Invisible Siege Weapons

**Duncan_Hardy** · 11-11-2006, 01:01

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but... has anyone else been getting invisible rams, ladders and siege towers? It's happened to me twice now; once a ram got burned, and fire appeared in a ram-shaped outline, but the siege weapons themselves remained invisible

**Wishazu** · 11-11-2006, 01:25

possibly some kind of glitch with your graphics dirvers? Or maybe you need to adjust the ingame graphics settings mate.

**jimmyM** · 11-11-2006, 01:26

Not gone that far...Do currently have a problem with chunks of units being see-through and strange graphics bugs, causing streaks (look like the missile fire anim) to appear randomly everywhere

**DarKorg** · 11-11-2006, 07:11

Check this thread out > http://p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotal...icID=128.topic

**AlJabberwock** · 11-11-2006, 08:22

Yeah,
If turning off reflections makes the siege equipment visible, there will have to be a "day zero" patch for certain. There are clearly enough glitches in the early days of those folks who ran to be 'first over the fence' that the bullets thereby illustrated should make the way easier here in a few days for the rest of us. It is also possible and -likely- that many went out and bought new graphic cards without the faintest idea what the HEY! they were doing.

If they moved up from a GeForce 5 to a 6 or more {or made a similar leap in ATI -terms} they need an extra and seperate power connector to their card. Its a specialized plug if its above a GeF 6 generation. However, not as obvious , they also need more power out of their PSU. And not just raw watts. No, you have to have the watts too, but you also specifically need upped amperage on the 12 volt rail. Your card wants it and so does your mobo. If there isn't enough, you will get all sorts of nonsense (graphical artifacts) on the screen, or the game can crash, or the puter can turn off, or worse... Nothing happens. And you slowly just fry your equipment unbeknownst to you.

Heat can be an issue, drivers can be an issue, power can be an issue, and sometimes, the bloody hardware is just no good (or got that way - see above). If your chip, CPU and Graphic drivers are all updated, try your sound device drivers and Bios. If those are updated, its probably going to be solved by either one of the things mentioned or a patch coming soon to a theater near you.

Al Jabberwock

**Duncan_Hardy** · 11-11-2006, 10:38

Originally Posted by AlJabberwock

Yeah,
If turning off reflections makes the siege equipment visible, there will have to be a "day zero" patch for certain. There are clearly enough glitches in the early days of those folks who ran to be 'first over the fence' that the bullets thereby illustrated should make the way easier here in a few days for the rest of us. It is also possible and -likely- that many went out and bought new graphic cards without the faintest idea what the HEY! they were doing.

If they moved up from a GeForce 5 to a 6 or more {or made a similar leap in ATI -terms} they need an extra and seperate power connector to their card. Its a specialized plug if its above a GeF 6 generation. However, not as obvious , they also need more power out of their PSU. And not just raw watts. No, you have to have the watts too, but you also specifically need upped amperage on the 12 volt rail. Your card wants it and so does your mobo. If there isn't enough, you will get all sorts of nonsense (graphical artifacts) on the screen, or the game can crash, or the puter can turn off, or worse... Nothing happens. And you slowly just fry your equipment unbeknownst to you.

Heat can be an issue, drivers can be an issue, power can be an issue, and sometimes, the bloody hardware is just no good (or got that way - see above). If your chip, CPU and Graphic drivers are all updated, try your sound device drivers and Bios. If those are updated, its probably going to be solved by either one of the things mentioned or a patch coming soon to a theater near you.

Al Jabberwock

It's not a hardware issue (my multiple fans keep my graphics card at 55 degrees C max, and the card has a power dongle feeding it the extra juice it needs). My drivers are the absolute latest. I guess it's an in-game bug, as turning off reflections did indeed solve the issue.