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CMagz

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Portions of entire phases are disappearing to the point where I can only see the skybox; the environment, npcs, interactable mission objectives etc, are all disappearing. The UI is still visible and I can still interact with the world, I just can't see anything except the skybox and my weapon tuning.

The issue is resolved upon restarting the game, but is beginning to happen in nearly every phase I enter. I have not noticed the issue occurring in world-based content.

I'm running Windows 10, with an RTX 4070 Ti on driver 531.79.

 

EDIT: It appears to be related to explosive ability or environment effects and their proximity to the camera POV.

 

EDIT: May be specifically related to NPC abilities that deploy abilities with flame/fire effects.

 

EDIT: Experienced this for the first time outside phased content on Alderaan, in the House Baliss area. I wasn't even in combat; I just moved and it happened. Appeared to not be as persistent as in phased content.

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Voswtor

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Same thing happens to me using Vanguard ability Incendiary Round. Nearly every instance or indoor area regardless of planet, but not on the overworld yet, using this ability will cause all graphics to disappear except for the skybox and UI. Graphics are gone only facing a certain direction but often its a 180 degree view that's missing. Nvidia 3060 with latest driver updated, happens in fullscreen and fullscreen windowed, multiple graphic settings tried, nothing prevents it. Leaving the area to stronghold and returning resets graphics but the game is unplayable using this ability.

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Tiffanitte

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That's been happening to me too.  I have a kick ass Gaming System, bought a year ago. Has everything. FYI 

 

First time it happened to me was in a Hypergate WZ on my arsenal Merc, and was the only time that happened in a WZ. On my Trooper who is FIRE spec, happens more than I care for. The Skybox. I have to navigate to get out of it. Turn my toon with the a and d keys and get out like I am doing a small maze. It's weird cause it seems like its certain patches on the map. I was in a FP (Mando Raiders) and I hit a bad patch, got the Skybox, and got out, and then out of curiosity went back to the exact spot and sure enough put me in the Skybox again. So, I am wondering if there are triggers, patches where this occurs in FPs. I was in a CZ-198 FP (Habitat One), and a fellow team mate was saying he was having that problem in there and sure enough I was having that issue too (on my Fire Trooper). It does seem to happen where NPCs are engaged- the map has bad patches that takes you into the Skybox. But I noticed that it happened even after the fight was over, like the last boss in Esseles as I approached to talk to Asharra before entering the shuttle. I haven't done any Planet stuff lately, but I will this weekend, so I'll see what happens on planets. I was leveling my Sage this week for 2x exp event, and had zero issues with the Skybox glitch. So, it's really hard to know why some toons are affected and some not. 

 

Seems like patches on the map triggers the Skybox glitch. Fire or explosions might make it worse. IDK.

 

I'll keep taking notes and try to look around to see where it's happening and try different toons. 

 

It's most likely a result of the 64 bit client. I know Bioware is working on all this. 

 

I will report back here soon.

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I’ve been debating on how to bring this up in the forums as well since I’ve been experiencing this for a while too. And now that ppl mention it, I think I’ve only ever had it happen to me on a vanguard or PT too (my main tech class). 
I've experienced this on the fleet, in random FPs, on a number of planets (instanced and not instanced) now and it flickers too from time to time which makes it visually painful on top of just annoying trying to do whatever it is I’m doing at that time. I can’t target anything and movement becomes really difficult as I can’t see where I’m going. Haven’t found a way that fixes it that isn’t me shutting off the game entirely then relogging back in, which is a pain. 
 

I’m now gonna be keeping an eye out now to see if this truly is a vang/PT only thing 🤔 but TY for making this thread, now I know for sure it’s not just me having this issue 

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Hello ! :)

I'd the same issues with my vanguard since yesterday. If i'm playing plasmatech, i'm going in an alternative dimension each time I lauch an explosive round in phase zone.  But I don't have this issue when i'm playing tactics. 

Hope they'll fix this fast ! :)

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On 5/16/2023 at 12:18 PM, CMagz said:

EDIT: It appears to be related to explosive ability or environment effects and their proximity to the camera POV.

 

EDIT: May be specifically related to NPC abilities that deploy abilities with flame/fire effects.

 

EDIT: Experienced this for the first time outside phased content on Alderaan, in the House Baliss area. I wasn't even in combat; I just moved and it happened. Appeared to not be as persistent as in phased content.

It's gotta be FIRE/Explosion specs and abilities along with bad patches on the map. I noticed I can revisit these bad patches on the map and it takes me to the Skybox. 

I noticed you don't necessarily have to be in combat for this to happen.  

My Fire spec Trooper has this problem.

My Powertech has this problem.

My Arsenal Merc has this problem.

Other classes like Sorc and Sage do not. I don't have a Vanguard, perhaps for the best. 

 

I have been taking screenshots when this happens.

