Motion scanner use makes 95% of screen black

[tsteak86]

Playing this on a Mac. Just picked up the motion scanner and when I press "space" to activate, almost the entire screen (except for the upper 5% or so) behind the scanner becomes dark.

I've futzed around with different graphics options and changing the frame rate, and unfortunately so far nothing has solved this issue. Anyone else experiencing this?

[☆Heike'sFootSlave™☆]

Sorry don't have a mac to help you!
Also never used it bc it was useless in my eyes and also the alien can hear the beep sound of it's close enough

[tsteak86]

I realized I can also bring up the motion scanner by holding the right mouse button and simultaneously pressing space. Curiously enough this solves the problem--no more black screen.

[eriktorbjorn]

Originally posted by tsteak86:

I realized I can also bring up the motion scanner by holding the right mouse button and simultaneously pressing space. Curiously enough this solves the problem--no more black screen.

When you bring up the motion scanner, the background is supposed to go a bit blurry, since you're focusing on the tracker. The right mouse button makes you focus on the background instead, making the tracker blurry. Perhaps something about that effect is broken on your hardware? Is there a newer graphics driver you could try?

I don't have the time to check right now, but isn't there some "depth of field" graphics setting? If so, perhaps disabling that would make a difference.

(Of course, I'm just guessing here since it works fine for me.)

[[FERAL] Jith]

Originally posted by tsteak86:

I realized I can also bring up the motion scanner by holding the right mouse button and simultaneously pressing space. Curiously enough this solves the problem--no more black screen.

Hi, good to see you've solved the problem. It would be really helpful if you could email [e-mail] with some details on the issue you experienced. That way we can look into it.

[Guelo8603]

I am late to these comments but hope this helps. The issue shows its ugly head when you go above 1080 resolution.

If anyone has a figure a way to go higher in resolution, without issues, please by all means share your solution.

[-|Nur|-]

Originally posted by Guelo8603:

I am late to these comments but hope this helps. The issue shows its ugly head when you go above 1080 resolution.

If anyone has a figure a way to go higher in resolution, without issues, please by all means share your solution.

Have you tried simply disabling the depth of field video setting, as with that disabled the blurring (which is probably what's causing the blacking out) goes away?

[Guelo8603]

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

Originally posted by Guelo8603:

I am late to these comments but hope this helps. The issue shows its ugly head when you go above 1080 resolution.

If anyone has a figure a way to go higher in resolution, without issues, please by all means share your solution.

Have you tried simply disabling the depth of field video setting, as with that disabled the blurring (which is probably what's causing the blacking out) goes away?

"Depth of Field"! It worked! Thanks for the help. Turning it off solved the issue at 1440 resolution.