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New patch, lots of graphics problems

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Lelob
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-03-21 02:46:32 UTC
Matthew Gallorance
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-04-04 05:35:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Matthew Gallorance
Im having the same issues since Crucible 1.5 after 2-5 hours of playing I get strange graphic issues like these including: Invisible stations only the lights on them visible, invisible ships with only thrusters visible, weird gate and jumping effects and the list goes on. I know it cant be my system because If I play Battlefield 3 for longer of periods of time maxed out and no other graphic issues in any other game why only this one? A client restart always fixes the problem and returns everything to normal for 2-5 hours then it bugs up again so I safe up quit game, play again and everything is normal for the next 2-5 hours. I really do hope CCP is aware of this and I know of other users having the same problems, hopefully a dev will come and shed some light on this situation otherwise I have my fingers crossed for the next patch. I have also tried full cache cleans, setting cleans, repair tools,updated graphic drivers, defrags, and re-installs to no success either. All I could say the game didnt do any of this till that patch and if it is'nt that patch then one more back All I know is when Crucible released everything was fine and then it patched to 1.5 now I have problems.
ISquishWorms
#3 - 2012-04-04 09:43:19 UTC  |  Edited by: ISquishWorms
I am as well getting strange graphics. It happens in no other game other than Eve I have stress tested my graphics card and memory and cleared the cache before anyone suggests this. Graphic Engine problem?

Anyway guess what ship this is: http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2273/20120331172907.png

Thats right a Hurricane in the background and wait for it a Drake bet you would have never of guessed though. Everything else in the picture rendered fine except the Drake on this occasion. The strange thing is though when I would zoom in the Drake would suddenly appear correctly I had to zoom out again a little for it to look like this.

‘No, this isn't it at all. Make it more... psssshhhh’.
Az'Kagoth
War Crime Syndicate
#4 - 2012-04-06 17:40:31 UTC
I have this issue aswell...

Also the sun is not visible at all when it occurs. Relogging sometimes fixes it.
Aethlyn
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-04-07 00:29:28 UTC
Had the same issue today - first time ever. Seemed like effects were somehow "overscaled". Restarting the client fixed it. (Nvidia GeForce GTX-295 with latest drivers/Windows 7 x64)

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Envoy Takeshi Kovacs
A.Murder.Of.Crows
#6 - 2012-04-07 01:45:15 UTC
I have been having some of these problems for a while, but my real big gripe with Crucible 1.5 is I can't run three clients now at once without my RAM and CPU going through the roof. That is a recent issue, I have never had many problems at all running 3 clients (except fps goes down but I'm mining and crap so who cares) with the exception of the Incarna release, which this kind of feels like. I know I need some more RAM, but for weeks the game has been unplayable for me if I want to do mining or run support toons in sleeper sites in WH, etc. Thinking of cancelling subs again tbh. Crucible performance issues=Lame CCP.
Envoy Takeshi Kovacs
A.Murder.Of.Crows
#7 - 2012-04-07 01:47:23 UTC
I also still get the glitch where any ship I am flying will sometimes just turn into a cloaked Harby when jumping through a gate, then stay that way until I restart. LOL.
Freeze3371
#8 - 2012-04-07 03:01:38 UTC
I can confirm these glitches. I also get screen flashes when arriving somewhere. Half screen, sometimes with a dot pattern, always white I'd say. Happens a lot after getting into a system. Didn't happen before one of the patches. My GPU should be stable, and these glitches always happen when arriving somewhere.
Modified
Habitual Reflex
#9 - 2012-04-08 01:40:28 UTC
I am also having these issues which are fixed when i restart the game, there have been times that iv docked and came back out and the issue was fixed but it dosnt last long. i will play all day and it will happen alot now.

Warp gates turn into a ball of white , Ships disapear but you see the outline a little as if they were cloaked, Space turns all brown with some stars in the background, moons look like eclipes.

Dell
XPS 8300
Intel Core i7 2600 CPU @ 3.40 GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
8GB RAM
2TB ROM
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Service pack 1
AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series
Direct X 11
Mitchman
Omniscient Order
#10 - 2012-04-08 08:23:25 UTC
Same here, Win7 64-bit, GTX 560 with the very latest March driver release. Lots of different gfx issues including those mentioned here. I've filed a bug on it.
Mr Nosy
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-04-09 17:40:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Nosy
Having exactly the same issues. I am new to the game and to be honest it really detracts from the experience. Very disappointing, should get this fixed before it puts off new players!!


