What's with the skill icons loading?
swiftygem
I know no one here can really know the code, but can you think of a reason why the skill icons load now (first a gray icon of hourglass, then the skill icon itself)? I find it a bit annoying, especially when an enemy casts a hex on me and it takes some time to show up in the effects monitor. Yes, it's only like half a second or so, but still. Plus when hex wears off, the icon flashes and swaps with the gray hourglass for some reason.
broodijzer
yeah it's annoying :/
Avarre
Agreed, why has this started happening?
Reza
anyone tested yet if its happening in prophecis and/or factions too after update? 
UBS
I'm getting the same thing. It's annoying =\
ManMadeGod
It's very hard to interrupt now. =(
Sometime when I receive some conditions, hex or enchantments, I can not tell what they are in time. That's too bad. This has to be fixed.
Sometime when I receive some conditions, hex or enchantments, I can not tell what they are in time. That's too bad. This has to be fixed.
icedragon981
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Originally Posted by Reza
anyone tested yet if its happening in prophecis and/or factions too after update?
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Paperfly
I assume this is a 100% new part of the UI, as opposed to a feature that's always been there but has never been seen before because the lag's never been bad enough? 
...To be honest I have trouble understanding what it represents. Clearly it's supposed to make life fairer by telling us that an opponent has started using a skill a fraction of a second before the server can tell us what that skill is. However, the name of the skill appears next to the hourglass before the correct icon pops up, so our client obviously knows what skill is being used! In that case, why not just point that same information to the correct graphics file (skill icon) instead of the hourglass?
...To be honest I have trouble understanding what it represents. Clearly it's supposed to make life fairer by telling us that an opponent has started using a skill a fraction of a second before the server can tell us what that skill is. However, the name of the skill appears next to the hourglass before the correct icon pops up, so our client obviously knows what skill is being used! In that case, why not just point that same information to the correct graphics file (skill icon) instead of the hourglass?
elLOCOmutha
Its probably always been there, but because of the extreme lag and other problems in this event you get to see it now. Great event really running smoothly...
Medion
VERY irritating, interupting is hell as you don't know what is what until it's too late 
broodijzer
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Originally Posted by elLOCOmutha
Its probably always been there, but because of the extreme lag and other problems in this event you get to see it now. Great event really running smoothly...
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Carth`
Previously it must have loaded all skill icons into memory, but now it loads them on demand, perhaps because there are so many now. This means depending on some factors (connection speed? lag?) you will see an hour glass for a short amount of time on your skill bars, skill dialogs, and when enemies use skills.
For me it's very annoying because when I play my interrupter I can't have a split second reaction because I have to read the skill name, whereas previously my brain would recognise which skill it was before I even knew and hit an interrupt depending on what it was. Now those 3/4 cast skills are slipping away as I only see what skill they used after they've used it.
I hope Anet change it back, it's a horrible update. It looks like a webpage loading the images when you scroll down the list.
For me it's very annoying because when I play my interrupter I can't have a split second reaction because I have to read the skill name, whereas previously my brain would recognise which skill it was before I even knew and hit an interrupt depending on what it was. Now those 3/4 cast skills are slipping away as I only see what skill they used after they've used it.
I hope Anet change it back, it's a horrible update. It looks like a webpage loading the images when you scroll down the list.
Cyan The Archer
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Originally Posted by elLOCOmutha
Its probably always been there, but because of the extreme lag and other problems in this event you get to see it now. Great event really running smoothly...
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swiftygem
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Originally Posted by Carth`
Previously it must have loaded all skill icons into memory, but now it loads them on demand, perhaps because there are so many now. This means depending on some factors (connection speed? lag?) you will see an hour glass for a short amount of time on your skill bars, skill dialogs, and when enemies use skills.
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Anyway, GW takes up somewhere around 300MB of memory on my computer, leaving 800MB free, so I don't see why it couldn't preload the damn icons.
prism2525
weird and annoying.
Former Ruling
The HOurglasses were actually added about mid-day yesterday (shortly after the Hero crasing guild wars bug was fixed) - Before that their was still "lag" on the skills showing, but the bar was just black before they loaded, and in Obs Mode it would even show the previous skill casted's icon before the new spell's icon loaded (making it real confusing).
Mysterial
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Originally Posted by swiftygem
Yes, I think this makes sense. Anet simply decided that there are too many skills now and they will load them one by one, when the icon is needed. I believe this could even be connected to the problem we've been seeing for some time now - the skill activation animation and sound are missing for the first time, then they're OK for next uses.
