Known Bugs/ Issues

[Shepbur]

 

Click HERE to go to the detailed bug list

 

Known Bugs/ Issues from patch 0.3.0.6 (and earlier)

Key:

Black = Unchecked

Green = Confirmed knowledge of the bug being present in the game.

Orange = Minimal information known regarding the bug.

Blue = Known issue, See the Detailed Bug List for more information.

 

Port User Interface/ Chat/ Research/ Loading/ Matchmaking Bugs

• The message informing about the queue to enter the game is not translated. 

• The Heavy Damage combat mission may be accomplished with less than 20000 damage points.
• When a player selects a ship to battle with, it may be replaced with another ship.
• The entry field on the Exchange Piasters screen has no length limit.
• User statuses may be displayed incorrectly in the heading of a private chat.
• Messages in the private channel flicker after a player has left the battle.
• Chat channels become expanded when returning from battle, or entering the MM Queue.
• Messages in chat channels may disappear both completely, and partially.
• It is possible for a division commander to enter the queue without warnings if a player in the division is not ready.
• When purchasing premium time from a non-premium port, the premium port camera becomes locked and will not move. 
• Chat filter system can sometimes be too strict.
• Blacklist Bugs: Blacklisted players can communicate in-battle, Blacklisted players can communicate in division chat.
• Division Chat channels are reset after a battle and past conversations cannot be recovered. Group chat channels are reset after a battle, re-joining the channel will restore past messages.
• Chat channels may display to show un-read messages, when all messages have previously been read.
• When playing in divisions and during long waits for random battles, unequal teams may be formed.
• When matchmaking a division consisting of ships of Tier I and X in Co-op Battles, the balance is based upon the lowest level.
• Even when the number of players on the server is sufficient for a complete team of 12*12, incomplete teams may be formed.
• Players might lose control of the Port camera after purchasing a Premium Account. Restart the game to solve the problem.
• Missions with similar requirements may only progress one at a time despite battle results applying to more than 1 mission objective.
• National flags may be displayed incorrectly for some nations.
• The 1.5x victory bonus can sometimes be won through a loss or draw. Additionally, it may not be gained for a victory.
• Some ship descriptions may be incorrect, or contain confusing phrases.
• ​When loading in the port, a stretched background of ocean can sometimes be seen momentarily.
• ​When dismounting equipment from a ship, the receipt notification displays a cost of 0 gold.
• Mission thumbnail images may be incorrect.
• Credit earnings from battles may be calculated incorrectly.

 

Ship Statistics Bugs

• Integral characteristics and parameters of ships do not update after the research of crew / modules.

• Some Japanese warships may have the wrong type of torpedo tubes listed in their parameters.
• Names of primary armament modules and their performance characteristics may not match on some ships.
• Number of torpedo and dive bomber aircraft on aircraft carriers are not displayed specifically, only fighters are shown.
• Armour thickness may be incorrect for some ships.

 

Ship Models & Camera View Bugs

• AA guns on some of the ships may be displayed incorrectly in Port.

• Unable to look around the ship during the countdown when playing in the Cleveland.
• Graphical Glitches & Camera misplacements may occur in the background of the after-battle report.
• On some ships primary armament and torpedo tubes elements may touch or fire through the superstructure.
• Ships may lie in the Port with rotating propellers.
• An incorrect switching of the ships LOD at Low and Medium settings.
• At low graphics settings some objects on ships may not be displayed. As a result, they may appear as hanging in the air.
• Torpedo tubes appear loaded during the pre-battle countdown (30 seconds), but after the battle starts, the loaded torpedoes disappear.
• With some video controllers and drivers, the view sector goes beyond the Minimap limits and causes a full screen artifact.
• The Albany's secondary gun casemates show no guns, with black textures in the gaps when on medium/low graphics quality.
• Aircraft are placed incorrectly on all carrier decks.
• Aircraft can sometimes be seen flying into the sea and becoming stationary during dogfights.
• Small objects are inanimate on some ships.
• A reconnaissance aircraft model remains on a ship’s catapult even if all reconnaissance aircraft were used up.
• When on medium/low graphics settings, air combat can appear extremely laggy.
• Sometimes ships may not be displayed in the battle. Restart the game to solve the problem.
• Sunken ships can re-appear and look un-damaged from distances over 5km in spectator view. These ships have no HUD details.

