam does not show up at all. It fires, and does damage. But no beam...I can't tell if others see it or not. But for now it is an invisible weapon. :P I don't mind as much though, the graphics driver crashing my computer is muuuuch more serious.
please read that thread. You can see how annoyed I am in it. :P Also if you have not please send in your .prefs file and DxDiag to support. That will help them with fixing this problem.
That whiteout problem sounds a bit different from what the rest of us are experiencing. I find it interesting that the crashes are in some way related to what instance you are in. I might try changing instances and see if that allows me to stay in ground maps. Also a really odd thing I have encountered is that my Kinetic Cutting Beam does not show up at all. It fires, and does damage. But no beam...I can't tell if others see it or not. But for now it is an invisible weapon. :P I don't mind as much though, the graphics driver crashing my computer is muuuuch more serious.
Do you have your graphics settings set to low? If so, that may be the issue. I know that with my Party Popper, when I have my graphics settings low, it doesn't show up, but when I put the graphics settings back up, the item appears.
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Why am I not surprised that this problem hasn't been fixed yet?
:mad:
Many of us have submitted a bug report. I've never been responded to.
And with the Tier 1 Romulan Mission, the lights are all goofy since the patch and the Romulan shuttle on the left, doesn't want to render.
I could go onto ESD and do Starbase 234 with it only blanking a couple of times. I hope this helps some of you. Let me know if it does not so I can report back. For me it worked enough so that I could do what I wanted in those areas, but those are only two places and I don't know if it will work for everyone and in every area of the game.
it did NOT help me.
That one didn't work for me either.
Yea - I saw the update and tried the new code. Crashed the game when I was doing a New Romulus Red Alert.
The video driver crashes and sometimes right after it respawns, STO crashes it immediately. I've seen the driver crash several times in a single minute, one after another after another.
I know..... PWE has created it's own virus called STO!!!
- Character/BOFF cloth's are looking onsharp, especially at Tailors;
- Panels (i.e. the animated one above exchange Drozana) is blur;
- Star background in star systems (i.e. SOL) are blur, but will sharpened after about 1 minute when hanging idle;
- Ground tiles and scenery textures are blur, seems to me the mipmap is screwed up.
I think Cryptic has added some blur layer or something, what looks great at Onslaught Space, gives somehow a depth feeling. If this is a extra layer of some kind, it screws up a lot of graphic performance. Now and then my STO is crashing, always showing a issue with a nVidea thing what has crashed. Erm... I have double ATI cards with crossfire inside?
I have nothing changed in both my vid settings or STO settings. I'm not want to. I just want the sharpness back in game and get rid of the crashes.
Something I've been noticing while in Q's Winter Wonderland..... I seem to have zero problems in some instances and constant problems in other instances .... and it is not specific to the number of players - I've had some where there's only 3 of us and I'm constantly crashing while another time I don't.
please read that thread. You can see how annoyed I am in it. :P Also if you have not please send in your .prefs file and DxDiag to support. That will help them with fixing this problem.
Do you have your graphics settings set to low? If so, that may be the issue. I know that with my Party Popper, when I have my graphics settings low, it doesn't show up, but when I put the graphics settings back up, the item appears.