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Darkness Bug

Post by Pavor Nocturnus » Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:14 pm

Quick question. When darkness is cast in the same area my character is in, the entire area turns dark. I know this is a bug, and I have heard of it before, but I forgot how it is fixed. Could anyone help me out?

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Peppermint » Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:05 am

You need ultravision to pierce darkness.

Or do you mean the effect lingers after leaving darkness? The solution is to relog.

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Lorkas » Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:02 am

It's an old bug, Peppermint, that makes the entire area go black even when your character is not in the area of darkness. I think it was a graphics card driver thing, but I don't remember for sure.

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Pavor Nocturnus » Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:41 am

Yes, I recall it being a graphics card driver issue as well. Does that mean it is unsolvable?
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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Dreams » Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:58 am

Someone posted a solution to this a year ago, but I can't find it. Somewhere along the line mine broke again. >.<

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by iria_huntress » Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:22 am

Relogging, or casting ultra-vision on yourself will fix it. Relogging being the better option, since the loss of ultravision will plunge you back into darkness. Those are the only two "fixes" I know of.

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Pavor Nocturnus » Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:31 am

iria_huntress wrote:Relogging, or casting ultra-vision on yourself will fix it. Relogging being the better option, since the loss of ultravision will plunge you back into darkness. Those are the only two "fixes" I know of.
Ultravision does not fix the problem. You're talking about a different bug here. In the case I'm describing, the entire area will remain black until the actual Darkness spell has worn off. Also, I cannot really afford to relog in the middle of PvP or a boss-fight.
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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by flower » Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:41 am

It is related to graphic card issues (the bug with dark on screen)-.

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Lorkas » Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:50 am

I think some people were able to fix it by installing an older driver for their graphics card, but i don't know the details. I might be able to find the old thread when I get home though.

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by -XXX- » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:58 am

It's a feature! Looks like your character is suffering from nyctophobia...

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by iria_huntress » Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:53 am

Honestly, I've never noticed that bug. I know that if you go into someone else's darkness while under ultra-vision, and the ultra-vision is dispelled in some form or fashion, you go mechanically blind. Even if you went through it 30 minutes prior, and the darkness had worn off. Recasting ultravision is a work around for that bug. Relogging and server transitioning does fix it.

That is the old "darkness bug", so that is what I assumed you meant. Sorry for the confusion.

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Lorkas » Fri Sep 22, 2017 8:01 am

That's because it's a bug that affects specific drivers for specific graphics cards. Some people will never notice it.

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Re: Darkness Bug

Post by Ozzy.nl » Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:05 am

As far as I know this bug affects the Intel hd 4000 series I had a laptop once with that GPU. What also happened was that sertain ways of implementing invisible walls that some servers use will show up for those people as red untexured walls.

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