 

Visual Effect Bugs

• Engine smoke effects may disappear when rotating the camera.

• Primary armament fire effects continue to play, if switching from the Binocular View to the third person view right after the shots were fired.
• The water surface sometimes shivers at long and medium distances.
• Shell traces of some ships look too big.
• When camera rotates, the shadow from the ship may disappear.
• Islands’ shadows are displayed on aircraft when air groups fly over them.
• Damage decals may disappear when the ship is destroyed.
• Traces of some secondary armament shells may look like ones of primary armament shells.
• The smoke screen effect may sometimes be displayed in the air, noticeably above the water surface.
• Some explosion effects may display incorrectly. Pieces of terrain may scatter around, even if an explosion occurs in the sea.
• When pointing the camera at the sun, the glare effect may be displayed incorrectly on certain combinations of graphics cards and their drivers.
• HE decals may be displayed incorrectly as a purple texture.

 

Map Bugs

• Possible to get stuck at F1 on Big Race on the map border.

• There are misplaced buildings on the maps: Big Race, Islands.
• Hit boxes of some islands may be unclear and incorrectly shaped on the following maps: Islands of Ice, Big Race, North, Islands, New Dawn
• There may be invisible hit-boxes in some areas of ocean on the following maps: Islands of Ice.
• Map textures may be displayed incorrectly with some graphics cards.
• Map borders may be incorrectly positioned on the following maps: New Dawn

 

In-battle Mechanics/ Interface/ Settings Bugs

• The ship’s icon goes beyond the Minimap limits in the loading screen.

• The Battle! button and game tips may appear simultaneously on the map loading screen.
• Ships controlled by artificial intelligence (in Co-op Battles) may sometimes run into islands and go in reverse.
• Ships controlled by artificial intelligence (in Co-op Battles) may team-kill fellow ships (both AI and players).
• Ships controlled by artificial intelligence (in Co-op Battles) may reverse for extended periods of time at the start of a match. Effects: Big Race, New Dawn, Islands of Ice.
• Autopilot may run a ship aground. - Can have difficulties with larger and higher-tier ships past T5.
• Aiming cones of destroyers can disappear when driving along border edges at certain angles.
• Reconnaissance aircraft are unable to launch after a certain number.
• Aircraft attack sector may not function properly if set a target which is pushing against a map border.
• When the squadrons’ icons are displayed on the Minimap for the first time, they may be shown in the beginning of coordinates A1.
• Interface elements may duplicate multiple times. This issue mostly concerns ATI graphics cards.
• The actual received damage and the value shown on a floating icon may differ. As a result, ships with zero hit points in the interface may still be seen in the battle. - These ships are indestructible at this point.
• If an enemy shell explodes near the ship, “text” message may be displayed instead of the correct message.
• The Tactical Map may be displayed on the background of the battle results screen.

• When playing in a division, statistics accessed by Tab may show an incorrect battle type.

• When adjusting settings of the collision alert system, the Apply button is not active.

• When changing from left to right click for firing guns, the image describing how to fire on the help screen does not state the change in controls. - Worth a confirmation on the control setting below stating "LMB" or "RMB".
• Some shots at long range can appear to pass through a target without any damage. - server lag issue.
• When "stationary", ships may drift in a random direction which is independent of previous movement.
• Ships can become "stuck" together after ramming for some time before freeing themselves.
• When firing at a specific spot for extended periods with AP shells, the ship may become immune to further damage in that area.
• MB alignment icons can occasionally disappear for short periods of time during a battle.
• MB guns can sometimes fire when not fully aligned with the targeted position.
• Torpedoes can sometimes appear to pass underneath a targeted ship without detonating. - server lag issue
• "pinging" the minimap may not work on all attempts.
• Aircraft squadrons may be unable to land if squadrons are simultaneously ordered to take off and land at the same time.
• The after-battle report may incorrectly calculate credit profit gained.
• The after-battle report may incorrectly sum hits received from torpedoes and shells.
• The ship compass may incorrectly show the position of turrets on some ships.
• Auto-aimed torpedo bombers can occasionally allow torpedoes to be dropped over a land-mass.
• When locking MB guns to a specific point, the alignment indicators continue to follow mouse movements.

