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#1 KriticalAssassin

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Posted 16 March 2014 - 05:20 AM

So my screen goes all crazy sometimes, usually it's when a lot of skills are being casted (people doing reflect killing with cd in mouth causes this a lot) My screen gets this odd white areas that sometimes cover almost the entire screen and make my mouse and my status windows all go away. What is causing this problem and how can I fix it? Anyone know? I can't do anything when it gets completely crazy.

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#2 bassman767

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Posted 16 March 2014 - 06:13 AM

1. the first solution is to close the client and re open it. usually it solves the problem for short until it happens again. This usually happen to me when i Tab to other client such as another RO client or other game client.

2. Get a better graphic card, though i doubt it will completely solve the problem. Since all that graphic is going on on your screen means a lot of calculation by the graphic card.

3. If you happen to know those SS are going to be happen, type /effect to turn off your effect.  


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Posted 16 March 2014 - 06:49 AM

Been playing 4 years. It happened once before then stopped doing it for about a year. Now it's been doing it again for like 2-3 months every so often. And I took the screenshots on purpose when it was happening to show what I meant. And your 1st suggestion... it's better to just wait for it to end than to completely close my client. Closing the client and re-opening just takes longer and kicks me out of a TI if I'm in one.


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Posted 16 March 2014 - 06:52 AM

computer herpes


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Posted 16 March 2014 - 06:52 AM

computer herpes

 

Your moms computer.
 


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Posted 16 March 2014 - 06:55 AM

lol


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Posted 16 March 2014 - 06:57 AM

lol

Oh dang, I shoulda said "Your motherboard"

 


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Posted 19 March 2014 - 08:34 AM

Not sure how to fix this =\ It's really annoying and impossible to play when it gets out of hand x-x I don't think it's the graphics card because other higher graphics games are working okay.


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Posted 19 March 2014 - 10:17 AM

Try the different graphics modes available in setup. 

 

 

 

There IS a characteristic screen-go-crazy effect, where textures get swapped (ex, you'll see the swirly light for a door instead of the normal roof of a building, or the floor tiled with heads, or a vend sign stretched out across the leaves of a tree, etc) - stuff like that. This is caused by the graphics card overheating (as opposed to CPU overheating, which just crashes on desktops, and will cause extreme local machine lag on a laptop as it cranks back the CPU speed to reduce heat generation).

 

Your screenshot doesn't look like that though (or maybe I'm just seeing a particularly bad example that doesn't look like the typical effect) - it looks like transparent effects are not being cleaned up after the animation finishes. 


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Posted 19 March 2014 - 10:31 AM

I tried every graphics mode before and it never seemed to fix it. And no the textures aren't getting swapped. The only time I've seen that was that time the server went completely wacko and fly wings changed your map and whatnot. (Which by the way was a really fun day) I can try again and hopefully it will do something this time.


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Posted 19 March 2014 - 10:58 AM

Make sure you're running setup in a way that it's settings are visible to RO (run as admin if that's needed for your configuration, not as admin if that is required by your configuration). Change the resolution at the same time or something, so you know it's using the new settings. 


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Posted 19 March 2014 - 11:03 AM

Change it during the problem? Hard to capture it when it happens. And I may need to run NOT as admin possibly? O.o


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Posted 19 March 2014 - 11:41 AM

Change it during the problem? Hard to capture it when it happens. And I may need to run NOT as admin possibly? O.o

 

I mean, when you change the graphics mode, also change the resolution. 

 

Then, when you start RO with the new settings, you will know whether RO is using the new settings, because the window will be a different size. This is just a trick to make sure the settings changes are being applied correctly (since changing graphics mode has no visible effect, so you don't know whether all modes break the same way or setup is just failing to save).


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Posted 20 March 2014 - 04:29 PM

How about posting your Graphics Card information? Have you tried updating your drivers? Is the control panel of your graphic card affecting the settings of RO?

 

Sorry if it seems way over your head, so if you need me to explain something thoroughly, I'll do my best.


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Posted 20 March 2014 - 04:47 PM

I mean, when you change the graphics mode, also change the resolution. 

 

Then, when you start RO with the new settings, you will know whether RO is using the new settings, because the window will be a different size. This is just a trick to make sure the settings changes are being applied correctly (since changing graphics mode has no visible effect, so you don't know whether all modes break the same way or setup is just failing to save).

 

So... I went into my setup window and somehow the graphics thing had absolutely nothing selected.... so I have no clue how it ended up like that. Going to give each option a little test run and see if either one ends up experiencing the problem.
 


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Posted 20 March 2014 - 05:08 PM

I get those sometimes by tabbing out of the game mid loading screen not always but sometimes :o


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Posted 21 March 2014 - 03:47 AM

So... I went into my setup window and somehow the graphics thing had absolutely nothing selected.... so I have no clue how it ended up like that. Going to give each option a little test run and see if either one ends up experiencing the problem.
 

 

If that doesn't work, then it could be your Graphics Card


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Posted 21 March 2014 - 07:11 AM

So... I went into my setup window and somehow the graphics thing had absolutely nothing selected.... so I have no clue how it ended up like that. Going to give each option a little test run and see if either one ends up experiencing the problem.
 

That's common.

And it's good that it runs like that now, because on Win8, setup can't always populate that list.


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Posted 21 March 2014 - 08:12 AM

You can usually resolve the problem with the configurator whereby the list of available video resolutions isn't populated on Windows 8 by running the configurator in compatibility mode.
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Posted 28 March 2014 - 08:24 AM

That's common.

And it's good that it runs like that now, because on Win8, setup can't always populate that list.

 

first option experienced problems, sooo. moving onto option 2. Hopefully option 2 won't do this too..

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Posted 20 July 2016 - 05:53 PM

Got a friend having this issue, any ideas? (Windows xp)


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