Window Opacity Issue FIXED!
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ColdShot,
Posted on: 2010-02-25 11:34 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Um...are you sure?
Because this was a known bug for many, many years and was only recently fixed. It may just be coincidental with your purchase.
I could be wrong, though. 
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Fixed? My opacity slider jumps around every time I open the options menu.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Um...are you sure?
Because this was a known bug for many, many years and was only recently fixed. It may just be coincidental with your purchase. I could be wrong, though. |
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I still have never seen this as an issue.
If it makes a difference, I have a 9600gt. I use 1680x1080 rez, and a windowscale of 110%.
I am aware that many of the sliders may move if you repeatedly open the options window and APPLY. I believe this is might be partially due to the slider trying to find the closest pixel or "notch" to the current value, which then changes the value of the slider... and repeats each time.
Anyway, I've never seen it do it on it's own. Why you would open it so many times in a row to become a problem is beyond me. I almost never have a reason to open it, and my settings never change. You should also be able to just /wdwload or /optionload to reset the values back the way you had it before anyway.
As stated, for me it was happening even during normal gameplay. After a few transitions, the opacity would be back down to about 7%. The multiple applying was only confirming it on those two characters. Doing the same thing on others had no effect.
I upgraded on Saturday the 20th. Is that when they "fixed" it?
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Window position/scaling/opacity is saved separately on each character. Is it possible those characters used different preferences (even by 1%) than the rest? |
Originally Posted by Tripp Hazzard
As stated, for me it was happening even during normal gameplay. After a few transitions, the opacity would be back down to about 7%. The multiple applying was only confirming it on those two characters. Doing the same thing on others had no effect.
I upgraded on Saturday the 20th. Is that when they "fixed" it? |
If you /wdwsave and /optionsave from a working character, then /wdwload and /optionload on the affected characters, would that have possibly fixed it?
Did you change any of your in-game options after your upgrade that may have been responsible for resetting those options and fixing it?
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I noticed a few weeks ago that hitting apply no longer moved the opacity slider.|
Originally Posted by Tripp Hazzard
I had a problem on a couple of my characters ever since I started playing in Sept '08 where every time I logged in or just zoned, the opacity slider for my windows would slide downward. It only affected a couple of characters, but it was consistent on those two.
I could even go into the video options, slide it up, and watch it slip downwards every time I clicked apply. |
However, opening and closing the options window still moved it, as well as just playing the game and zoning and relogging.
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I know for sure I still had the problem the week before the upgrade. I happened to be playing one of the two that weekend, and remember having to reset his opacity a couple of times. And we're talking about setting the opacity to 75% and after a few transitions (enter/exit mission and change zones) it would be back down to 5-7%|
Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Window position/scaling/opacity is saved separately on each character. Is it possible those characters used different preferences (even by 1%) than the rest?
If you /wdwsave and /optionsave from a working character, then /wdwload and /optionload on the affected characters, would that have possibly fixed it? Did you change any of your in-game options after your upgrade that may have been responsible for resetting those options and fixing it? |
Never tried the save/load idea.
And yes, the new card let me change from minimum settings to max. I do think that's part of what fixed it, along with just having a much better system overall now.
I had the problem on everything from Minimum to Recommended on the old setup. (I could run it at Recommended, just very, very poorly. I usually ran at Performance soloing, and Minimum on any kind of group action.)
I may be wrong, I recognize that. In my reality, wrong is ALWAYS an option. It's just that, for me, after upgrading my system and video, the problem is gone.
So I posted it as a possible solution for anyone else experiencing it.
This issue isn't fixed. Happens to me every day, on all my characters.
I still have this issue as well. Very frustrating because I find it rather difficult to see the items in the windows otherwise. Hope this gets addressed soon, as it has been around for quite some time.
Oh, thank the Gods. I thought I was the only one this happened to. I've noticed it gets worse when I go into the trader menu.
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I had a problem on a couple of my characters ever since I started playing in Sept '08 where every time I logged in or just zoned, the opacity slider for my windows would slide downward. It only affected a couple of characters, but it was consistent on those two.
I could even go into the video options, slide it up, and watch it slip downwards every time I clicked apply. I know of at least one other player who has experienced this, and Support has never been able to help me out on this.
I even tried copying one character to another server as part of my investigation, and the problem followed him to the other server and back! I even created a new character in his old slot before copying him back to see if that would help. (It didn't.)
Recently I upgraded my system, going from an AGP NVIDIA 7600 to an NVIDIA 9800 PCI-E.
And the problem went away.
On BOTH characters I had it on.
So if you have the same problem, I found a fix. Unfortunately, it ain't a cheap one.