 

Sound/ Music Bugs

• Message about destroying an enemy ship may sometimes be delayed. - generic 2-3 second delay to all crew responses.

• Sounds of fire, engine, and turning of main turrets, torpedo tubes, and AA guns may be missing on some of the ships.
• Sounds can become laggy and tear when a large number of sounds are being played at the same time.
• Sounds may randomly disappear for periods of time during gameplay.

 

System & Client Loading/ Stability Bugs

• Full screen mode and active monitor settings may work incorrectly.

• The game client is sometimes unable to return to the full screen mode after switching it with the Alt+Tab key combination.

• The battle may spontaneously crash. At the same time, the current ship is blocked in the Port and the attempt to start a battle on another ship results in endless loading. Restart the game client.
• The game client may crash after seven or eight battles on PC's with Windows XP. We recommend reloading the game client each five or six battles.
• Players may sometimes see incorrect ship geometry, as if turned inside out, when using certain combinations of graphics cards and their drivers.
• When using AMD graphics cards, interface elements may be distorted.
• If a computer has multi-display configurations like Surround (nVidia) or Eyefinity (AMD), all settings in the Options menu may become inoperative.
• Wrong icon color (red) for a team kill in the battle results window.
• Memory leaks may occur in Port. The game client may crash after staying inactive in Port for a long time.

• After switching off the full screen mode the display may go black. Press Alt+Enter several times to fix the problem.

• Performance drop after an extended time of viewing ships in the port (if viewing several ships one after the other without entering a battle) - Issue partially relieved by enabling "Reduce GUI Refresh Rate".
• Performance drop on low-end computers after an extended time of running the game - Effects seen after 2-3 hours. - Restarting the client resolves issues.
• Graphical and interface issues may arise when using a double-monitor set up with some computers.

 

 

Please check through this list before posting bug reports to check that your bug is not already known to be an issue by wargaming.

 

[MR_Barbarossa]

Thanks mate. Very helpfull. I wanted to report some bugs and now I see they are already on the list.

 

[H3ro_X]

Ahoy , good list, thanks,  I can confirm a lot of issues in black.

[_Amko_]

dindt find but minimap need to be fixed asap....when u try to ping on minimap u need like 10 clicks to specify area

[PhiGohl]

Well, i got this weird stuff right here:

 

My grafik drives are up to date und i have a solid gaming system. I tried every setting in my ingame settings and in my system settings.

[Hummus]

My credits didn't update for a while. When I re-logged they update to the right amount.

I didn't take screenshots and have no idea when it happened though. I'll see if I can reproduce it in some way and file a ticket if I can

[TheFlie]

Free experience amount is blocked by a wargaming icon, this causes you to click it, while you cannot use the function. At clicking on it is only visible before entering battle. After the battle the wargaming icon is blocking the amount as in the beginning.

[Scepturion]

i found this little bug: http://puu.sh/gArXp/223b2b3a4d.jpg

couldn't find it in the list so yea mayby unknown?

and yes they where landed, at some point they dissapeared and came out of the carrier i was fighting

[Shepbur]

Well, i got this weird stuff right here:

 

 

My grafik drives are up to date und i have a solid gaming system. I tried every setting in my ingame settings and in my system settings.

Can you give a quick system-specs of your computer? (I believe the biggest concern is over the graphics card you're using... however i'm sure other stuff will be helpful for assigning the issue too! ) What settings were you using as well?

