1.0 HF1 BUG Disapearing textures and no text showing in most menu options - Insufficient VRAM

[Angry Turtle]

After bout 5 minutes of play most of the text in the menus disappears, including main menu and map menus etc. I can still click on the options but I can not see what they are, which, as you can imagine, makes simple things saving or loading or trying to see what ships/station are in my vicinity literally impossible. this applies to every menu I have come across including traders and crafting benches, and always starts about 5 minutes after starting the game. And at around the same time this starts, a lot of the textures will not render meaning that most of the space station and even ships are completely invisible even including NPCs, however they are still there as solid objects. For example the floor and walls of my ship will not render but i can still walk on it and not able to walk through the invisible walls, or, and NPC will not render in but i am still able to talk to them (if the text appears in the conversation options so i know what I'm saying to them). I have tried lowing the graphic and resolution but that did not help at all.

[Alan Phipps]

Please see the first announcement in this forum about the information required to allow us to help you properly.

Your issues are pointing towards a problem or inadequacy in your graphics card or its driver with respect to the game.

[JeremyR]

I am relegated to playing on my laptop this week (which has a GTX 760M), and I also experienced the disappearing menu text. Reducing texture detail from "high" to "medium" seems to have alleviated that issue.

[Angry Turtle]

Thank you for such a speedy reply.

I am using the 1.0 Eng version of the game, and have no mods or any altered game code. There is nothing in particular that I am doing to cause the bug to occur. It has happened even while trying to complete the tutorials, and will happen randomly after about 5 minutes of play. I have tried changing the graphics settings to the lowest possible even with textures on low in the custom settings. I am using a 750ti graphics card if that helps identify the issue.

[nicodin]

After bout 5 minutes of play most of the text in the menus disappears, including main menu and map menus etc. I can still click on the options but I can not see what they are, which, as you can imagine, makes simple things saving or loading or trying to see what ships/station are in my vicinity literally impossible. this applies to every menu I have come across including traders and crafting benches, and always starts about 5 minutes after starting the game. And at around the same time this starts, a lot of the textures will not render meaning that most of the space station and even ships are completely invisible even including NPCs, however they are still there as solid objects. For example the floor and walls of my ship will not render but i can still walk on it and not able to walk through the invisible walls, or, and NPC will not render in but i am still able to talk to them (if the text appears in the conversation options so i know what I'm saying to them). I have tried lowing the graphic and resolution but that did not help at all.

exactly the same problem ! (GTX760)

[Smeat]

This happens, wenn your VRAM is full.
Try closing your browser (Firefox used about 500mb on my system) and other software, which might use your GPU.
You still need to restart your game once in a while, but it is way less frequent.

[Wolfvaine]

Yeah our cards have two and the minimum is 3gb apparently

[ogenki]

This happens, wenn your VRAM is full.
Try closing your browser (Firefox used about 500mb on my system) and other software, which might use your GPU.
You still need to restart your game once in a while, but it is way less frequent.

Which other games show this problem when VRAM is "full" ?
I would really like to confirm this happening in other games.

[CBJ]

What happens in other games is neither here nor there. This game requires 3GB of VRAM, and those with only 2GB may encounter problems. What form those problems take may vary, but most people seem to encounter disappearing textures.

[Wolfvaine]

Had a 760 geforce with 2gb of ram and had same problem went to best buy *they are on sale * and picked up a evga nvidea 1060 for 269 and it requires same as 760 as far as watts plugged it in playing at ultra settings with absolutely no issues to report.

[burger1]

If you have an ssd try changing windows page file size. I changed it to 5000 mb min 10000 mb max and the invisible npcs and menus now show. This will cause more wear and tear on your ssd but it seems to work. I had to do this to make mass effect andromeda work.

press windows key and type in control panel then system and security -> system -> advanced system settings-> advanced tab in that section. Then click on settings in performance and go to the advanced tab in that section. In virtual memory click on change. Select custom size and input maybe 5000 for min max or whatever. Then click on set. I wouldn't do this with a regular mechanical hdd. It will write data to your ssd so doing this will increase wear and tear on your ssd. Make sure to turn it back to system managed size or whatever when done.

i7-3770k, evga geforce 760 sc 2gb, 8 gb ram, 850 evo ssd, win 10 pro


**** This seems to help but doesn't seem to fix everything. Getting partly blank trade menus when upgrading ship.

[burbonnn]

If you have an ssd try changing windows page file size. I changed it to 5000 mb min 10000 mb max and the invisible npcs and menus now show. This will cause more wear and tear on your ssd but it seems to work.

I have the same configuration as you, including gf760 and 8gb ram.

Increased the range from 10 000 to - 30 000 mb and it became much better.

Although one thing deeply amazes me!!! Everything in the game is good, but only fonts "starting to break" after 1-2 hours of play...

On this configuration, I calmly play the last Assassin Creed Odyssey, no problem, but here in X4 there are such wild problems with fonts.

Is it really normal ? Or can be fixed ?

Anyway - thanks for solution!

[Shimrod]

I have 2x GTX 760 in SLI. Generally OK running at bare minimum settings, going down to 1920x1200 instead of native 2560x1440. Occasionally textures go missing though, I guess SLI isn't counting both 2gb of VRAM towards that 3gb minimum.

In any case I've ordered a GTX 1070 Ti, ETA Friday. If I'm going to sink another 1000 hours into X, at least it's going to be at native resolution with some fancy textures.