GUI goes whacky since last patch
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Posted on: 2012-01-08 11:39 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
this sounds more like a graphics card issue... possibly driver related.
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I know FRAPS does weird things to in-game text when I start shooting video of the game with it. Certain letters go garbled, chopped off, painted over and such. That's the only one I recognise, though. The rest does sound like some kind of hardware issue.
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In the last six months I have never seen ANY of these. One of the machines I still play this game on (when my new laptop is busy doing other work) is 6 years old. And I'll assume they've had several patches in the last six months. |
Originally Posted by cohRock
.. or maybe it was the patch before that; I don't remember for sure. Various weirdnesses can happen:
None of my friends are seeing this, nor have experienced it. Has anyone else seen these effects? Do you know if there is a fix? I have used the repair tool several times (sometimes consecutively), but it never seems to find a problem. |
This sounds like a hardware issue.
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I had this the other day in an AE mission all powers from tray vanished then all of the sudden the combat atribute window showed up, then vanished and all powers came back in tray and looked like they were all untoggled so i got ganked.Only seen it in AE. I did restart game after first time and logged in again and restarted the AE mission but same thing happend again two more times so I logged on different toon and did inc trials and been fine since then.
My pc has been suffering from a very weird malady lately. About 5 mins after I dit down at it, it crashes. Not 5 mins after booting up. 5 mins roughly after I sit down at it. My gf can use it all day fine, and then she's finished snd I sit down and 5 mins later, dink-blackscreen. I got a message that my nvidia drivers were out of date from coh yesterday, and I had to have her uninstall them and download and install new ones after 4 or 5 attempts by me failed lol.
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Haven't seen any of the GUI problemd in the OP though
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The only GUI issues I've had is the whole thing flickering in and out of existence occasionally. And that's a very recent thing.
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This is the only thing I have noticed but it's usually for just a split second and like a million explosions are happening on an itrial or itf or something big like that.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
The only GUI issues I've had is the whole thing flickering in and out of existence occasionally. And that's a very recent thing.
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It turns out my ATI Radeon HD 5700 drivers were out of date -- about 2 years old. There was a new driver released last month, and I got it installed. I do not yet know if this has fixed the problem. Since no one else has seen these effects, it would seem to narrow the problem down to my machine.|
Originally Posted by Kyriani
this sounds more like a graphics card issue... possibly driver related.
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I have not noticed graphical weirdnesses in other games or programs. Perhaps the last CoH patch is doing something new or different with the graphic driver, and my old driver did not like it. Hopefully my new one will.
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Check the Tech forum, but you might have problems with th emost recent ATI/AMD drivers. Last "Plays nice with City/OpenGL" driver as I recall was Cat 11.9
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The new drivers I installed were Catalyst Version 11.12, released just weeks ago. I haven't seen any of the weirdnesses described in the first post. Also, last night I played on a team with 8 folks, 3 of them MMs. One mission we did was the level 50 snake throne room mission, with many hundreds of foes. My system behaved great, even with that kind of a stress test.|
Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Check the Tech forum, but you might have problems with th emost recent ATI/AMD drivers. Last "Plays nice with City/OpenGL" driver as I recall was Cat 11.9
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So let me report that the newest ATI drivers may have overcome any previous difficulties that others had seen, as well as the weird stuff I reported.
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.. or maybe it was the patch before that; I don't remember for sure. Various weirdnesses can happen:
- certain power icons go invisible in power trays
- the power icons stay visible, but the circling effect on toggles disappears
- certain inspirations go invisible in inspiration tray
- colors for certain GUI items disappear
- some text gets garbled, as if some parts of characters are missing, and parts that shouldn't be filled in, are. This one is really weird, because only some of the text lines might be effected. For example, upon quitting, the window comes up with 3 choices. I've seen two of the choices be garbled, and one of them perfectly normal.
- floors can start looking like water, or walls disappear. The invisible walls essentially force a restart of game, because when you are in a room and can't tell where door is, you are essentially stuck.
- not sure, but I seem to crash more often once the GUI goes whacky
These effects don't happen at the same time. Usually its just one effect, but sometimes two of them are present at once. The /unloadgfx and /reloadgfx commands don't help. Sometimes, opening the Store will fix the GUI once the freeze period ends. The GUI is always fine when I start, but after 20 minutes or so the wonkiness might start. Sometimes the GUI behaves itself for an entire session.None of my friends are seeing this, nor have experienced it. Has anyone else seen these effects? Do you know if there is a fix?
I have used the repair tool several times (sometimes consecutively), but it never seems to find a problem.
-- Rich
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