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kiloace
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I've been having a problem with Star Trek Online where I get in game, and the graphics will randomly light up white, and player names will distort in the background when I move the camera. It sometimes goes away after a few seconds, but it always comes back. Its like a random fade up of bright lights, and everything else - ship models, names, etc. - becomes distorted. The only thing that remains intact is my HUD.
The biggest problem is I can't tell if its a problem with my laptop's GPU or if its a bug accompanying the game. I have a feeling its not STO that is causing the issue though. Has anyone seen this happen before? What should I do?
Thanks for your help.
The biggest problem is I can't tell if its a problem with my laptop's GPU or if its a bug accompanying the game. I have a feeling its not STO that is causing the issue though. Has anyone seen this happen before? What should I do?
Thanks for your help.
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If they would simply engineer a proper game then Star Trek fans like me would be lining up to pay a monthly subscription with out a single question asked. But as it stands, I just dont see myself wasting any money on a game that promises frustration and half hearted attempts ant game design at every turn.
anyways, I tried running some of my other high-graphic games and they still seem fine, so either sto is the only game that is affected by a problem in my GPU or its actually a bug in game.
Seems kind of weird that it would show up randomly today instead of at season's launch, though, unless the latest patch caused a problem.
Having trouble with your in-game graphics? Enabling the "Postprocessing" option in your 'video' options setting may help while we work on a permanent solution.
(Options menu > 'Video' tab > "Effects" section > Postprocessing > "On" radio button)
There have only been umpteen posts about this......
Sorry, its just that when I have a problem the last thing I think is that it might be happening to someone else as well.
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TM 2 DUO CPU and my computer system has 4.00 GB with 3.25GHZ usable. windows 7 64.bit my graphics card is NVidia enforce 9500. I have tried fixing this dam thing with NVidia panel and nothing. tried fixing it with the overclock and nothing. Im getting a new graphics card this xmas, and it will not be NVidia thank god. I here the game makers and players alike found NVidia cards useless and caused a lot of problems : mad:
Your GPU is most likely the problem - the 9500 is several generations old, and it was the low midrange card of it's time. I was running a very similar setup to yours (dual core Phenom @ 3.2 gHz OC, 4GB of RAM, W7x64) with a vastly superior card, the 9800GT EVGA Akimbo Superclocked, and experienced similar stuttering frequently. Although your CPU and RAM are sufficient (albeit barely) to run more modern DX10/11 titles, the 9500 was never really a competitive gaming card, and will severely show its age in titles like STO.
nVidia cards generally do just as well as ATI in STO to be quite honest - I just rebuilt my machine and grabbed a pair of GTX460 reference cards at Microcenter (open box obviously) for $35 a piece, put them in SLi and I can't make STO drop below 60FPS at 1080 with every single setting maxed.
If you want serious, stutter free gameplay in anything resembling a modern title, your system unfortunately needs an overhaul. Sorry.