Random Scenes
By
FitzSimmons,
Posted on: 2010-04-12 09:31 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Not seen anything like that but could actually be down to a little latency from the server, dropped packets etc. It is the same type of thing that can happen with rubberbanding etc. which is also caused by dropped packets.
I've seen it but didn't really know what to make of it since I can't reproduce it consistently.
It doesn't seem like latency or dropped packets since the image that flashes up is sometimes 10 to 15 minutes old.
I get it at times coming out of missions, and since I tend to spend more time in the mission than a lot of people, any scenes from outside should have been well and truly flushed from the graphics buffer by then. But nope, I'll get a flash of a scene where I'm in WW or at the tram or just standing outside and then it's gone. I've gotten it as I start to log off as well, which is really odd.
I wish it were more consistent so that I could give the programmer's something to scratch their heads over. Guess I'll have to take more detailed notes. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit running a 1 Gb version of the HD4850 and the 10.1 drivers.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
I have the 512MB version of the 4850 but yeah, that sounds exactly like what I'm seeing.
When I exited tonight I saw a scene from when we were a 3-person party standing outside a finished mission. It was at least 30 minutes since we had said goodbye to him and run another defeat-all mission in a different zone afterwards.
At least I didn't get it any other time tonight and I was even alt-tabbing back to Windows.
try /unloadgfx a few times during your play session. this may clear(because i don't know if it is working properly right now) your video cache and hopefully stop it.
I've had this happen too but only on my ATI 58550. It has never happened with any of my NVIDIA cards.
It happens consistently when I logout (quit to desktop).
Since the 4/7 update, I sometimes see a flash of an old random scene (the login screen, or me in an old mission or standing around talking to others but not the current scene). I cannot consistently reproduce it but it usually happens when something new is coming up like the map, enhancement screen, ID, etc. It usually happens again as I exit.
It's pretty annoying although not a game stopper. It flashes the random scene then immediately corrects itself. It doesn't seem to hurt anything so I was just curious if others see it.
I'm running 64-bit Vista and a 4850 ATI card running the 10.1 drivers if that matters at all.