[Possible Bug - Phantom Blocks - I Believe It's a Long-Known Problem]

I have read most of this topic's entries since my last post and I can say some of your findings are not correct.

I have seen these blocks in vanilla, in slightly modded (xml by hand) games, in nitrogen generated worlds and in darkness falls. I have an Nvidia card and ssd drive.

I have tried pois which switches this off and using it again turns the problem on again. These blocks are completely immaterial, you can walk and shoot through them and when you're inside, you can see the outside world (they are one-sided).

These blocks are chunk based - I experience them in building X, ride my motorcycle to a distant trader (no blocks during the travel), return back and the blocks are gone.

I have read about a memory leak the game has, that is correct. Most often these days, when I quit the game, I restart the pc as well. Sometimes I do that before I start the session as well, since the leak occurs when exiting game, not the actual program itself (continue game, exit, continue game, exit, likely crash from insufficient memory). I guess this has nothing to do with these blocks but it is just an educated guess. No proof here.

I'm starting to believe this might actually have something to do with hardware graphic card, although this is not backed up by proofs either.  I used to have a weird glitch (which by the way occurred to me exactly once while playing a19) where one vertex of a triangle moves away to infinity, stretching that rectangle all the way until it's no longer visible in the distance.  Again, completely phantom. In the past, I solved this issue by returning a faulty graphic card and properly cooling it. Might it be the card is too hot and fails to remove some objects?

 

Anyway, this needs to go, since when you are a server and four people connect to you, it's not really a solution to restart the game. Given the eternity it takes to load the game... this has to be fixed. Sooner than we get another fat cop model. Please.

[Possible Bug - Phantom Blocks - I Believe It's a Long-Known Problem]

On 7/20/2020 at 7:47 AM, SylenThunder said:

ok, so I ran the test, and was unable to replicate the issue.

 

Distant POI

 

Close POI

 

The gas station 

 

So after playing a bit and not getting anything, I turned on creative mode and started teleporting around. Then I just put it in fly mode and went cruising around a city at high speed. Definitely exceeded what this laptop is capable of by a large margin.

And only then did I start to see it.

 

So then I went back to my Min Spec PC and tried to replicate it.

No dice.

 

 

So I went back to the laptop, and logged back in without cheats.  Low and behold everything was fine.

 

Went back to the Sonic replica the normal way without cheating, and it's showing up fine too.

Well, I've been experimenting a bit as well and have these bits to add:

1. It's not certain. Sometimes I can play all evening and never see it, sometimes I have to restart twice during 3-hour session

2. It has happened to me while I was still in "gee, I finally have a bicycle" phase, so nothing extremely fast. I can't handle gyro so I never fly it 🙂

3. I've never seen problem fix itself - when a POI was "blocked", it was blocked even if I returned later. I do my missions solo even in multiplayer and am quite sure the chunk had time to unload.

4. There is an angle from which the textures disappear. It is very small angle but it exists, at least for some POIs.

 

My PC has a bit over the recommended specs and same stuff happens on a brand new and rightfully expensive pc a friend has bought several months ago.

Hope it helps.

[Possible Bug - Phantom Blocks - I Believe It's a Long-Known Problem]

Interesting. After at least a year of experiencing this problem (since a18 at the very least), I decided to write a forum post about it

 and I missed OP's by several hours 🙂 Anyway, linking it here so we can share knowledge. I, for one, do not believe it has anything to do with actual hardware but suspect far-distance models instead. It would be helpful if any developer could actually look into this since from a19 relogging into the game no longer 100% solves the issue (sometimes it solves, sometimes nothing happens).