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Author Topic: Terrain won't load  (Read 11845 times)

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Terrain won't load
« on: June 09, 2012, 01:30:46 pm »

Hello.
I've been randomly flying over Europe and when I came over to the Hel Peninsula in Poland, it won't load at certain distance.

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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2012, 02:36:32 pm »

Hmm that means either a limiter problem (not enough GPU memory reserved for the terrain) or a problem with the data. Please attach the eng.log here so we can see if there's anything in it hinting at the source of the problem.
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2012, 03:04:44 pm »

Here.
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2012, 03:15:12 pm »

Please try the following:
- exit the program while located above the problematic area
- rename/move the data subfolder (C:\Users\Artur\Outerra\data) temporarily
- start the program and see if the data download
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2012, 03:27:47 pm »

Didn't work.
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2012, 03:46:02 pm »

Ok then try it with the default settings: move away both eng.cfg and world.cfg and try it with that.

If it doesn't show even then, or if the bug appears elsewhere, then it can be an issue with a third party application interfering with the rendering. I see AVAST logged there, but it may be something else as well.
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2012, 03:53:18 pm »

Well, I did what you told me, and it worked partly. Partly, because now the terrain does load but the problem moved onto the nearby tile (eastward).
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2012, 04:04:32 pm »

Try disabling the antivirus and any software that ever tries to display overlay texts on other windows. These apps inject into other apps and interfere with the rendering; in OT this problem is even more problematic because they blindly draw into whatever context is currently bound in OT.
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2012, 04:12:24 pm »

Didn't work, but what I've noticed is that if you approach the buggy terrain from a tile that's already rendered there's a chance for the buggy terrain to actually load.
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2012, 04:17:08 pm »

In the next update will be a better detection of the foreign injected modules, we'll be able to see better what can be causing this.

But also 301.xx Nvidia drivers can be causing problems, been reported a couple of times.
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2012, 04:19:32 pm »

Also, you should consider getting more people to work on the game, because pulling it of with only you and AngryPig will be hard ;)
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Re: Terrain won't load
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2012, 09:02:42 am »

I think they are doing a brilliant job, to say most game engines have millions of pounds invested into them and have massive teams working on the development.
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