DirkBogan on 12/12/2023 at 21:42
Even though vfig is right that non power-of-two obj textures aren't technically in spec, I cannot believe they are the culprit here. MeisterdiebderEchte: please try renaming or deleting the folders 'obj/txt' and 'obj/txt16' in your Black Parade folder and take screenshots of the results. I suspect this is a deeper problem than suggested.
Jonfeldt on 13/12/2023 at 10:35
I was wondering was the Swevene Alley where you start the mission Arcane Sanctum maybe a reference to the album Sweven by Morbus Chron, since some of the missions have a really weird nightmarish atmosphere going on?
onetruekeeper on 14/12/2023 at 07:17
Looked all over the mansion but can't find the chalice. Is it hidden from view ?
chk772 on 14/12/2023 at 14:26
Quote Posted by Twist
@chk772: It sounds like you got frustrated, and I don't feel like arguing about it, but as far as it being impossible: did you see fortuni's post a few posts before yours? :thumb:
Yes. I can't see how it nulls my statement about the loot being hard to find though.
Of course, I also could spend weeks with playing the missions to find every single thing in them, but, that's not how people play these missions.
Aja on 14/12/2023 at 16:15
I've never found all of the loot even in the OMs, and my tallies so far in TBP have been usually around 1000 short. I don't enjoy systematically scouring an entire level, so I probably won't ever get it all, but I do kind of like the idea that it's there and that I might find it someday when I replay it.
vfig on 14/12/2023 at 16:52
Quote Posted by DirkBogan
Even though vfig is right that non power-of-two obj textures aren't technically in spec, I cannot believe they are the culprit here. ... I suspect this is a deeper problem than suggested.
i think you are right. from past reports, the npow2 problem only caused the problematic textures to fail to load, rather than nearly all textures.
Quote Posted by MeisterdiebderEchte
What I don't really understand is that this problem hasn't occured in fan missions up to the mentioned "Whispers Below the Cobblestone" a couple of years back. ... This is what it looks like ingame: (
https://postimg.cc/gallery/qrLpLj5)
i didnt see your response until now, so apologies for not replying earlier. while non-power-of-two textures have been a cause of white textures in the past, from your screenshot this does seem a lot more extensive. i think DirkBogan is right here that there is another problem going on. (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151253&p=2495882&viewfull=1#post2495882) A similar report in Whispers Below the Cobblestone was due to a combination of the mission using a very large number of textures, and the EP2 pack being installed—and these conflicted. certainly the black parade missions use many textures, but i dont know if you have EP2 or another texture pack installed. so please work with DirkBogan to resolve this.
MeisterdiebderEchte on 14/12/2023 at 20:18
Quote Posted by DirkBogan
Even though vfig is right that non power-of-two obj textures aren't technically in spec, I cannot believe they are the culprit here. MeisterdiebderEchte: please try renaming or deleting the folders 'obj/txt' and 'obj/txt16' in your Black Parade folder and take screenshots of the results. I suspect this is a deeper problem than suggested.
thanks a lot Dirk and vfig for trying to be constructive and helping here! Well I tried this suggestion (renaming as well as deleting both folders), and it only made things worse haha ... beforehand, those white textures only appeared in random places here and there (but far too often and repeatedly to spoil the gaming experience big time), and they disappeared and the game went back to the normal looks and graphics mode within seconds if I was moving around a bit. Now, after renaming/deleting the suggested folders, those damned white things appear to stay permanently. Here are two screenshots to give you a vague idea:
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https://postimg.cc/gallery/GD7Cp4h)
this seems to be a larger problem at hand indeed. I will try the NVIDIA drivers update, as vfig suggested earlier on, and will keep you updated. Any ideas/help hugely appreciated, since I really don't want to miss out on this campaign. Thanks in advance and thanks for trying to help so far! Oh and vfig: I don't have EP2 or any other texture pack installed, at least not that I know of. If so, TFix must have done this "on its own", but I also tried the semicolon thing in the cam_mod.ini, to disable any supposedly active mods or enhancements ...
DirkBogan on 14/12/2023 at 20:33
These screenshots are actually quite useful. If all the textures except object textures are displaying properly when the object texture folders are deleted, that does suggest that the culprit is the object textures. vfig may be right about non power-of-two textures, though testing whether it's just one bad one or all of them is another matter.
Grabski on 15/12/2023 at 01:46
Thief Gold runs really well, but Black Parade stutters any time I end up in a scene bigger than a room. Loving it, but playing through much pain! Help
Steam version of Thief Gold
Black Parade mod
Tfix 1.27
Made most of recommended performance adjustments in the cam_ext.cfg
Kerrle on 15/12/2023 at 02:25
It's a more complex set of missions than the original games; what's your computer's hardware like?
