[Gameplay] Artifacts in ARAM

Necroborn··2 votes·895 views

Recently I've noticed strange pink artifacts that appear at the end of some ARAM games i played. These happen once in a while and they only appear for a glimpse of a second and i can't screenshot or record it, i never noticed them in Summoner's Rift or Twisted Treeline. Didn't notice them in CS:GO either or any other game i've played for the past 3-4 months or so, they only appear in ARAM. I've tried repairing my client twice so far but i am not sure what the problem is. I am running an ASUS Strix R9 380X with a minor overclock that is stable and hasn't shown any problems so far. I want to think its just some kind of data corruption before i start thinking RMA. Has any1 noticed something similar with a card like mine ? Otherwise i have to believe i lost the silicon lottery and RMA :( Also i've been having strange errors whenever some1 invites me to a lobby or in champion selection i can't pick a champion, but these stopped appearing since 2 days ago.

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Merbstrom3 votes

Do you remember generally where these artifacts appear, and is there some component to the team compositions that might be causing it? As far as the champ select problems, I'm assuming you were talking about dynamic Q? I should also ask if there's anything strange in your game logs or event viewer (if you don't wanna check it's fine).

Necroborn1 votes
  • The artifacts almost always appear once the Defeat/Victory animation goes off at the end of the game and i press the Continue button on screen.

  • As for the team compositions, i didn't notice any champions being repeated when i notice the artifacts, i could be wrong though or didn't check thoroughly, i will try to keep track of that if i notice the artifacts again.

  • Champion selection errors appeared in both Normal Blind Pick games and Normal Draft/Ranked Draft games. I often got those "An Unexpected Error occured..." message and when i picked a champion, i would get the "Retrieving response/data (don't remember which one it was) from server", but now those issues seem solved.

  • I checked the Logs, i'll try to categorize them with the folders in the install destination.

~League Client Logs: I noticed a lot of: "There was an issue with loading the news-article" and "There is an error with the news article" I also found this: "Uncaught TypeError: The element or ID supplied is not valid. (videojs)" in one of the log files.

~Game - R3d Logs: During the -----HARDWARE INFORMATION START----- , i noticed it lists my older GPU as my Display info (Nvidia GTX 550 Ti), but i have already done a DDU before i install my new GPU. I will try again with the DDU and share my results later. I found a lot of errors, is there any way to submit the Log files to Riot somehow ? I will post here some of those i see regularly in the Logs: ERROR| Failed to open "ClientZips.txt" ERROR| Manager::LoadEventFile(); attempting to load LoL_Audio_en_GB.fev. FMOD 23, File not found ERROR| MyFMODFileOpenCallback: Failed to open Data\Sounds\FMOD\en_GB/LoL_Audio_en_GB.fev ERROR| Riot::RADS::Reader::ProjectListing::FileInfo::Reset: The file was not closed before shutdown. ERROR| Missing file on r3dGFile open :Data/Menu_SC4/-nolink2.dds

I also found 2 WARN popping up alot: WARN| A HUD event is being identified in a deprecated way: Generic/button_release WARN| A HUD event is being identified in a deprecated way: Generic/button_click These spam like 10~12 lines per Log.

~Maestro Logs:

--mestro-server: Alot of spam of these: WARNING: Failed to send to socket. WARNING: Received 0 bytes on Maestro socket when data was expected.

--maestro-game_client: No errors or warnings.

~Network Logs: Couldn't figure out what i was supposed to find there :|

~Patcher Logs: Everything seems ok here, and i never had any patcher issues or errors.

~Performance Logs: There was no file here.

Sorry for the long post, wanted to be thorough/clear and thank you for replying.

Merbstrom2 votes

Okay...

The team comps probably have nothing to do with it then, since the artifacts happen at the victory/defeat screen. I only suggested since sometimes certain champ assets can mess with the game (for example skarner drops my fps by 20 on that map, idk why).

Client Logs: that shouldn't really be an issue given some time the panels would refresh or something.

R3dlogs: First off as far as I'm aware Riot does have records of these logs (and probably better ones), so unless something really goes wrong you shouldn't need to worry about sending it to them. If you're submitting a support ticket then you might include some of that information to help them speed up the process. The graphics information- that's kinda weird. Best thing I can say is make sure your divers are up to date and consider optimizing the graphic settings if you've changed them. "Can't load file"/"file not found" errors are hard to pick though.

  1. Sometimes I don't think it needs all the files it says are missing.
  2. Any necessary files should be there if you repaired the client recently.
  3. Those kinda problems would probably not cause artifacting unless they were involved in that ending sequence. Hud warning "depreciation" Never seen that before, some reeeeally old boards posts say it happens with other applications running (http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1359671&page=2 )

Maestro logs/etc: The socket warning, I also have a lot of these. I think this is more of a network issue, some wireless cards have issues with this. Everything else should be fine.

All considered I think the problem lies either in the rendering of the game ending sequences or with some of those assets and your graphics card weirdo stuff. Depending on how disruptive this is, if it bothers you enough or it persists after a few patches, I'd recommend considering submitting a support ticket. The employees are extremely helpful and quick to respond (probably the best customer service I've ever encountered).

TLDR; Sorry I don't have a concrete answer for you (feel free to discount anything I said I'm not a professional), but the safe course of action would probably be to check a couple of things unless a rioter or someone with more information decides to comment.

  • Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date
  • Double check the graphics settings on your account
  • Check your disk health (and any other computer maintenance, event viewer stuff etc)
  • Submit a support ticket if the problem persists/gets worse (or you could just keep spamming the boards, not sure how active peeps are)

Best of luck!

Necroborn1 votes

I tried uninstalling league and re-installing from scratch and will see if that helps, otherwise i'll try submitting a ticket to Riot Support as you suggested, thanx for your help summoner 31

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