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Posted by: Entropy.4732

Entropy.4732

Post patch In WvW (perhaps due to the massive amount of players) when my mesmer’s illusions shatter, instead of the shatter effect, a large rectangular square of black and white checkered boxes appears instead. At first I thought someone was throwing chess boards at me. Very odd. First time I’ve seen this since launch.

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Posted by: kerona.3465

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Happens to me too. Enemy or Friendly mesmer. From today’s patch.

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Posted by: jumpcuts.6910

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I’m also witnessing this on my mesmer. My wvw graphic settings are at ‘high’.

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Posted by: Fishbait.6723

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Ditto, had some Mesmer shatter on a guard in WvWs & saw the chequered flag.
wondered wtk was going on.

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Posted by: Rayti.6531

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Actually, I also saw that effect sometimes even before the last patch. I can only tell it showed this effect sometimes on enemy/friendly mesmers.

No idea if it showed when playing the mesmer myself because I don’t have one.

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Posted by: ViciousVyne.2935

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I can confirm that, added screenshot.

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Thanks for adding the screenshot!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like everyone is having this problem, so it may be something caused by graphics settings or hardware. If you are having this problem, please provide a screenshot of your graphics settings and a DxDiag report so that we can try and find out what the common cause might be.

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Posted by: Harbinger.9645

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It was happening to me as well. I just restarted the game and it went away. Probably to do with the graphics cards dealing with the new culling settings. Hope it all goes away for everyone else.

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Posted by: Svarty.8019

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Thanks for adding the screenshot!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like everyone is having this problem, so it may be something caused by graphics settings or hardware. If you are having this problem, please provide a screenshot of your graphics settings and a DxDiag report so that we can try and find out what the common cause might be.

Fixed your double-negative for you. Anyway…

I definitely am getting this issue, but I can live with it. Lots of people I’ve talked to have it, too, and some even say they like it because it looks cool. It is definitely not a one-off or rare thing.

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Posted by: Ambushbug.3146

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We are getting it on both of your PC’s, both running ATI graphic cards.

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Posted by: Zedd.8239

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I’ve been having this problem in WvW and in PvE. I play with my graphics settings on max. Lowering them doesn’t seem to impact this issue, though.

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Posted by: Iruwen.3164

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I can confirm this (GTX 670), not seen that issue in the 400 hours of playing mesmer before the latest update, no changes except yesterday’s patch, no new driver. Changing settings doesn’t help. Must be a bug.

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Posted by: Entropy.4732

Entropy.4732

Thanks for adding the screenshot!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like everyone is having this problem, so it may be something caused by graphics settings or hardware. If you are having this problem, please provide a screenshot of your graphics settings and a DxDiag report so that we can try and find out what the common cause might be.

Thank you so much for responding. Much appreciated. I love the mesmer and this bug really destroys the immersion. If you can fix it that would be amazing. As others on this thread have stated, I’ve played hundreds of hours since launch with the exact same computer on the exact same settings and never seen this problem ever. After the most recent patch the checker board of death appeared out of nowhere. Thanks for giving this a look. Maybe it’s not happening to everyone, but clearly it’s enough of the player base that it’s an issue.

Processor is 2.2 GHz, 4 cores, 4gb of memory Intel Core i7
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6750M (ATI)

I’ve also included my graphics settings below:

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Posted by: Rising Dusk.2408

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I saw this last night and three others from my guild reported it as well. Definitely something to do with the 3/26 patch.

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Posted by: ViciousVyne.2935

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Thanks for adding the screenshot!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like everyone is having this problem, so it may be something caused by graphics settings or hardware. If you are having this problem, please provide a screenshot of your graphics settings and a DxDiag report so that we can try and find out what the common cause might be.

Here you go !

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Posted by: pulsecodesgnl.3470

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Ah! I thought it was a new graphic lol. It was happening to my clones all night yesterday when someone would kill them, it was really weird. The screenshots clearly indicate its a bug though.

If I remember I’ll attach my own DxDiag when I get home, but for reference I’m sporting a 560 TI, i2500k, with 16GB of RAM on Windows 7. With Nvidia and Windows drivers all up to date.

edit: Also, this was noticed by everyone I was grouped with last night as well. So at least 10 different people confirmed and commented on it, and we all have pretty different systems.

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Posted by: lynspottery.6529

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Thanks for adding the screenshot!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like everyone is having this problem, so it may be something caused by graphics settings or hardware. If you are having this problem, please provide a screenshot of your graphics settings and a DxDiag report so that we can try and find out what the common cause might be.

