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Blinking background in mission maps...

Catharctic

By Catharctic,
Posted on: 2009-06-08 08:58 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I just came back to playing CoH/CoV after about a 1 1/2 year break. On my laptop when I go into a building and am by NPCs my background starts flashing/disappearing but the NPCs do not. I have seen a few comments on here asking about this but I have not seen answers for it. If you are wondering, while in the world maps I have no issues what-so-ever. And, the walls stop blinking out after you down the NPCs in the area so I am thinking it might just be a setting that I need to play with.

Thanks in advance for any help,
~Kevin

 

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It's your laptop's video "card".

Post your specs and proove me wrong ^_^.

 

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He didn't say LGTF he seemed to indicate it happened almost any instance.

Blinking maps+laptop=display GPU (normally one of those lovely Intel ones) most of the time.

Of course since they asked for tech support with no system information geussing is the only sollution.

 

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This happens quite frequently on my ATI Radeon HD 3800.
Can happen to me in any map at anytime.

 

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And what type of laptop is your Radeon HD 3800 in?

 

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Its a desktop. Got a couple desktops with varying gfx cards, the blinking happens on all of them.

I just wanted to re-affirm the OP that hes not the only one, the 1st reply post was not exactly appropriate (ie Theres no problem here, move on). A solution would be nice as i have updated and tried everything on my comp to fix it. Its not a huge bug. But a bug.

 

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I just came back to playing CoH/CoV after about a 1 1/2 year break. On my laptop when I go into a building and am by NPCs my background starts flashing/disappearing but the NPCs do not. I have seen a few comments on here asking about this but I have not seen answers for it. If you are wondering, while in the world maps I have no issues what-so-ever. And, the walls stop blinking out after you down the NPCs in the area so I am thinking it might just be a setting that I need to play with.

Thanks in advance for any help,
~Kevin

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Check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


Then post the results of these two programs:

<ul type="square">[*]CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
[*]HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format &gt; Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
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If it's an ATI GPU, you'll probably need to shut off Anti-Aliasing, Depth of Field, Bloom, Water Effects, and Sepia FX.

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[ QUOTE ]
Its a desktop. Got a couple desktops with varying gfx cards, the blinking happens on all of them.

I just wanted to re-affirm the OP that hes not the only one, the 1st reply post was not exactly appropriate (ie Theres no problem here, move on). A solution would be nice as i have updated and tried everything on my comp to fix it. Its not a huge bug. But a bug.

[/ QUOTE ]PLease read the original complaint.

This is a very common issue with laptop GPUs of the intel chip variety. Seeing as how the only information we have is the OP is using a laptop I don't see how the response about desktop cards could be appropriate.