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Promises
Profile Joined February 2004
Netherlands1821 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 11:31:40
August 21 2010 11:29 GMT
#1
Lately I've been having some problems while playing SC2 online that I sometimes get some odd textures on maps where at other times I do not get them. They don't look like your stereotypical graphics-card bugs where you just get patches of different colours, it looks like its a designed graphiti over the normal texture or something. Does anyone know what this may be?

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pzea469
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1520 Posts
August 21 2010 11:36 GMT
#2
ive had those too. Happens from time to time, then goes away. Really weird.
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CagedMind
Profile Joined February 2010
United States506 Posts
August 21 2010 15:38 GMT
#3
I want to use those textures in editor lol.
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blastedt
Profile Joined April 2010
United States29 Posts
August 21 2010 17:16 GMT
#4
That IS a stereotypical graphics card bug. It's using textures from elsewhere in the game (on unit models, probably) on the floor.
Promises
Profile Joined February 2004
Netherlands1821 Posts
August 23 2010 00:45 GMT
#5
Ah ok, I guess i sort spoke out of turn since I know jack-all about what causes errors ^^ Anyway, is there anything I can do to fix it?
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Thoreezhea1
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States532 Posts
August 23 2010 00:51 GMT
#6
I don't mind it when it happens to me, looks sick.
What the Fu- REAPERS?!
Skvid
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Lithuania751 Posts
August 23 2010 01:40 GMT
#7
Looks like texture skins for 3d objects.
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
August 23 2010 01:42 GMT
#8
That actually looks really cool O_o.
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Promises
Profile Joined February 2004
Netherlands1821 Posts
August 23 2010 20:35 GMT
#9
Cool tho it might be, it is failry distractnig
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zoombini
Profile Joined June 2010
United States67 Posts
August 23 2010 21:01 GMT
#10
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Tiamat
Profile Joined February 2003
United States498 Posts
August 26 2010 22:21 GMT
#11
or you have bad RAM. do a memory test.
Mutaahh
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands859 Posts
August 26 2010 22:34 GMT
#12
I have those too, fucking irritating sometimes.
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Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
August 26 2010 23:19 GMT
#13
Yeah it happens to me about 5-6 times while playing the campaign... Reloading the map usually fixed it, but reloading a save did not. It just seems like a random occurance.
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
August 27 2010 00:15 GMT
#14
yea it just happened to me the other day, there was black char all over the floor on blistering sands etc.


My hard drives are both really low so I think it may have something to do with that (since windows uses like 200mb for virtual ram and I'm about that low).
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lolswedes
Profile Joined August 2010
12 Posts
August 27 2010 00:37 GMT
#15
Yup I've had those before. Just updated my drivers (I was running ANCIENT ones) and haven't come across these so far.
Mutaahh
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands859 Posts
August 27 2010 11:57 GMT
#16
Explain me this please....?
It distracts from gameplay....

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japro
Profile Joined August 2010
172 Posts
August 29 2010 15:07 GMT
#17
On August 27 2010 20:57 Mutaahh wrote:
Explain me this please....?

Well constantly glowing raxes usually indicate decent macro so this would be insane macro?
Kashll
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1117 Posts
September 05 2010 03:33 GMT
#18
On August 30 2010 00:07 japro wrote:
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On August 27 2010 20:57 Mutaahh wrote:
Explain me this please....?

Well constantly glowing raxes usually indicate decent macro so this would be insane macro?


Hahaha

Some of the stuff in this thread looks genuinely awesome. But of course it would be annoying as hell during a game.
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warbean
Profile Joined August 2010
United States11 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-06 01:23:20
September 06 2010 01:21 GMT
#19
I have same problem - here are links. Bad video card or just some bug? I would hate to have to replace.

ATI 5850 with latest (10.8) drivers.

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VonLego
Profile Joined June 2010
United States519 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-06 04:52:11
September 06 2010 04:51 GMT
#20
Dunno happens to too many people to be hardware issues. Also you typically will experience tearing and artifacts when a graphics card is going out, not just pull up the wrong texture.

Happens to me too.
QuothTheRaven
Profile Joined December 2008
United States5524 Posts
September 06 2010 05:23 GMT
#21
I get these weird graffiti images on the map surface as well. It's a very strange bug, to say the least, but it only happens about once every 50 games so it's not that big of a deal for me.

