Oh additionally if I have just one ghost in view my GPU temperature rockets, from an average of 75-77c, to 95-103c. Looking away from a ghost and the temperature plummets back to ~76c. I turned on temp monitoring (Afterburner/RivaTuner) because my computer is silent until I face a ghost and then it sounds like a V8 engine revving up for a drag race (all fans kick into overdrive).

Just found this post though all the "fixes" there are what I already have for my settings.

One more quick note is this started happening recently. When, or which patch, I have no clue (if it's even related to a patch at all, may not be) but I remember when I started a subscription for this game (three weeks ago) purple ghosts always showed up vividly. My best guess would be 7 to 10 days ago this started.

I have tried:
- updating my GPU drivers to the latest, reverted back since then (hoping it was something w
- Run in Admin, set back to not running in Admin
- Compatibility Mode "XP" (i'm running Win7)
- Turning off every single video setting (or low) and bumping them up one at a time. That's a lot of permutation btw lol
- UserSettings.txt: SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D11"
- Windowed mode, Fullscreen(window), Fullscreen
- Vsync [on/off]. Sidenote: On, obviously, lowers my GPU temp by 2c. Yeah!
- Messed with every setting directly with video card (not that I ever changed it for the last two years owning this computer)
- Ate keyboard

GTX 560Ti

@Seravi Never had to do that workaround to make the game operational so it doesn't seem like any of your settings are doing it. When I started this game around 20 days ago the ghosts would always show up clearly (D3D11, Full Screen, everything on Ultra/High/On). Haven't changed a thing from my first day of my subscription to now; so @Epona222 may be right, and it has to do with the "lighting changes."

Seravi wrote: »

Yeah this started after the big update this month. Before they were fine. I sent a bug report in game but haven't heard anything so when I saw the ghost issue again today I decided to post on the forums.

Ugh so something has changed with the August update then..

Being I don't pay heavy attention to the patch days and versions would you say the change happened after a patch roughly 7 to 10 days ago [for you]? Around that time is when I noticed it but my accuracy is somewhere in between.

Yes it started after Update 3 the first week of August. Just did the fighters guild quest on another alt I started. The ghost should be quite visible yet she is now a blob ghost.

According to the patch notes 8/4 is when the NA server got the patch for 1.3.3 so I am wondering if color correction is the problem since it was added with this patch.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/124010/patch-notes-v1-3-3#latest

@Servari Ugh, that's even worse then what I'm getting. It's just a blur-smudge for you. My ghosts do show some detail of their features (when very very close lol).

I just tested color correction off. When the ghost came up she was normal, aka as she should be then she went a little blurry. While she is better now with color correction turned off, she still isn't normal.

Yup! That's how I remember them just 10+ days ago.

Seravi wrote: »

I have the NVIDIA bug that has been around since Beta. I have to run DX9 (D3D9 in the usersettings file) or my game crashes every five seconds, literally. I have to run with vsync on and windowed full screen.

I had to do the same thing, DX11 to DX9 otherwise my driver would crash and cause the screen on the game to just freeze up. No client crash, just a solid freeze. The issue still persists even after the most recent Nvidia driver update. I wonder when/if Nvidia will ever get around to sorting that out.

Yeah the Prophet is fine and as you say it's the ones that show up for progression of a quest, not to start or end it. Very odd indeed.

Epona222 wrote: »

I CANNOT see Abnar Tharn's projections in Coldharbour during "Castle of Worms" quest, they are invisible, I just have to aim myself at the quest marker until I get the "E to talk" prompt show up.

Funny story: I don't use a compass or quest markers (all off with addons) so I literally spent a few hours ONLY trying to find Abnar for that quest.

Hmm, guess that wasn't much of a story... anyways, I have had it multiple times too before and after this "funny" instance. Sometimes the *purple* ghosts will be part of a quest but I don't have to talk to them; they just move the story along. I can't see them.

Yet, the Ghost Serpent in the swamps of Deshaan showed up fine... Oh he's a blue apparition. So the answer is to change all the code for all ghosts to blue. ~laughs~

Seravi wrote: »

Well my alt is just beginning the Fighters Guild quests and that is where I first noticed it after the 1.3.3 update. One was in the AD the other in Davons Watch.

Great, so "pics or it didn't happen!" ...wait, nevermind, they don't show up so it doesn't matter. ~laughs~

So, last night, out of a few more ghosts/projections/memories that were either white, gold, blue, or purple only purple ghosts were the ones too faded to see clearly.

Zone: Deshaan
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Seeks-the-night


Aspera

This is what they look like for me. As you can see these ghosts are just enemies tied to a quest (on Auridon in this particular quest), not npcs that start or complete a quest.

Could it be tied to having a particular graphics setting set to low/medium? As you can see from the images my purple ghosts are fine and my settings are all on High with the exception of water which is Medium.