Flashing across screen

[geckopow]

Seems to be related when i get popup messages in game, like a cp has being captured etc...A large black tear effect appears on screen and whizzes off screen...annoying, but game breaking...

[expatpom]

Been reported a number of times.....you know the rest...

[geckopow]

Was getting this last night, without popups appearing, it was really bad last night for some reason...quite annoying really...

[GOPHUR]

Never reported to me Exo. You got a dev stashed in the closet over there?

Dunno about this one. Sounds like a torn polygon but not much description to go on. First thing to do is check vid driver updated. Then see if you can get a screen cap or movie of it for me to look at. FRAPS good for that.

[geckopow]

I believe someone posted a video demonstrating this effect, a while back...?

[GOPHUR]

The only one I'm aware of gecko was fixed so I'm betting this is either a new thing or more likely a driver issue.

There aren't a flood of reports about this so unless the player has a very uncommon hardware setup it's likely a driver. But if not, I want to kill it.

[geckopow]

I thought it was related to pop up messages, it seems rarer now, for some reason...But when players spawned in at a msp, i noticed the effect happening, like it was related the player tag appearing on screen...?

Squaddie also sees the effect...

[GOPHUR]

Are you guys running the same video card?

[geckopow]

Nope, both Mine is Nvidia 460gt, squaddie has a AMD/ATi card of some sort i sure...

[peegee77]

Have been seeing the same thing, but I can't say if it is related to anything else. I haven't noticed a connection with pop-up messages. It is a dark horizontal line that flashes across the middle of the screen, lasting just a fraction of a second. It covers the full screen width, and the height I guess is about the same as a line of text in chat... 10 pixels or so.

The only thing it reminds me of is being very close to a bomb exploding. On my system, as well as the flash and smoke, I see a "shockwave" ring that spreads rapidly from the centre of the explosion. I assume this is modelled as a flat disc shape, so if you see it edge on it appears as a horizontal line.

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System Information

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Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3

(2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.111025-1629)

BIOS: BIOS Date: 11/25/09 15:44:08 Ver: 08.00.15

Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor, MMX, 3DNow (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz

Memory: 3072MB RAM

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

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Display Devices

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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

Manufacturer: NVIDIA

Chip type: GeForce 9800 GT

Display Memory: 1024.0 MB

Current Mode: 1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll

Driver Version: 6.14.0012.9610 (English)

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Sound Devices

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Description: SB X-Fi Audio [EC00]

Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys

Driver Version: 5.12.0001.1201 (English)