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[stjobe]

Everything seems to be working well after the patch, except that none of the 'mechs have any textures - they're just pale grey silhouettes.

This is for both friendly and enemy 'mechs.

I've tried re-logging and restarting the client, but the issue persists.

EDIT: After restarting the client a few more times, the issue went away. I'll leave this thread open in case someone else runs into the same problem.

EDIT 2: That first edit was erroneous, the problem didn't go away, it's just that it's tied to my CN9-A. Every other 'mech I have work as normal, it's just the CN9-A that has the issue.

Edited by Niko Snow, 16 April 2013 - 11:15 AM.

[ExAstris]

This problem is pre-existing to this patch, as I had it occassionally crop up in the last patch while running my Catapults.

However, I was able to duplicate this problem 100% of the time by dropping in my Centurion-A. For whatever reason, that causes the mech textures to not load. I made this confirmation last night, but waited to post to see if it would be resolved this patch, and it has not been (I haven't seen it reported elsewhere). Have not tested other Centurion variants to see if they cause it as well, but I do occasionally get the mech texture drop with other mechs as well, but the something about the CN9-A procs it every time. (EDIT: almost every time, I got one match on Frozen City (not night) where they loaded properly)

I'm running 64bit windows 7, 4Gb DDR3, and a Radeon 4870. Graphics are set to medium, no other special tweaking aside from resolution set to 1680x1050 and fullscreen.


Update: I tried the AL and D models of the Centurion as well, textures loaded just fine with them, but again went blank with the A variant. Not sure what the cause is, but it seems to have at least some statistically significant ties to particular variants, the CN9-A for sure.

Edited by ExAstris, 05 February 2013 - 07:31 PM.

[Draako]

Weird bug, not sure how to correct it. When I play my Centurion none of the mech skins load.Every mech appears grey. However if I play any other of my mechs it loads perfectly. I've tried changing camo, default camo, lowering specs. I don't know why its not loading for my Centurion. Has anyone had this weird bug?

Thanks

Draako

[Le Goat]

happened to me in my hunchback 4sp. no mech textures all green/grey silhouette. only shiny bit was the cockpit glass.

[Stella Starslayer]

I Just got this in my Stalker. Played on River City and all the mechs were the color of the sky essentially. It interfered with my ability to determine two mechs apart causing us to lose

[Draako]

So I put in my default engine into the Cent 9a and the textures were loading again. As soon as I put my standard 260 I got one or two games with it working and then it reverted to not showing textures. Other mechs still fine. What a weird bug.

[stjobe]

ExAstris, on 05 February 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

This problem is pre-existing to this patch, as I had it occassionally crop up in the last patch while running my Catapults.

However, I was able to duplicate this problem 100% of the time by dropping in my Centurion-A. For whatever reason, that causes the mech textures to not load. I made this confirmation last night, but waited to post to see if it would be resolved this patch, and it has not been (I haven't seen it reported elsewhere). Have not tested other Centurion variants to see if they cause it as well, but I do occasionally get the mech texture drop with other mechs as well, but the something about the CN9-A procs it every time. (EDIT: almost every time, I got one match on Frozen City (not night) where they loaded properly)

I'm running 64bit windows 7, 4Gb DDR3, and a Radeon 4870. Graphics are set to medium, no other special tweaking aside from resolution set to 1680x1050 and fullscreen.


Update: I tried the AL and D models of the Centurion as well, textures loaded just fine with them, but again went blank with the A variant. Not sure what the cause is, but it seems to have at least some statistically significant ties to particular variants, the CN9-A for sure.

Veeeery interesting. I was dropping in a CN9-A when I was having the issue, and when I posted my update to the OP I was dropping with a CN9-D. The only weird thing is that I've dropped several hundred times in that very same CN9-A before the patch without any texture issues at all.

I'll have to check tonight if the issue is still there with my CN9-A.

Also of note is that I'm also running a Radeon HD 4870.

[stjobe]

It's definitely connected to the CN9-A.
1st drop, CN9-A: No 'mech textures.
2nd drop, CN9-D: Normal textures.
3rd drop, CN9-A: No 'mech textures.

Ran into a fellow CN9-A pilot in the first drop who said he'd get the no-texture, gray silhouette bug on his first drop, but then on subsequent drops it would be okay, so there seems to be permutations of the bug as well.

Either way, it's only in the CN9-A that I get this bug, and I didn't have it before yesterday's patch.

[Kelito]

I get this issue along with the terrain and building textures being gray randomly with every mech I drop with. I also have 4870x2 Crossfire. It usually happens on frozen city day and night, but not 100%.

