Gothic 4:Arcania textures missing / turning black in 3d vision
Hi all,

I am having an issue when 3d is enabled with Arcania, steam.

The game worked brilliantly for 6 hours, now I notice some textures, character faces, or entire people all of a sudden turn jet black like they are missing textures.

Also, I report major slow downs which accompany this new behaviour.

I had a large red "out of memory" sign come up on screen after one of these slow down episodes. (the sort of red sign/flag a video card, or monitor would show).


i7950
gtx 480 sli
gt220 physx
12gig ram
Win 7 64

The bug happens in 3d AND in 2d.
It only happens when 3d is enabled through control panel.
Is not SLI related, both show bug.
With all graphics options disabled, it is still bugged.


Cheers, pic of disappearing menu attached.
Hi all,



I am having an issue when 3d is enabled with Arcania, steam.



The game worked brilliantly for 6 hours, now I notice some textures, character faces, or entire people all of a sudden turn jet black like they are missing textures.



Also, I report major slow downs which accompany this new behaviour.



I had a large red "out of memory" sign come up on screen after one of these slow down episodes. (the sort of red sign/flag a video card, or monitor would show).





i7950

gtx 480 sli

gt220 physx

12gig ram

Win 7 64



The bug happens in 3d AND in 2d.

It only happens when 3d is enabled through control panel.

Is not SLI related, both show bug.

With all graphics options disabled, it is still bugged.





Cheers, pic of disappearing menu attached.

#1
Posted 02/24/2011 11:46 PM   
I played the game entirely in 2D (as its 3D vision rating wasn't too good), and I had exactly the same problems you've described. By the end, I was restarting the game every hour or so to get rid of those annoying black textures...

IMO, Arcania was one of the worst RPG releases of recent years - it was both buggy and boring. But it's not NVidia's fault - it's just a badly programmed game - even ATI users were reporting the 'black texture' issue on the forums!
I played the game entirely in 2D (as its 3D vision rating wasn't too good), and I had exactly the same problems you've described. By the end, I was restarting the game every hour or so to get rid of those annoying black textures...



IMO, Arcania was one of the worst RPG releases of recent years - it was both buggy and boring. But it's not NVidia's fault - it's just a badly programmed game - even ATI users were reporting the 'black texture' issue on the forums!

#2
Posted 02/25/2011 03:56 PM   
If you drop the texture detail to medium it helps with this problem. Most people that have done this, including me, have eliminated the black texture bug completely. Obviously it degrades the image quality some but it beats the creeping death look...
If you drop the texture detail to medium it helps with this problem. Most people that have done this, including me, have eliminated the black texture bug completely. Obviously it degrades the image quality some but it beats the creeping death look...

#3
Posted 02/25/2011 07:01 PM   
Ahh nice to know it wasn't just me. Its happening less frequently now.

On another note, anyone else notice that when it rains, some sort of haze affect is rendered only in one eye...
Ahh nice to know it wasn't just me. Its happening less frequently now.



On another note, anyone else notice that when it rains, some sort of haze affect is rendered only in one eye...

#4
Posted 02/26/2011 04:11 AM   
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