Animal textures suddenly blurry. Solutions?

LiquidFerret

LiquidFerret
So, I've been playing Planet Zoo since beta and I've never had this issue. I've always ran the game with high settings without any problems. This is the second day where the textures of the animals won't seem to load completely. It happened suddenly. They are all blurry and I haven't found a fix for it. I've read online that this was an issue for a lot of people last year. Were there any solutions found? My graphics card is up to date. I tried to verify integrity of game files. I lowered the graphic settings/resolution in the game.

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LiquidFerret

LiquidFerret
So, It appears that the textures are just fine in my other saved games. It is just this particular saved game file where none of the animal textures are working.
 

Tom D

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Was anyone able to find a solution to this? I have the same issue, as I cant add any more animals without the animals becoming blurry. I even went so far as to upgrade my graphics card from a 2080 TI to a 3090, (I have every animal and its juvenile in my zoo, so the theory was that I hit the VRAM limit on the 2080 TI) and it did not help at all, so I know its not a hardware limit or issue, there is something in-game triggering this. I cannot find a pattern to this bug, its very frustrating. Benn stuck with this bug for many months and now that I was finally able to grab a 3090 and confirm its not a hardware limit triggering this, I really need help with this one.
 

Tom D

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I have over 20 GB of VRAM because of the 3090 and 64 GB of regular RAM.

I have found the pattern to this bug, it took a number of hours but here's what I found:

The trigger/pattern to this bug (I am still calling it a bug based on these results) is that I must remove all types of a species (gender specific) so that the bug does not trigger, when I go to add a new animal, whose species and gender is not in my zoo yet. It does not matter if I add 10 female American bison, if one exists already in the zoo already it will add the animals without the triggering of this bug. Here's an example: Removing 10 female flamingos does not help to stop the bug from triggering if one female is left, however if I remove all 11 female flamingos the bug will let me add another species (one of its gender). What this also means, is that I can add as many flamingos as I want as long as there was one of its male or female genders already existing without the bug triggering, but if I try to add one female penguin, when I don't have one at all in the Zoo, the bug will trigger because there are no female penguins in the zoo. It is gender specific, meaning that if I am able to get a male penguin in zoo without the bug triggering, I can add as many male penguins as I want, but I still cant add a new female penguin unless a female penguin exists in the zoo. I would have to remove all females (or male) of another species in the zoo to add the female penguins without the bug triggering (the number does not matter, it could be all 11 female bison, or all 2 female warthogs, as long as its all the gender of a species. This may be hard to follow, so I created a video demonstration to show this in action. See YouTube link below. Using the new knowledge of the pattern/trigger, I was able to control the bug being triggered. Please check out the video and follow the step by step walkthrough in its description.

Source: https://youtu.be/cgpZPmS4Cjs


For those having this bug, please check out the video demonstration and see if removing all of a species that is already in your Zoo, allows you to add new animals so its not blurry. You may have to add more than one species to get to where the textures are not blurry and you control the such as I do in the video. I have contacted Frontier Support and hopefully they will investigate it using the new Info I discovered and generate a solution so that those with this bug can start adding all animals freely without doing the workaround done in the video.
 

Britches

Britches
Heya! Blur-flu just came to my (small) zoo and all animals there when I put some jaguars in their freshly built habitat. Before I got them, it was all nice.
Followed your steps, boxed all female animals. The blur was gone then - until I unboxed them again. Now it is as blurry as before.
How did you manage to fix this? Is there even an option to permanently fix it?
 

Tom D

T
Britches said:
Heya! Blur-flu just came to my (small) zoo and all animals there when I put some jaguars in their freshly built habitat. Before I got them, it was all nice.
Followed your steps, boxed all female animals. The blur was gone then - until I unboxed them again. Now it is as blurry as before.
How did you manage to fix this? Is there even an option to permanently fix it?
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Hi. Yes, based on you repeating the method and the blur going away until you unbox, it is the same issue. After extensive time with customer support, and them showing the QA Team my findings, the team over there is going to resolve this issue either in the next update or the one after that. It is tied to the game's "upper streaming memory budget limit". I was told they will resolve this issue by increasing the streaming memory limit, as well as adding much more future proofing for that number. This is what I was told, and customer support has been very helpful in getting this looked at/resolved, and it it took me a considerate amount of time showing them the issue and finding the pattern.

So, according to my last correspondence with the team, the permanent fix will be in the next update or the one after that. I may ask my contact at customer support next week if the fix will be in the next update that was recently announced. As for a temporary fix, see my YouTube video below that demonstrates the pattern and perhaps you can use it to your advantage to at least continue until the permanent fix is released (be sure to read description of the video). Once again the permanent fix is coming, its just a question of when.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZPfIkounc
 

Britches

Britches
Thanks for you reply and some insight in your conversation with the support. This looks promising and hopefully the bugfix will make it into the next update!
 

Britches

Britches
Thanks for you reply and some insight in your conversation with the support team. This looks promising and hopefully the bugfix will make it into the next update!
 

Tom D

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Britches said:
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After the update it's still a problem, sadly... :cry:
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The update fixed it for me. So far I can add as many more animals as I want. Now I suspect your blurry is caused by something else. Do you have most of the animal species (including DLC) in your Zoo? If not, then I suspect your bug is caused by the usual cause of this, which is not enough VRAM to support the amount of animals in your Zoo. What kind of graphics card do you have? You may need to upgrade it to get more VRAM so you can support the amount of animals in your Zoo.
 

SanRazo618

SanRazo618
I thought this just happened when your zoo got really big for your PC to keep running it well. ( Happened to me a lot on my old PC, Still saving for a new one :( )
 

Tom D

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SanRazo618 said:
I thought this just happened when your zoo got really big for your PC to keep running it well. ( Happened to me a lot on my old PC, Still saving for a new one :( )
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Yes, it can happen if you don’t have enough VRAM to support your Zoo, but it can also happen if you had hit the prior limit the game had for VRAM, meaning you could have the best pc parts and have more then enough VRAM for your Zoo, but if your Zoo had hit that limit, it would not matter. This was what was fixed in the update, they increased this limit to likely exceed those the highest gpu could offer. This is what happened to me, and Frontier fixed this with this update.
 

Britches

Britches
In fact, the zoo with that blurry jaguar is the smallest zoo (franchise) I have built with just a handful animals. When I jumped into this zoo after the last update, the blur was gone, but then I released some animals into the wild and replaced dead animals with new ones from my trading centre and all of a sudden the blur came back. I didn't add new species to the zoo. I haven't built anything new. And I have much bigger zoos with more species overall and they run perfectly fine without the blur problem. I just don't know why this would happen.
 

LN

LN
Never mind.

I now noticed you already did it. Its mentioned in your opening post (verify integrity game files).
 

Przemo

Przemo
Tom D said:
Hi. Yes, based on you repeating the method and the blur going away until you unbox, it is the same issue. After extensive time with customer support, and them showing the QA Team my findings, the team over there is going to resolve this issue either in the next update or the one after that. It is tied to the game's "upper streaming memory budget limit". I was told they will resolve this issue by increasing the streaming memory limit, as well as adding much more future proofing for that number. This is what I was told, and customer support has been very helpful in getting this looked at/resolved, and it it took me a considerate amount of time showing them the issue and finding the pattern.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZPfIkounc
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Hello, I am building a zoo with all species of animals and I noticed that the textures blur after exceeding a certain number of animals in my zoo.... Because of this I can't build all the animals from the latest DLC....
Is it known what the set limit is and can it be increased to have more animals in one zoo without any problem?
 
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