Black rectangle over Map

[Dragonfire]

In middle of the game, I pressed no special key a big giant black rectangle appears over the map (see screenshot).

I tabbed out and in -> not helping
I was forced to play with splitscreen.

Replay of the game only desync after a com died, but not when the black rectangle appears


Computer: Acer Aspire V5-573G
CPU: Intel Core i5-4200U (Haswell ULT, C0/D0)
2300 MHz (23.00x100.0) @ 2593 MHz (26.00x99.8)
Motherboard: Acer Dazzle_HW
Chipset: Intel Lynx Point-LP (Premium)
Memory: 8077 MBytes @ 798 MHz, 11.0-11-11-28
- 4096 MB PC12800 DDR3 SDRAM - Kingston ACR16D3LS1NGG/4G
Graphics: Intel Haswell-MB ULT GT2 - Integrated Graphics Controller [C0/D0] [ACER]
Intel HD Graphics 4400, 1024 MB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M [Acer]
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 4095 MB
Drive: Crucial_CT256M550SSD3, 250.1 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
Drive: TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
Sound: Intel Haswell-MB ULT - Mini HD Audio Controller [C0/D0]
Sound: Intel Lynx Point-LP - High Definition Audio Controller [B2]
Network: Atheros/Qualcomm AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adapter
Network: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (x64) Build 7601

[Ionic]

I am having the same issue, click split screen and play on until it goes away for the time being.

[yorick]

I'm fairly certain this is caused by ecomanager and the mex overlay to be more specific.
As a fix you can make it go away by enabling and disabling the mexoverlay in the ingame options ( worked for me every time it happend to me).

[Dragonfire]

@Ionic:
Do you use EcoManager?

[ghostronin]

Was this issue ever solved? Was it concluded that it was in fact due to ecomanager ui mod and that it could be fixed by disabling/re-enabling the mod in-game?

[yorick]

I am not entirely sure (i am not using Eco Manager anymore), but i did some testing half a year ago and if i remember right it was caused by the mex overlay. I cant test it right now to verify it though.

For the testing i did replaced the CreateMexOverlay function in modules/mexes.lua with: ( only inserted some logging)

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function CreateMexOverlay(unit)
   --local worldView = import('/lua/ui/game/worldview.lua').viewLeft
   local overlay = Bitmap(GetFrame(0))
   local id = unit:GetEntityId()

   overlay.id = unit:GetEntityId()
   overlay.destroy = false
   overlay:SetSolidColor('black')
   overlay.Width:Set(10)
   overlay.Height:Set(10)
   
   overlay.OnFrame = function(self, delta)
      if not unit:IsDead() then
         local worldView = import('/lua/ui/game/worldview.lua').viewLeft
         local pos = worldView:Project(unit:GetPosition())
         if pos.x <=0 or pos.y <=0 then
            LOG('Bad position: ('..pos.x..'/'..pos.y..')')
         end
         LayoutHelpers.AtLeftTopIn(overlay, worldView, pos.x - overlay.Width() / 2, pos.y - overlay.Height() / 2 + 1)
      else
         overlay.destroy = true
         overlay:Hide()
      end
   end

   overlay.text = UIUtil.CreateText(overlay, '0', 10, UIUtil.bodyFont)
   overlay.text:SetColor('green')
    overlay.text:SetDropShadow(true)
   LayoutHelpers.AtCenterIn(overlay.text, overlay, 0, 0)
   overlay:SetNeedsFrameUpdate(true)

   return overlay
end


Iirc i saw this LOG('Bad position: ('..pos.x..'/'..pos.y..')') in the logs with negative values for either x or y, which makes me think the actual bug is in the worldview.lua file, but i didnt investigate this further.

[ghostronin]

Thanks Yorick! I'll attempt the disable, re-enable, and report back.

[ladderff]

Just here to report same issue.

I do have EcoManager.

[nine2]

This happens with some combination of ui mods: Ui Party and eco manager and idle engies

[Viba]

I actually did some digging into this today, all those use same way of creating the overlay. Going to check logs when I happen to get the rectangle and try to fix it.