[Spunkmeyer]

I have this issue too currently, and have had it pre-patch 1.2.182 as well. The silhouette color seems to be linked to the background colour for the map [bluish grey for forest colony, grey for frozen city, tan for caustic] making mechs almost indistinguishable against the fog saturation on maps. [note! cockpit textures seem unaffected. Could be used as an exploit.]

Edited by Spunkmeyer, 06 February 2013 - 05:53 PM.

[Butane9000]

I've been having this problem before this last patch and I found this thread yesterday. I figured I would attempt to see if the Centurion was the problem. So I didn't play it all last night and I didn't have the issue. However this morning I played on my AWS-9M on River City day and had this issue. However the next match on River City Night I did not.

So it's not restricted to a specific mech or variant. But it might have something to do with the maps and the variant at the same time.

Edit; I've heard it might have something to do with ATI/AMD Cards. I am running two HD5770 1GB DDR5 GPU's using the 13-1 series driver.

Edit: I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. It appears to have fixed itself.

Edited by Butane9000, 12 February 2013 - 08:48 AM.

[Knobby]

I can confirm this bug.

when piloting the Cent-A, other mechs consistently don't shows textures, Cent-AL and catafract are fine.
Didn't have the Cent-A before the patch so don't know if it was happening then as well.

Edited by Knobby, 14 February 2013 - 05:21 PM.

[ElliottHD]

I have sporatically had this problem in every mech. It seems to have something to do with Anti-Aliasing and AMD/ATI video cards. I turned Anti-Aliasing off in game and setup AMDCCC to control all my anti-aliasing and shader options and I have had zero texture pop-in/not loading issues since. Did this two patches back. Prior to that I was getting this issue constantly on Frozen city (buildings and snow drifts wouldn't load textrures) and Mechs (See above) way back since closed beta. I've heard rolling back the drivers to 12.11 or earlier for ATI/AMD cards fixes the issue as well, but I can't confirm. Also, I know for a fact that what I did to fix the issue has caused a game breaking issue for others with ATI cards causing a need to reinstall the game client, so my work around is done at your own risk. AMD Radeon 6950 2GBDDR5 Sapphire factory OC.

[stjobe]

Played a couple of matches yesterday in my CN9-A and had no issue with missing textures.

I haven't changed anything on my end, so it seems to either be an intermittent bug or it's been fixed.

[Vulkan]

Also have this issue with my CN9-A. Didn't happen at first but since it's been happening even a client restart won't fix it. Very annoying, guess I'll have to pilot something else until that's fixed.

I have had it happen with other mechs before but it usually didn't last more than a match or two.

[z3a1ot]

Same thing happened to me 2 times today, i was in my Catapracht 3d on River City both times. It could be related to amd driver as i installed 13.1 3 days ago. Also i often get grey textures on buildings on Frozen City but this bug was before i installed new drivers. I got Saphire 5770 1gb.

[Thorqemada]

I have this too - the bug started with the patch that implemented ECM:

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PS: In Thermal Mode the Mechs have the appropriate texture - cant say for Night bcs i dont use it but i guess the Bug only affects Normal Mode and has something to do with the painjobs on Mechs bcs the first ECM patch introduced also Paintjobs afair.

Edited by Thorqemada, 15 February 2013 - 10:08 PM.

[Butane9000]

Okay,

I just upgraded my video card from two XFX Radeon HD5770 1GB DDR5 to a single ASUS HD7850 2Gb DDR5. I also upgraded my CPU from a Core i7 920 2.66Ghz to a Core i7 960 3.20GHz. These are huge upgrades which fixed my texture/model issues in another thread.

One thing it did not fix however was this issue. Just before I installed these new hardware pieces I began having issues on Frozen City where large amounts of the buildings would not load textures, the mechs would not load textures and large swaths of terrain would not load their textures. As well as swaths of buildings and patches of terrain textures flashing from loaded to no textures at all. That's what prompted me to install this new hardware early.

However the new hardware did not fix it as the bugs persist. I am going to try playing on a different mech to see what happens as I was on my CN9-A Centurion. I'll update back here if it worked.

Edit: Just played a match with my Founders Hunchback, none of these issues appeared. This might be tied to both the Centurion CN9-A and Radeon cards/ATI Drivers.

Edit: Had the map texture bug happen to be on Frozen City again but this time on my Cataphract 2X. So not sure what the issue is.

Edited by Butane9000, 17 February 2013 - 03:04 PM.