-Windows 7 64 bit
- Asus P8Z68-V LE Motherboard
- 16GB PC3-10666 1333MHz DDR3
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600KCPU @3.40GHz
- AMD Radeon HD 6970 2048MB
- 120GB Corsair Force 3 SSD
- Samsung 1TB 7200RPM Hard Disk
Mitchman
Omniscient Order
#12 - 2012-04-10 12:03:00 UTC
And dev or QA comment on this issue? Any workaround? Seems to happen both when optimizing for performance and quality.
Koldon Black
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2012-04-10 18:10:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Koldon Black
I had this issue too, at first I thought it was cause of my SSDs I just installed somehow because it didn't happen till after I did that on a fresh install of windows with them installed. Although I guess its more likely the last patch that did it. The errors didn't start for me until we had a small gang fight and then afterwards they got progressively worse until I had to dock up and restart my client (which fixed the issue).

in space (planet with a ring behind us):
http://imgur.com/oEWi1

at a gate:
http://imgur.com/Ue8x1

inside station:
http://i.imgur.com/PWEna.jpg

Ultra graphics settings, system specs:
-Windows 7 64 bit
- Asus M4A79XTD evo
- 8GB PC3-10666 1333MHz DDR3
- AMD Phenom II X4 995 @3.40GHz
- AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB
- 2x OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSDs in RAID 0
- Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD 500GB
- Asus Xonar DG
Tarn Kugisa
Kugisa Dynamics
#14 - 2012-04-11 04:49:30 UTC
Rebooting the client normally fixes it.

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Khaji'un Noyakin
Doomheim
#15 - 2012-04-14 22:10:27 UTC
Same issues here.

Also on Windows 7 x64 (maybe in indication of the problem?), hardware is recent and capable of dealing with EVE in max settings.

Happens quite a bit on my character in station as well. Body parts missing, clothes missing, etc.

I'd have a look at the gfx engine. Must be something odd going on there.
Mitchman
Omniscient Order
#16 - 2012-04-18 11:28:35 UTC
Can some devs give an indication whether this is being looked at or not? Currently, eve is unusable and I dare not PvP back with our old corp in the current state. Having eve BSOD the machine or lock up the driver for half a minute is not something that encourages play.
I guess I can get a refund if the game is not playable?
Mitchman
Omniscient Order
#17 - 2012-04-18 11:29:35 UTC
My bug report 132156 has still not been touched in the 2 weeks since I filed it.
Trap Commander
Perkone
Caldari State
#18 - 2012-04-18 15:33:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Trap Commander
Same here, occurs on one of 2 clients after 3-4 hours of playing, restarting the client helps.
Also extreme FPS loss when errors are visible.
Sometimes blue shiny textures on charakters in stations and bright + golden ship and planet textures, missing station textures and shaders, red forcefields and so on...

win 7 pro x64
16gb ram
nvidia gtx485m
intel i7-2630QM
2 screens
ocz agility ssd 128gb
Lyron-Baktos
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2012-04-18 20:49:55 UTC
I can confirm gates/stations taking a few seconds to load. Similar to what post #2 says, when I land on a station after warp , the station is invisible except for the lights; it looks like about 6 flashlights that are turned on are floating in space.

Same when I un-dock, station is invisible but when I click on space, the station snaps back into view like normal.

I don't get the ball of white though like in the screenshots being posted here

w7 64
Q6600
GTX 260
6GB memory
CCP Habakuk
C C P
C C P Alliance
#20 - 2012-04-19 01:22:14 UTC
Hi!

We have looked at this issue for quite some while and we currently assume, that this is caused by running out of memory for creating new textures (as far as I understood it - it is not really my area of expertise). We further assume, that these graphical issues happen now, when in earlier times the client just crashed (as it failed to allocate more memory). At the moment we are not seeing any easy solution for it, but we will continue to investigate it

Workarounds: a) Reduce your graphic settings
b) Restart your client, if you are starting getting problems

Btw: It might be a very good idea to reduce your anti-aliasing setting, if it is set to high. This setting was not working correctly in earlier earlier releases and it is fixed now, which also causes a significantly higher video memory usage

Please reply to this thread and / or write bugreports with further details, if you find / know anything, which might help us to improve (or even fix) this problem.

CCP Habakuk | EVE Quality Assurance | Team Five 0 | (Team Gridlock)

Bug reporting | Mass Testing
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