Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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legorules1001
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Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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When the drones are inactive they look normal:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?k97jxfswi1vi3l2
but when i turn them on they look like this:
http://www.mediafire.com/?hlh5mj94qs45sjw
repair, anti-personel and boarding drones do this on every ship and i dont know why. help?
(sorry you have to download the images, i couldnt get the image thing to work)
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boa13
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Re: Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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This is most likely a graphics drivers issue.

Make sure you have upgraded your graphics drivers to the latest available (either from your computer vendor, or from the graphics card company).

By the way, what operating system do you use (Windows, Linux, Mac, 32-bits or 64-bits)? What graphics card do you have? Is this on a desktop or a laptop?
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Re: Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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boa13 wrote:This is most likely a graphics drivers issue.

Make sure you have upgraded your graphics drivers to the latest available (either from your computer vendor, or from the graphics card company).

By the way, what operating system do you use (Windows, Linux, Mac, 32-bits or 64-bits)? What graphics card do you have? Is this on a desktop or a laptop?
I have an alienware x51 desktop computor with a 1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 graphics card (im pretty sure that cant be the problem) and i operate on windows 64-bit
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Re: Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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Certainly sounds like a capable graphics card. :mrgreen: Have you made sure your drivers are up-to-date?

Have you installed several versions of FTL?

Have you installed mods?
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Re: Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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That's likely caused by mods. Much like the other bugs (the fonts being broken, or the hazard stripes not working), disappearing drones since the patch would be caused by the mod manager incorrectly restoring old data files. We altered the crew images/organization when making the switch in colorblind mode, so retoring the old data file would break those changes. Justin experienced a similar bug during development of the patch because he didn't properly update his own resource.dat file :-P

Remove the game and the mod manager and reinstall it. Though that seems to not always work for some reason, but the inner workings of the mod manager is unknown to me so you might want to post on the mod forum. People have also found success by just installing the game in a new location.
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Re: Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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boa13 wrote:Certainly sounds like a capable graphics card. :mrgreen: Have you made sure your drivers are up-to-date?

Have you installed several versions of FTL?

Have you installed mods?
i have only ever installed a few edited ships through GMM but thats it.
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Re: Drones covered in black squares when active[BUG]

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And that's enough to cause corruption issues when FTL is upgraded. :|
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