Graphics Glitch

I just recently ran into the same problem. My transports and combat transports were invisible but when I restarted my save game the next day everything was back to normal. Most of the comments on this problem have been "close out and restart the game".

Do the ships appear if you save and reload?
What specific ships are disapearing? Debug.err should list what ship models that it can't find.

Some people are reporting that they also don't appear in orbit and they have no picture in the project data window. Is this also the case here?

Does this happen in new games as well as save games?

Unrelated- but still a graphic glitch. I've noticed in EVERY game of the current build that I play, that if i start anywhere besides top left corner; the unrevealed area there has a block along the very edge of the galaxy that IS revealed. It's boxed shape and about the size of four dreadnaughts in a tight cluster.

just FYI, don't think it's my grfx card, but that remains to be seen.

-HrK-

I've noticed that there is always a small square visible in the top left sector on the map edge, in all my games. Very noticeable when I'm using scouts to push back the fog of war (searching for those resources, ;)).

Another graphics glitch that is ALWAYS present: One the first level of the light blue (Alterians?) starbase, there is a missing frame in the animation, so that it hops. Only occurs on the light blue star bases, and only on the base level ones.

"Do the ships appear if you save and reload?
What specific ships are disapearing? Debug.err should list what ship models that it can't find."

In my case, they do reappear if I save and reload.

So far I've only seen it in a new game.

The project data window was fine. When in orbit, the 'invisible' ship was represented by a box with nothing but black in it (background?) in the ship list at the right of the screen. By double clicking on it I could get the ship to leave orbit. The ship would be selected and could be moved, but was completely invisible (the blue halo surrounded it showing that it was selected, but there was nothing there). However, if I selected a different ship and then went back to the invisible ship I could not select it by clicking where I knew it was. I could only select it again by finding it in the ship list screen (again, represented by a empty black box) and clicking on that.

I posted the messages from my debug file in the bug thread at the top of the page.

Sounds like a resource issue. Humm... a rare resource leak perhaps?