Reyze Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Since the last patch the graphic's mess up something fierce before then every now and then I'd get a black flash with this game nothing major and only with this game. Since the patch on planets the background tears and sometimes disappears or turns a dull brown and more often than not a dull brown flash in the foreground every few seconds its a bit annoying but I assume just one of the launch bugs. Also for the record my companions are moving WAY slower than me though this started the night before the patch so doubt it's related I have to wait for them to catch up to me typically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabbyMe Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 If you're talking about random screen tearing or artifacting. I've been getting that, too, since the patch. I was fine before, and nothing I've done has made it go away. I never had it before, and it doesn't happen in other games. My temps are fine, too. I'm not sure if it's just me, or if others are experiencing it as well :/ But sounds like you and I having issues with something similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerileth Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) Sorry, I don't mean to be sounding like a broken record on all these graphic/shadow threads but something has changed for the worse. I'd like to keep these threads from getting buried with all the other bug threads. If you have a high end computer you probably won't notice this, and if you have a low end computer you probably don't use shadows. I'm in the middle and have noticed a lot of weird issues. Biggest being how my temperatures are higher and kicking in my fans more than prior to 5.0. Also the black screen logout issue. From the patch notes: Added new engine technology to improve fidelity of facial expressions in conversations and cinematics for all characters across the entire game. This graphical improvement is visible on High Shader setting. Character animation is smoother and more performance allowing for more visible characters. Combat and large population scenes run significantly faster. The visibility system has been optimized increasing the framerate and making the use of cascaded shadows less expensive. I'm thinking something went wrong... Edited December 1, 2016 by Zerileth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabbyMe Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) I agree with you :/ this only happens in swtor for me. And I doubt my GPU decided November 29th was the day it was going to start screen tearing/having issues... ONLY in swtor, and on a patch/launch day. My PC is 2 years old... so I guess it's at the low end of mid-range. At least then. Have an AMD 280x, and an AMD 6300 at 3.5 gH, with 10gig RAM. This pc is more then capable of playing swtor. I turned off vsync and triple buffering... to have my FPS skyrocket to 200 as it should have. Only to have the same issues you were about about my GPU's fans going insane. And making way more noise then it should be. So I can only guess that something in THEIR graphics update mucked up settings somewhere. Either I haven't found it yet, and I never will... because I've tried everything outside of buying an entirely new GPU. Which seems a bit excessive for random artifacts and tears in one game that weren't there on monday evening. Also... when playing KOTFE. My tears are more... flashes like the OP describes. Usually transitioning between scenes in a cinematic :/ I tried playing around with my vsync settings again. Tried rolling back my drivers. Then reinstalling them... etc... nothing works. It's only in select places. Indoor areas, and story/group phases in old content is fine for me. But the open world... like on Tatooine or Taris... I'll get tears while flying/mounted. Alderaan was bad, too. KOTFE... cinematic transitions between screens have a millisecond dull brown flash, or... sometimes blue. Headdesking... Edited December 1, 2016 by GabbyMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy_w Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 I have also got random screen tearing, artifacting and screen flashes since the new patch. Tried every possible gfx settings and everything else you'd want to do ( driver re-install and so forth) but nothing works. Outside of SWTOR things behave like normal. Also, log-out blackscreens/game-freezes and even blackscreens when transitioning to a cutscene which never happened before. System is older, but it used to run SWTOR like a chamer at mid-high settings: I-5 2400k, AMD 270x (2g vram), 8g ram. The game is playable, but these screen flashes and screen tearing/artifacting are already getting really old real fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benekhar Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Same exact issue with my game too, ever since the patch. I tried everything I know to do, updated my drivers and all that. No help. Must be a patch problem. Hope they fix it tomorrow morning with 5.0a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Canderous_ Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Same thing for me. I've noticed that (so far) it mostly seems to occur in outdoor areas on the older/original planets; once I get indoors somewhere it pretty much goes away. Everything was fine on Monday night, before the patch, and now... this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halinalle Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 (edited) First of all, stop calling random artifacts "screen tearing". Screen tearing: http://cdn.overclock.net/8/8b/8b309ea1_darksiders_screentearing.jpeg Black triangles I've had especially in chapter where you're disguised as Zakuul Knight (chapter 6?) are not screen tearing. Edited December 3, 2016 by Halinalle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith-Viscera Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Off topic a bit here. I have to agree with GabbyMe, Theron does need a new Jacket or a Change of clothes his is starting to get really ripe. Oh by the way so is Lana and Koth and all the others you can not change their GEAR! I mean in game time its only been for Theron and Lana 10 or so years. I think you did upgrade Lana out fit on the latter half of those 10 years but still shes ripe too. So BW get some of your Devs to hop in their favorite land speeder and go down to your local Galactic GOODWILL store and get them some new CLEAN STUFF on that next Patch, IIGHT? Sorry for the Hi-jacking the thread, going off topic and for the rant. Please resume and Take Care & Be Well........