STF Android Missing Textures

[jktheslacker]

Hi,

On resuming STF, whether from reopening the game or reloading a save, I often find myself missing the character textures. This includes the captain texture in the Load Game screen, the crew textures when viewing a certain crew member, in the popups from crew members on entering orbit or landing, and during crew combat. When the untextured character is not on a black background, you can see the underlying polygons.

Running Android 9 on a OnePlus 6T. I haven't tried on other devices, but will see if I can tonight.

I have a screenshot, but I'm having trouble getting it copied to add it here - will work on that.

[Cory Trese]

TL;DR -- Thanks for the post, the work around is to restart the game.

This happens if the device runs out of, or reclaims memory incorrectly from the game.

In this case you just need to restart the game to reload the textures. Depending on the device, other running applications and the Android OS you may have memory pressure and if the textures are freed incorrectly, or fail to reload when STF resumes, you'll see the black squares.

I can try to find a OnePlus6T and see if I can figure out if it is a device issue.

[grävling]

Also, *you really want to restart the game* when this happens. If the textures are freed incorrectly, there is no guarantee that this is the only thing that is being freed incorrectly. For the longest time there was an open bug associated with me on my Nvidia Shield Tablet. Periodically, in the middle of a spy or patrol mission, the game would fall over dead. Something was getting reclaimed that shouldn't, not right then and there but minutes or hours before. I think Cory put fixes in to make sure that particular problem couldn't happen any more, but that's not the same thing as fixing the OnePlus6T to make it stop doing things it shouldn't ....

[Cory Trese]

Actually Google just fixed one of their bugs and the update reached the NVidia shield. Not sure about these other devices.

[grävling]

Aha. so subtract 2 hero points from the Cory-Trese-is-Awesome bin. Nevermind, it's overflowing anyway.