Update 18.01

1) this bug affects only the lightest colors, such as white or chrome
2) the ship must not be lit by a star

Would’ve been nice to have this information earlier, so I could do the test properly. I suggest opening a bug report in the issues tracker. Post a link on this thread.
 
Has anyone else had any performance issues since update 18.01?

It's now basically flatlining my CPU utilisation at 100% and causing all sorts of issues that are seriously affecting my ability to play the game.

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Can’t say that I’ve noticed anything, but I still have a fairly beefy rig.
 
Would’ve been nice to have this information earlier, so I could do the test properly. I suggest opening a bug report in the issues tracker. Post a link on this thread.
Just a followup, but since I had a little time during breakfast, I decided to skip the usual perusal of the increasingly alarming morning news, and see if I could replicate the appropriate conditions:

1) this bug affects only the lightest colors, such as white or chrome
2) the ship must not be lit by a star

First, my initial test last night:


Then, what I would normally consider to be "unlit" by a star.


Finally, since there was a world I wanted to search for biological life anyways, I made sure the planet was between me and the primary star:


It's noticable this time. I think it might be an artefact of artificial brightening in the 3rd person camera. You might also have to be near the star as well for maximum effect, and this world is fairly far out, which is why I noticed the artificial brightening in the first place. The world was much brighter lit in the 3rd person camera, compared to my cockpit view.

It looks like this is one of those "Hop on one foot at 3:57am on a picnic table" type of bugs: it's not likely to happen during normal gameplay, so it's probably going to be fairly low on Frontier's priority list. Still, if you submit it, post the link, and I'll be happy to contribute.

After all, I already did the work. :)
 
How does one achieve 2)? Does that require going to a black hole? If you seriously want people to try and replicate, actually give concise instructions on how to repeat your issue. Repeatedly posting variants of the same picture does nuuutheeeng. Then go open an issue on the issue tracker and encourage everyone that does repeat the problem to add their votes. You are demonstrating exactly why everyone that's ever worked in support hates users.
it is enough to turn the ship upside down from the star
How can I make developers pay attention to this bug?
 
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I rarely use shuttles in the game, but I noticed that after the latest updates, the shuttle pilot’s holographic display panel disappeared; now he apparently controls the ship with the help of his super vision and super hearing.

I also noticed that after the latest patches, NPCs in settlements have lost their facial conversation animation (lip synch) when they pronounce their phrases.
It’s a pity that every patch adds new errors, and given the super events with the Titans, it’s unlikely that they’ll fix it...
 

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I also noticed that after the latest patches, NPCs in settlements have lost their facial conversation animation (lip synch) when they pronounce their phrases.
It’s a pity that every patch adds new errors, and given the super events with the Titans, it’s unlikely that they’ll fix it...
That has been coming and going at random for a long time. Even the NPCs in the concourse lose their facial animations as you move further away from them, even though you can still hear their words very clearly.
 
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Has anyone else had any performance issues since update 18.01?

It's now basically flatlining my CPU utilisation at 100% and causing all sorts of issues that are seriously affecting my ability to play the game.

gMcBPJm.png
i experience more performance increase instead and my PC arent as tanking unlike how it used to be after update 18s, gen 4 i3 750Ti 8GB RAM 07
 
Fired up the PC 30 minutes ago to play for half an hour, to find there's an update, but it's not loading.
Updated to v18 beginning of last week (had not played since last September) & same happened then- had to do a complete uninstall and reload, took well over 2 hours. Played a few hours last Wednesday...now???
Ive stopped the virus scan and anything else running. Launcher just sits telling me "preparing for update" with 0% complete...any thoughts?
 
Fired up the PC 30 minutes ago to play for half an hour, to find there's an update, but it's not loading.
Updated to v18 beginning of last week (had not played since last September) & same happened then- had to do a complete uninstall and reload, took well over 2 hours. Played a few hours last Wednesday...now???
Ive stopped the virus scan and anything else running. Launcher just sits telling me "preparing for update" with 0% complete...any thoughts?

Takes a while, most people find it eventually completes but you could try changing the settings in the game launcher options part and see if any of that helps.
 
I've played this game before, 4 payer raid on end boss with ringing endboss music, hours of battle, used all your heals and potion, thrown all your magical items, everybody exhausted, endboss finally goes down and we're all high fiving and cheering and then someone says...."wait, why hasn't the endboss music stopped........................?"
........followed by some guy in the back yelling "LEEEEEEOOOOOOON JENKEEEEENS!!!!!!"
 
any suggested settings? Looking at the options there & four boxes are all checked

Well no, I have never needed to do it, I just go away for a while and when I come back it's either working or done, but people have reported changing these settings work in the past, just try unchecking them all and see what happens I guess, you can always go in and recheck them all afterwards of it doesn't, or indeed does, work.
 
its been 10 minutes...Ive stopped the loader task & will try unchecking the options!

edit-thanks Varonica! unchecked all but the top one & finally it has started the download, 30m to complete!
I think FD really ought to fix the launcher problems-just been googling and problems have been reported for years!
 
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