Graphic artifact while playing, anyone else?

EdwinStowe

EdwinStowe
Tends to happen when facing the sun, but has also occurred briefly in other situations, asteroid belts in particular. I'm not sure if it's just happening to me or if it's going on with others.

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I'm worried o.o These two screen captures were from pausing the videos, they appear only for a brief second and then disappear. It looks like my graphics card is starting to go but I'm not sure. It's a Sapphire 7970 oc. Any ideas?
 
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VyderrH

V
I have moved from an maddening r9 280x which was artifacting down to a lower 270x with no issues now. Hate those 280x. I've had a few artifact a on ED but as changed card they have vanished
 

Hamerstein

Hamerstein
I've seen similar on my GTX680, it occurred from a SC exit, some of the graphical effects from leaving SC weren't removed correctly. Only happened once though and hasn't recurred with the new drivers.
 

EdwinStowe

EdwinStowe
I submitted a ticket with as much information as possible. Hopefully issue will resolve itself tomorrow when I update to Beta, not holding my breath though.

Kind of happy that I'm not the only one seeing this, was really worried about graphic card failure. I'm running Catalyst 14.6, although this issue was also prevalent while using previous versions.
 

Dirk Braben

Dirk Braben
6950 owner here and I can confirm, I even cleaned my glasses.

Wanted to wait for PB before reporting. Looks like a "color overflow" 254->255->0 on the shader or whatever. Will raise a ticket after launch so they get more data for debugging.
 

Ben Parry

Ben Parry
Good news: There's a tool going into an upcoming build that will make it easier to pin down these "why only my machine" type problems.
Bad news: It didn't make it into tomorrow's build. No doubt you'll receive a prodding from the QA team when it becomes available.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Yay! Hopefully the tool will be useful.

I used to get it where I thought there was supposed to be a shiny reflection, and my cargo pods were square. It doesn't happen now, but my cargo pods are square with wing rectangles.

So something changed in between those lol.
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Ben Parry said:
Good news: There's a tool going into an upcoming build that will make it easier to pin down these "why only my machine" type problems.
Bad news: It didn't make it into tomorrow's build. No doubt you'll receive a prodding from the QA team when it becomes available.
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Good news: you are here giving this information.
Bad news: someone will be sleepy tomorrow ;)

Thanks for letting us know. Nice to see giving some tools for testers!
 

Ben Parry

Ben Parry
Pecisk said:
Good news: you are here giving this information.
Bad news: someone will be sleepy tomorrow ;)

Thanks for letting us know. Nice to see giving some tools for testers!
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Six hours is enough for anyone.

Asp Explorer said:
I used to get it where I thought there was supposed to be a shiny reflection, and my cargo pods were square. It doesn't happen now, but my cargo pods are square with wing rectangles.
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I think that, at least, may have been fixed. Some lens flares had a transparency of minus infinity. What's unclear is why nVidia hardware was totally fine with that.
 
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santino

S
I saw something similar yesterday, and I have an NVidia card (GTX780M). I shut the game down to see if restarting it would fix the issue and noticed that my NVidia control center was showing that a new driver was available. Once I updated the driver and started the game again, the issue went away.

Of course now I don't know whether updating the drivers fixed it, or if the driver update was a red herring and I just needed to restart the game :S
 
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