I'm really enjoying Castlevania so far however by the end of where the demo had left off i couldn't stop shaking the feeling that every minute or so there was really really bad glitching in some of the textures and lighting - it would only be momentary but it would be enough to prove a distraction.
I put it down to me being OCD about this kind of thing and pushed on, however my fiancee came in and pointed out straight away during one of the loading screen that there were full screen flickering type glitches happening - again at first i put it down to the fact that maybe its an intentional effect (kind of like how it looks like a book is being read by candle or fire light and maybe the screen flicker is that?) however when the screen flicker was so intense that it was bright green for a second or so, or would out right black out the screen for a split second, I'm honestly beginning to question one or two things.
I've changed my hdmi leads, tried different ports on my tv and have tested other consoles on the tv as well as other games on my ps3 and nothing reproduces this result.
As such i've narrowed it down to one of a few options :-
1. My ps3 (an ageing first wave 60gb) is on its way out , thought he fact this is the only game to suffer kind of rules that out
2. Maybe the ps3 is fine but this particular game is giving it trouble?
3. The disc is buggered in some way? (looks pristine though)
4. My Tv is fucked (better damn well not be)
5. This is just the nature of the game? and kind of like unreal engine pop in - its just something to try to ignore?
I've tried forcing the game into every resolution, tried every video output setting changed cables, channels, consoles and everything and can not seem to get this issue to go away.
Contemplating trying to capture footage of it to try and better show the issues as its kind of hard to explain, but it seems to majorly happen during any time the 'book' is on screen, then seems to linger and reoccur frequently (though seems to stop after a while) afterwards.
Playing on a 60gb ps3 system
Anyone else out there finding this?
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Oct 05, 2010
In this reboot of the beloved Castlevania franchise, Gabriel Belmont goes on a quest to defeat the sinister Lords of Shadow, who are preventing the souls of the departed from passing on to the afterlife, in order to obtain from them a magical mask that will bring his murdered wife Marie back from the dead.
Anyone else getting really bad screen glitches?
It's NOT your ps3 / TV / Game Disc, it's a problem with the game. The flickering is in both versions (PS3 / 360). I picked up the PS3 version bc I read the 360 version had some framerate issues, and was thinking I made a mistake. So I downloaded the demo on the 360 and sure enough both had the same problem.
It has to do with the type of antialiasing the game uses from what I’ve seen. Which leads to the fact of: the larger your tv, the more aliasing you see, the more obvious the flickering becomes. I played the game on my 25″ 1080p PC monitor when I first bought it (recently moved and my tv wasn’t set up yet!) and didn’t notice the flickering, but as soon as I hooked up my 50″ 1080p set I immediately noticed the flickering. I tried the game at a friends on his 42″ 1080p set and it was not quite as noticeable, so unfortunately the bigger your tv the worse you it appears. It gets even worse if you have the “sharpness” on your set turned up….I found that by turning it way down it was less noticeable.
When you stand still there’s some very fine “highlights” shown in the environment and on the edges of foliage, but when you move the highlights go away, but when the camera pans slowly its alternates from displaying the highlights and not displaying them. I recently was in a room in the castle that had icicles that were whiteish on a dark background and nearly got a headache…the worst I’d seen. It's a bummer because I love the game, but you gotta live with it unless they put out a patch. If you do a google search for Lords of Shadow Flickering you'll see there's a ton of discussion of this.
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