It seems that the UI and some graphics after the patch are now busted. I have screenshots and ticket numbers!
First up! The vanishing icon act! My bank is actually completely full, but the icons are gone!
http://i.imgur.com/FdhgLv0.jpg
Second, the blinding white missing textures of DOOM!
http://i.imgur.com/xRY1upT.jpg
And last, but certainly not the least, the vanishing UI element!
http://i.imgur.com/FdgBItw.jpg
Ticket number is in my chatbox in the first screenshot.
I've tried changing zones, changing characters, logging out and logging back in. Nothing helps, it always looks like this now.
It's a bit difficult to play right now. :P
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Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
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And one more screenshot for good measure. This time in a tasty orange flavor!
http://i.imgur.com/1qrJA3X.jpg
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I played through the whole fed tutorial tonight on max graphics settings without any lag, it was beautiful, my game actually looked like the trailers. Then I hop over to the sphere and it's like I'm colorblind. The worst was by far in the ground combat zone. I couldn't see anything except for the floor.
Oh, and the ground on defera has disappeared, and when I look down, there's nothing for miles except for the ominous black center of the planet. It's kind of unsettling.
Since this never happened BEFORE season 8, and happened immediately after season 8 for a large number of people (all posting screenshots of the exact same glitches), I'm guessing it's probably not latency.
Unless of course, the patch managed to install a ton of latency on the servers that was not there prior to the patch.
Kindly check the multiple threads on this exact issue, spanning different OS's, graphics cards/manufacturers, and DX9/DX11. It's a fairly broad issue atm.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=13435181
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/sh...d.php?t=913941
(for two other examples)
Thanks,
Force
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Particularly on the Ground Battlezone, where most details are not showing up (Item pick-ups are a giant white square), Disruptor Turrets are firing green squares, Command "Coins" are layers of pink squares, enemy uniforms are white or missing entirely... Some enemies are invisible, disappearing floor (ground), disappearing objects like columns, rocks, and similar...
Kind of seems like it is showing up in places where there would be interaction triggers or collision paths or something...
Also the disappearing backgrounds to menus, and items in inventory not being visible, as well as Reputation details and Holding details being invisible, are all happening.
It's really bad on Dyson ground.
Dyson space is mostly just my ship flickering between a black or white silhouette. And or missing elements in menus and inventory.
STFs are intermittent, particularly with effects like plasma or other "Gas" effects, debris from destroyed ships, and similar.
System space (like Qo'noS or Sol), is also intermittent but similar to Dyson Space.
I have fewer issues on the ground in places like the First City or Klingon Academy. Don't know if that is from zoning or not.
ALL of these problems started in earnest over the last week. There may have been a few minor issues with icons over vendors heads and the like as early as last week... It's definitely gotten a lot worse this week though.
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http://i.imgur.com/lW2b5S2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/slKx1AA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MBD6Nf5.jpg
Can't play like that lol.
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What possible latency would cause a permanent graphics issue such as this? If anything it is a programming issue and/or gpu/cpu memory leakage.
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http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/6707/cse2.jpg
Found a possible fix:
Try updating the graphics driver to version 331.82
Did so and it went away and has of yet to return.