Every mesmer I ran with in WvW tonight had this problem so it is not isolated. Also, ran with a new mesmer level 12 afterwards and he had the same problem as well.

I could see it and it really looked odd. I do not believe it is related to any one’s graphic setup at all, since everyone I spoke with had different settings and graphic cards too.

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Posted by: Aveneo.2068

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Myself and 3 of my guildmates also noticed the wierd ‘checkered squares’ pattern when Mesmer illusions vanish.

As I recall I saw this behaviour even before the patch during The Shatterer; but I dismissed it as a slight anomaly due to the sheer number of players. Yet now I constantly see it whenever illusions vanish (after the death of a mob).

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Posted by: Vennyhedgie.5369

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Also getting it with nvidia gforce 610M and these graphic settings

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Posted by: kerona.3465

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Getting it with AMD Radeon HD 6670
Intel Core i7 CPU
Windows XP 32 Bit @ 3.5 GB RAM cap (don’t laugh)

Graphics settings all on low.

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Posted by: Lediath.7593

Lediath.7593

also confirmed

i5-3570
8GB DDR3 2400
GTX460
Samsung 830 SSD

Most likely a missing texture or effect and the fall back is the checkered board flat texture. Notice how the location and orientation of the texture is lined up with the shatter.

This was an issue back in beta with certain art assets being missing, they would replace them w/ weird colored checkered boxes or checkered textures.

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Posted by: Salamol.7963

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Also having the same issue.

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Posted by: FrouFrou.4958

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I’m playing on a cereal box so I thought it’s just me having this issue. I can live with it but I’m not sure if my computer’s self esteem can carry on with this! I tried to tell him that it’s o-kay to see squares instead but ever since the patch he has been a bit depressed..

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Posted by: Kadj.6725

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Confirmed for myself and several guildmates, also exclusively since the 3/26 patch.

OS: Win 7 Professional 64-bit
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CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T, 2.8 GHz
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Posted by: Harbinger.9645

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So it’s looking pretty clear it’s not a specific graphics card/system issue as it’s pretty wide spread. I would imagine since this patch messed with model/texture loading that maybe there’s an issue with the speed of loading that specific model/texture or maybe that file was corrupted with the patch. Either way, it seems to be a programming issue.

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Thank you for the information, everyone! We believe we’ve found the issue and are looking to implement a fix in an upcoming update.

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Thank you for the information, everyone! We believe we’ve found the issue and are looking to implement a fix in an upcoming update.

Woot! Go Anet!

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Posted by: Halcyon.7352

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Having this issue but not just in WvW, seen it with mesmers in the world.

Glad to hear it’s being addressed!

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Posted by: Entropy.4732

Entropy.4732

Thank you for the information, everyone! We believe we’ve found the issue and are looking to implement a fix in an upcoming update.

Amazing! You guys rock! Thank you so much for addressing this.

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Posted by: uzu.7351

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I also have the problem AFTER the patch. Besides breaking the whole thief class, this is the next thing I noticed, so “Unfortunately” get to work :-L

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Posted by: mrstealth.6701

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I’ve seen this (usually only in fights with more than a few players around) since the February patch. Seems to happen most often during dragon or other meta events, and in wvw.

Glad to know the issue has been found.

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Posted by: MarkusParkus.8467

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Thank you for the information, everyone! We believe we’ve found the issue and are looking to implement a fix in an upcoming update.

Thanks Anet! A small bug like this can’t be at the top of your to-do list but its great to see you looking after the little things!

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always present for me :x

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Posted by: lynspottery.6529

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Thank you for the information, everyone! We believe we’ve found the issue and are looking to implement a fix in an upcoming update.

Noticed comment was 27 days ago. We’ve had a server update since then but I still see this problem.

It appears whatever “fix” you implemented did not work. Attached is a screen shot of my mesmer shatter checkered square graphics.

Please revisit this “fix” because it did not work.
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Posted by: lynspottery.6529

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Jason, please check on this. I still see those squares whenever my shatters occur.

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Posted by: Pat Vaynard.3640

Pat Vaynard.3640

Yes, this issue is still happening and it only seemed to recently start occurring once I tried WvW today. It’s rather obnoxious to see and I would appreciate a fix to this.

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Posted by: JayMack.8295

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I believe the ’upcoming update’’ he mentioned was the 30th one. Most of the bugfixes they mention they’re working on come with the monthly content update.