 

i found this little bug: http://puu.sh/gArXp/223b2b3a4d.jpg

couldn't find it in the list so yea mayby unknown?

and yes they where landed, at some point they dissapeared and came out of the carrier i was fighting

That's a known bug And from what was determined today apparently a rare one... how often have you seen this happening might i ask?

 

Free experience amount is blocked by a wargaming icon, this causes you to click it, while you cannot use the function. At clicking on it is only visible before entering battle. After the battle the wargaming icon is blocking the amount as in the beginning.

If you click to the right of the logo then close the free experience conversion window after that, it should fix it for you hopefully If the problem continues, would it be possible to post your monitor & graphics information here to see? (Screen size/resolution, GPU, ingame resolution/ appropriate detail settings where possible).

 

[DBaron]

Yesterday I had an issue a couple of times with the UI not responding properly. In port, you can f.e select an upgrade, if you click on purchase nothing happens. In Battle, it seems to recognize the key input, f.e pressing the "W" will lite up the little w above "Flank Speed" so it shows it was pressed but doesnt do anything, almost as if the client thinks the Battle counter is still on. A friend, who is also in CB, had the same issue. Wasnt able to reproduce it, so cant narrow it down.

[zero123455]

I have an issue with the graphic setting GUI. I have already notice this issue in the Bata weekend but I didn't know how to report this bug back then.

This bug might occur due to the fact that I am running an 3 monitor surround. I wish this issue is going to be sorted out because I hope in the near future I will be able to enjoy this game in an 3 monitor setup and to have the ability to change the graphic setting to make the graphic quality even better.

 

 

[Cada]

Sounds like airgroups are wrongly identified in voice messages when selecting a group [to be confirmed by examples]...

[TheFlie]

If you click to the right of the logo then close the free experience conversion window after that, it should fix it for you hopefully If the problem continues, would it be possible to post your monitor & graphics information here to see? (Screen size/resolution, GPU, ingame resolution/ appropriate detail settings where possible).

 

I am running an Asus Laptop K73S TY080V, if you need more information.

 

Screen size: 17,3 inch

Resolution: 1600x900

CPU: I5, 2410M, 2,3Ghz

GPU: GeForce GT540M

 

Please note that more members from my clan of wot, are experiencing this issue as well.

 

[Shepbur]

Have you pressed the "free experience" text just below your the total? there's normally a solid hitbox there to give it a quick-fix until they sort out the boxes regarding account levelling.

[TheFlie]

I have not seen it since i started wows today. When it returns, if it does, i will note it here. Thank you for the support anyway.

[PhiGohl]

Can you give a quick system-specs of your computer? (I believe the biggest concern is over the graphics card you're using... however i'm sure other stuff will be helpful for assigning the issue too! ) What settings were you using as well?

 

 

 

 

 

I use a AMD Asus R9 290X (latest driver), I5 3350-P (4 x 3,2GHz), 8 GB RAM, 1 T Spinpoint Harddrive,... (i think the mainboard is aGigabyte Z68AP-D3)

 

Here are my monitor settings [1080 p]: (in german but i hope it's not a big problem)

 

And here are my ingame settings:

 

PS: I tried every setting (ingame and monitor)

 

[Grimdorf]

Did not see this one in the OP list -

 

Randomly, maybe every 10-20 matches, I get a graphical glitch where the ship and view appear as though underwater.

Happens both ingame and in port.

 

Only solution at present is a quick log out and in of the game.

No other effects noticed when doing so.

 

Running win 7, 64 bit,  i7 920, 6gb ram, GTX 285, running the game at medium/high settings.

 

 

 

[Finwolven]

I seem to suddenly get massive lag, with 0-2fps even with all graphics settings set to low, during game. I may get two or three seconds of normal fps (between 25-50fps on my setup depending on graphics settings), but then it starts stuttering. This started suddenly today around five on the afternoon (+2 GMT), and hasn't abated since. It's totally unplayable. Ping is stable at ~150 which is normal for my connection. After I get sunk (easy, since I can barely maneuver and/or fire), I can spectate at whatever stable fps my gfx settings allow, with no stuttering. 

