Black screen (April 2020)
I subscribe to the pro version 2 hours ago but I just cancelled it because there are too many issues while playing that it is not fun anymore.
It started well so I thought the pro version would not have the same black screen issue as the free version. But it also has it. The more I played, the worse it got. It's a bit sad not to be able to play a game you paid for (even if the price is fair).
It started well so I thought the pro version would not have the same black screen issue as the free version. But it also has it. The more I played, the worse it got. It's a bit sad not to be able to play a game you paid for (even if the price is fair).
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Sorry to hear that, which map are you having issues with? It's getting worse you say, does that mean that you get multiple black locations per game or could the issue something else like memory issues with the browser etc?
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I play on the World map.
And for example,I play the 3 first rounds fine. Some black screen issues appear sometimes but it's only foe few seconds. So this is fine with these.
But then on the 4th round, the black screens appear for longer time andI have to move few meters further to get the image back.
Then on the next round, this issue happens again but even by going further it doesn't remove the black screen.
It seems like a loading issue and that the more you play the more it happens. If you play 15 minutes it's fine. If you play an hour, some issues. If you play 2 hours, a lot of black screens.
I have had this very problem in March/April too. When everyone here went in Corona lockdown and worked from home my Internet speed fell to 5 Mb/s, which is just a fifth of my normal speed. At that time the images often didn't load as fast as I clicked forward, and sometimes went black. This got worse during an evening as even more people used the internet. As you reverse a few steps, the browser quickly reloads from the cache.
Amazingly, the black screens didn't appear with the same images in StreetView. But then, comparing the images in GeoGuessr and StreetView with a screen loupe, I found that the (good) images here in GG are of a better quality and therefore perhaps larger. Perhaps Google still scales down their image resolution for faster online use.
I find that these problems begin when transmission rate falls below 10 Mb/s. At first, pictures take longer to load, later some get black for short time, and only below 5 Mb/s some refuse to load altogether.
So, if you have a slower internet connection, you just need to be a bit patient for the pictures to load. And please, GeoGuesser, do not reduce image quality, as finding a location depends so much on being able to read road signs and other writing.
Vilcie