Obscured unit alpha problem

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Re: Transparent Units not working

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im curious, what fps u r getting?
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Scroogie wrote:
toriancarconn wrote:
Scroogie wrote:These are my settings @blackout
With these settings, do you find the graphics to be superior to your TAD ones?
not really, but i rather have good visibility instead of fancy effects
I understand. I'm asking because I can't find a solution that looks better than the previous one, on TAD. And I'm not sure if it is due to the game as such or due to my setup.
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knusch wrote:im curious, what fps u r getting?
30-40
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Re: Transparent Units not working

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might wanna lower them settings ;)
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Re: Transparent Units not working

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Scroogie wrote:
knusch wrote:im curious, what fps u r getting?
30-40
What no. should one aim for, at least 60?
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yeah 60+ is a good start
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generally 60+ is a good target for any PC game but ~40 can be adequately playable for RTS games as long as there is no stutter
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the fps are working fine for me, id rather see my units :D
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Go to options -->shadow settings (turn it off ),close the UI and reopen the option and put back the shadow to w/e quality u had it works ,you can see it.
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Challenger_Marco wrote:Go to options -->shadow settings (turn it off ),close the UI and reopen the option and put back the shadow to w/e quality u had it works ,you can see it.
doesnt work
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Scroogie wrote:I can never see units behind trees, TCs, etc. which is quite annoying. I have shadows on medium, transparency of obscured units on 100% and Anti-Aliasing off. I switched around some of these settings, but it never worked properly. Any ideas?
Hi!

It is a known issue with some older graphic cards (GTX 660, 760). I play the game very smoothly at medium settings with between 60 to 80 FPS and I have a GTX 660 but the obscured unit alpha just doesn't work.

If you want please make a post on the pinned thread on AoE official forums https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/doesn ... /103109/12

Hopefully they will make a fix for it soon.
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Suzerain wrote:
Scroogie wrote:I can never see units behind trees, TCs, etc. which is quite annoying. I have shadows on medium, transparency of obscured units on 100% and Anti-Aliasing off. I switched around some of these settings, but it never worked properly. Any ideas?
Hi!

It is a known issue with some older graphic cards (GTX 660, 760). I play the game very smoothly at medium settings with between 60 to 80 FPS and I have a GTX 660 but the obscured unit alpha just doesn't work.

If you want please make a post on the pinned thread on AoE official forums https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/doesn ... /103109/12

Hopefully they will make a fix for it soon.
Thanks for the Info. Although i dont understand how a graphic setting works with one gpu and doesnt with the other, at least i know where the issue lies.
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Scroogie wrote:
Suzerain wrote:
Scroogie wrote:I can never see units behind trees, TCs, etc. which is quite annoying. I have shadows on medium, transparency of obscured units on 100% and Anti-Aliasing off. I switched around some of these settings, but it never worked properly. Any ideas?
Hi!

It is a known issue with some older graphic cards (GTX 660, 760). I play the game very smoothly at medium settings with between 60 to 80 FPS and I have a GTX 660 but the obscured unit alpha just doesn't work.

If you want please make a post on the pinned thread on AoE official forums https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/doesn ... /103109/12

Hopefully they will make a fix for it soon.
Thanks for the Info. Although i dont understand how a graphic setting works with one gpu and doesnt with the other, at least i know where the issue lies.
We reported the issue to Age of Empires forums. You can bump the thread there. They have noticed that people have this problem so far they are probably fixing other issues. So if it gets more attention they might look into it.
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bobabu wrote:
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Thanks for the Info. Although i dont understand how a graphic setting works with one gpu and doesnt with the other, at least i know where the issue lies.
We reported the issue to Age of Empires forums. You can bump the thread there. They have noticed that people have this problem so far they are probably fixing other issues. So if it gets more attention they might look into it.
i will do that when i get around to making an account there
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Bought a new computer with a newer graphics card, now I don't have the problem anymore. Hope they will still fix it for the rest.
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transparency of the units

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I m having some issues with my transparency animation although my settings are "ok".
its either doesnt appear properly or doesnt appear at all

https://prnt.sc/wil8dq
https://prnt.sc/wil8r3
https://prnt.sc/wil9fc

How can i fix that? i d really appreaciate your help guys :D (i already put shadows on and off and it didnt work).
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Bump so the tech nerds see it.
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yup, this bug is really annoying
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Yeah... one of the (many) things that irritate me about AoE3 BE. Bugged edition.
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BUMP PLUS PLUS also @musketeer925 @Buckethead @Ashvin @EAGLEMUT
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Scroogie wrote:
bobabu wrote:
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We reported the issue to Age of Empires forums. You can bump the thread there. They have noticed that people have this problem so far they are probably fixing other issues. So if it gets more attention they might look into it.
i will do that when i get around to making an account there
were u able to fix it scroogs?
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@rsy no :/
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Don't bump us, report it to the DE devs.
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Yep, it's up to the DE devs to fix this. I took action to merge the three topics about this same issue here.

You might also be interested in this other topic where we share which GPUs are known to not have the bug.
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https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/obscu ... ork/113470
if it's possible to bump this on the forum, bump it to the sky
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