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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor -3.59 GHz /64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Windows 10 Home

Radeon RX 5500 XT Graphics Card 

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I decided to experiment on my Fire spec Trooper. She has the most problems with the Skybox glitch. I did WZs on her yesterday (Sat). 

Everything was fine until I got into an Alderaan Civil War WZ. Out of the gate I went to the Middle node to fight. Once inside, I got a similar glitch. It wasn't the Skybox, it was something new. The players, including myself, became invisible along with the interactive console you have to capture, in the middle, but the rest of the map stayed intact. I was still firing and all that, as it didn't interfere with gameplay. In order to make players and the console reappear, I had to use the A and D keys to pivot to make things reappear. The A and D keys to pivot also gets me out of the Skybox. So that was new.

Just reporting in with these glitches. I will be back.

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I am also experiencing this exact issue. Been playing the game as an operative, and Jedi classes for weeks without issue, the day I switch to a plasmatech vanguard, I run into issues where I can only see the skybox after flame ability is used. The issue seems to be persistent even when the ability is over, and when facing the camera at certain angles. 

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I've never signed in or used the forums before but I hopped on just to bump this and say I'm also having this issue. I didn't connect the dots about it only being certain classes/subclasses suffering from this issue until I read it here and realized its the same for me. I'm trying to work through all the origin story content and I've been bouncing around some, and have only experienced this issue with my Mercenary somewhat rarely, but its been incredibly bad on my Assault Specialist Commando... I'm going to switch to gunnery to see if it helps.

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first time i play vanguard and was doing the ossis mission to place some bombs in a cave and after some skills i use then my screen turn black and i can see the sky it was hard for me to walk true the quest after i was done and i was outside again everything turn to normal i hope its not in every area 

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i suspect its only related to commando/merc second dps spec not arsenal/gunnery but the other one

cuz when im playing as gunnery on my commando i dont have the disappearing world and all that but on the other spec it happens constantly

so yeah 

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When you guys talk about the environment disappearing and leaving you with the skybox, are you talking about this or something else? This group included an Assault Specialist Commando, but the effect was experienced by them, a Shield Specialist Tank, a Madness Sorc, and myself on Balance Sage. Zoning out of the op and back in after the fight seemed to clear it. I've only encountered it the one time, and haven't seen a repeat, even if I personally play IO, Assault Specialist, or any flavor of PT/Vanguard.

If it's the same sort of thing, relevant system specs follow:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Ryzen 9 5900x
Before we tried zoning out and in, we tried changing graphics settings to fix it, but it persisted on all presets.

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7 hours ago, Crystal_Mind said:

When you guys talk about the environment disappearing and leaving you with the skybox, are you talking about this or something else? This group included an Assault Specialist Commando, but the effect was experienced by them, a Shield Specialist Tank, a Madness Sorc, and myself on Balance Sage. Zoning out of the op and back in after the fight seemed to clear it. I've only encountered it the one time, and haven't seen a repeat, even if I personally play IO, Assault Specialist, or any flavor of PT/Vanguard.

If it's the same sort of thing, relevant system specs follow:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Ryzen 9 5900x
Before we tried zoning out and in, we tried changing graphics settings to fix it, but it persisted on all presets.

That seems to be basically the issue I have had. I swittched my Trooper to Gunnery and haven't had the issue since. However, while on the other specialty I got this issue constantly.

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On 5/30/2023 at 11:14 PM, Crystal_Mind said:

When you guys talk about the environment disappearing and leaving you with the skybox, are you talking about this or something else? This group included an Assault Specialist Commando, but the effect was experienced by them, a Shield Specialist Tank, a Madness Sorc, and myself on Balance Sage. Zoning out of the op and back in after the fight seemed to clear it. I've only encountered it the one time, and haven't seen a repeat, even if I personally play IO, Assault Specialist, or any flavor of PT/Vanguard.
 

yes that is exactly what we are talking about, and its a really annoying bug that only happens with commando/merc  assault specialist spec.

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17 minutes ago, elimatorxv said:

only happens with commando/merc  assault specialist spec

Yeah, that's why I was asking, because I was playing Balance Sage when I took that screenshot. We had an assault specialist in the group, but they weren't the only one affected, and I haven't actually had this happen to me when I play IO/Assault Specialist (yet).

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5 hours ago, Crystal_Mind said:

Yeah, that's why I was asking, because I was playing Balance Sage when I took that screenshot. We had an assault specialist in the group, but they weren't the only one affected, and I haven't actually had this happen to me when I play IO/Assault Specialist (yet).

oh yeah if it hasnt happened to you yet feel lucky man,  its really annoying when everything disappears on you

on gunnery spec it hasnt happened at all nor any other characters for me atleast just assault specialist is the one that gives me the disappearing world, skybox,  enemies and the like. 

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