[General] Icons appear scrambled in my campaign - but fix when I reload

[darwin]

I've recently updated my campaign so I can edit it in the newest version of the editor (thanks Deepstrasz!). I have a bug that shows up sometimes. Basically, certain textures in the game sometimes appear fuzzy or scrambled. Once it was a custom aura attached to a hero unit (it looked like a giant fuzzy 2 dimensional square). Another time, it was the icons on the hero unit portrait area that show what their armor and weapon types are (see attached screenshot). The icons that are scrambled in that case are not custom; they're just the normal icons in WC3 for normal armor type.

Interestingly, when I save the game and then reload it, these issues fix themselves.

Is this a bug with the editor or maybe my computer? Does it sound familiar to anyone?

 

[darwin]

Update:

The icons are not being scrambled, but rather some textures are being substituted for other textures.

Textures that are being overwritten so far include:
- weapon and armor icons
- item icons (i.e. those in the Hero's inventory)
- custom aura attached to a unit
- the death textures on the boulder (i.e. the dust that scatters when the boulder missile hits its target)

Keep in mind that these textures are not always overwritten, and often when I save the game and load it again they are fixed (though other textures can be swapped...I find myself loading repeatedly until it looks ok).

Some interesting facts:

#1: The SAME texture can be both swapped and not swapped at exactly the same time in the same game!

For example, see the attached screenshot - Egg Item Moved. I have an egg item in my inventory using a custom icon of an egg. The item icon in my inventory is swapped out with an unrecognizable wrong texture (you can see it in the top right inventory slot with the "3" indicating number of charges). However, in the screenshot I am moving the item to another slot. During the move, the egg icon can be seen clearly and is fine! But the same icon is still in scrambled form in my inventory because I haven't completed the item move yet.

Another example, a hero unit with a "normal" attack type had a normal icon but another unit in the same game at the same time at the same save-game had their normal attack icon swapped for a hero icon texture (see attack type normal fine vs. attack type normal screwed up).

#2: Some textures that appear to be being swapped are normal Blizzard textures, e.g. the attack type normal uses the default sword icon but is sometimes screwed up. Again, saving and loading seems to fix this.

I'll keep gathering data. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Darwin

 

[tulee]

There are so many bugs related to 1.31 that it is probably best to wait for Blizzard to sort it out themselves with the release of 1.32. (I know this is not a very helpful response to your query).

 

[darwin]

Yeah, I suppose I'll just keep plugging along.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try both x86 and x86-64 versions of Warcraft III. The x86-64 version does have issues when using virtual memory above 2GB and such errors are prone to corruption of assets and crashes.

 

[Uncle]

I have a similar issue using the x86-64 version (haven't tried the others). Hopefully it will be sorted out by the release of Reforged (along with many other things).

 

[Dr Super Good]

I recall seeing such patterns a very long time ago when taking a screenshot with anti-aliasing enabled on an old GeForce 7 7900 GPU.

Try updating your graphic driver. If the problem still persists then try messing with the graphic driver settings. Specifically try best quality, and if the bug persists lowering quality until it stops. If your GPU has less than 1 GB of graphic memory then try setting textures to low.

 

[darwin]

I was using x86 -64. Since you recommended that, I changed to just x86. So far it's been much improved. I may have seen one scrambled icon...maybe I just used the other version. It's much improved though.

I do still have an issue with shadows or something. During cinematics I sometimes have shadows flash in erratic patterns all over the terrain (or once the water seemed to disappear, replaced by an odd texture). This happens very fast, as a lightning strike sent shadows everywhere. They have sharp edges though, like one of those snowflakes we made as children when we folded up a paper and cut out a pattern and then unfolded it.

Anyway, that still seems to exist; I'll see if I can get a video of it to show you what I mean. I'll play around with the graphics settings in the meantime.

 

[Dr Super Good]

What GPU are you using to run Warcraft III out of interest. It might be related to that.

 

[darwin]

Good news: there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my map. The glitchy shadows and texture-swapping appears on other maps too, so the problem is either with my WC3 program or my computer or some interaction. I suppose I could try a reinstall and so on to see if it fixes the issue.

My graphics program - I think - is Radeon (TM) RX 560 Graphics. Software Version 17.12. CPU Type AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Quad-Core Processor.

Honestly, I don't know much about computers... so I don't know if that's the information you wanted or not.

I'm about ready to have my campaign play-tested so that should show whether the errors occur for other users or not.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Software Version 17.12.

Try updating your graphic drivers. The current stable for the RX 560 is 19.12.2 so you are running very old drivers. Old drivers with AMD is not a good combination. Warcraft III is certainly not built for such old drivers anymore since the move to D3D11.

 

[darwin]

That did it! Amazing. Thanks so much guys!