Help me im scared

[Mtaplayer3245]

I was playing mta on the server ankeborg's playground when suddenly a screen appears brown with a black rectangle in the center, that was what I saw before I was shit scared and get out, I hope that is only because my internet was cut, but when I logged on nothing happened but I fear come and see it again, help.

[GodFather]

Wait what? A black rectangle thing pop out and you shit yourself?

[Mtaplayer3245]

Wait what? A black rectangle thing pop out and you :~ yourself?

No, it was the screen, it was a strange black with a black rectangle in the center, but it dont really pissed me off but it was

[Arran]

Then don't go on the server again.

[zerb]

If the screen was black then how would you see a black rectangle in the centre?

[GodFather]

It is dark magic! Don't ask such stupid questions.

[Faw[Ful]]

It is the loading bug I guess , enter fast in water with a boat can do this also.

[Zango]

Then don't go on the server again.

It's not related to that server in specific really.

It could be three things:

LSOD - Big ass LOADING image on your screen. Sometimes, depending on your speed, it can be really fucked up to see.

Interior bug - (introduced with 1.1) - sounds like the one you experience, there's a number of causes, one being if you tab out/back in. It's a random 32x32 interior texture stretched to fill your screen, and some other textures might be going over as well.

Artifacts - caused by large amounts of something (eg. peds) or certain shaders, can cause randomly shaped objects (ie. rectangles) to appear on your screen. Also seems to have been introduced in 1.1.

I get these every day

LSOD can be fixed by tabbing ESC variable number of times. Sometimes you should try with reconnect before restarting MTA, that ought to do it sometimes.

[Arran]

Oh I thought maybe it was a server abusing guiCreateStaticImage to make scary stuff, the topic starter didn't say much.

[Castillo]

I guess LSOD is the screen that appears saying "Loading..." when you go into weird places, i.e, highly under water.

[Xeno]

I sometimes get this

[dzek (varez)]

common GTA bug. it's there since GTA 3

[Towncivilian]

common GTA bug. it's there since GTA 3

This sounds correct to me.

Vice City & its various multiplayer mods have an issue with randomly teleporting you to a specific set of coordinates right outside the Little Havana police station. Before this teleporting, a similar "Loading..." screen is shown. I believe there is some memory hack to work around this, but it was a side effect of patching another "issue". I don't think anybody knows why this happens.

I've never encountered such a "Loading..." issue in GTA3 or SA, but I've spent most of my time in Vice City.

[Spanish4Life]

common GTA bug. it's there since GTA 3

This sounds correct to me.

Vice City & its various multiplayer mods have an issue with randomly teleporting you to a specific set of coordinates right outside the Little Havana police station. Before this teleporting, a similar "Loading..." screen is shown. I believe there is some memory hack to work around this, but it was a side effect of patching another "issue". I don't think anybody knows why this happens.

I've never encountered such a "Loading..." issue in GTA3 or SA, but I've spent most of my time in Vice City.

Towncivilian, you can get it if GTA:SA teleport function won't work properly (when you fall off, after a while you re-spawn near)

Just set the graity to a too high value, it's kinda a ready-to-use LSOD.

[diegofkda]

It happens with position issues that GTA can't handle, examples:

Set the velocity to any object, to 1000

Create a BBBBBBIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGG boat (it would be like the titanic size) and replace it's collisions, then get in.

Change the aim value of an Infernus car to a rhino one.

Sometimes (almost never BTW), creating a vehicle and use warpPedIntoVehicle immediately should cause you a LSOD.

They all are positions or velocity (I don't know exactly how to call it) that GTA can't handle, but anyway that's not a major bug for me, it never happens.