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Title: Black sphere on explosions
Post by: Toranks on June 28, 2022, 01:01:13 pm
I've noticed that the screen goes completely black within range when a large ship explodes. This black sphere suddenly disappears in a few seconds, showing smoke and fire from the explosions, and allowing me to see around me again. Does anyone know why this happens and how to avoid it? I haven't played the original game, but I think in the original game in these situations you see a blast expanding
Title: Re: Black sphere on explosions
Post by: The E on June 28, 2022, 01:12:48 pm
That sounds like a GPU issue.

Please post your fs2_open.log file.  Instructions on how to do this can be found in this post.
Title: Re: Black sphere on explosions
Post by: Antares on June 28, 2022, 01:19:03 pm
Could be shockwaves.

Sometimes I get disco lights!

(https://i.imgur.com/nYtbaYq.png)
Title: Re: Black sphere on explosions
Post by: Toranks on June 28, 2022, 01:24:44 pm
Strange, because everything else looks great.
I'm using a GeForce GT 710 4GB with DirectX 11 on Windows 7

I started a game in debug, I waited for a couple of cruisers to explode, and quit:
https://fsnebula.org/log/62bb4659d1f7100a56f3406d

EDIT: Yes, is the shockwave, but spherical, completely black, and obstructing vision except the exploding ship model
Title: Re: Black sphere on explosions
Post by: wesp5 on June 28, 2022, 01:51:59 pm
Yes, this is a known shockwave problem. Use -3dshockwave to fix it!
Title: Re: Black sphere on explosions
Post by: Toranks on June 28, 2022, 02:09:26 pm
Quote from: wesp5 on June 28, 2022, 01:51:59 pm
Yes, this is a known shockwave problem. Use -3dshockwave to fix it!

WOOOW thanks!! Impressive explosions. This game has become love at first sight for me. Not only do I love Babylon 5 (my second favorite sci-fi series after Battlestar Galactica), but I love space games like Kerbal Space Program, Galaxy on Fire 2 HD, and Star Wars Battlefront II. And a open source game LOL! I just decided to buy it on Steam, it have a discount

Thank you all for the quick response
Title: Re: Black sphere on explosions
Post by: Toranks on June 28, 2022, 04:03:58 pm
Quote from: wesp5 on June 28, 2022, 01:51:59 pm
Yes, this is a known shockwave problem. Use -3dshockwave to fix it!
SOLVED
Now i'm getting multicolor glitches on fire and smoke. This doesn't happen to me before. How I can avoid this?
https://ibb.co/gmnd8sg

I deleted the default configuration when adding -3dshockwave
Now I use:
-soft_particles -enable_shadows -stretch_menu -targetinfo -orbradar -3dshockwave -fxaa
And all works perfect!