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Textures, weapons and general light effects not showing up
sch3ff3l
Member Posts: 118 Bug Hunter
Ever since season 10 launched im unable to see weapon and some light effects in space and textures for ground weapons & some other general little object are not showing up unless im really zoomed in.
this issue is halting me from doing general PvE since i cant see wre im shooting and whos shooting me
and i dont think im the only one
if theres already some thread with this link will be appreciated
this issue is halting me from doing general PvE since i cant see wre im shooting and whos shooting me
and i dont think im the only one
if theres already some thread with this link will be appreciated
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I just assumed it was some design decision to give us a featureless black gun but now I wonder if there is a graphics issue
Textures throughout the game have been downgraded since season 10 launched and they seem to get worse after switching between a few characters without exiting the game. For example I can log into a captain wearing the Diplomat uniform. His jacket looks fine at the character select screen and after I log in but after switching between a few characters to do doff assignments his jacket looks awful at the char select screen and after logging in on him.
What you're seeing with your rifle being black: I doubt that's intentional. My boffs at the character select screen are like that. Rifles, tricorders, and PAADS that they're holding at the character select screen are all black except for any flashing lights on them.
Here is what it looked like http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c355/MonkeyGuts69/screenshot_2015-04-25-03-55-19_zpsdaemdehw.jpg~original I have graphics set to high and everything was fine until season 10 launched. Edit: The smaller crystals used for the daily dilithium mining mission look fine though.
I found its actually RED! Its just the old rifle from the Nukara era they slapped a new skin on rather than designing a new Iconian model.
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Seems to be an issue with lighting. On one ground map it finally looked red. very flat but red. On other maps it just isn't lit well so it looks like a black featureless blob.
I have to agree with you, I have the same problem here, and also the "EFFECTS" aren't showing up...it's getting annoying.
Its bad enough when we cannot see what we are holding in our entire teams hands or firing with the starships.
being forced to play in Safe Mode is problematic. For instance I cant see things like plasma fires or other DOTs you might get.
Fluf - USS Angelia
Kazar Chugra -USS Mirak
Du'Ralle - IKS - K'Rag
Koval - RRW -D'Dara
For all we know Cryptic might not have this problem on their radar, so what they don't know, they won't fix..
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Limalinks/T'Ippex
twice!
Same.. I raised a number of bugs but didn't get a mail back (so far).. all it would take is for one or more of PerfectWorld employees to go through these forums once a day to see what's being reported and then try and correlate it against reported problems etc.. They may do this and more but looking though this topic, I've not seen any PWE / Moderators touch base with the users in here on these posts.. and Ive been keeping an eye on this topic almost every day to see if PWE have acknowledge the problems and are doing something about.
For them to come back to you eventually with a "unreported bug" all they should have done is look in these forums... begs the question.. Do they PWE/Moderators look in these forums on a regular basis? and before anyone points out.. Yes.. with the amount of reports coming into the forum every day (and the ones via in game and emails) it could be hard to police/monitor but perhaps if they saw a topic (of a reported problem) with a large thread reply count and the users with the problems just confirm that they are having the same problem as initially reported.. it'd make their lives easier identifying potential showstoppers..
This I think would work as long as forum users dont post non problem related entries into the thread.. (i.e other issues, complaining about the game, the weather, the next door neighbour etc)) so as to keep the noise/TRIBBLE/non related posts in the thread down.
Also if a topic keeps being bumped to the top of the forum, its got to have some visibility to PWE / Forum moderators.. I've been working in I.T for over 30 years and as a senior escalation engineer have seen thoughout my travels what works and what doesnt as far as customer / enduser service and support..
Now that PWE are aware of this bug, lets hope they fix this issue asap as it makes the game pretty unplayable...
Live Long And Prosper
Limalilnks / T'Ippex - PC gamer Fleet
I have stressed in all my emails this has been going on for over a month - started for some people when it hit tribble and that Cryptic in that month has yet to even acknowledge this happening and request that PWE become involved.
I can only assume that they are working through a multitude of 'other' bugs but would have been nice of them to acknowledge something, even a prioritisation of when they will fix this issue.... espscially if people are submitting screenshots showing the problem.
Although saying this, the problems reported on this thread are pretty much showstoppers as far as making gameplay rather difficult..
"Hello Mr. STO Forum Moderator? Any News from PWE/Cryptic on this problem??"
Would be great if a PWE/Cryptic staff would let us know whats happening..
Live Long And Prosper
Limalinks/T'Ippex - PC Gamer Fleet
It would be nice to know if this is a widespread problem, as most people don't post in these forums, or if the devs are even working on this. As stated above, this is almost a show stopper in trying to play this game.
Fluf - USS Angelia
Kazar Chugra -USS Mirak
Du'Ralle - IKS - K'Rag
Koval - RRW -D'Dara
may 7 th update
The lighting has been adjusted throughout Sector Space.
Updated Sector Space FX for speed lines, slipstream, and fireworks.
Speed lines and Slipstream were not always lining up correctly.
Fireworks were too big in Sector Space.
Resolved an issue causing the drop out of lens flare on distant stars.
still a long way to go.... but fixes are being made for what i see
but would be really good to have someone from the team adressing this thread
edit:
so i come back to the game after 2 weeks without hdd (old one just died out) and now with a new ne i came back and.... all the textures and light effects are still bugged
i still cant see warp trails
my ship still jumpe and fade all over the place in sector map
i stil cant see weapons light effects
i still cant see skills effects (like warp plasma and tractor beams)
for real? and they say this is an unreported bug? i HAVE reported this bug 2 weeks ago via ingame ticket...
this is just a really bad joke
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Has anyone figured out a solution to removing it?
I guess that answers the question about whether or not reinstalling the game would fix it. I'll mark that off my weekend to-do list, then.
I'd really love to know the common element that determines who has the issue and who doesn't, since it doesn't seem like a common issue.
There does seem to be some sort of lighting issue. On the character select screen rifles, PADDs, and tricorders held by my bridge officers all appear almost solid black with the flashing/glowing lights being visible. Doesn't matter which character at the select screen I look at, they're all like that.
I forgot what story episode I was doing but in the ground part of the mission I noticed my own rifle along with my boff's were all black but in other ground maps in other episodes they appeared just fine. So something is off.
For texture issues I was having (most noticeable on certain uniform jackets like Diplomat and WoK) it seems to have cleared up for the most part in recent patches.
Start the game in Safe Mode.
Select D9 EX and adjust the other settings to your liking.
Exit the game.
In Options in the Launcher Go to the Command Line
Enter: -d3d11Enable 0
Save.
I still crash sometimes but seems to work mostly. The command line has to be there at every login ..... until someone at cryptic actually fixes the issue.
Way back when the game visibly worked if you loaded a character up in the tailor it may, for a moment, exhibit low-res textures to be replaced with high. Sometimes that still happens. Other times, it doesn't. Random facial and clothing textures are now often inappropriately left low-res. You may try one uniform on one session and find it a jarring mess but on the next visit (after logging or map changing) that might be appropriately high res but your face and some other uniform isn't showing up clearly.
No pattern, no fix found. Its just random bull****. :P
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