Graphics

I've run into a weird bug lately, where XPression Designer is not rendering materials correctly. This is isolated to Designer; Studio, BlueBox, and Studio SCE have no trouble with it.

I've got an image that shows the incorrect render:

http://imageshack.com/a/img19/4034/c63c.png

This is not isolated to this one material or object. It happens randomly throughout the project, sometimes on 3D models, sometimes on quads. Not a particular type of material or shader, either; image, video, reflection matte, etc. Text is pretty much left alone, however.

Any ideas?

Are the objects coming up black using materials that are set to per-pixel lighting?

Does the Designer system have a NVidia card installed? If so, what version is it reporting in:

Start > Control Panel > Programs & Features > Nvidia Devices

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All materials that are showing black are using per-pixel lighting.

I have an NVidia GeForce GTX 680 w/ 4GB video RAM (GDDR5) and 2GB shared system memory.

NVidia 3D Vision Controller Driver 306.23

NVidia 3D Vision Driver 327.23

NVidia Graphics Driver 327.23

NVidia HD Audio Driver 1.3.18.0

NVidia PhysX System Software 9.12.0604

NVidia Update 1.14.17

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Just ran a driver update, up to 332.xx. Everything seems to be okay now.

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Glad to hear it is resolved. It is a known issue with the Nvidia drivers that is corrected in later versions of XPression, v5.4+ .

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On that note, I would check your output engines to make sure they don't try to update the Nvidia driver automatically!

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