Screen turns black during fight

[Gromar]

I have had this several times now and can not find out why.

When I engage in a fight with animals, sometimes the screen suddenly turns black saying "loading". However, in the background the fight continuest - just my commands do not have any effect anymore. I can ctrl + leftclick the minimap to resolve the issue. Today after I finished my fight i activated the "lift" command, then the screen turned black and the known solution did not work anymore. I was just able to relog the character.

Another fight turned the screen black, too and I was not quick enough to use the ctrl leftklick function and got KOed.

Is there any way to avoid that issue and am I the only one having it?

All the best

Gromar

[JohnCarver]

If you wait long enough the screen should turn back from black.

Were you lifting a rock? If so, I imagine the screen turned black because you had not yet loaded the gfx for one of the bugs under the rock.

[Gromar]

Hi JC,

no, i did not lift a rock or tree. It occasionally happens when I fight deer, snake, beaver, silk runner or turkey. I cant remember it happened when fighting a rabbit or cricket. Maybe the time to fight one of those is to short.
I sometimes get this "loading" information for a really short blink, like not even a second, and I can continue. But during fighting, the screen stays and does not go away anymore. As I said - this does not happen every time but often enough.

[LOMS]

If you wait long enough the screen should turn back from black.

Were you lifting a rock? If so, I imagine the screen turned black because you had not yet loaded the gfx for one of the bugs under the rock.

'Loading' never appears if you're missing gfx for object. It appears when your client is loading (or cannot acquire) some terrain chunks.

[DarkNacht]

If you wait long enough the screen should turn back from black.

Were you lifting a rock? If so, I imagine the screen turned black because you had not yet loaded the gfx for one of the bugs under the rock.

'Loading' never appears if you're missing gfx for object. It appears when your client is loading (or cannot acquire) some terrain chunks.

Not true, you can be standing still and if someone walks into your range with clothing you have not loaded it will flash loading if you are on a slow connection.

[Kandarim]

it appears whenever a "Loading" exception is thrown while rendering the mapview (the 3d view, not the UI). This can happen from clothing as well as terrain, but also from things like the slugs and bugs found under stones.

[LOMS]

Ah, yeah, excuse me. I just forgot about my own tweak in client, which allows it to not render a single object instead of not render whole picture. Quite useful, especially when you have bad & dumb caching firewall.

[Kandarim]

but then how do you know that something is not being rendered? Do you render a default object instead? Or do you just assume that thing is harmless?

On the current topic, it might very well cause the thing you are fighting to become invisible

[LOMS]

but then how do you know that something is not being rendered? Do you render a default object instead? Or do you just assume that thing is harmless?

On the current topic, it might very well cause the thing you are fighting to become invisible

I assume seeing no object it better, then taking an unhandled exception (that was my main problem, caused by office firewall) or black screen of loading. As a bonus, I have less problems with loading screens, then others
And I render no default object. Objects are rendered when all their assets are downloaded and ready.

[Gromar]

Hm. but then I do not understand where it is coming from. I am using the litaki client. Could it maybe be related?

I do not understand any of your rendering explaination. The question would be - what can I do to solve the issue?