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Nothing in patch notes about Voth Dyson open ground fix
yorethel
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Nothing in the patch notes about a fix for Dyson Sphere/Voth open ground mission CTD fix. Any chance of someone at Cryptic giving us a heads up if this has been addressed or not before we get stuck there checking for ourselves?
It's been a nightmare trying to get Dyson marks for my Delta Romulan Science officer, as she needs the space set, also swapping some of my other Science guys gear with it tried today and got 5 CTD's in a row and almost got stuck there.
Not my system before anyone starts, I have a very high spec machine and 2 other fleet mates with slightly different but similarly high spec machines also reporting the same since around a month or so ago.
It's been a nightmare trying to get Dyson marks for my Delta Romulan Science officer, as she needs the space set, also swapping some of my other Science guys gear with it tried today and got 5 CTD's in a row and almost got stuck there.
Not my system before anyone starts, I have a very high spec machine and 2 other fleet mates with slightly different but similarly high spec machines also reporting the same since around a month or so ago.
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And this probably doesn't have anything to do with it (starting to suspect it though based on other stuff I'm seeing) do you have an Nvidia or ATI gpu?
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http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1439431
Basically he said that he was able to reproduce it... and they are investigating.
I too am getting it.. and so far that I've seen.. its in the Outskirts.
I'm starting to think that. Since season 10 there's game-wide framerate issues particularly with certain busy ground maps (ex. Risa and New Romulus.) I've seen this affect the DBZ, but pertinently to this bug only in outskirts (though how texture/rendering driven framerate issues lead to crashes after killing enemies in one place but not others is beyond me.)
However because there isn't a general uprising about hubs and missions becoming unusable there has to be some factor limiting it to a section of the population. Similarly, some people still appear to be able to not crash in outskirts (its not being neglected in the DGB runs I've done since S10.)
My affected desktop has Nvdia, all the other people I've seen posting about framerate problems have Nvdia's, but my laptop (which has intel integrated graphics) is fine (I'll be testing for dyson crashes when the game comes back online.)
If someone with an ATI reports problems then that theory's out the window, but until that happens I'm going to point the finger at a hardware specific graphics bug with fatal results in the Outskirts.
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It also has to do with client-server communication if you ask me . It always happens on very busy maps and/or when switching characters or changing maps .
I shall try and do it and avoid outskirts and see if it works
I'm going to say that's probably not the case.
Kuva'magh Ground (one of the worst affected) is not a busy map nor are busy maps those most affected by FPS drops (ex. Earth Spacedock). Similarly different sections of the same type in the same mission (which from a newtorking point of view should be identical) are differentially affected (ex. Blood of the Ancients, Dyson Ground Battlezone) and it always seems to track with the presence of plantlife and varied dirt textures (with the exception being the Dyson Battlezone Park, but that's let down by Outskirts, which again points to graphics processing issues, not networking).
Another point is the problems on Risa. On any setting (assuming you're affected, which I suspect is a question of what GPU do you have) look towards the island and you have severe framerate drops. Look away and you have moderate frame rate drops verging on slight when you're 180 degrees away from the worst of it. Depedning on what's being rendered the problems change. Logging out, switching characters, networking conditions they have no real affect (with the bug(s) I'm referring to. You may have a stutter while things finish loading but that isn't out of the ordinary or prevents certain parts of the game from being played.)
And the last point: space is completely fine.
By all appearances and symptoms this is to do with graphics (possibly to do with how certain environmental art assets are handled), not networking.
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And here's the result: no crashes. I had other issues that reminded me why I don't play STO on my laptop but the game was stable. I can even log onto the character I tested that with on my nvdia powered desktop PC, get an immediate crash trying to beam into outskirts, and then log back onto the intel powered laptop for eye-bleedingly low-res functional gaming.
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I have a feeling its related to the same thing that gives horrid FPS on New Rom & Rom Command Center. Space seems all good, but something tells me there's an issue with a particular texture or graphic element in these areas.
PITA and I hope they have some people looking into these issues. S10 went live a few weeks ago and yet here we are 2 or 3 patches later and the issue is still there...
few remarks here :
- space is not "fine " ... I have had CTD's while simply hanging around in sector space ( not even flying from a > b )
- The Zaria mine map has no plantlife whatsoever , while the previous and next mission in the Breen arc have extensive amount of textures . For example : the first mission in the breen storyline has you beaming down into the city with lots of folks walking around, plants ,Breen throwing grenades etc. ...yet that map doesn't crash
- I have seen in numerous threads - about the Zaria mission - both Nvidia and AMD GPU's have these issues ( so it's not a matter of drivers ) and at the exact same spot in that map ..
The reason I think it has to do with network connection is the way the client behaves just prior to the CTD : it basically slows down and is visibly trying to update graphics and/or FX . That applies to both maps and when transferring between maps . In case of the latter you can see it by the pause of loading screen . You basically know you're going to get a client-crash by just looking at loading screen.That has nothing to do with the map, but with failure in communication .It even happens when switching characters : the map-load simply stalls and causes a CTD.
If it was in any way ,shape or form related to directx - let alone with driver of your GPU- you'd experience it far more often , and you would see artifacts in your textures and similar stuff ...there's a possibility STO loads textures "on-the-fly " from the server and that's what's failing . In that case we would both be right
or the loading of certain textures is triggered by a command from the server .