Right, so, as I've
already reported on the Tribble forums several days ago, the newest patch broke something in the video settings. Some people claim they've already experienced similar issues on Holodeck earlier, but at least for me this one was introduced with today's patch. So here's the problem I personally am now experiencing:
- Enabling any kind of antialiasing automatically disables many additional visual effects, such as SSAO, Depth of Field, Underwater View, Soft Particles, and lowers Bloom Quality to Low.
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Tooltip states that it's the GPU/Driver fault, even though it all worked
worked fine before the patch.
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Disabling Antialiasing allows me to enable all these options, but naturally makes the game jaggy.
- I CANNOT force antialiasing through the Nvidia Control Panel at all.
- Additional problems include extreme lag and slowdowns when using any kind of slider in the video settings, even in the case of something as simple as the brightness.
I'm running Windows XP Home SP3 with Nvidia GeForce 460 GTX and newest official nvidia drivers (310.90). So no DX11 or anything. Didn't have any issues like that since about two years of using current hardware and software.
A dev
already replied that they're looking into this but this may take a while... They've also added a note in the patch notes under Known Issues - "Some players may experience difficulty changing their graphics settings."
Anyone else experiencing similar issues is encouraged to post specifics or possible workarounds. Let's hope we won't have to wait too long for Cryptic to fix this...
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Be sure your framerate is locked at whatever settings you usually use if you limit the framerate while you play. I'm not losing another GPU because of Cryptic's incompetence.
What i noticed is, that i am only able to activate everythign at once, once i switch to DX 11 mode (and restart the game afterwards). The only problem is, if the game decides to randomly lock the bloom quality (when i activate AA) then the option to switch to DX 11 mode disappears under the "Troubleshooting" sub-menu. So again it becomes totally random if or when i am able to set my graphic settngs appropriately.
DXdiag: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fDj9TkW1
Edit: Since dxdiag only seems to list my integrated graphics card .... :
Nvidia Geforce GTX 670M with driver version 310.70 WHQL
This is now what I have to look at, absolutely ugly!
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n176/artika7272/textureproblem_zps50a33979.png
In DX11 mode using win 7 64bit/core i7 2600K @ 4GHz/8GB memory/2 x nvidia GTX 580 (3GB vram on each card) using nvidia driver 310.64
#It'sJustaGameAndAFreeOneAtThat!
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Haven't played with the settings yet to see if I can fix it (just came back to the game after a few months so too busy playing).
From the in-game command or through FRAPS?
Hey suaveks new nvidia drivers fresh off the tree branch..here is a direct link to the thread with the links (last post atm):
Nvidia 314.07 WHQL
Lemme know if they at least mitgate some issues. you can pm me directly anytime via @xTH3xR34P3Rx when connected to the sto chat servers.
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Still, it is difficult to change anything through a slider, like bloom or brightness - the moment I use it the game freezes, sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes for even a minute or so.
As for the OS - it's still supported for the most part and I didn't have any issues with it aside from a couple of games that simply do not work on it. So no reason for me to change it "just because", especially since 7 or 8 are not cheap. I'm not one of those people who change/fix something that works.
Its not about if it ain't broke don't fix it. Its more of its an 11 year old operating system getting minimal support from companies with support dead in a year. It lacks support for modern ram sizes, hardware features, and driver support. The most used is is now 7 with XP quickly falling. Take it from a professional XP is no longer viable
Could you please list your system specification and which graphics driver your using.
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The laptop switches between the on board video and the discrete videocard in an effort to keep heat down and improve battery life.
After the game loads it 'auto detects' the video card and only sees the on board video card and sets everything to the lowest settings. When I go to set them back to my preferred settings, several of the option are not available (depth of field etc etc) citing 'GPU not available' or something similar.
I load the game through steam. I have tried to set the file preferences of the executable to execute with Nvidia Geforce. This doesn't seem to effect the games auto-detection.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Rig Specs
CPU i7 3630QM Processor
OS Windows 8
Memory 12GB DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics nVIDIA Geforce GTX675M 3D Graphic Card
Graphics VRAM 2GB GDDR5
If I run the game in windowed maximize mode the game looks 100 times better the colors are rich not washed out and brightness is just right. Anyone else had this problem before?
Intel i7 3770K
EVGA GTX 660 SC 2 GB
8GB DDR3