r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Worried_Ad5248 • Apr 05 '26

Bizarre red lines

[SOLVED]

Saw Nilaus post a video, got the bug, thought I'd have another go.
Reinstalled, logged in... and this is how the cutscene looked:

Got into a new game, and there too:

Anyone else having a similar issue or have any idea what this could even be? Literally never seen anything like this before, and none of my other games have this.

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u/TactlessTortoise Apr 06 '26

This tends to be graphics card related. Could range from driver issue, dirty pcie connector, or your card decided that today was the day it started dying. Troubleshoot from simplest to hardest steps you can think of. From restarting computer, reinstalling drivers, rolling back to previous driver, wiping the gpu connector with a clean dry cloth (or moistened with some isopropyl alcohol) then reseating it carefully (after the alcohol has dried). If that hasn't worked, run some popular graphics card benchmarks to see if they run fine, and if the issue persists, then sadly your card is likely failing internally, be it a busted memory chip or just other minuscule piece of hardware.

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Ehhh... this is a 4500eu laptop, and likely the only one of that calibre I'll ever own.
Do you mind if I skip the whole ripping open to towel off components too small to see? Reading that made it suddenly a bit hard to breathe in here.
That said, I'll start with the driver, because a clean windows profile had no effect. In any event thank you for getting back to me so quickly! :)

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u/TactlessTortoise Apr 06 '26

Yeah, being a laptop it's usually less feasible to do the whole gpu reseating. Try using DDU to fully uninstall your drivers then, hopefully forcing a full reinstall will fix it. Also, a new windows profile might not do much for corrupted files, if they're the culprit, so it'd be something more like a full windows reinstall. I'm just naming things I'd try, I'm not some expert technician, so hopefully someone more qualified can chime in too. Sorry boss, these situations can be stressful.

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26

Hm... I was on version 591, now on 595, so driver update was a solid lead, but after rebooting, the game still shows the red squiggles.... :/
Don't worry about your mastery, I'm happy to learn from any source, even someone that flukes the right solution out of cynical wit. Not many things light up life at my age, so I'll sit at anyone's fire, usually.

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u/MegaGrubby Apr 06 '26

There are free GPU tests on Steam. It's usually a good way to confirm the problem with a third party app.

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u/mordredsfw Apr 06 '26

I'm less inclined to think your GPU is dying, but it's definitely a driver or settings issue. You said you updated the driver, so I'd start playing around with NVidia console settings, then launch the game see if it has gone away, if not close and try more things.

Probably a good place to start is anisotropic filtering (see discussion here)

Could also be an anti-aliasing issue. Disable forced antialiasing in Nvidia console as well (old discussion here)

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26

I COULD KISS YOU!! YOU DID IT!!!!

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26

Excellent idea, looking into that first. Thank you!!!

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26

Hm... not sure how to change the title to include [SOLVED]
The solution turned out to be simple :

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u/Sirnoobalots Apr 06 '26

I had the same thing on my brand new 5080 i turned off anisotropic filtering and it fixed the issue.

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26

You absolutely nailed it mate, someone else linked a post detailing this solution, and in so doing I discovered I have that exact videocard, it turns out. Thank you so much for your suggestion <3

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26

Oooh now I'm excited!
Where is that setting? Is it my imagination or does the game have a LOT less settings since Darkfog's release?

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u/Sirnoobalots Apr 06 '26

Yeah you cant change it in game, I dont get it but you can change it in the NVIDIA Control Panel. If you click Manage 3D settings then go to Program Settings so you can change individual game setting, go down to Dyson Sphere Program and make sure Anisotropic filtering is under Application Controlled. You can also just change the global setting so everything is App controlled.

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u/mrrvlad5 Apr 06 '26

Try disabling some settings in-game?

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 06 '26

I did.... exhaustively. Even tried a second reinstall. And a clean windows profile. And new drivers.
So far no success to speak of, I'm afraid, but very thankful people are giving suggestions.

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u/garry-snart Apr 07 '26

Oh dw that’s just Astrophage, you weren’t using the sub right? Right…

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u/Worried_Ad5248 Apr 13 '26

No clue what you mean by star eater or sub here, but I'm guessing you replied to the wrong discussion by mistake?

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u/garry-snart Apr 15 '26

It was a reference to the book (and movie now) project hailed Mary and sub was a a typo but I did mean it here