Irritating Graphics Glitch: White Squares

[Amestria_Amestria]

When adventuring in the larger Ruins dungeons and in the Wield, Cove and the Warrens certain animations fail to show and instead there’s just a white square. When my heroes go to open a chest, check a sack, read something, deactivate a trap, or suffer a test of resolve there will be a white square or rectangle where the animation should have been. Occasionally the white squares even replace background art, like alters or tents, or boss animations (the Swine Kings chop attack, the entire Sunken Crew). It usually doesn’t make the game unplayable, but it’s as annoying as hell, breaks the immersion, and takes away from the experience. I’ve checked the general fix list and I don’t know what the problem is.

For what it's worth the white squares didn't show up in the early Ruins dungeons and I didn't really notice it until I visited the Cove. It's also worse in the Cove then the other dungeons.

[Satoru]

Generally speaking that issue is due ot older video drivers or an overlay problem

Or try reverifying your game cache

[etb342]

I experience this as well. I updated my drivers but it doesn't seem to have fixed the problem.

I've noticed that the squares usually start showing up after a certain number of runs into different dungeons. Not sure if you've seen similar pattern.

[Amestria_Amestria]

It's not really a pattern, but the squares are most frequent in the Cove, Wield, and Warrens, and rarely happen in the Ruins. Though there are exceptions. I played a two camping Cove map and not a single one showed up. But earlier I played the second battle against the Sunken Crew and the boss was completely whited out and that has yet to happen in any of the other dungeons.

[Amestria_Amestria]

Re-verifying the game cache seems to decrease its severity, but it keeps coming back.

[Satoru]

Please post your system specs from Steam-Help-System Information

[Amestria_Amestria]

The glitch is still happening, so here is my information.

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Model: 0679
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x25
CPU Stepping: 0x5
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2128 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported
AES: Unsupported
AVX: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Supported

Operating System Version:
Windows 7 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: Intel(R) HD Graphics

DirectX Driver Name: igdumdx32.dll
Driver Version: 8.15.10.2622
DirectX Driver Version: 8.15.10.2622
Driver Date: 10 Jan 2012
OpenGL Version: 2.1
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
DirectX Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
VendorID: 0x8086
DeviceID: 0x46
Revision: 0x2
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1366 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
Primary Display Size: 18.98" x 10.67" (21.73" diag)
48.2cm x 27.1cm (55.2cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: 1723 MB
Supported MSAA Modes Not Detected

Memory:
RAM: 3894 Mb

[Amestria_Amestria]

It usually involves Affliction animations, trap disarming, and curio interactions. Sometimes it involves obstacles, unactivated curios, and boss attacks (the Swine King, principally). On one occasion it involved a whole boss - the Sunken Crew - and on another occasion the victory announcement box. It's very annoying as the game's artwork is one of its strongest points and this lowers the enjoyment.

[Sir Francis]

Sometimes DD doesnt use the GPU and unly runs via your intel HD graphics.
Go to NVIDIA settings and change the mode for DD to high performance nvidia processor.
This will get rid of the issue.

[Amestria_Amestria]

I don't have an NVIDIA graphics card so that won't work.

[Sir Francis]

Well, just about any card will do, problem remains the same.

[Pondwater]

Any fix reported for this issue? Same problem as OP - system is:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: System manufacturer
Model: System Product Name
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x2a
CPU Stepping: 0x7
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3399 Mhz
4 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Unsupported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Windows 7 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: Intel(R) HD Graphics

DirectX Driver Name: igdumd32.dll
Driver Version: 9.17.10.4229
DirectX Driver Version: 9.17.10.4229
Driver Date: 26 May 2015
OpenGL Version: 3.1
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
VendorID: 0x8086
DeviceID: 0x102
Revision: 0x9
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 26.65" x 15.00" (30.55" diag)
67.7cm x 38.1cm (77.6cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: -1028 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x

Sound card:
Audio device: Headset Earphone (Plantronics H

Memory:
RAM: 7129 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Steam Controller Cable and Base: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 152484 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 26690 Mb
OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969
Game Controller: None detected
VR Headset: None detected

[Sir Francis]

Youll need a proper video card, intel integrated BS will just not work, sorry :(

[Amestria_Amestria]

Okay, which video cards work best?

[rush_247]

Got this problem too, why is a 2dish game so demanding? Is it just badly optimized?

Seems to go away after disabling blur, fullscreen, camera tilt and the overlay but comes back if I'm using some mod added characters, graphical changes (xbox buttons) etc.

EDIT: Still occuring without mods, no permanent fix.

[Gr00vus]

I just started having this problem. I've been playing this game for about a year now without this problem previously. I think it has to do with applying the latest nvidia driver update - version 387.92 that came out on October 8, 2017.

Not sure what to do about this, its frustrating and makes the game unplayable. Any ideas?