Visual glitches on hangars and unrequested loading of high quality models after installing Heavy Cavalry

Good day, everyone

After installing the newest update (“Heavy Cavalry”), a couple of issues began taking place:

  • Hangars and Piers all start displaying glitches, in the form of static bars appearing and disappearing as if it was a vintage CCTV recording.

  • In Air Battles, cockpit models are being loaded in high resolution, despite explicitly choosing “Minimum Graphics” preset.

I do notice some spikes of latency during matches, other than that, I can play matches just fine.

I’ve already tried choosing “Low” graphics preset, restarting then going back to “Minimum”; I’m currently running “Minimal Client”, FPS Limit is set to “30”.
Game is currently updated to the latest version as of time of writing (“2.57.0.25”) and I had no prior issues during “Ninth Wave”.

If anyone could point me to the right direction, I would really appreciate it.

Specs:

  • Lenovo ideapad 314
  • Kubuntu / Ubuntu 24.04
  • Intel Core i5-7600U
  • Intel HD Graphics 520 (Integrated GPU)
  • 12 GB RAM
  • Mesa Graphics 25.2.8

Hello @j3rman0fwar,

Could you please check with the latest game update regarding the textures always being set to high as that should have been fixed in this update:

Regarding your graphical glitches, Could you please try a newer version of Mesa to see if that helps? 25.2.8 is getting a bit old now and it’s always best to keep as up to date as possible with Mesa when trying to play games.

As your on Ubuntu you can use this PPA to get the latest Mesa version: