Wubbie,


Endy is correct in that if you raise the main chat window up some, the flickering problem is reduced greatly.


I am one with an 8800GT 512 who believed he didn't have the 'bug'. Like Endy, I always raise (enlarge) the main chat window as soon as I log in. After reading Endy's post, I decided to leave the main chat window at the default setting and wala, I now see the flickering skies that so many complain about.


You had dismissed Endy's claim due to increasing the main chat window reduces the amount of visible sky. That may be true, but I just tested this with the view angled up to the sky and I still don't have the problem. Granted, my test was short, but this does reduce the flickering problem quite a bit...at least it does for Endy & I.

Gondor and Endy I apologize if thats how you took my response. I was agreeing that the chat window might push the bad blocks out of the way and make it better. I've been working on this bug and a buncha other things and just don't always type the words the right way. Heck the last week or so I;ve had problems seeing the monitor. I had previously suggested max opacity the new floating windows strategically placed before. But if pushing the size of the chat window up creates even a bit of reduction it might be worth seeing how big one needs to make it to push the bad blocks out of sight... now to figure out if it has to be maxxed out or if just making it slighty bigger is enough.


wubbie

 

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No need to apologize.


The main reason I posted about that is because there are people who are saying the game is unplayable for them. This is something simple they can do that seems to work to at least make it playable, but is not a true fix.


Typically there are 5 lines of text showing for me with the main chat window minimized. Not sure if that changes based on font or resolution. But raising it to 6 lines, it reduced it. Raising it to 7 reduced it even more and iirc raising it to 8 and it's pretty much gone. More people would need to test this to see if it's the same for everyone.


I also played around a limited bit with changing views and such and it really seems that it only happens with the default view. I know someone mentioned somewhere that it seems like a skybox render problem and I tend to agree, though my opinion doesn't mean much since my knowledge is mostly nonexistent when it comes to things like that.

 

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I'll try adjusting the chat window in the next couple days before my sub runs out. I'll report back.

My final post from the turbine thread copied here... I expect I'll be banned from the turbine boards and the post removed before many people can see it.


(this part was in giant text)

YAY Turbine you win again.

If we all just shut up, unsub and go away you don't have to do a single freaking thing.

(giant text ends)


Fyrie - thank you for resubbing to be my guinea pig. I'm sorry we never found the problem.


micky - thanks for trying, but Turbines just going to ignore the hole in the side of the ship until we sink.


Absolution - and I had such high hopes, but you tried and thats more than Turbines done.


Joshou - sorry to see you go but I can understand the frustration with a company that doesn't care 1 bit about their customers. Once it starts happening to DDO and LOTRO maybe then enough people will complain and Turbine will make a statement that means nothing and does nothing and go back to ignoring it.


For anyone with a Series 8 card you have 3 possible options

1 - Don't play AC, they won't help you and will take your money and ignore you till you go away.

2 - Channel Windows. Stretch them bad boys over the bad areas and make them solid.

3 - There has been some success in making the main chat window around 8 lines high or just maximizing it all the way, you will need to experiment to find the level that works right for you since we all play at different resolutions but this shrinks the area of the screen you see and pushes the bad skyboxen up and out of sight.


For Turbine... all it would have taken is the time for 1 staffer to share some information. We understand your busy trying to keep the worlds up and running lately but even 1 line seems to be more than you can do for your customers. You know like that voice on customer service lines, "our call is important to us please stay on the line." The message you've managed to send is "We don't care, pay us or don't pay us we don't need or want your business."


Epic Fail on the customer support, you couldn't even post ONCE to say still working on it. You used to be the standard I judged online games by now your just the punchline to a bad joke. Sad thing the jokes on the customer and its not the least bit funny.


wubbie - debating if keeping my accounts is worth it, the game is greater than its code, its the people who play that make it great. Shame the good ones are starting to leave the sinking ship.

 

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We are talking about the main chat window that runs along the bottom of the screen right? Well, I've tried incrementally increasing it to the max and I didn't really notice any difference in flicker.


FYI: I've found a really good place to observe flickering at all times of day: Holtburg - 49.1N 33.7E. Face the lifestone (north) and move your character left/right a little to get instant flickering.


Wubbie - Thanks for all the help. It's been fun banging my head against the wall with you for the past month.

Not sure if this is related to the flicker bug or not but I had this happen when I portaled from my LS to Candeth.

 

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Lmao, that's kind of a neat trick DtB =D.


My old radeon 9700 pro would occasionally pull a fast one on me and turn off all the textures in ac, that was kind of fun heh. Sucks that so many people are having an issue with this, it certainly sounds like an nvidia bug. I haven't read all of the posts, but has changing the resolution, switching from window mode to full screen or vice versa and things like that all been tried? What about a 3rd party driver instead of the nvidia drivers? Something like omega drivers (omegadrivers.net)?


As I said, I haven't read all the posts so I have no idea if you guys have tried all that, but if not maybe something to fool around with. I'd be pissed if this was happening to me too, unfortunately (or fortunately lol) my computer is somewhat archaic and only has an agp 4x slot lmao, so I'm not stuck with this problem (of course I don't think I'll ever be playing crysis on this pc either heh).

DTB - its Turbines new "your name in lights program"

It more than likely has something to do with Turbine and Nvidia but as to what it is... we got nuffin.


Rabbit - Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.


This is just Turbine code and Nvidia code not playing well together on Series 8 cards.


Turbine doesn't want to support the game or the players. Pushing out the LOTRO expansion is much more important to them that fixing a problem thats been in the game for over a year. They can;t even take the time to make a single post saying we know there is still and iddue and we are working on a resolution. You knwo that great PR speak that means we are saying this so you'll shut up and leave us alone again for a while...

 

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It was pretty cool looking, just had to share it.


Yea, it does seem that Turbine dosen't care about the minor graphic glitches it has


I also get some strange effects if I alt/tab out, or dual log, 50% of the time when I dual log the graphics are messed up, but all I need to fix it is just alt tab again and they get reloaded.


Dtb

 

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