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Flickering black boxes overlaying explosions since 02/11/21 patch
xarynn2058
Member Posts: 158 Arc User
Since the last patch I've noticed that any ship explosion in space (and a few other similar detonation effects) is now accompanied by a brief (split second) overlay of a black rectangle in the region of the screen where the explosion takes place. The size of the rectangle is determined by the area of the screen covered by the explosion.
I can confirm the bug is manifesting in Badlands Battlezone, Dyson Sphere (regular and Battlezone) and regular space as those are the places I have checked.
Initially I thought something was trying to open a window and shutting immediately, but wasn't the case.
Ground combat does not appear to be affected by this bug.
I can confirm the bug is manifesting in Badlands Battlezone, Dyson Sphere (regular and Battlezone) and regular space as those are the places I have checked.
Initially I thought something was trying to open a window and shutting immediately, but wasn't the case.
Ground combat does not appear to be affected by this bug.
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Can confirm. Split second black box overlaying the new warp core explosions, almost like a missing texture.
Or maybe we need to adjust some graphics settings (if so, which setting to what value)?
In case it helps to narrow down/reproduce this issue: I'm using a GTX 970 under Windows 10 (with current drivers).
Kern patrol was painful - I hope they can track and fix quickly.
Updating graphics driver to see if that helps. I was hoping by adjusting the anti-aliasing would help, but it didn't.
Update: Updating the driver didn't resolve it
Update: Turned off the blooming effects. That seems to be helping for now. Until Cryptic decides to fix it, we may have to live without blooming effects for a while.
Update: No Black Boxes anymore after 3 space TFOs.
980 Ti with an i7-10700k
I wonder if the texture failed to load during patching, or perhaps there is something with the 9 series cards it doesn't like. I'm certainly not replacing a 980Ti to play STO, especially in this video card market...
Verify Files did nothing, but I've never had much luck with it. Going to see if I can find the instructions to delete all the files and have the launcher force download, I don't want to try reinstall as my PC is running the original launcher, and I find it no longer installs on Windows 10 - don't want to bother with Arc on this PC. In the ancient times (Step Between the Stars) there used to be graphical patches that would glitch out and a fresh reinstall worked fine for me.
This issue started with the Tuesday patch. While I am within space combat I will see windows or fields quickly popping in/out randomly in different locations on the screen. They are blank. I believe this is a result of the new warp core explosion bloom. I believe instead of the explosion bloom this is what I am seeing.
System Spec: Win 10 Pro AMD 2400G Nvidia GTX750 Ti (I know I need a better card,) drivers are up to date.
It seems everyone who has encountered the issue and reported their graphics card is running 9 series or below.
It would be interesting to see if anyone comes in with a more recent card. My 1050Ti isn't doing it, even though the 980Ti is a much better card by any measure. After work tonight I may punish myself and run it on the Surface Pro to see what integrated graphics does.
Yeah, I'm running a GTX 750Ti
I see we're getting patched tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Clearly something happened with graphics settings, and based on the crashes thread - maybe we'll get lucky and it is all related and will be fixed.
Yeah, I tried turniong bloom off, made no difference, still seeing black boxes.
GTX 750Ti - black boxes, issue exists.
GTX 745 - black boxes, issue exists
GTX 1650 - no issue, no black boxes.