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Spell effect visual glitch(1)Category: Technical SupportSeptember-25-2014 10:41 AM PDT (8 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Yesterday, I installed the game again after having not played it since about a month after RoS came out. The game was working fine back then, but now I'm getting a visual glitch on spell and attack special effects where the visuals are only partially displaying.

Examples from a couple of Crusader skills:

Slash - Carve:

http://i.imgur.com/RfUEk7l.jpg?1?9060
http://i.imgur.com/Zs6qhsP.jpg?1?8610

Sweep attack - Trip Attack:

http://i.imgur.com/2ALWd0c.jpg?1?1882

There are brighter glow effects that are supposed to be present on these skills but aren't displaying. Carve just looks like a jagged, white and green mess, and Trip Attack looks much less substantial than it should. Every other skill effect is doing something similar, and while it's not technically game-breaking, it's very distracting and unpleasant to me.

I've tried updating my graphics driver, reverting to the driver version I had last time I played, reinstalling the game, and running the Battle.net scan/repair tool. I don't have any other ideas. My video card is a several year old GTX 460, but I haven't had any problems with other games lately (and I play games with better graphics than D3 fine), or D3 in the past. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Omrakos
Spell effect visual glitch(2)September-25-2014 11:10 AM PDT (8 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Answerofduty,

Can you post some information about your computer? You can find this information in the Direct X Diagnostic Tool:

Click on Start
Click on Run
Type in: dxdiag (In Vista, type dxdiag in the search field)
Hit Enter or OK

Click on the Save All Information button at the bottom, and create a dxdiag text file, and copy and paste it ALL here.

Could you also post your D3Prefs.txt file? It's located in the My Documents\Diablo III folder.

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Spell effect visual glitch(4)September-25-2014 12:49 PM PDT (8 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Answerofduty,

Nothing looks wrong in your setup. In checking the Bug Report forum, I see people complaining of reduced effects for the Crusader since 2.1. All I can do really is suggest you add your comments to one of those threads.

Example: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/14058936139#1

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