No weapon effect textures

May 6, 2007 9:20 AM from

Hello everybody,

I'm experiencing a problem during fleet battles: There are no weapon effects visible. That is, I don't see any laser beams or missiles. I *do* however see explosions and shield effects.

It seems to be a problem with the textures. Checking the "Deactivate weapon/defense textures" option ("Waffen/Verteidigungs Texturen deaktivieren" in my German version) lets me see at least the effect meshes: white line "laser beams" and white, blocky "missiles". Ugly.

It did work when I played the demo, if I recall correctly.

I have the German retail version of Dread Lords and updated it to 1.5 via Stardock Central.

See also debug.err in the next post.

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Reply #1 May 6, 2007 9:20 AM from

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Reply #2 May 6, 2007 9:22 AM from

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Ah, forgot: dxdiag didn't find anything, and I updated the graphics card driver last week, before I got the game.

Reply #3 May 6, 2007 12:21 PM from

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Try setting your regional settings in control panel to US English (particularly, the decimal settings should be set to the US style).

Reply #4 May 6, 2007 2:47 PM from

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Ok, it works this way. Thanks!

Is there any chance the developers will look into this in a future patch? I know there was a similar problem with all the other textures back in 1.0, were the weapon effect textures just an oversight?

Anyway, thanks again.

Reply #5 May 6, 2007 3:00 PM from

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were the weapon effect textures just an oversight?

It might be, they'd have to look into it.

Reply #6 May 12, 2007 11:28 AM from

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I'm experiencing the same problem with the German version (Dread Lords).

I hope there will be another patch for this version, it feels like missing out on quite a lot. And permamently setting the computer to USA is not really a solution.

Reply #7 May 14, 2007 10:46 AM from

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Hmm...I'm not sure why the weapons never got converted. We'll try to get those up soon.

Reply #8 May 14, 2007 11:15 AM from

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This question may not fit this thread, but it is about weapons:

Is there anything that can be done about misdirected weapon's fire during fleet battles? I'm only playing Dark Avatar now, but it seems to have been around from the beginning with Dread Lords. [I am wondering if it is getting worse with the Beta versions.] I am not really sure anymore which weapon types or specific weapons go astray and which ones are on target. Some which seem to go in the correct direction explode before hitting the target. Some go completely through the target before exploding.

I know this has been mentioned in the forum before, and maybe it is being looked into, but I personally have not seen an "official" response -- sorry if I missed it!

Thanks for all the hard work and personal attention to take care of your client base.

Reply #9 May 15, 2007 4:40 PM from

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I too am seeing mis-directed weapons fire. It seems most prevalent with mass-driver weapons, and it always seems to be directed at the first ship that fired. Note that this is only graphical, and the explosions appear on the correct target, just the weapons appear headed for the wrong target. And the damage is applied to the correct target, so it doesn't affect playing the game, but makes the combat viewer slightly less cool than it could be.

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