Anyone else having ground texture problems?

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Tuesday, July 17th 2012, 7:18pm

Me and my husband are having ground texture problems. Most areas the ground texture isn't right. Both our computers were fine last night, then we both downloaded the patch this morning and now almost all the areas we go to the ground is messed up. Was just wondering if anyone else is having this problem? Thank you.

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Tuesday, July 17th 2012, 7:21pm

Several guildmates are having this problem as well. Some zones are blindingly awful for them right now. I'm not having any issues myself, so I would guess it's something having to do with certain graphic cards.

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Tuesday, July 17th 2012, 7:44pm

You may be able to correct the problem by manually repatching the game. Go here: http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=31461

Read Tigsman's instructions in the starter post, then download the newest patch. Temporarily disable your firewall and anti-virus programs, then manually repatch the game. Re-enable your firewall and anti-virus programs after repatching.

Let us know if this helps.

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Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 5:49am

The download was of no help to me . Ground textures still screwed up. Maybe with better drugs they would look right.

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Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 11:41am

Same problem your idea was no help. Ground textures make many areas totally unplayable now.

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Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 12:38pm

Went to Nvidia and downloaded the latest drivers for my video card, Still having the problem.

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Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 6:03pm

I'm having the problem too, looks their their latest patch messed the textures up. I can not stand looking at these glitchy areas.

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Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 7:14pm

You might not like the alternate answer, many people had this issue when Chapter V first went live and they were using an older, patched client.

You may have to download the current Chapter V installation files and reinstall the game. This will include a relatively short list of patches, up to the latest one. Consider temporarily disabling your firewall and a/v program before downloading and reinstalling. Re-enable them afterwards.

Disclosure: When the new installation files were first made available, I downloaded and installed the full client files on my machine. I've had zero texture issues.

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Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 10:07pm

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Consider temporarily disabling your firewall and a/v program before downloading and reinstalling. Re-enable them afterwards.

I'd say this step is essential. Usually, the patch file modifying the existing game files is intercepted by the security software and the 'patched' file is broken due to the a/v software interfering with the patch.

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Thursday, July 19th 2012, 6:02pm

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I'd say this step is essential. Usually, the patch file modifying the existing game files is intercepted by the security software and the 'patched' file is broken due to the a/v software interfering with the patch.

Most firewalls don't, unless they're particularly "protective"--ZoneAlarm, for example is, or was, and required that several RoM-related .exe files be given not only local but net-wide permissions before ZA would allow them to operate normally. The same thing goes for some, but not all, anti-virus or anti-malware programs.

Contrary to what some people think, temporarily shutting down your a/v or a/m program will not open your computer up to malware, as long as it is re-enabled after the patching process is complete.

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Thursday, July 19th 2012, 7:01pm

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Contrary to what some people think, temporarily shutting down your a/v or a/m program will not open your computer up to malware, as long as it is re-enabled after the patching process is complete.

True, though while the downloading/patching is in progress, one shouldn't be going off to visit dubious web sites (well you shouldn't be doing that anyway) or possibly even reading mail (for the truly security conscience paranoids) since the A/V is off. Just let the downloader/patcher do its thing.

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Thursday, July 19th 2012, 7:28pm

Last chapter I had this same problem, and I had to re-install and re-patch. However, my textures are still looking normal as of 5.01, so I don't have a clue what could be causing the problem.

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Thursday, July 19th 2012, 7:41pm

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True, though while the downloading/patching is in progress, one shouldn't be going off to visit dubious web sites (well you shouldn't be doing that anyway) or possibly even reading mail (for the truly security conscience paranoids) since the A/V is off. Just let the downloader/patcher do its thing.

Well, it does depend on how aggressive your firewall or a/v program is. But yeah, visiting dodgy websites is usually a Bad Idea.

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