i recently played a teamgame and this happened to my teammate. The wood was entirely invisible.
Hello, thanks for the report.
What is your GPU? What’s your OS? Any overlays were active when you got the issue (discord, rivatuner, nvidia…)?
Using any 3rd party mods/textures being used? If so, maybe try disabling
have the same bug, mid game, black screen idle for some secs then comes back the screen with black boxes. FOrum rules dont let me upload pics but the image above its exactly the same.
I have an amd radeon rx5600 gpu and have been playing some years now with this laptop.
At first I thought it could be a gpu issue with overheating, but it seems more like a bug, what do you say?
Thanks
Just wanted to add that I’m experiencing this issue as well. The game freezes for a couple seconds partway through a game and then the graphics turn into black squares. Only happens occasionally, but it’s happened twice to me now within the last week.
Same thing for me and it’s doing it a lot like almost every time after 5 minutes in game ! It’s just unplayable !
Please, some in AOE II DE team, investigate !
Oh and only using the bigger minimap for Mods and I tried without it !
Same situation here, in fact I made a post too: Crash and Black Boxes - Age of Empires II: DE / II - Report a Bug - Age of Empires Forum
But at the moment there is no solution, in the last update they even mention something about this, and on Steam and here it is full of Posts about crash problems, it is incredible that there is still no solution.
Is it in Steam? Did you try repairing the game? Note: I have no idea if this removes or resets any mods you’re using, or what other ramifications it might cause… but I’ve used it before for some other games and it has seemed harmless enough for me. I know I’ve done similar before for Origin/EA games in the Origin/EA App.
Verify Local Files Sometimes files on hard-disks and other storage devices become corrupted because of bad hardware, software crashes, power surges etc. Steam can verify the correctness over installed game files and fix them if necessary. Find Game in Library → Right click game title → Properties → Installed Files → Verify Integrity of Game Files
Source: Steam support/discussion pages
In lieu of that, did you try using Support pages on AoE’s site?
Here are other ideas I saw on Steam support or discussion pages when Google searching. Use at your own risk… I’ve never tried them. These are more for if you’re having download issues, no doubt, but I can see a 0.1% chance of them possibly being helpful when troubleshooting the black box issues:
Repair Library Folder The Steam library folder contains all of your installed games on disk. These folders need to be writable by all users in order to update properly. Sometimes these user permissions break and need to be refreshed. Navigate to your Steam → Settings → Downloads → Steam Library Folders → Right click on folder → Repair Folder
Clear Download Cache Clearing the Steam download cache will cause the Steam client to flush locally cached configuration data and acquire it from the Steam servers again. Navigate to your Steam → Settings → Downloads → Clear Download Cache