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Windows 10 April Update

ambassadorkael#6946 ambassadorkael
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We’ve recently identified an issue where the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) caused graphics drivers to revert to an unstable version. If you’ve taken this Windows Update, please confirm that you are using the most recent version of your graphics drivers provided by your graphics card manufacturer. You can find your most up to date graphics drivers on your manufacturer’s website (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel).

In general, please be aware that any update to your operating system has a chance to affect your video drivers, and that it may take time for our team and/or your graphics manufacturer to react and improve compatibility with the update. This is particularly true for major updates such as the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. If you’d like to prioritize stability, you may consider delaying major operating system updates until they’re confirmed to be stable.

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  • themadprofessor#9835 themadprofessor
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    A point to consider:

    As AmbassadorKael hinted at, you absolutely want to get the latest drivers only from the manufacturer's website. Do not rely on Windows to give you the latest drivers, as they have to vet the drivers through their own systems first before porting it out to the users through the system updates. Often this means that the drivers Windows provides are a generation or two out of date, and sometimes the drivers have been "sanitized," which means that some of the functionality has been merged or broken.
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,286 Arc User
    Or just disable ALL updates - at least until Microsoft works out the bugs. Lately these cause more trouble than good IMO.​​
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  • jordan3550jordan3550 Member Posts: 328 Arc User
    Omg I updated aswell. I hope if I do complete reinstall of window this will fix it and not let windows update
  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    I had no problem... at least not in my notebook, on my desktop PC was a disaster... it was due to a format, so not that much of a problem, anyway, just check your drivers an all that..
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  • arabaturarabatur Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    Luckily I can't the 1709 update to work let alone the new horror of 1803 :p
    Definitely not an Arc User.
  • jordan3550jordan3550 Member Posts: 328 Arc User
    I’m just going back to factory reset tommorow lol. Right back to windows 7 lol
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  • jordan3550jordan3550 Member Posts: 328 Arc User
    > @azrael605 said:
    > Since I don't use Windows 10 I'm not worried.

    I did lol a thought aww great new mean better. As you probably know am no that tech savvy when it comes to computers lol I know how to do most things and checks I’ve learned more from help you guys give in the forums. Intel stppped supporting hd3000 graphics so my safest option is to go back to the original windows that came with machine followed by a very large patch to install game again lol
  • captaincelestialcaptaincelestial Member Posts: 1,925 Arc User
    Thank you for the heads up, guys.
  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    edited May 2018
    Starting around the first of the month I began having a "Black Screen" issue with my OS. Every time I logged in, I had a completely blank black screen. No Desktop icons, no Start Button, no Taskbar. If I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del I could get to the Task Manager and from there I could launch most apps (including STO) which would work fine, but Explorer (the Win10 "shell" I think it's referred to), would run but do nothing. Anyway, Google led me to various fixes, including installing the latest Nvidia drivers, none of which would be permanent. Finally, I found there was a new Win10 v1803 had not yet been delivered to my system, so I manually installed it. Since updating to 1803 I haven't had the Black Screen issue.

    The only STO issue I had recently (days after the above) were sudden/daily CTD. I read about the 64b launcher, switched back to 32b launcher, and have been problem free since.

    So, yay?

    LOL

    Anyway, thanks for the notice, Cryptic.

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  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    Last night I got a notice from Nvidia of another update dated 05/09 (which I applied). Didn't notice any changes afterwards, but at least I still have the latest version.

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  • vorwodavorwoda Member Posts: 699 Arc User
    I'm still leery of this whole "Windows for Workgroups 3.11" thing. Will this be very different from my good old Win 3.1?

    Darn newfangled tech! Maybe I'll just go back to my C-64, it was way more stable! ;)
  • tasogare#9904 tasogare
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    Having the latest drivers did not fix the issue reported in this thread:

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1240079/blurry-textures-since-patch
  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,937 Arc User
    storules wrote: »
    Or just disable ALL updates - at least until Microsoft works out the bugs. Lately these cause more trouble than good IMO.​​

    this last one MS pretty much forced on everyone
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  • ltcommanderdata3ltcommanderdata3 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited May 2018
    Mine has made everything look terrible. I have a GTX 1060 and run with max settings. Everything is blurry and makes it hard to play. My driver was not updated, updated it and still looks bad.
  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    if stuff looks blurry and terrible, your render scale might've gotten TRIBBLE up

    try /renderscale 1 and see if that fixes it​​
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  • crioijoulscrioijouls Member Posts: 141 Arc User
    I haven't gotten the 1803 update, and don't want to get it. Trying to figure out how to disable Windows updates. I had reinstalled the latest video drivers for my card and Tribble is still not working. I had the same thing that did the recent crash to desktop with "unsupported device" error that was reported after the 5-10-2018 patch. The 5-11-2018 patch for the NVidia cards fixed Holodeck, but still can't hit Tribble.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    if stuff looks blurry and terrible, your render scale might've gotten **** up

    try /renderscale 1 and see if that fixes it​​
    In my case it sometimes displays different parts at different scales. O_o'
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  • jst455jst455 Member Posts: 193 Arc User
    edited May 2018
    ambassadorkael#6946 wrote: »
    We’ve recently identified an issue where the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) caused graphics drivers to revert to an unstable version. If you’ve taken this Windows Update, please confirm that you are using the most recent version of your graphics drivers provided by your graphics card manufacturer. You can find your most up to date graphics drivers on your manufacturer’s website (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel).

    In general, please be aware that any update to your operating system has a chance to affect your video drivers, and that it may take time for our team and/or your graphics manufacturer to react and improve compatibility with the update. This is particularly true for major updates such as the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. If you’d like to prioritize stability, you may consider delaying major operating system updates until they’re confirmed to be stable.

    1709 is bad also...with a recent STO patch
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