Immersion breaking? or video card breaking?

Calaban · Jan 18, 2015

So yeah, this just happened while warping somewhere:

Either I fell into some Kaleidoscope dimension for a moment.. or somethings going wrong here... Having it come whooshing at me in spinning nauseating 60fps [ok ok 52.2] didnt help my tummie one bit.

Getting better as I leave the warp...

GAH!! It followed me offline! unplug!! UNPLUG!!

[so yeahhh.. obviously ticketed]

Cmdr Andy B · Jan 18, 2015

i had something similar in the beta (although it was only scrambling the graphics of ships) my guess is that it was caused by corruption of the files client side as going to Options/verify game files on the launcher sorted it out.

BeTeK · Jan 18, 2015

I think you just ate some magic mushrooms

salad · Jan 18, 2015

You're supposed to just transport those Onion Heads dude, not try them out!

Gryphorim · Jan 18, 2015

Witch space!

OneAmongOthers · Jan 18, 2015

You've done and gone warped to plaid!

daan2002 · Jan 18, 2015

lmfao at the replies yes its you Gcard

schuesseled · Jan 18, 2015

I told you to take a right at the witch head nebula, Jesus Calaban you never listen to me. Now here we are stuck in this stupid disco dimension and you still won't stop and ask for directions.

p2k · Jan 18, 2015

I had simillar artifacts after an <alt> + <tab>. I suspected my graphics driver since I was using a Nvidia beta driver and a manual downsampling. Since the last Gamma version this never happend again on my machine.

DocSchneider · Jan 18, 2015

I really don't understand.... What's the problem, OP? Game seems to work very well...

{SAS}Stalker · Jan 18, 2015

Did you buy your gpu off one of those T6 selling technology?

Geers · Jan 18, 2015

Update your drivers and if you're running Xfire try turning that off.

Kramster · Jan 18, 2015

Seems you have flown through a kaleidoscopic time portal and arrived in a 1980's spectrum loading screen

Mellom · Jan 18, 2015

Its witch space. Thargoids confirmed.

Easy_Target · Jan 18, 2015

Looks like your gfx card is going south to me or a driver issue, test with another game, report back.

Toscaner · Jan 18, 2015

i once had a similar effect, when my gfx-card broke

Adam Lusardi · Jan 18, 2015

If I look at the 3rd screen shot closely I can see tiny numbers moving! (what spoon)

anikaiful · Jan 18, 2015

Calaban said:
GAH!! It followed me offline! unplug!! UNPLUG!!

[so yeahhh.. obviously ticketed]

Interesting visuals... 1) too much Onionhead. 2) somethings seriously gonna burn (saw such screens back when my GT9800 was about to die).

MARPATdroid · Jan 18, 2015

Looks like you got interdicted so hard your GPU took some damage. I would test whether it is just this game, or if it is affecting other games.

Then I would Re-install drivers.

Pray to the GPU gods

and Test.

If you have another known good GPU you could try that out for comparison sake.

Might be time for a replacement.

clivewil · Jan 18, 2015

perhaps try some kind of temperature-monitoring utility (i use MSI Afterburner) - overheating can cause that effect. if it is temperature related, you can often reduce the heat by using vsync, if you aren't already

---> oh - and add overclocking to the list of possible causes. if the gfx ram is trying to run too fast, perhaps you'll get similar artifacts. i once bought an Asus 8800GT that was like that straight out of the box. had to underclock it slightly, then it was fine