Similar graphical issues with 1.9

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After 1.9, I have similar graphical issues with Terran model starships as do others, with strange black shadows in place of the normal shadowing.  I want to bring this up just to say that the issue is not unique and that I hope there is impetus to fix it.  I have bought all the Galciv series games and their DLCs and now the game is unplayable for me.  I deleted and reinstalled, with no improvement.  I have updated my Nvidia drivers, no change.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have same graphics problem with ugly shadowing on ships and stations. On amd here so perhaps not driver related if you're on nvidia.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I am having this as an on going issue, too, and can't seem to find much information on it. I am using a NVIDA GeForce 980GT and keep my drivers up to date... still, after 1.9 I have all sorts of shadow issues where everything has a black out effect until zoomed way in, and even then the shadows are just, off. Its really frustrating, can't even see my ships in the color scheme I tend to use...

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

As a quick example,

Before zooming in:

After zooming in:


 

Even after zooming in, the normals / shadows seem to be out of whack, but at least the black shadow goes away. This happens to ALL ships and stations...

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm having exactly the same graphical issues. Didn't play for a while. Everything worked fine with my old games. Now, past 1.9, all ships and stations on all of my savegames have strange black shadows that certainly weren't intended.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It looks like it might be related to ambient occlusion.

 

Dunno.  I have same issue.