 

I have no idea what's going on, and its driving me quite nuts.

 

EDIT: figured out part of the cause, it was MsMpEng.exe scanning itself while running its scan in the background that was taking all of one CPU core and a ton of memory. Fixing that and turning on VSync and triple buffering returned my FPS to playable levels, though there's still an odd FPS drop whenever more than one ship shoots at me or there are torpedoes near my ship. This FPS 'freeze' doesn't seem to be affected by any graphics settings at all, currently playing on medium and getting 30-50fps outside of the drops. Very odd.

[Dropje73]

I sometimes get kicked out of the game, after destroying an enemy ship.

[Wiru5]

I noticed a few glitches.

1. When I shoot with guns "Fuso" and I turn on the camera tracking missile missiles often being taken at goal but the game does not count hits for me.

2. When I shoot with guns "Fuso" and I turn on the camera tracking missile missiles often do not get the goal but the game includes hit.

3. Destroyers can twist themselves around especially when there are some islands - it is annoying and sometimes kills.

4. When you sell the ship if you want to leave some of the modules and we use gold, the game is locked and can only be turned off.

5. I am often crashes the game.

For now, that's all.

[anonym_vddKhaAzTiEh]

Finally identified my persistent connection issues (refusal to connect to the server - intermittent dropouts and inability to get into a game) as a bug in the client application when running Win7 64-bit on a Phenom II 960T (with AMD 770 chipset).  

 

Symptoms:  Running a Wireshark packet trace (https://www.wireshark.org) shows that the client and server are not exchanging alternate UDP packets between client and server (as happens during a normal login session) - instead the server is sending out a constant streams of packets, and occasionally the client will send a few replies - but most of the time will stop responding to the server altogether - causing the connection to cease and the client to boot you back to the login screen.

 

Partial solution:  Run the main WOWS executable in 'Compatibility' mode for 'Win98/Me' - which solves the network issues (allowing you to play the game) but causes a few extra issues with sound in games.   (Not that I'm complaining as its the first time I can reliably connect to the server since December )

 

Might be worth adding use of 'Compatibility' mode as a possible solution for anyone else with persistent drop-outs and connection issues who is also running a 64-bit OS?

[GrumpyWorm]

I have same CPU on my backup PC, i played WoWs on numerous occasions using same OS. Never noticed anything weird.

MB was Gigabyte 880GMA-USB3

[Major_Holo]

Screen size: 22 inch

Resolution: 1920x1080

CPU: i5 ivy bridge 3570k, 3.3Ghz

GPU: ASUS Radeon R7 260X (R7260X-DC2OC-2GD5) 2048MB PCIe x16

RAM: 8GB    G-skill 1600mhz

 

 

[ironTiger]

Noticed a new bug, where you are trying to complete the aa/ airplane daily challenge of shooting down 20/20 planes.   I was doing random battles shooting down 5-8 planes per battle and they were registering or just registering 1 kill.  Not a big bug, but one just the same.

 

Iron

[anonym_vddKhaAzTiEh]

I have same CPU on my backup PC, i played WoWs on numerous occasions using same OS. Never noticed anything weird.

MB was Gigabyte 880GMA-USB3

 

Thanks for that - will update my ticket as it tends to point at the interaction between the AMD 770 chipset drivers and the WOWS client - rather than being CPU / OS based.  I have tried both the original manufacturers network drivers, and updated to the latest realtek drivers but its only the WOWS client that's exhibiting any odd behaviour - all other games and network connectivity is fine.

 

Unless I run the WOWS client in compatibility mode its almost like the client is storing its packets, then sending them out in occasional bursts instead of it sending a continuous stream to the server.

 

The fact that my client was working fine with the game until the micro patch around Nov 25th 2014 means that something must have changed in the client application - as I've tried everything else up to and including a fresh OS install on my PC (using the network drivers from the Microsoft update centre) and the network connectivity problems persist regardless of what else I do to the PC or OS!