Anyway, GW takes up somewhere around 300MB of memory on my computer, leaving 800MB free, so I don't see why it couldn't preload the damn icons. |
Tremere
Yeah... all of us just can't be 'bothered'. Dude, if i had the money, i'd be playing Oblivion with all the slider's at the high end, and my days of Guildwars'ery would be at an end for the joy of experiencing HD lighting, Havoc 2 physics, and something GW's gfx coder's seem to unaware of called Bump Mapping. Poor noobs. Not everyone is languishing in the technological dark-age because their 'lazy'.
- Tremere
- Tremere
Yawgmoth
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Originally Posted by Tremere
Yeah... all of us just can't be 'bothered'. Dude, if i had the money, i'd be playing Oblivion with all the slider's at the high end, and my days of Guildwars'ery would be at an end for the joy of experiencing HD lighting, Havoc 2 physics, and something GW's gfx coder's seem to unaware of called Bump Mapping. Poor noobs. Not everyone is languishing in the technological dark-age because their 'lazy'.
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Sephiroth Istari
Yesterday, it took at least several minutes for the skill pics on my skill bar to load.
EndoftheSyringe
very annoying. whenever you go into an explorable area/pvp, it should auto-load every skill into memory, so you only have this lag at the very beginning.
tomcruisejr
yea, this "feature" is giving a hard time to rangers that do interrupts (not including leet choking gas rangers of course).
Kityn
If it was an added feature please oh please remove it.
natuxatu
yeah they take a second to load for me as well. I figure to keep the stress factor down they did it. I'm not sure but i have a feeling it will go away when the event is done. I wouldn't start complaing untill then.
snikerz
yeah, this hourglass thing is very very annoying, not so much the rangers having a hard time, but the mesmers the most, you cant identify if its a spell or skill before its too late, and that being most of the mesmer skills require most skills to be spells, be all the more fustrating 
please remove the hour glass,
please remove the hour glass,
De Frozen
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Originally Posted by Cyan The Archer
No lag for me. Check your internet, it's not Anets fault.
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Makkert
this is quite terrible.
*skillicon loading*
caster casts spell
.........
oh crap, that icon was probably Diversion
GG.
*skillicon loading*
caster casts spell
.........
oh crap, that icon was probably Diversion
GG.
Northrog
This is a bug. Fix it. This thread should be in the technician corner part.
selber
It's not an intented "feature". Yes it's annoying. They will fix it. Remember you are playing a Beta. Chill.
Arcador
Yea, not harmfull in the skill lists, but when comes into a fight, might get tricky. "I got...err...hourglass...on myself. REMOVE IT !!!11"
Cacheelma
"....this person is casting something....hmmm...(The icon finally appears) OH MY! I have to interrupt that!" oops....too late.
achilles ankle
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Originally Posted by Cyan The Archer
No lag for me. Check your internet, it's not Anets fault.
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KamikazeChicken
I don't have lag, and the skill icons still come up as hour glasses. This is an Anet change, not peoples' computers.
Carth`
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Originally Posted by selber
It's not an intented "feature". Yes it's annoying. They will fix it. Remember you are playing a Beta. Chill.
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Yawgmoth
If preloading all of the skill icons (from 3 campagins) is too much, then why not preload just those that my party members and opponents have?
Andy_M
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Originally Posted by Makkert
this is quite terrible.
*skillicon loading* caster casts spell ......... oh crap, that icon was probably Diversion GG. |
Cherng Butter
Truly, TRULY annoying to no end.
xBakox
Most..
annoying..
update/bug.
Ever.
Gah I can't stand seeing the skills load so slow. I hope they fix/ change this soon. And btw, I havent had lag all weekend.
annoying..
update/bug.
Ever.
Gah I can't stand seeing the skills load so slow. I hope they fix/ change this soon. And btw, I havent had lag all weekend.
Tremere
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Originally Posted by Yawgmoth
Bump maps are one of the engine improvements coming with Nightfall, just watch carefully
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Hawt! Omg yeah, awesome (if its true, btw
). Now all those they need is "Parallax Mapping : For Dummies", and "An Insider's Guide : 'Specularity'" editions from their 3d engine mentor's back in Harvard or wherever they came from, and this game might actually be at a level required to compete visually with most of today's releases. Imagine it! - Tremere
PS: Even though graphically, in a 'technical' sense, the spell and skill effect's are (like most of GW), quite dated, I've always bloody loved them... and they have alway's been one of GW's gfx portfolio's more stronger aspects, imho.
Age
I am glad I not the only one who has this it might have something to do with saving your own builds on your own computer.Your own comp is trying to figure it out to the server.