I don't get graphic glitches in CKII, but when I do...

[Dahoota]

In my experience, CKII has been a very stable game. In over 200 hours of playing in the last few years, I don't think I've had a graphical glitch or a CTD.

That is, until now.



.....wut?





Maybe this belongs in the bugs sub, but I felt it was so unusual (and I'm guessing fairly rare) that I thought people might be interested to see it.

It seems like there's something wrong with the mesh of that Bulgarian cavalry model....? I can only guess, I have no expertise in this area.

 

[Tazzoz21]

He is Boris the Brown Beacon of Bulgaria.

 

[Rags17]

It's the Comet event - looks like impact somewhere south of the Danube in 3...2...1...

 

[Nyrael]

Boris is shooting beams at your three armies. I'd move them away if I were you.

 

[Dahoota]

Might be hard to avoid. He was spraying all of western Europe with that brown beacon - it moved with the model's head.

 

[Sopot]

The only time I've had graphics errors like that in any game was shorty before my graphics card died.

 

[stilgarpl]

Looks like one of the vertices of his helmet got misplaced. It's either calculation error, but it may also indicate that your RAM or VRAM are malfunctioning.

 

[DukeDayve]

The only time I've had graphics errors like that in any game was shorty before my graphics card died.

Yup - I had this exact same graphical error, a brown cone shooting out of one province and extending over all the map. I only ever had it once in CK2. I turned my PC off and went to bed. Next day my graphics card had a stroke and died when I was playing World of Warcraft.

OP - prepare yourself.

 

[esbenmf]

Do not divide by zero.

 

[DesNibelungen]

Get stuff like this in Vicky 2 all the time, but never CK2.

 

[stilgarpl]

OP - prepare yourself.

That's anecdotal evidence. I had exactly the same problem in CK2. Two years later, my GPUs are fine.
This is not a serious issue, most likely overflow during some calculations or a single faulty bit in memory circuit. Position of z axis one vertex is negative instead of positive and it is rendered behind the camera. while it's neighbouring vertices are trying to connect with it.

 

[tfjs]

I had this once too, then I cleaned out all the dust from inside my computer .... no more ctd either!

 

[Ayn Mandarb]

Never had this in CKII but had when I first installed WoW. Anecdotally my problem was the GPU, updating the graphics driver fixed it.

 

[JMensch]

I suppose everyone under the "brown beacon" should be glad its coming from his helmet instead of the opposite end.

 

[Onisuzume]

Is that... bulgaria into space?

 

[DukeDayve]

That's anecdotal evidence. I had exactly the same problem in CK2. Two years later, my GPUs are fine.
This is not a serious issue, most likely overflow during some calculations or a single faulty bit in memory circuit. Position of z axis one vertex is negative instead of positive and it is rendered behind the camera. while it's neighbouring vertices are trying to connect with it.

You have insulted me. I challenge you to a duel! I shall see you at the apple tree at first light!

 

[FrosT37]

Is that... A space elevator? That early?

 

[stilgarpl]

You have insulted me. I challenge you to a duel! I shall see you at the apple tree at first light!

Sir, I accept. Choose the weapons!

 

[Le Corsaire]

Final Flash!!! *Boom*

 

[Groogy]

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Do you get it every-time you start the game or was it just that session?