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Treetrunks Jul 2, 2023 @ 4:54pm
Textures not fully loading in
Bought the game for myself and for a friend today to test out and see if we'd like it to then get a few more copies for other friends! The ideas behind it are really good and there seem to be enough entity variety to keep people entertained for some time on launch, but I've run into this issue where none of the textures seem to fully load in.

It works for my friend, who has a similar computer set up, so I'm wondering what the issue could be. Doesn't matter what visual settings I change to in-game, the walls look worse than a minecraft block texture and even the cat model looks blocky, showing the basic segments of it.

Any ideas if I can fix it, or if it's a bug of the current version?
Originally posted by Treetrunks:
I found a part of my issue, so I'd like to respond here on the off-chance someone is having a similar problem. For context I'm using an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-525P gaming laptop, which isn't very powerful anymore but still pulls its weight for most games.

The game was defaulting to using the integrated graphics processor rather than the NVIDIA graphics processor. Manually switching over improved the frame rate a lot and I've got a steady capped 60 in-game, even while running around and flicking my mouse like a madman. The texture loading issue is still not fully fixed, however. Walls, blankets and the cat model now look as they should, however some floor textures and things like the refrigerator just outside of the initial room have extremely low quality textures regardless of graphical settings making it impossible to read text on walls and objects.

I suppose that might just be the hard limit for my laptop, but the rest of the game is fully functional and feels pretty good to play.
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Dimensionless Games  [developer] Jul 2, 2023 @ 5:34pm 
Hi Treetrunks!

Thank you for supporting me and deciding to test out the game with your friend(s)! In order to figure the issue out, I'd have to ask first if you happen to be running other programs while playing because the simplest way to explain what you are experiencing is that the engine is streaming less texture data in because its limited on resources, which is usually RAM. This can happen also if you have a 1080p stream open and your GPU is trying to render too much data.

You could also try dropping the settings to low and doing a restart to see if the game will relaunch with lower resource demand and might attempt to re-render the textures.

It might not be a solution as it is only what I can think off the top of my head to hopefully get it fixed fast for you, but, I hope it will help!
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Treetrunks Jul 3, 2023 @ 8:49am 
I found a part of my issue, so I'd like to respond here on the off-chance someone is having a similar problem. For context I'm using an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-525P gaming laptop, which isn't very powerful anymore but still pulls its weight for most games.

The game was defaulting to using the integrated graphics processor rather than the NVIDIA graphics processor. Manually switching over improved the frame rate a lot and I've got a steady capped 60 in-game, even while running around and flicking my mouse like a madman. The texture loading issue is still not fully fixed, however. Walls, blankets and the cat model now look as they should, however some floor textures and things like the refrigerator just outside of the initial room have extremely low quality textures regardless of graphical settings making it impossible to read text on walls and objects.

I suppose that might just be the hard limit for my laptop, but the rest of the game is fully functional and feels pretty good to play.
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