I'm getting an error where about half of the time I start up a match I get a screen like this: As you can see most of the coherent UI stuff is missing. This tends to happen most often in windowed mode and oddly enough persists through F5 presses and full restarts of PA. It will continue until I completely reboot my machine and then restart PA. I have Windows 7 and fully up to date drivers. My performance is great in every other way and the UI on non-game menus works fine always. Does anyone know a fix for this or should I make a tracker entry? Thanks!
Did you try running PA with --nomods (or was it --no-mods, well, something like that)? Also anything odd in the PA log files?
It still happens without mods and the UI debugger looks very normal to me: Thanks for looking into this so quickly!
Weird. Well, judging from the screenshots you are on Windows, so it's probably time for a DxDiag.txt. Also, you ignored my question about the PA log files.
Sorry I missed that. The logs look fine to me. BTW, I have up to date graphics drivers and Windows 7 so no need to sort through the dxdialog for that. Here it is in case you want to check something else. Also, it doesn't seem to be driver related since it happened before and after I updated my drivers.
Yeah, no weirdness there that I can tell. I find it weird that it takes a reboot of your computer to fix the problem though. Next time it happens, quit PA and check if there are still Coherent or PA processes running in the background. If there are, kill them and see if that brings back the UI without rebooting your computer. Not a solution obviously, just triaging.
Well thanks for trying to help. Should I just go ahead and post a bug report or does someone else have an idea?
you could try removing your local files, they are in user/appdata/local/uberentertainment. removing this folder will clear all local content and settings which might fix your issue. keep in mind that this also erases any galactic wars and saved systems
This was an issue since I installed PA on this Windows installation so I doubt that's the problem. Thanks for trying though!
Having a look at your DXDIAG I do notice something- your running a 6800K + a dGPU in 'dual graphics' mode. The thing is PA *doesn't support crossfire* which is how dual graphics works. Just as a quick experiment, could you disable the option completely (will require a reboot) and try PA again forced to run on either the iGPU or dGPU (but not both). I've got a feeling this might be what's causing you problems!
my main desktop runs 2 AMD HD 6950 in crossfireX and has no trouble with PA whatsoever, but yeah different setup different problems
hm, well I have it configured so any games that don't support dual graphics will run on the iGPU by default and all of PA's graphics work fine. It's just some of the coherent UI doesn't render sometimes. After a reboot everything works fine. What do you mean by that? I'm guessing that it has something to do with PA's window code since it tends to happen in windowed mode and almost never happens in fullscreen as long as I don't try to give focus to another window.
I think it might be a case of adding in specific profiles into the driver software for both pa.exe *and* cohrent UI process as well... That's why I was suggesting disabling and testing- just to prove / disprove if dual graphics are related to the problem or not, if disabling 1 card solves the issue then it's probably just a matter of going through the profile settings carefully- but I guess it could be unrelated.
I know I have a similar issue when I start some games, but it goes away after 4 minuites of starting the game, so I think it's just my system loading everything slowly on the laptop I'm currently using.
Well I'll give it a try. I don't think it's that since I've let it sit for a long time and everything else loads quickly.
I just got the issue again today so I tested your suggestion by toggling off Dual Graphics in the catalyst control center. It did fix it (so thanks a ton) but it seems to be the act of refreshing the graphics somethings that does the trick and not actually the change in configuration.
