lagging monkey Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I go in some areas, and there are weird objects going across my screen and making me unable to see :mellow: They are straight, wide metal looking lines that go on forever and only appear outside...kind of hard to explain. It seems that I can only see them when I am going a certain direction, while others cover the whole area. I'm not talking a little area; most of these areas are huge. Is there anyway to avoid, or get rid of this glitch? :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitous Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 That's a graphics issue, typically caused by a card overheating or a driver issue. What sort of video card do you have? Have you cleaned it recently (or ever)? Do you have the latest drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosoulking Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I get those too but when I restart the game they are gone.This typically happens to me when I go through 5-10 areas, usually out in the open world. Do they remain when you restart the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isra Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 It sounds like a common glitch which occurs with dead NPCs in outdoor areas.Sometimes dead NPCs will go crazy and their model will stretch to enormous length, often to the point you can't even recognise the model at all and it simply looks like lines. This can obscure view or leave strange lines in the sky that go in many directions. I think what you're experiencing may be a bug in the physics engine rather than a hardware or driver problem. Of course, I could be wrong; your issue just sounds very similar.Are these lines stationary? As in: can you look at them from any angle and they remain in a fixed place in the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitous Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Pretty sure there's a noticeable difference between "wildly flailing body parts floating through the sky at high rates of speed" and "big wall-lines into infinity." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isra Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 "Big wall-lines into infinity" much more accurately describes the glitch I'm talking about though... A quick google of "Fallout 3 body glitch" came up with this image. It's a dead radscorpion. I get this all the time and often they will be infinite length and completely fixed in place. There's no flailing or even any movement at all and it becomes impossible to interact with the model using the physics engine. They only appear outside, they look metallic and they're stretched into wall or line shapes. I once had a wrecked vertibird cover the entire area near vault 101 in black walls and lines and I couldn't see the raiders shooting at me.I hope you can see why I thought it might possibly be this... and I did say I could be wrong too :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitous Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I figured he meant something more like this. Or this. SO WHICH IS IT, BUDDY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isra Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Um, ok? Sorry for trying to be helpful. Thread is all yours my territorial "buddy".If you feel like continuing this little pissing contest, we should probs take it outside yes? If I'm not there in 5 minutes, start without me. :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitous Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Uh, "BUDDY" = lagging monkey, not you. How should you know which problem he has? Context, man. Gotta use context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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