Effects not working properly

**Clone1710** · March 27, 2012, 06:06 AM

Hey all,

as you can see in this thread, I seem to have a problem with the effects for fire arrows.
Lazarus mentions that it's just a random bug, but for me it occurs everytime and I find it quite annoying.

I'm also not quite sure if shots are supposed to look like this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I hope that somebody can help me.

Greetings

Clone1710

**Clone1710** · March 31, 2012, 06:16 AM

Does nobody know how to help me?

**leeo268** · March 31, 2012, 04:18 PM

My Gatling gun look like that in the picture too. Maybe that is intended? If you can show a video, then maybe we can identify if there is a bug involve.

**Clone1710** · April 01, 2012, 10:24 AM

Yes, I'm not sure either if it's a bug with the gatling gun that's why I asked if it's normal.
All I can say is that the flame arrows and torches are definitely bugged for me, here are some more screenshots to those I posted in the linked thread.
Can't post a video because I don't have fraps or any other record tool installed at the moment.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Here's a video were the flame arrows look like they should do.

**talljoe** · April 05, 2012, 03:05 PM

OP, what GPU are you using? How many gb of vram? And at what monitor resolution? What graphics settings? (e.g. ultra or high textures?)

You could be a victim of the nefarious "secret graphics downgrade" that CA has implemented. Basically if your settings are using too much vram, the game automatically down-grades your settings (without telling you). So while you may have particle effects on ultra, for example, the game might be reducing it to low without you knowing.

**Mahpu** · April 06, 2012, 03:27 PM

I have the exact same problem.

I played shogun 2 on High settings (I can handle Ultra but then the units lag. Not the camera) perfectly fine.

Then after installing FoTS my particles disappeared.

Then I jump back to regular Shogun 2 and the graphics didnt change. (As in they were also downgraded)

The units look like they are on lowered settings to.

What is going on with CA?

**Mahpu** · April 06, 2012, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Mahpu

I have the exact same problem.

I played shogun 2 on High settings (I can handle Ultra but then the units lag. Not the camera) perfectly fine.

Then after installing FoTS my particles disappeared.

Then I jump back to regular Shogun 2 and the graphics didnt change. (As in they were also downgraded)

The units look like they are on lowered settings to.

What is going on with CA?

System Specs:

1.5 TB HDD
AMD Radeon HD 6450 (with 3.5 gb of memory)
8gb DDR3 RAM
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T Processor (6 CPUs) ~ 3.0ghz

**talljoe** · April 06, 2012, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Mahpu

System Specs:

1.5 TB HDD
AMD Radeon HD 6450 (with 3.5 gb of memory)
8gb DDR3 RAM
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T Processor (6 CPUs) ~ 3.0ghz

The 6450 certainly does not have 3.5gb of memory, it has 1gb. It's not sufficient to push graphics at all in a TW game. This is not meant to offend, only to inform. If you go over your vram limit, TW will auto-downgrade your settings.

What's your monitor resolution?

What's your operating system? If it's 32bit, then it will only recognize 3.5gb of your 8gbs of ram...

**Mahpu** · April 06, 2012, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by talljoe

The 6450 certainly does not have 3.5gb of memory, it has 1gb. It's not sufficient to push graphics at all in a TW game. This is not meant to offend, only to inform. If you go over your vram limit, TW will auto-downgrade your settings.

What's your monitor resolution?

What's your operating system? If it's 32bit, then it will only recognize 3.5gb of your 8gbs of ram...

Whoops must of read the dxdiag wrong.

But I am running Windows 7 64bit at 1440x900