Can you do me a favor and send me a couple screenshots, preferably in a recognizable location (like that one in town, or a tavern/mansion)? Though I can see them in your save thumbnails, they are a small and a bit fuzzy and I'm trying to determine whether the locations of these glowing orbs perhaps match up with something in the models or locators (there is an option to highlight locators and the colors bear a striking resemblance to that option); a better resolution screenshot might help me figure out whether these glow spots coincide with any actual model element or are just random.
Also, what operating system? Another thing I would like to know is whether you can perhaps run the 32 bit DX9 and even the DX8 version to see if they do the same thing?
Any help is appreciated...but this is a struggle because I can't reproduce it myself.
Thank you. They are not locators, but they are all exactly the same shape, and suspiciously remind me of a texture filter for some sort of lighting effect. So, I sifted through a bunch of textures used in the game for lighting, lightning, fire, etc. effects and found that those are "stars" as in astronomy; they are sometimes "tinted" various colors in the night sky, but they are obviously also supposed to be very small. So, now the question remains, why are some of yours so big and so close? Because I don't get this effect at all and have never seen it, I'm also wondering if perhaps the "shader" techniques used are somehow handled differently on your GeForce card. Anyway, at least we know what they are. I will continue to investigate what it might be and how to resolve...at the very worst, you may just have to disable the stars. I'll keep you posted...
I don't know if this will help or not, but I made a couple changes to try. The stars are rendered with what DirectX calls a "point list." This point list has a point size, minimum point size and a maximum point size defined for it. The code set the point size and the minimum point size, but did not define a maximum. So I set the maximum. I also tried setting the "z order" as well. Download the latest Maelstrom and see if that changes anything for you.
