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Every time i play the game i see some zones with some images, every time different, and all seems parts of other windows opened and closed before, black zones and other things. Like this http://i.imgur.com/Ki9kLsL.jpg
It only happens in the game, not in the menus, but it works perfectly, only the brightest zones or images hides the objects (enemys and asteroids).
Are you doing anything specific before the visual problems start? Does it happen at random, or non-stop?
If you could let me know what hardware you're currently running (cpu, gpu, ram...), that'd be great! Feel free to PM me.
Thanks for noting, will be optimized for compatibility with lower channel soundcards next patch.
I don't do anything specific before the visual problems start. I played the game normally, and in the menus and pause menu there isn't any visual problem, only in the proper game. I ocurrs every time, with low and high settings, but every time the "aspecto" of the visual problem is different, like i said, they are old on-screen images screenshots.
If you like to view more: http://imgur.com/yi0T8C6, http://imgur.com/nzfs7hC, http://imgur.com/7RZTgTh (That last one, is the same gameplay of the previous one, but with that artifact what make noise and image blurring).
My specs:
If the problem is my low specs, i should remember the game works perfectly except by the visual problem. I don't know if it was possible to avoid the problem disabling something and including it in low settings mode, if it's the case.
The first thing you can try is playing in x1 scale windowed mode on low quality with anti aliasing disabled. If you're running windows 7 or above, disabling the Aero theme will free up a lot of video memory.
I recommend updating your NVIDIA drivers, and installing DirectX 9.0c if you haven't yet. Links below:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429
As it is a hardware issue I can only offer suggestions. If it helps, let me know!
I don't think i have a problem with the video memory, because today i was playing Rockertbirds Hairboiled Chicken, and yesterday played BoxesWithGuns, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded, The District, Collateral, Krautscape, NekoChan Hero - Collection, Roogoo... and some demos, all without any problem.
Viewing that, i investigated a little bit. First, like you can see, in the menu (http://imgur.com/JfG4opn) and pause menu (http://imgur.com/G0wvbc1) it haven't any texture (but in the same gameplay have some in game http://imgur.com/RdJ7v0p). After that, i played the DRM-Free Groupees hosted version, which is 1.0.1, and i played it more than twenty times, without any problem or wrong texture, using any setting (well, to be honest, every time i exit in the 1.0.1 version it have a problem/crash dialog, but it doesn't happen in 1.2.0, and all other works perfectly). Thinking about that, I tried to disable Steam Overlay (some games have problems with it) but it doesn't make any difference in this case.
Well i hope this things can help you.
Navigate to C:\Users\(your name)\AppData\Local\Pixel_Star and open user_config.ini
Under [Display] change the respective fields to: Fullscreen = 0, Scale = 1, Quality = 0, AA = 0
Let me know if that does anything for you.
Setting AA to 0 allows the game to run, I changed all other settings back to default and it will now run. Thank you for your help.
Ok, i have added you now.
I have to say, i played more the 1.0.1 version (every time i play i like it more :D) and very rarely (it only happens two times of... Twenty, thirty or more? i don't know) i viewed some textures like in the 1.2.0 version, BUT they are only a dark and transparent red and blue clouds only (like one of the ship i need to caught in the game, i don't remember the name) and there are always in the same place*, like the other textures when i have the problem with the other build, but in this case rarely appears and they are poorly noticiable. For example http://i.imgur.com/Eh8XgbX.jpg.
You can message when you want, i don't enter in the client every time but i can view it through the steam web.
*Edit: In a the last gameplay i do in the 1.0.1, i could view that, but i noticed if i move in one direction a lot of time, the clouds move a little bit, like a very very distant parallax, but it seems the clouds are above the elements of the game.