Crucible Problems - Black Screens

[Kromtor]

Running 4 clients per machine, undock and all the graphics except the UI are black. Then when I redock the health and module interface from flying in space remains showing. And thats just the biggest of many problems with this patch =/

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Go to Settings -> Reset settings -> delete all cache files (or whatever the option to remove all cache files is) and see if that helps. I had this problem on two of my boxes the first day after the patch but they're all working fine now.

[Kromtor]

that was the first thing i tried. im starting to think it's a graphics card memory issue but that's just a guess. i've only got 512mb on these, time for an upgrade likely.

[Kromtor]

Just picked up 6 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162085 2GB RAM

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[Ughmahedhurtz]

/thread derail engaged

Why are those 560s cheaper than 460s with the same basic specs? /boggle

Is the market on non-bleeding-edge graphics GPUs really that depressed?

[Kromtor]

The 460 prices were lower than they are now a little while ago. It's the typical cycle where they've gotten to the point where supply is so low they're no longer trying to get rid of them and they can charge more because the people who specifically want a matching 460 for SLI or something will pay it.

[Kromtor]

Getting black screens after undocking again even with new cards - thanks CCP.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ouch. I haven't seen any issues since that first day after the patch. I run both an ATI and an NVidia in the two machines so I'm very curious to know what's causing your problems. I run 5 clients on my main box, so that's probably not relevant.

[Morganti]

No black screens thus far, but only 2 clients.

[Kromtor]

Well I'm having trouble reproducing it despite it happening originally on about half of my clients. Seems to happen immediately after patches and then goes away. Probably something to do with the patching process temporarily hogging resources on my computer that gets fixed after a reboot but I honestly have no idea.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I did notice that last night's patch reset my damn UI again. http://l00py.net/images/smilies/brood.gif http://l00py.net/images/smilies/furious2.gif

[Kromtor]

ugh these are back again and make it completely impossible for me to play. once it goes black you no longer have proper UI functionality. anyone else having this problem? I wouldn't expect it to happen unless you are undocking a lot of ships at the same time which requires some sort of mouse broadcasting.

edit: For some reason the latest patch changed the shadow settings, turning them off has fixed this problem.