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarkHelsing Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Still an issue, has not been fixed with the patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemonkey Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Still nothing from the devs about the issues with shaders? I'm gutted this didn't get sorted with todays patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benekhar Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Same thing for me. I've noticed that (so far) it mostly seems to occur in outdoor areas on the older/original planets; once I get indoors somewhere it pretty much goes away. Everything was fine on Monday night, before the patch, and now... this. I'm having exactly the same issue just as everyone is describing it, and the issue is still present after the 5.0a patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benekhar Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 I just logged in to check if they fixed these issues in the 5.0a patch, but everything is still bugged. They need to hire an archeologist to get rid of all these artifacts. 🤓 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabbyMe Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 (edited) I've played through KOTFE and noticed only flashing in cinematics as the scenes transition. Sometimes get random artifacts... but definitely not as bad as the older planets. Flying back and forth on Republic Taris was a nightmare. It was the only place I could use as a reliable test place while trying to fix the problem. On other planets... it just happens randomly. Doesn't matter the planet... for me... it's still outdoors on most planets. Usually when I'm flying or mounted. Sometimes while walking, too. It happens in indoor/phased areas. But very rarely. KoTeT seems to suffer from both of these... intermittently (screen flashes with cinematics and artifacts). Like... when piloting that giant droid thing on Iokath. There were artifacts all over the place. It was getting distracting. Did snort at your archaeology joke though. Might do them some good. Edited December 3, 2016 by GabbyMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniyosh Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 (edited) Have been having the same problem. Thought at first it was Crimson driver update and so I rolled back and even installed an older driver... same problem persists. It seems to be like screen tearing and artifacts combined and it is mostly on older planets. I have done what I can and safely say that if you are here its not a problem on your end. I have tearing that looks like individual pixels of every color in game flash in a line across the screen. Now normally I would say its the card but I have tested under other games and temps and drivers are all fine. This is a game issue. As always EA has created something and not tested it properly. Also remember that the coding used throughout the game has been problematic for updates. I hope this will get sorted in time but honestly I wouldn't worry too much at the moment. It is a nuisance but if it doesn't crash the game you are ok. Always remember that artifacts are corruptions of textures and are rarely uniform to in game scenery so if the water or a floor tile changes color or texture and, it doesn't happen on all tiles but only in one place... its game related. Have OC'ed a card and killed it I can tell you that Artifacting and driver issues are VERY different. You will know. The game will tend to crash as well. As this is not happening it is definitely an in game problem that will get fixed if we all ticket it. Finally. raise a ticket about your problem. Look on the website for known in game problems and issues. The below video is an excellent example of artifacting artifacting. If you dont have this is the game, not your card. Edited December 19, 2016 by Kuniyosh addition to post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwenBrooks Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Also being looked at EA ANSWERS HQ at this link , if people can post a dxdiag in that thread as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doriscolleen Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I also have this issue did the same as others for my computer nothing works was hoping last patch would fix.. but no still here January 23. 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofu_Shark Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) If you have a high end computer you probably won't notice this, and if you have a low end computer you probably don't use shadows. I normally run max settings, and I see this black flash too. Although, I think I've also seen a white or lighter colored one too, depending on the color scheme of the planet. Also... when playing KOTFE. My tears are more... flashes like the OP describes. Usually transitioning between scenes in a cinematic :/ I tried playing around with my vsync settings again. Tried rolling back my drivers. Then reinstalling them... etc... nothing works. It's only in select places. Indoor areas, and story/group phases in old content is fine for me. Interesting, I've noticed slow renders when transitioning scenes or cutting to the next shot. For a split second, the NPCs aren't present, then they suddenly appear. It's really annoying and happens 99% of the time. Have been having the same problem. Thought at first it was Crimson driver update and so I rolled back and even installed an older driver... same problem persists. It seems to be like screen tearing and artifacts combined and it is mostly on older planets. I have done what I can and safely say that if you are here its not a problem on your end. ... I hope this will get sorted in time but honestly I wouldn't worry too much at the moment. It is a nuisance but if it doesn't crash the game you are ok. Finally. raise a ticket about your problem. Look on the website for known in game problems and issues. It's more than a nuisance for people that record their playthroughs. I have a new AMD card running Crimson, and I don't have the artifacts problem. I do have the bar problem though. XP bars, loading bars, status bars, etc. of any kind are corrupted wherever they fade out or end. This is supposedly a driver problem though. I'm not entirely sure about that. Oh wait, I did notice something once on Denova warzone on the scoreboard, but it only happened once near the end of a match. Edited February 2, 2017 by Tofu_Shark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalor-Vhan Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I have this problem as well and it started with 5.0. The game was fine before. The 5.1 update didn't fix it unfortunately. This problem only occurs with SWTOR and I think is related to the 'optimizations' they did recently because all my other games are working fine. I'm using nvidia GTX 1080 Here is an exemple of the problem: Like others said before, it happens only outdoors. I never see it indoors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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