condition, in an ion storm, weapon effects disappears, storm disappears, solid blue background, wireframe poly's (i.e. storm radar) around everything (i.e. bots and cargo). Best I can tell is switching out of full screen in windows causes it.





would be somewhat correct if I had storm extenders but I did not.

also noticed when the bots made suicide runs the wire frame would vanish and left a black shadow in it's place. This was when they would crash into me or do that annoying loop around me.

This is almost certainly driver/hardware related. Please post your full system config and driver versions.

Im having the exact same problem here.
Ive been playing for three years and its the first time i had this bug.

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Video: http://outerlimitsgfx.com/Pics/Misc/oddbug.wmv
Ati X1600 pro Stock speed 500Mhz core right now its at 590.

Driver info:
Driver Packaging Version 8.552-081028a-070226C-ATI
Catalyst® Version 08.11
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6879
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0621
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.8201
Catalyst® Control Center Version 2008.1028.2134.36851
AIW/VIVO WDM Driver Version 6.14.10.6238
AIW/VIVO WDM SP Driver Version 6.14.10.6238

This has happened to me once recently but entering a new sector caused the problem to go away. I alt tab a lot so thats probably why.
Edit: And it just happened to me while alt tabbing back into VO after this post. I was also in an Ion Storm.

yea same i hit the doze key. this looks like a windows thing.

Dare I say a Windows XP SP 3 Issue?

SP3 here

Stopped happening when I stopped using Preload All textures on startup.

Yeah, it should be fixed now.

i saw that yesterday escorting a voy in an Ion storm when the Ion storm died

It went blue, wireframe, normal. I thought it was supposed to do that

Its only normal when the storm dies whle yer in it, its not normal if its always like that.