Plus the artwork sometimes looks interesting and spices up an otherwise stale map (need new ladder maps Blizzard!).
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starcraft911
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Korea (South)1263 Posts
September 06 2010 05:28 GMT
#22
try running the fix thing in the sc2 folder. i had this happen with a lot of the textures and it fixed it.
afirlortwo
Profile Joined April 2010
United States161 Posts
September 06 2010 08:52 GMT
#23
I've seen these sorts of things in my games too.. I had just figured blizz had decided to spice up the maps a bit, didn't realize it was a bug. They were never very obtrusive though, usually just an out of place pattern on the ground
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ssregitoss
Profile Joined September 2004
Turkey241 Posts
September 06 2010 11:39 GMT
#24

solution
go to option menu and click graphic and go to terrain.change to something medium ultra high or low.and it will be fixed.that is all.
RA
Profile Joined October 2008
Latvia791 Posts
September 06 2010 12:23 GMT
#25
Had the same issues.
Mutaahh
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands859 Posts
September 06 2010 12:51 GMT
#26
I think we have all ATI?
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Profile Joined March 2009
Germany640 Posts
September 06 2010 13:06 GMT
#27
No it also appears with my 8600GT from time to time
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vega12
Profile Joined April 2010
Japan73 Posts
September 06 2010 13:22 GMT
#28
I have a GeForce 9800M GS on my laptop and get these also on occasion as well.
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Profile Joined March 2009
Norway786 Posts
September 06 2010 13:58 GMT
#29
I think it only happens sometimes if you enter a game right after you watch a replay.
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prOxi.swAMi
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3091 Posts
September 06 2010 14:26 GMT
#30
It has happened to me once. In BETA only.

I have a 9800GTX+
Oh no
Mutaahh
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands859 Posts
September 06 2010 14:36 GMT
#31
I recently got a frozen Refinery looked cooler then the glowing Barracks =]
I want to fly
Ryps
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Romania2740 Posts
September 06 2010 15:30 GMT
#32
This happend to me when I was playing on my laptop when sc launched.

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A bit freaky.
Xahhk
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada540 Posts
September 07 2010 00:16 GMT
#33
Happens with 8800 GT. Temp is never over 70 C too.
bubblegumbo
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Taiwan1296 Posts
September 09 2010 18:38 GMT
#34
I've been seeing this problem as well every since I started playing 3v3, many of the maps there would end up with corrupt textures. I am a little worried that it might be my graphics card dying, but that doesn't seem to be the case after seeing all the comments.
I also have a ATI card.

So running the SC2 fixer thing would fix this? I have the latest driver available for my graphics card already.
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Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
September 09 2010 20:35 GMT
#35
hmm, this only happened to me once, and it was just befoire the giant 200/200 engagement. I was still a bit confused when he attacked, so i lost by a ridiculous amount... ah well.
Khalleb
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1909 Posts
September 09 2010 21:03 GMT
#36
those pick make me LOL
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ReTr0[p.S]
Profile Joined March 2005
Argentina1590 Posts
September 09 2010 21:52 GMT
#37
Does happen once in a while (GTX480 here). I remember it happening on Desert Oasis once and oh god was that unplayable..
Shade_FR
Profile Joined June 2010
France378 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-12 15:52:01
September 12 2010 15:50 GMT
#38
It happened to me 3 times in a row today (never happened in Beta, only since release), so I made some research and I found a blue-post about this issue :

There's a game bug where it can swap an object's texture with something else when the computer is under load. We're looking into it.

Source : http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/628075900#3

Don't worry, your graphical card isn't dying. ;-)
Hopefully Blizzard will fix this bug in the upcoming patch 1.1.
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FiBsTeR
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States415 Posts
October 21 2010 19:52 GMT
#39
I didn't want to make a new thread for this since it's already been brought up, but this texture issue was definitely not fixed in the patches thus so far

This has been happening to me since I first got the game, once every couple dozen games. But I've never seen this texture before... I've played through the whole campaign and I can't say I recognize this texture from anywhere. This is not a joke and these are not doctored screenshots.

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VonLego
Profile Joined June 2010
United States519 Posts
October 21 2010 19:59 GMT
#40
My personal favorite is the glitch that makes your buildings look like ice -- Ice Toss ftw.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
October 21 2010 23:05 GMT
#41
On September 07 2010 00:30 PaD wrote:
This happend to me when I was playing on my laptop when sc launched.

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A bit freaky.

Lol that one of the more awesome ones i've seen
Usurper
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Macedonia283 Posts
October 21 2010 23:16 GMT
#42
Happened to me as well. What graphic cards do you guys have? ATI HD 5850 here.
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bjornkavist
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada1235 Posts
October 21 2010 23:23 GMT
#43
lol that's kinda too bad that that happens, but it looks awesome. but, no I have never had that happen, quite odd.
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SouL_sc2
Profile Joined September 2010
United States90 Posts
November 03 2010 02:00 GMT
#44
I've had this issue for some time now..running the repair tool doesn't work for me the issue just comes and goes

I'm using a ATI 5770 could be ati thing but i think its a game bug
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