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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: figmentPez on January 07, 2011, 05:36:58 am

Title: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: figmentPez on January 07, 2011, 05:36:58 am: I've been running Aquaria just fine for over 12 hours of gameplay, but when I went into the Kelp Forest (doing things a little out of order, apparently) I ran into a bug. I think it happens whenever spiders (or spider crabs? I can't see them) are about. I know this because if I kill them they drop spider eggs and the glitch goes away. A grid of black boxes covers my entire screen, and the menu won't show. The pop-up text shows if I hover over where icons should be, and I can even click and close the game if I guess and hit the right places, but none of the menu graphics appear.

(http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w19/figmentPez/Glitched%20Screenshots/AquariagraphicsglitchKelpForestcropped2011_01_05.jpg)

I'd really love to continue playing, does anyone have any recommendations for how to try and fix this?
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: GMMan on January 07, 2011, 04:49:25 pm: Corrupted files? Or it could be a graphic card problem. Try updating your drivers. I've never seen that bug before, so I'm not sure where it comes from.
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: Alphasoldier on January 07, 2011, 07:33:26 pm: Yeah I'm fairly sure a reinstall will fix that.
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: figmentPez on January 08, 2011, 01:17:29 am: Well, I had Steam verify the files before I posted, but it didn't give any sort of message indicating that it found any corrupted files. However, today when I started the game up again, I didn't get the glitch, so I guess it did repair something.

Thanks for the suggestions.
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: teethmarks on January 10, 2011, 12:49:56 am: i have this same glitch:

http://i.min.us/ibpk5w.png

verifying the game files on steam did not do anything to help my problems.

this is game breaking for me. i have an ATI card, is this the problem? 4890 on win7 64
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: figmentPez on January 10, 2011, 07:47:27 am: Quote from: teethmarks on January 10, 2011, 12:49:56 am

this is game breaking for me. i have an ATI card, is this the problem? 4890 on win7 64

I'm running a 4830 on Windows Vista. If it wasn't verifying files that worked to fix mine, it might have been turning off Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering.

I haven't had the problem recur, but I don't know what I did to stop it.
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: Alphasoldier on January 10, 2011, 11:05:39 am: Verifying is different than reinstall. Though when reinstalling, be sure to backup your saves.

Anything said besides that, is that you could update your drivers, see if it's fixed then.
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: teethmarks on January 10, 2011, 01:34:15 pm: well i also backed up my save data, which saved anyway after deleting local game content on steam, and reinstalled all files. and the problem was still there. so maybe it is an AA/AF problem. i will try and get back to you.
Title: Re: Graphical Glitch in Kelp Forest
Post by: teethmarks on January 10, 2011, 03:03:43 pm: enabling "application" settings for AA and AF did the trick. thank you!