No weapon effects

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Its happening again. This happened a couple of time in the beta.

There should be a lot of gun fire flying about here but there is nothing. You can here the sounds but no weapon fire effect and no impact effect.
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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
there's a way to help fix that, search for particlecount or something like that.

one weird effect thing i noticed: if you leave sins running minimized and switch back, all firing effects that would've taken place while you were away happen when you switch back.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

This may actually be a bug. Please zip up your save game along with a description of the problem and email it to support@ironcladgames.com so they can investigate further. Thanks! :)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
k, its been sent.
Thank you so much for the support.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

one weird effect thing i noticed: if you leave sins running minimized and switch back, all firing effects that would've taken place while you were away happen when you switch back.
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Yeah, I've been mentioning that the whole time :D
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
when im playing as vasari i get a similar problem, for no apparent reason most of the special fx will switch off spontaneously, you can hear the ships firing but theres no graphics and when ships explode they just dissapear into their debris model with no expplosion (it only seems to happen when playing vasari so far, never had it happen as TEC and i havnt played Advent yet)
sometimes they switch spontatneously back on again but i have no idea what causes this, my machine handles the game fine.
I am using 2x6800gs cards in SLI mode, Alternate frame rendering.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Turn down your effects settings, especially for textures.

Go to the user.setting file and bring up your particle count.

Doing that fixed this issue for me.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Turn down your effects settings, especially for textures.

Go to the user.setting file and bring up your particle count.

Doing that fixed this issue for me.
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I have the particle count at 12000 and I have not touched the effect settings they are at low for textures (the default settings).

But what is really weird is that this only happens when playing as the Vasari, if I am any other race it does not happen. Even when I am any other race and fighting the Vasari (or with them) the effects do not disappear just happens when I am playing them.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Thought I would add my 2 cents. I lose weapon and explosion effects playing as the Vasari as well. As Sunofvich was saying, it just randomly turns off. I have noticed too that with all of the races, that sometimes the dialogue and special effects noises will turn on and off. Perhaps I'm just being blasted by the music and don't notice it, but whenever I click on the sounds option from the menu and then back into the game, the dialogue resumes. I'll be keeping an eye on that more. (and an ear)
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
Going to bump this up, since this is one of the very few issues plaguing my game experience. I've tried lowering the detail settings, to no avail. I'm running a pretty good rig so performance hasn't been an issue at all, it just randomly shuts my particle effects off. What is the Vista path to the file wherin I can shange the particle settings?